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Exoskeletons: Will they ever be useful for household DIY work?
Whether it's painting walls, trimming hedges or working on things overhead, it's said that exoskeletons might one day make all kinds of everyday tasks easier.
Millions rush to join a wild new health plan from Jack Ma’s Ant
Billionaire Jack Ma’s Ant Financial has done more than perhaps any company to disrupt China’s gargantuan banking and asset-management industries. Now it’s trying to re-imagine health insurance.
Chinese workers at Apple supplier Foxconn stage street protest over unpaid bonuses
Hundreds join rally in Henan province over claims they were cheated out of additional payments of US$870 (RM3,640) by recruitment agencies.
Inside Google’s shadow workforce of contract labourers
Every day, tens of thousands of people stream into Google offices wearing red name badges. They eat in Google’s cafeterias, ride its commuter shuttles and work alongside its celebrated geeks. But they can’t access all of the company’s celebrated perks. They aren’t entitled to stock and can’t enter certain offices. Many don’t have health insurance.
Amazon blasted by labour group over China factory conditions
A watchdog group is calling on Amazon.com Inc to improve conditions for factory workers in China who make Echo speakers and Kindle e-readers, renewing criticisms that CEO Jeff Bezos became the world’s wealthiest man on the backs of low-paid labourers.
Most common job in Seattle isn’t in retail anymore, and four out of five of these workers are men
There's a new top job in Seattle.
Japan team builds second skin message display
Palm-reading could take on a whole new meaning thanks to a new invention from Japan: an ultra-thin display and monitor that can be stuck directly to the body.
Microsoft sees need for regulation, laws for AI advances
The rapidly advancing area of artificial intelligence will require a new field of law and new regulations governing a growing pool of businesses involved, according to Microsoft Corp, a 25-year participant in AI research.
Workers at Apple supplier Catcher describe harsh conditions
At a Catcher Technology Co manufacturing complex in the Chinese industrial city of Suqian, about six hours’ drive from Shanghai, workers stand for up to 10 hours a day in hot workshops slicing and blasting iPhone casings for Apple Inc, handling noxious chemicals sometimes without proper gloves or masks.
India to add facial authentication for Aadhaar card security
India will build facial recognition into its national identity card in addition to fingerprints after a series of breaches in the world's biggest biometric identification programme, the government said on Jan 15.
