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An AI robot has flunked a university entry exam. University of Tokyo to be exact. Like fail isn't the word. The Asahi Shimbun said it failed "miserably." The AI program dubbed Todai Robot had steadily improved its academic…

The Sentinel-1 satellites have shown that the Millennium Tower skyscraper in the centre of San Francisco is sinking by a few centimetres a year. Studying the city is helping scientists to improve the monitoring of urban ground movements,…

People have a remarkable ability to remember and recall events from the past, even when those events didn't hold any particular importance at the time they occurred. Now, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology have evidence…

Author: Lanna Cooper What could possibly be better than the Christmas fireworks display at Disney World Florida, you might be asking yourself? Disney and Intel have partnered together to create a new type of light show where 300 colorful…

Launching a pair of phones that let you choose your Force allegiance, Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank is marking the incoming release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The Star Wars Mobile phones are made by Sharp and come in both Dark and…

The carbon footprint of a typical Thanksgiving feast - roasted turkey stuffed with sausage and apples, green bean casserole and pumpkin pie - for each state has been calculated by Carnegie Mellon University researchers. The team based their…

Niantic is adding a new species to the lineup on Pokemon Go: Ditto. As you may recall, Ditto is the pokémon that has the ability to mimic other creatures it sees. And that’s exactly what Ditto does in the game: hide under the guise of…

Written by: Pramitha Krishnamurthyprakash, Group Manager and Lead Consultant, Computer Science and AI, CPA Global. The lifecycles of breakthrough technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR) are heavily reliant on mainstream take up. Many…

For those who cannot travel freely, virtual reality’s promise of transporting us to a different world in a heartbeat is a lifeline, rather than a novelty. Sonya Kim, a physician in the San Francisco Bay area, has been taking…

There are three times more cooking fires - the most common cause of house fires - on Thanksgiving than on any other day of the year. And the thousands of "turkey-fryer explosion" videos on YouTube are a testament to why frozen turkeys and…