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Baidu to share artificial intelligence platforms for public use

China's Baidu decided Thursday to make its artificial intelligence (AI) system's core capabilities and underlying technology available to program developers, start-up entrepreneurs and traditional companies to help develop AI for the public good.

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Uber acquires truck startup, planning test run of driverless SUVs

Uber Technologies Inc. said on Thursday it had acquired Otto, a technology startup whose aim is to make trucks self-driving.

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Tesla driver killed while watching Harry Potter, fully self-driving years away

​Driver in first known fatal self-driving car crash was also driving so fast that ‘he went so fast through my trailer I didn’t see him’, the truck driver involved said

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Clinton's tech policy targets young entrepreneurs

The goal, the summary document declares, is “to create the jobs of the future on Main Street.”

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Sunway-TaihuLight outperforms Tianhe-2 as world's fastest supercomputer

China's new supercomputing system, Sunway-TaihuLight, was named the world's fastest computer at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany on Monday.

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Apple's tries to peek at user habits without violating privacy

‘Differential privacy’ is an effort to harness insights about what a group of users is doing, not an individual

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President Xi says China faces major science, technology "bottleneck"

Chinese President Xi Jinping has warned that the country faces a major science and technology (S&T) bottleneck and a big gap in innovation capacity.

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Xi, Li see science as key to future

To push for the nation's economic transition and industrial upgrading, Chinese leaders pledged on Monday greater commitment to the research and application of science and technology.

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Apple's store plan faces roadblock

In a setback to Apple's plans to open stores in the country, the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has red-flagged a panel's recommendation to relax the mandatory local sourcing norm for the Cupertino-based company to sell its products through the single-brand retail window.

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G7 science & tech ministers push for gender parity in related fields

Science and technology-related ministers from the Group of Seven major economies issued a joint statement Tuesday in Japan outlining the importance of technical innovation for the development of societies and economies around the world as well as being central to tackling a number of worldwide challenges including gender parity.

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U.S. and Chinese tech firms team up on sensor networks for 'Smart Cities'

Sensity, CAS Smart City to work on technology that could monitor traffic and air quality, and provide video surveillance

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Australia has 716 potential regulatory issues for driverless technology: advisory body

​Australia has 716 potential issues with its current laws that need to be considered carefully or risk holding back driverless car technology, the nation's peak regulatory advisory body said on Tuesday.

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After AlphaGo's achievement, do humans need to fear artificial intelligence?

Google's computer program AlphaGo stunned the world this week by defeating a top professional player at Go, a board game that has trillions of possible moves and often requires players' intuition.

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China expects greater AI support

Though only in the first of the five-game match, the victory is heartening news for those lobbying for greater government support for AI technology at the "two sessions," China's most important annual political event.

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Science Park sees 2020 finish for HK$4.4b plan

The Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) says its Phase I expansion plan could be completed in the 2019-20 financial year, if the Legislative Council Finance Committee approves its HK$4.4 billion funding request.

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Apple boss Tim Cook clashes with US government over encryption

White House tech summit reportedly saw Apple’s CEO call for a ‘no backdoors’ policy when it comes to communications encryption.

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China's porn sharing trial should be viewed from a legal perspective

Debate has been sparked online in China following the trial of four executives from the former Chinese online video service Qvod Technology. The Shenzhen-based video sharing company was charged with spreading pornography for profit.