The Vatican teamed up with tech giants Microsoft and IBM to develop rules for the ethical development of artificial intelligence (AI) and called for the regulation of technologies such as face recognition. The document was presented as part of the AI conference organized by the Pontifical Academy for the Protection of Life.
The document states that artificial intelligence must respect...
Last year, the World Health Association included gambling addiction in the list of official diseases. The new legislation will come into force only in 2022, but now the first clinic for the treatment of the disease is already working in Britain.
In an interview on This Morning, Dr. Henrietta Bowden-Jones said that in December 2019, the first clinic specializing in...
A suitcase-shaped robot that uses artificial intelligence is being developed to guide visually impaired people in a joint project by IBM Japan and four partners.
Inspired by a proposal from Chieko Asakawa, an IBM Japan fellow who has vision problems, the proposed device will utilize a sensor, camera and battery to detect obstacles and alert its users of their existence...
European Union law enforcement agencies intend to build a network of national police databases covering all EU countries. According to internal documents at the disposal of The Intercept journalists, the databases will store images of citizens' faces.
The report, prepared by law enforcement officials of ten EU countries, talks about the need to create new European legislation that would allow...
Engineers at the University of Osaka (Japan) have presented a modified version of the Affetto robot, made in the form of the head of a one-year-old child. Android already knows how to smile, frown, cry, roll its eyes and imitate real children in every way, and now it has been taught to "feel" pain.
Affetto development began in 2011, designboom...
Two years after launching a chain of convenience stores without cashiers or checkout lines, Amazon is opening its first “Amazon Go Grocery” store in Seattle on Tuesday morning, enlarging the footprint for surveillance-style shopping and signaling a larger challenge to the broader world of brick-and-mortar retail.
The debut is also the answer to a longstanding mystery about the 7,700-square-foot space,...
An event dedicated to the 28th anniversary of the Khojaly genocide was held at the Institute of Chemistry of Additives of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. The director of the Institute Vagif Farzaliev opening the event with minute of silence in remembrance of Khojaly victims, said: “Today we commemorate the next anniversary of one of the terrible tragedies in...
Commuters may soon be able to ditch their bus pass and access public transport with technology identifying them by the way they walk.
Mastercard MA, -1.38% is working with transport firms to develop a new system that would authenticate passengers by their gait.
The payment provider told MarketWatch that everyone has a unique walk, and it is investigating innovative behavioral biometrics...
Robotic technology has played an important part in the medical field in the last two decades. The best example in this regard is the Da Vinci system, which is considered the best-selling surgery robot on the market today. This robot can perform high-precision surgical procedures — down to one millimeter. However, the system comes with a hefty price tag...
Bibliography of academician Vagif Majid oglu Farzaliyev, director of academician A.Guliyev Institute of Chemistry of Additives of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences has been published. The bibliographic index of scientific works of the outstanding scientist in the field of petrochemistry and organic chemistry V.Farzaliyev covers the period from 1962 to 2019, when he began his scientific activities, including higher...