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The Jack Bauers of Europe love facial recognition: opinion
Facial recognition has friends in Europe. Live trials of real-time face-tracking have taken place over the past year in countries such as the UK and France, by and large without falling foul of the continent’s sweeping but haphazardly-enforced data protection laws.
Shanghai tapping upcoming AI conference to woo foreign investment amid trade-war slump
Tesla, IBM and Microsoft plan to attend AI conference, display technologies.
Fast, not so furious? Europe wrestles with electric scooters
From Paris to Berlin, European cities are searching for solutions to the two-wheeled phenomenon that's fast transforming cityscapes worldwide: Electric scooters.
Trump words linked to more hate crime? Some experts think so
US President Donald Trump has often railed about an "invasion of illegals" at the southern border, words echoed in a screed the El Paso shooting suspect apparently posted that called the attack that killed 22 people at a Walmart his response to a "Hispanic invasion of Texas."
Scotland Yard Twitter and emails hacked
London's Metropolitan Police apologised after its Twitter, emails and news pages were targeted by hackers and began pumping out a series of bizarre messages.
In Paris, cars forced to make way for the two-wheel revolution
With the wind rushing through their hair, they zip past on bikes, electric scooters and mono-wheels, effortlessly passing lines of hot-and-bothered drivers stuck in the endless Paris traffic.
Uber drivers say central London levy puts them out of business
London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s decision to charge Uber Technologies Inc drivers to operate in the city centre amounts to racial discrimination and puts some out of business, lawyers for the drivers said July 10 in court, in the latest stage of a long-running battle between those working for the ride-hailing firm and traditional cabbies.
Police crack down on drunken Danes riding electric scooters
Copenhagen police are cracking down on stoned and drunken people riding electric scooters, which were introduced in the Danish capital at the start of this year.
Museum starts ‘live’ restoration of Rembrandt masterpiece
Amsterdam’s famed Rijksmuseum will on July 8 begin the biggest ever restoration of Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch”, erecting a huge glass cage around the painting so the public can see the work carried out live.
As families flee Paris, fingers point at Airbnb
The bells will ring for the last time this week at Vaugirard elementary school in central Paris, the latest school in the city to close as spiralling property prices drive families out of the capital.
