UK launches AI skills drive for workers, schoolchildren
The UK government is to team up with tech-giants including Google, Microsoft and Amazon to train 7.5 million workers in AI skills, Prime Minister Keir Starmer is to announce Monday.
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Trio wins for protein design, prediction
Americans David Baker and John Jumper, together with Briton Demis Hassabis, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for work revealing the secrets of proteins through...
Duo wins for foundational AI breakthroughs
Geoffrey Hinton, known at the Godfather of AI, and physicist John Hopfield won the Nobel physics prize on Tuesday for their pioneering work on the foundations of artificial intelligence.
BYD launches two variants of new green vehicle ATTO 3
Two variants of electric-SUV styled ATTO 3 that emit no carbon, have been introduced to the Bangladesh market.
Ex- YouTube CEO and longtime Google executive Susan Wojcicki dies at 56
Susan Wojcicki, the former YouTube chief executive officer and longtime Google executive, has died, her husband said. She was 56.....
Microsoft drops OpenAI board seat as scrunity increases
Microsoft has ditched plans to take up a non-voting position on the board of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, according to a letter seen by AFP on Wednesday, as regulators step up scrutiny of deals involving AI companies...
TikTok removes over 7m videos from Bangladesh in 3 months
Social media platform TikTok has removed 7,171,832 videos uploaded from Bangladesh for breaching community guidelines during the past three months, said a press release....
Google鈥檚 new algorithm affecting small businesses
Google made major changes to its search algorithm and spam filters earlier this year to get rid of low-quality content 鈥� but the effects have proved devastating to some smaller websites...
Samsung union says will strike after talks breakdown
A union representing tens of thousands of workers at South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics told AFP on Tuesday it would hold a three-day strike later this month after negotiations failed...
Japan scientists make smiling robot with 鈥榣iving鈥� skin
Japanese scientists have used human cells to develop an equivalent to living skin that can be attached to robotic surfaces to flash a realistic 鈥� if creepy 鈥� smile.
US bans Russia's Kaspersky antivirus software
President Joe Biden\'s administration on Thursday banned Russia-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky from providing its popular antivirus products in the United States over national security concerns, the US Commerce Department said.