Digital assistants have grown in both their abilities and adoption in the last few months, learning to pass as people and show empathy – and even love.
The German government agreed on Tuesday to a faster expulsion of criminal foreigners in the wake of the New Year's Eve assaults on women in Cologne by mainly Arab and North African male suspects.
German police have so far identified a total of 16 suspects who could relate to sex attacks committed against women in the western German city of Cologne, German media Focus Online reported on Thursday.
"In the past it's always been just Christmas eve that was the super romantic day of the year but as Christmas falls on a Friday this year, meaning the next day is a day off, many are focusing all their attention on the day itself and it's mortifying," explained Tomo Hasegawa, a 29-year-old singleton working for a trading company near Tokyo's Akasaka.
A British Muslim family, which includes nine children, were barred from going to Disneyland after U.S. officials prevented them from flying to Los Angeles, British media reported Wednesday.
Circle and KoalaSafe block sites, set time limits and keep tabs on your children’s devices
Aussie astronomers have found the closest potentially habitable planet that's four times the size of earth just outside our solar system.
Queues are forming at fainting couches, and nostrils are flaring with unconstrained indignation at Donald Trump's daily outrages - and there's no denying the man is a loathsome cretin. But when it comes to extrapolating this self-evident insight into into a broader critique of the alleged cravenness of the American political mind, I offer a word or two of caution.
In an era when cyberspace has become a domain so important as land, sea, the sky and outer space, cybersecurity should be safeguarded by all countries around the world, or it could become an Achilles' heel in the development of the Internet.
Except Futurama’s 2001 episode “I Dated a Robot”, with its post-apocalyptic world of silvers and blues, wildly overestimated how long it would take before this fear became flesh.
Two more Cambodian villagers died after consuming a toxic dog meat delicacy in eastern Kratie province, bringing the number of the dead to five, a local official confirmed on Tuesday.
The very foundations of the caliphate appear to be crumbling. Territories once enjoyed by the "Islamic State", and brutally enforced public support are, perhaps for the first time, under serious threat.
Fourteen people were killed in a gun attack on a holiday party in San Bernardino, California on Wednesday (Dec 2), the worst mass shooting in the United States since 2012.
Two days after the deadly shooting in San Bernardino of Southern California that killed 14 innocents and injured 21 on Wednesday, a bunch of mysteries still shroud the tragedic incident as further investigation was underway.
Despite roping in the production team behind hits by Rihanna and Katy Perry, Chris Martin and co can’t seem to help lapsing into the same old windy cliches and nondescript balladry
She is married to one of the world's richest men, yet little is known about Ms Priscilla Chan, wife of Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg.
They are probably still working on mastering basic math or simple English sentences, but primary school children in China's top-tier cities have shown surprising financial maturity.
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