Humanoid robots take center stage at Silicon Valley summit, but skepticism remains

Humanoid robots take center stage at Silicon Valley summit, but skepticism remains

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring, honestly,” says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui. But the commercial boom in artificial intelligence has lit a spark under long-simmering visions to build humanoid robots that can move their mechanical bodies like humans…

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What’s inside Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano? Scientists obtain first 3D images

What’s inside Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano? Scientists obtain first 3D images

POPOCATÉPETL VOLCANO – In the predawn darkness, a team of scientists climbs the slope of Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano, one of the world’s most active and whose eruption could affect millions of people. Its mission: figure out what is happening under the crater. For five years, the group from Mexico’s National Autonomous University has climbed the…

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Pro-Russian hackers claim cyberattack on French postal service

Pro-Russian hackers claim cyberattack on French postal service

PARIS – A pro-Russian hacking group claimed responsibility for a major cyberattack that halted package deliveries by France’s national postal service just days before Christmas, prosecutors said Wednesday. After the claim by the cybercrime group known as Noname057, French intelligence agency DGSI took over the investigation into the hacking attack, the Paris prosecutor’s office said…

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EU warns of possible action after the US bars 5 Europeans accused of censorship

EU warns of possible action after the US bars 5 Europeans accused of censorship

BRUSSELS – France, Germany, the European Union and the United Kingdom on Wednesday hit out at a U.S. decision to impose travel bans on five Europeans the Trump administration accuses of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American views. The EU’s executive branch, the European Commission, which supervises tech regulation in Europe, warned that…

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