Taiwan is accusing China of using ‘cheap verbal intimidation and saber rattling’ as live-fire drills begin

Reuters Taiwan’s defense ministry accused China of using “cheap verbal intimidation and saber rattling” to threaten them as China began a massive live-fire military drill in the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday. Chinese state media called the military exercise a direct response to “provocations” by the Taiwanese government, and is concerned the island will push for formal […]

NY-DC Hyperloop tunnel? Musk tweets about vague “verbal govt approval”

Enlarge (credit: The Boring Company) Elon Musk has been talking about The Boring Company, his tunnel-digging endeavor, for months now. Today, he tweeted: “Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins.” Ars has reached out to Musk directly and to The Boring Company’s media […]

Orban & ‘new boy’ Macron engaged in verbal slugfest over EU policies

Published time: 22 Jun, 2017 19:03 Edited time: 22 Jun, 2017 19:32 Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban has slammed the French president over what he terms inappropriate conduct after Emmanuel Macron criticized Eastern Europe for a ‘lack of solidarity’ and ‘cynicism’ in dealing with the refugee crisis. Macron’s first public appearance at official EU level […]

How Beyond Verbal hopes to make Siri and Alexa emotionally intelligent

An Israeli startup specializing in analyzing human emotion and traits based on voice is opening up its technology to help artificial intelligence (AI) assistants — such as Siri and Alexa — understand people’s moods by listening to how they sound when they speak. Founded out of Tel Aviv in 2012, Beyond Verbal has been building on […]

Exclusive: Arsenal reach verbal agreement with Max Allegri to replace Arsene Wenger

Allegri has been locked in talks with Arsenal since the end of last year and has now emerged as the man who will take over if Arsene Wenger stands down. The Juventus head coach is now waiting for Wenger to make up his mind if he wants to sign a two-year extension to his contract […]