Microsoft’s “Zo” chatbot picked up some offensive habits

It seems that creating well-behaved chatbots isn’t easy. Over a year after Microsoft’s “Tay” bot went full-on racist on Twitter, its successor “Zo” is suffering a similar affliction. Despite Microsoft programming Zo to ignore politics and religion, the folks at BuzzFeed News managed to get the bot to react to the restricted topics with surprising […]

The strangest habits I picked up from living in 23 different countries

Dominic Ebenbichler/Reuters I’ve been travelling the world since 2003, but even forgetting the time involved, I have lived in twenty three countries (and counting); that’s lived as in, spent at least a month (usually three, and over a year in some) in the country where I invested serious time into speaking its language (or already […]

Man with melon-sized cancer tumour picked THIS ‘effective’ cancer treatment over surgery

BACK pain similar to that of a a slipped disc was actually a warning sign of a rare type of cancer – a man has revealed. The sufferer has described how he chose proton beam therapy instead of an operation he said could have caused him to lose his bowel and bladder. Daily Express :: […]

Airbus is reportedly planning to reveal a futuristic concept car that can be picked up by a drone

Airbus Airbus is gearing up to reveal a concept car that can be airlifted by a drone in heavy traffic, Automotive News first reported. The aircraft manufacturer will reveal that car with Italdesign, a design and engineering company, at the Geneva Auto Show that kicks of March 9, according to the Automotive News report. Airbus and […]

‘You picked a Cabinet of billionaires’: Democrats respond to Trump’s congressional address

Screenshot via PBS NewsHour/YouTube Former Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear delivered the Democratic Party’s response to President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday night. Beshear criticized Trump’s picks for his cabinet, which includes Secretary of State and former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson and US Commerce Secretary and billionaire investor Wilbur Ross. Additionally, Beshear echoed the sentiments of other concerned Democrats who anxiously […]

Saudi Arabia has picked a legal advisor for the world’s biggest IPO

REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed DUBAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – State oil giant Saudi Aramco has appointed international law firm White & Case as legal adviser for its planned initial public offering (IPO), expected to be the world’s biggest, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The IPO, which Saudi officials have predicted will value Aramco at a minimum […]

The guys who made smartphone photography possible just picked up a huge cash prize

Next time you whip out your smartphone to snap a selfie, spare a thought for the guys that made it all possible. For without the groundbreaking research of Eric Fossum, George Smith, Nobukazu Teranishi, Michael Tompsett, and the late Willard Boyle, your smartphone camera might not even exist. This week, the four surviving engineers were rewarded for […]