#Vision 2020: If imagination were everything

Flying cars, androids you can’t tell apart from humans, colonised planets... here are things we should have had by now

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#Newsmaker: Sundar Pichai and the Alphabet soup

He’s known to be a quiet charmer with a steely resolve. Will that be enough to turn the tide on Google, full of PR pitfalls, and its parent company Alphabet, which loses billions a year?

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The oldest sites still online: Recharge by Rachel Lopez

The oldest functioning web pages on the internet are also some of the oddest.

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Art meets AI: Computer-generated works set for New York sale

Sotheby’s will put two paintings by the French art collective Obvious up for sale on Thursday, including Le Baron De Belamy.

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AI can now make creative and exploratory decisions

This research considers an AI framework that learns human design strategies through observation of human data to generate new designs without explicit goal information, bias, or guidance.

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She can talk, emote and now draw and contextualise too: Sophia the robot visits...

The delicate looking woman robot with doe-brown eyes and long fluttering eyelashes, who mesmerised the world when she was activated in 2016, is getting smarter by the day.

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Glitch busters: Indians are acing it as bug bounty hunters

Giant tech companies are paying indie hackers big bucks to point out flaws in their apps and India is among the countries receiving the most payouts.

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This new technology is likely to improve restaurant services

A recent study shows that adding a tabletop device can improve restaurant services and increase revenues.

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Google, Facebook secretly tracking your porn-viewing habits

In 2017, Pornhub, one of the largest porn websites, received 28.5 billion visits, with users performing 50,000 searches per second on the site.

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Playing video games can make you more creative: Study

A recent study published in the Creativity Research Journal claims that games like Minecraft encourage players to practice some level of creativity.

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Meet the Indians using artificial intelligence to create art

They feed data sets into special algorithms to create canvases; they’re showing at art events around the world. Elsewhere, AI art is even ending up at auction.

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Dhanbad best city for 4G availability in India: Study

Ranchi, capital of Jharkhand, came second after scoring 95 per cent in 4G availability. Srinagar came third with a score of 94.9 per cent.

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Google celebrates musician Johann Christian Bach with its first-ever AI-powered...

With the press of a button that is located at the bottom right corner, the doodle uses machine learning to “harmonize the custom melody into Bach’s signature music style.”

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The path to love is worth it: Tinder CEO Elie Seidman on dating, India, privacy

The freemium model is the way forward, Seidman believes. India will be among the biggest future markets.

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Can't agree on a family vacation spot? This new tool will help

Wanderlist, a new tool from Virtuoso, lets travellers create a virtual bucket list through a highly visual, lightly game-like survey.

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Just how sexist is that film? There's an app to find out

A new mobile application called Mango Meter, launched last week in Jakarta, Indonesia, allows users to do just that. Its founders describe it as the world’s “first feminist film review” app.

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How tweets influence millennials, decoded

Tweets, either for or against, can influence the thinking process of young people and the speed of the messenger matters here too, say researchers.

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New AI tool increases accuracy of schizophrenia diagnosis

The tool called EMPaSchiz, developed by researchers at the University of Alberta in Canada, examined brain scans from patients who were diagnosed with schizophrenia and predicted the diagnosis with 87 per cent accuracy.

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At The CES 2019 gadget show, makers of women's 'massager' charge sexism

The makers of a robotic “personal massager” for women won a prestigious CES award. Its maker, the startup Lora DiCarlo, was then banned from exhibiting on the show floor.

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