In its bid to encourage medical and specialized scientific research, thereby promoting humanitarian and social undertakings as its core objective, the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) announced setting up a US$200,000 prize award for individuals or group who will find an effective cure or develop vaccine against Coronavirus (Corvid 19).
The ICESCO Director General, Dr. Salim M....
WhatsApp representatives told reporters that they were taking measures to prevent the spread of fakes about Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak. Restrictions due to the fight against disinformation about coronavirus have already appeared in the messenger.
In particular, the WhatsApp team limited the ability to forward a message to five chats at the same time and added the notes “forwarded” and “multiple...
German technology company Carbon Mobiles announces the world’s first carbon fiber smartphone, Carbon 1 Mark II. The device, which has an extremely light and thin body, is supported by the MediaTek Helio P90 chipset. The value put on the phone may disappoint you a little.
Carbon Mobile introduced Carbon 1 Mark II, the world’s first carbon fiber smartphone, inspired by...
29 April – 1 May 2020
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
The first-ever Nobel Prize Summit will bring together around 20 Nobel Laureates, scientists, policymakers, business leaders, and today’s youth leaders to explore the question: What can be achieved in this decade to put the world on a path to a more sustainable, more prosperous future for all of humanity?
Scientists have long sounded the alarm...
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,...