Impossible, the manufacturer of a popular brand of shoes insists, is nothing. It would be simplistic to interpret this slogan as an innovative advertisement only. The catchphrase is a celebration of t...

On a recent afternoon at the Lao Thai Kitchen restaurant, the telephone rang and the caller ID read “Google Assistant.” Jimmy Tran, a waiter, answered the phone. The caller was a man with an Irish...

According to a report published by Accenture, a technology consulting company, artificial intelligence or AI has the potential to add $957 billion — or 15 per cent of the current gross value — to ...

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During the summer before the 2016 presidential election, John Seymour and Philip Tully, two researchers with ZeroFOX, a security company in Baltimore, US, unveiled a new kind of Twitter bot. By analys...

A robot walks into a bar, but can it be funny? It cannot, according to scientists and linguists who arrived at this conclusion this April Fools’ Day. The realization is not entirely a novel one thou...

Age is no longer just a number. It is a string of numbers — a series of 0s and 1s (the binary code that machines run on) — that has the potential to change the future. At least, that is what techn...

Sir — The speed at which jobs are being automated and robots powered by artificial intelligence are replacing human workers is scary. According to a 2017 study by the McKinsey Global Institute, abou...

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Google chief Sundar Pichai on Wednesday said the world needs a free and open internet for everyone and hoped that all countries will come together for a common regulatory framework for artificial inte...