This might be a helpful time to clarify that AI is often a catch-all term for an assortment of different technologies. There’s artificial intelligence in our digital assistants like Siri, Alexa, Cortana and the Google Assistant. You’ll find artificial intelligence in software like Facebook’s Messenger chatbots and Gmail’s auto-replies. It’s defined as « intelligence displayed by…

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The Rinspeed Snap is an autonomous electric vehicle that tries to address the problem of lifecycles and recycling. It consists of a passenger pod and a skateboard chassis. The pod is built to be durable, the skateboard is designed to work hard for a few years and then be recycled. Rinspeed ZF’s Intelligent Dynamic Driving…

The Financial Times reports that Milan have just a 50-50 chance of refinancing their debt to Elliott Management. The U.S. hedge fund provided around €300m to allow Yonghong Li to compete his takeover in April, with €128m owed by the club at seven per cent interest and €180m by the Chinese businessman at around 11…

Die Entscheidung der amerikanischen Regierung, die US-Botschaft in Israel nach Jerusalem zu verlegen und Jerusalem damit de facto als Hauptstadt Israels anzuerkennen, ist die jüngste in einer Reihe gravierender geopolitischer Entscheidungen im israelisch-palästinensischen Konflikt. Sie macht deutlich, dass jeder Vorstoß von außen dazu tendiert, eine der beiden Konfliktparteien zu favorisieren und die andere zu demoralisieren.…

Bitcoin’s plunge extended to more than 25 percent Friday as the frenzy surrounding digital currencies faced one of its biggest tests yet. The world’s largest cryptocurrency approached $10,000 as this week’s selloff entered a fourth day with increasing momentum. It touched a record high $19,511 on Monday. Other cryptocurrencies also tumbled, with bitcoin cash crashing more than…