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Friends at work. Are they better than perks and benefits?
With the rise of workplace perks like unlimited paid vacation and flexible work-from-home policies, it would be fair to assume freedom and autonomy are of utmost importance to today's workers.
Japanese tech giant offers researchers million-dollar salaries
Telecom giant NTT Group is offering record pay to hire top scientists as it looks to match some of the basic research prowess of global powerhouses including Alphabet Inc and Apple Inc.
Robochef: Sony cooks up new AI unit for food revolution
Cooking robots and tastier recipes: Japanese electronics giant Sony on Nov 20 launched a new artificial intelligence unit they hope will change the way we cook and eat.
How Baidu Baike has faced off against Wikipedia to build the world’s largest online Chinese encyclopaedia
Transition from hard format encyclopaedias to open-source encyclopaedias has raised some quality-of-information issues though.
Uber, distracted backup driver cited by NTSB in fatal self-driving crash
A US safety agency on Nov 19 faulted Uber for inadequate attention to safety and decisions in the company's autonomous vehicle development in an investigation into the first-ever death involving a self-driving vehicle, which also cited the vehicle's distracted back-up driver.
Google’s do-good arm tries to make up for everything else
Google vice-president Jacqueline Fuller says the company is having "a lot of conversations” internally amid worries about the tech giant’s bottomless appetite for consumer data and how it uses its algorithms.
AI algorithm can predict chances of death from heart attack more accurately than human doctors
The AI examined 1.77 million ECG results from 400,000 patients before concluding whether the patients would survive for the next year.
Facial recognition makes subtle advance in Britain
The experiment was conducted discreetly. Between 2016 and 2018, two surveillance cameras were installed in the Kings Cross area of London to analyse and track passers-by using facial recognition technology.
Xbox uncovers three nature games at X019: Everwild, Grounded, Drake Hollow
Trailers for exploratory Everwild, garden sandbox survival Grounded and plant alliance Drake Hollow emerged from Xbox showcase X019.
Opinion: Autonomous taxis become a rough ride for Europe
As recently as March, Daimler AG, the German carmaker, promised to put 10,000 autonomous taxis on the streets by 2021. But last week, Daimler chairman Ola Kaellenius announced that the company was taking a "reality check” on the project and focusing on self-driving long-haul trucks instead. It’s fine that self-driving cabs aren’t coming as fast as some expected – and it’s even better that Silicon Valley-style big talk appears to be going out of fashion.