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• Tech giants Facebook, Twitter and Google are taking steps to police terrorists and hate groups on their sites but more work needs to be done, the Simon Wiesenthal Center said on Tuesday.
Winter Olympics showcases Korean self-driving vehicles
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — There’s a competition at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics that has nothing to do with sports, and plenty to do with jousting between automakers and tech companies over autonomously driving vehicles.
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• Spacewalking astronauts wrapped up months of repair work Friday on the International Space Station ‘s big robot arm.
Hockey Puck and player tracking being tested at Olympics
GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AP) — Finland players looked at the numbers and laughed.
Four robots that teach your kids to code
LAS VEGAS (AP) — You’ve seen apps and toys that promise to teach your child to code. Now enter the robots.
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• From 100 feet in the air, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge ecologist Mark Laker can find a piece of smoldering ash or a tiny spot of excess heat that could spark a wildfire.
Virtual-reality field trips give students advanced adventure
NEW YORK (AP) — On a February afternoon in a Brooklyn classroom, 16-year-old Taylor Engler came face to face with a cow. But it was all in her head.
Lifelike robots made in Hong Kong meant to win over humans
HONG KONG (AP) — David Hanson envisions a future in which AI-powered robots evolve to become “super-intelligent genius machines” that might help solve some of mankind’s most challenging problems.
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• French league suspends goal-line technology after ‘failings’
Hotels bet on technology to attract, dazzle guests
LAS VEGAS (AP) — It takes just minutes for a room service attendant to respond to a text message asking for a soda, bringing the Diet Coke on a tray with a glass of ice and lime wedges, no need for the modern hassle of placing a phone call.
Facebook improves how blind people can ‘see’ images using AI
MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — When Matt King first got on Facebook eight years ago, the blind engineer had to weigh whether it was worth spending an entire Saturday morning checking whether a friend of his was actually in his friend list.
BID to inject robo-cat with AI to help seniors
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Imagine a cat that can keep a person company, doesn’t need a litter box and can remind an aging relative to take her medicine or help find her eyeglasses.
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• President Donald Trump’s administration is publicly blaming North Korea for a ransomware attack that infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide in May and crippled parts of Britain’s National Health Service.
Hybrid plane plans take off
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Airbus, Siemens and Rolls-Royce are teaming up to develop a hybrid passenger plane that would use a single electric turbofan along with three conventional jet engines running on aviation fuel.
ALIV lines up iPhone X in time for Christmas
ALIV has announced that it will start selling the iPhone X in time for the Christmas holidays.
