Artificial intelligence is by turns terrifying, overhyped, hard to understand and just plain awesome. ### For an example of the last, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, were able this year to hook people up to brain monitors and generate natural-sounding synthetic speech out of mere brain activity. The goal is to give…
Jony Ive has shocked Silicon Valley by walking away from the iPhone maker after 25 years. ### It was, for many, a shock. Sir Jony Ive, the Chingford-born mastermind behind the iPhone, iPod and iMac, announced this week that he’s leaving Apple after more than a quarter of a century. ### His departure has been…
Recent news that random bad luck plays a big role in cancer has been misinterpreted as bad news, when it’s actually very useful in helping humanity understand what cancer is and what can be done to prevent it. ### New experiments attempt to quantify findings from 2015 and 2017 that showed random “bad luck” was…
Dubai: A Pakistani cleaner in Dubai has been honoured for handing over a bag containing 15kg of gold, worth around Dh2.5 million, to the Dubai Road Transport Authority. ### Taher Ali Maqbool, 27, told Gulf News the thought of keeping the solid gold bars, found in a black bag in a parking lot, never crossed…
Manila: Skin-whitening products containing toxic chemicals not only place the lives of users at risk, but damage the environment as well, a Philippine non-governmental organisation has warned. ### According to the non-profit, EcoWaste Coalition, traders in certain cities in Southern Philippines’ Mindanao continue to sell certain skin-lightening brands containing harmful amounts of mercury despite a…
London: It’s often referred to as the “lifeline” of London and quite rightly so. The London Underground rail network — or the “Tube”, in popular parlance – is faced with the threat of a strike next month by 40,000 workers of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) network of the city. This could bring the…
Sharjah: A two-year-old Arab boy was admitted to the ICU of Al Qassimi Hospital in Sharjah on Friday, to be treated for suffocation which he suffered inside his father’s car in the garage of their house. ### As it turns out, the boy along with his brothers went out of the house and entered the…
