New York: Between nine and 15 per cent of active Twitter accounts are autonomous entities known as social bots, new research has found....
New York: Between nine and 15 per cent of active Twitter accounts are autonomous entities known as social bots, new research has found....
PAKOKKU: Myo Myint fondly remembers when his one-acre farm regularly produced 100 baskets of rice. But as rainfall became erratic in this arid...
NEW ORLEANS: What do you do if you are a disaster manager in a coastal city when a powerful earthquake hits offshore? You...
Lima: Potatoes on Mars? Scientists are reporting promising results growing the tuber under conditions that mimic the Red Planet in an experiment in...
SAN FRANCISCO: With the broad release of Google Assistant last week, the voice-assistant wars are in full swing, with Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc,...
NEW YORK: Maybe the CIA is spying on you through your television set after all. Documents released by WikiLeaks allege a CIA surveillance...
Washington: The tech sector was scrambling to understand the implications of an alleged broad CIA hacking arsenal, capable of spying on phones and...
WASHINGTON: WikiLeaks said on Tuesday it had obtained a top-secret trove of hacking tools used by the CIA to break into phones, communication...
Paris: There's good and bad news for people, and polar bears, threatened by the Arctic's vanishing sea ice, scientists said Monday. First the...
Washington: Google said Monday it was working to fix a search algorithm glitch that produced "inappropriate and misleading" results from its search engine...
New York: Social media giant Facebook has launched its much hyped "fake news" crackdown initiative in the US, tagging as "disputed" the stories...
SAN FRANCISCO: Uber has been wielding a secret weapon to thwart authorities who have been trying to curtail or shut down its ride-hailing...
New York: After the success of its Facebook Live feature, Facebook is looking for original TV-like programmes from various genres and may pay...
San Francisco: Uber on Friday acknowledged the use of a secret software program to steer drivers away from trouble, including sting operations by...
From across the Galaxy, just shy of 40 light years away, seven long shadows sweep across our planet. These shadows belong to the...
Oslo: Victims of online "trolling", rejoice. A Norwegian site may have found the key to muzzling malicious commenters on the internet: requiring people...
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook announced Wednesday that it would begin using artificial intelligence to identity users who may be at risk for suicide. The...
LONDON: The international auction house Bonham's says it has sold a small, patchy disc of mold for $14,597. The off-white, nearly 90-year-old swatch...
