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A man rides a rented electric scooter at Juarez neighborhood in Mexico City in this July 2, 2019 file photo. — AFP
E-scooters: A transport 'tsunami' flooding cities worldwide
PARIS — They appeared in June last year as Paris was waking up from its annual all-night Festival of Music: Hundreds of green-and-black electric scooters dotting the pavements of the capital.The timing was perfect, with the city struggling with a botched revamp of its main bike-sharing service that left countless frustrated users looking for a new form of transport.Cheap, widely available and easily unlocked with a smartphone app, e-scooters checked all the boxes, becoming wildly popular overnight."It's happened very quickly and a bit of an anarchic way," admitted French Transport Minister Elisabeth Borne in May. "It's effectively been the law of the jungle."Over the course of a year, a total of 13 operators piled into the Paris market, putting 20,000 scooters...
July 05, 2019

E-scooters: A transport 'tsunami' flooding cities worldwide

A Loon internet balloon, carrying solar-powered mobile networking equipment, flies over the company's launch site in Winnemucca, Nevada, U.S., in this June 27, 2019 file photo. — Reuters
Google internet balloon spinoff Loon still looking for its wings
SAN FRANCISCO — Google's bet on balloons to deliver cell service soon faces a crucial test amid doubts about the viability of the technology by some potential customers.Loon says its balloons will reach Kenya in the coming weeks for its first commercial trial. The test with Telkom Kenya, the nation's No. 3 carrier, will let mountain villagers buy 4G service at market-rate prices for an undefined period. Kenya's aviation authority said its final approval would be signed this month.Hatched in 2011, Loon aims to bring connectivity to remote parts of the world by floating solar-powered networking gear over areas where cell towers would be too expensive to build.Its tennis-court-sized helium balloons have demonstrated utility. Over the last three years, Loon successfully let...
July 01, 2019

Google internet balloon spinoff Loon still looking for its wings

The Indian case is similar to one Google faced in Europe, where regulators imposed a $5 billion fine on the company for forcing manufacturers to pre-install its apps on Android devices. Google has appealed against the verdict. — Reuters
Google appears to have leveraged Android dominance: India watchdog
NEW DELHI — Google appears to have misused its dominant position in India and reduced the ability of device manufacturers to opt for alternate versions of its Android mobile operating system, Indian officials found before ordering a wider probe in an antitrust case.A 14-page order from the Competition Commission of India (CCI), reviewed by Reuters this week, found Google's restrictions on manufacturers seemed to amount to imposition of "unfair conditions" under India's competition law.Reuters reported last month that the CCI had launched a probe in April against Google for its alleged abuse of Android's dominant position to block rivals, but the contents of the directive detailing the initial assessment upon which that investigation was ordered have not been...
June 28, 2019

Google appears to have leveraged Android dominance: India watchdog

Tourists take selfies at Sugarloaf Hill in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in this June 7, 2019 file photo. — AFP
From Rio to Rome, a battle for selfie supremacy
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Under the immense Christ the Redeemer statue that overlooks Rio de Janeiro and its picturesque Guanabara Bay, dozens of tourists jockey for position to get selfies with the stunning panoramic view illuminated by the setting sun.A tangle of arms and selfie sticks are lifted for solo shots, couple snaps, family photos: getting the perfect picture with the statue or Sugarloaf Mountain in the background is the goal.The only definite fail? Ending up with other tourists taking selfies in the frame.Brazil is a selfie-mad country. But it is hardly alone.Around the globe, selfie culture has become a facet of daily life — social media sites are flooded with pictures, tourist attractions are overrun with those seeking selfie nirvana.In some cases, that quest for the ideal...
June 27, 2019

From Rio to Rome, a battle for selfie supremacy

Robots are seen in the Ericsson stand during the Mobile World Congress (MWC 2019) introducing next-generation technology at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC) in Shanghai on Wednesday. — AFP
Robots to take 20 million jobs, worsening inequality: Study
WASHINGTON — Robots are expected to take over some 20 million manufacturing jobs worldwide by 2030, extending a trend of worsening social inequality while boosting overall economic output, a new study shows.The forecast set to be released on Wednesday highlights growing concerns that automation and robots, while offering economic benefits, are disproportionately killing low-skill jobs and aggravating social and economic stress.The study by Oxford Economics, a private British-based research and consulting firm, said job displacement from the rise of robots will not be evenly spread around the world, or within countries.Robots have already taken over millions of manufacturing jobs and are now gaining in services, helped by advances in computer vision, speech recognition and machine...
June 26, 2019

Robots to take 20 million jobs, worsening inequality: Study

A member of MINUSMA Chadian contingent gives water to a boy in Kidal, Mali December 17, 2016. — Reuters
Tech tool aims to predict global water conflicts before they happen
LONDON — Artificial intelligence can predict where conflicts over scarce water will break out up to a year in advance and allow action to prevent them, researchers said on Friday.An early warning tool that tracks water supplies worldwide and mixes in social, economic and demographic data to flag up potential crises is being developed by the Netherlands-based Water, Peace and Security partnership (WPS).During tests, the system predicted more than three quarters of water-related conflicts in Mali's Inner Niger Delta, said WPS, which plans to launch it globally later this year."We want to detect conflict early enough...to then engage in a dialogue process that helps to address these conflicts —ideally mitigate them early on or resolve them," said Susanne Schmeier from the...
June 14, 2019

Tech tool aims to predict global water conflicts before they happen

Solo, yet tutti: App puts orchestra in your living room
Aix-en-Provence, France — It's a musician's dream -- rehearse alongside a full orchestra, but in your own living room.And the immersive experience is possible because, yes, there's an app for that, courtesy of a French start-up, Digital Music Solutions."NomadPlay" is all down to an algorithm which separates out the sound components of a score to remove any instrument as desired, fading out an oboe or piano part for instance, and allowing the home musician to join the fray."When we were young we all practized with records to get the impression we were playing along with the Vienna or Berlin philharmonic. That was very gratifying," internationally-renowned French violinist Renaud Capucon, 43, told AFP."But it was a nightmare when our parents heard us...
June 12, 2019

Solo, yet tutti: App puts orchestra in your living room

A large display for the gaming company
Lone gamers a dying breed as community play thrives
Los Angeles — The lone gamer appeared to be a dying breed Tuesday at a premier industry event as play took to the cloud where contenders join forces or face off as foes.Industry insiders and game lovers thronged to the premier Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) show floor that opened here on Tuesday for peeks at hot titles set for release in the year ahead.Once known for secretive demos given behind closed doors to partners and press, E3 has opened its doors to fans, reflecting trends toward cooperative online play and broadcasting action as spectator sport.The advent of streaming games Netflix style from the internet cloud promised to fuel those trends, tapping into the power of datacenters to let countless people play simultaneously in shared worlds or tune in to watch."The video...
June 12, 2019

Lone gamers a dying breed as community play thrives

A display for Facebook Gaming is shown during opening day of E3, the annual video games expo revealing the latest in gaming software and hardware in Los Angeles, California. — Reuters
Facebook to create 500 jobs in new London engineering center
LONDON — Facebook will create 500 new tech jobs in London by the end of 2019, including 100 roles in artificial intelligence, with many working on systems to detect and remove malicious content, fake accounts and harmful behavior, it said on Wednesday.The social media giant said it will employ more than 3,000 people in the capital by the end of the year across three sites, including its new engineering center in Soho, central London."These hundreds of new jobs demonstrate not only our commitment to the UK but also our determination to proactively detect and remove malicious content," Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook's vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa, said at a London Tech Week event.Facebook said London was its biggest engineering center outside the United...
June 12, 2019

Facebook to create 500 jobs in new London engineering center

An employee works to build a 3D printed social housing building called
Robot bricklayers to 3D printing — how tech can transform housebuilding
WASHINGTON — A robotic bricklayer, 3D printing and furniture that can be stowed away at the wave of a hand could all help to address the global deficit in affordable housing, according to a study released on Thursday. Nearly 90% of the world's cities cannot provide affordable homes for their citizens and millennials are spending more on housing than any previous generation, said the report, compiled by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and consultants PwC. That is not sustainable, according to the report's lead author Alice Charles, who said better land management practices and improved efficiency in the construction industry could make urban housing more affordable. "Construction practices really haven't changed much in the past 100 years," Charles, head of the...
June 06, 2019

Robot bricklayers to 3D printing — how tech can transform housebuilding

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