Image is for illustration purpose. Sat 15 March 2025: The intense race in artificial intelligence has now extended into the robotics field, driven by companies like Google, OpenAI, and Tesla, which are working to integrate AI with the physical world. One of Google’s subsidiaries, DeepMind, introduced two AI models specifically designed for robots: Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER. According to the […]
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Sat 15 March 2025: Calls to boycott companies allegedly complicit in genocide As you read this on your smartphone, consider this: the device in your hand may contain a fragment of metal that originated in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where armed conflicts have claimed more than five million lives since 1998. The tantalum inside […]
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Fri 14 March 2025: Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Threads, said Thursday it will begin testing community notes on its platforms. “We expect Community Notes to be less biased than the third-party fact checking program it replaces because it allows more people with more perspectives to add context to posts,” Meta said […]
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Wed 12 March 2025: NASA has launched two missions to explore the universe’s origins and the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the agency announced on its website Tuesday. The SPHEREx observatory and the PUNCH satellite constellation lifted off Tuesday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, US. After multiple delays since February […]
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Fri 07 March 2025: A group of Japanese scientists announced they’ve created “the largest of its kind” robotic hand, powered by cultivated human muscle tissue. According to Tokyo-based Kyodo News on Sunday, the researchers aim for this five-fingered biohybrid hand to be used in prosthetic applications. The hand, which measures 18 centimeters (7.08 inches) in […]
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Wed 05 March 2025: Amid rising US concerns over the Chinese AI app DeepSeek storing user data in China, two member of the US Congress are urging state governors to prohibit its use on government devices. In a letter obtained first by NBC News, Representatives Josh Gottheimer and Darin LaHood cautioned 47 governors and the […]
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Mon 03 March 2025: The University of Jyvaskyla in Finland revealed on Thursday that it has created a new AI-powered tool designed to automatically detect colorectal cancer through tissue sample analysis. According to the university, the neural network model crafted in this research outperforms all previous models in accurately classifying tissue samples. Based on the […]
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The moon passes by Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost spaceship ahead of its landing, February 24, 2025. / Photo: Reuters Sun 02 March 2025: A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart business on […]
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Sat 01 March 2025: Twenty-five people have been arrested in a major global sweep for allegedly distributing sexually explicit images of minors fully generated by artificial intelligence (AI), Europol announced Friday. Europol has assisted authorities from 19 countries in a large-scale crackdown on child sexual exploitation, which has resulted in 25 arrests worldwide, the statement […]
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Sat 01 March 2025: China has launched an AI model to diagnose rare genetic diseases more quickly and accurately, state-run media reported. PUMCH-GENESIS aims to bridge the gap in diagnosing diseases by making the process faster and easier as delayed diagnosing and misdiagnosing can be critical for patients, according to the Xinhua news agency. The model can promptly flag possible […]
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