Microsoft is to replace dozens of contract journalists on its MSN website and use automated systems to select news stories, US and UK media report.
The curating of stories from news organisations and selection of headlines and pictures for the MSN site is currently done by journalists.
Artificial intelligence will perform these news production tasks, sources told the Seattle Times.
Microsoft said...
BEIJING, May 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have discovered that more than half of the confirmed novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases occurred in places with the air temperature between five to 15 degrees Celsius.
The researchers from Lanzhou University hoped to learn about the environmental parameters within which the SARS-CoV-2 can survive in order to understand its global dispersal pattern.
They...
Researchers say they’ve created a proof-of-concept bionic eye that could surpass the sensitivity of a human one.
“In the future, we can use this for better vision prostheses and humanoid robotics,” researcher Zhiyong Fan, at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, told Science News.
The eye, as detailed in a paper published in the prestigious journal Nature today, is...
Izaak Miller, from Cheshunt, Herts, can write the English, Greek and Arabic alphabet and is now planning to get started on Russian, thanks to his love of languages.
A four-year-old boy has become a member of Mensa and already knows all 50 American states and the alphabet - in three different languages.
Brainy Izaak Miller has an IQ of 154 -...
Contact tracing applications for infected people in Singapore and Australia were launched earlier, but the result was incomplete. iPhone does not support Bluetooth as a proxy for measuring the risk of infection. Initially, the software will work only in Latvia. The country's population is almost 2 million people.
The Latvian application Apturi Covid (Stop Covid) works on iOS and Android...
Academician Ali Guliyev Institute of Chemistry of Additives of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences worked in several directions during a special quarantine regime in connection with the coronavirus pandemic. According to the director of the institute, academician Vagif Farzaliyev, distance learning for first-year students will continue until June 15, after which they will pass exams in the traditional format...
Windows 10 KB4556799 is yet another update which has become problematic for some users. KB4556799, which is an important security update, is causing audio issues and temporary data loss for consumers.
Users running Windows 10 May 2019 Update and November 2019 Update are reporting that the update is a serious fail with a wide range of issues including a broken...
Panasonic Corp. has developed a robot equipped with nozzles to autonomously spray disinfectant in hospitals in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak.
The Hospi-mist was remodeled from the Hospi, which has been deployed in medical institutions to transport drugs and specimens to compensate for staff shortages during holidays and at night, according to the company.
By utilizing map data stored in...
Germany's data privacy chief has told federal bodies not to use WhatsApp, amid concerns that it feeds Facebook with data. Ulrich Kelber said it appeared that the government has failed to establish enough safe services.
Data privacy commissioner Ulrich Kelber said any use of WhatsApp was prohibited for federal ministries and institutions, even if some had resorted to using it...
KC N901 smart helmet is equipped with an ARM processor, an augmented reality display screen, an infrared camera, and a visible light camera. According to device specifications seen by Business Insider, the wearer can detect the temperature, to within 0.3 degrees Celsius, of passers-by within around two meters.
A law enforcement officer wearing the helmet could do any of the...