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The Guardian
'Partnership on AI' formed by Google, Facebook, Amazon, IBM and Microsoft
The Guardian
Partnership on Artificial Intelligence hopes to invite 'academics, non-profits and specialists in policy and ethics' to join. Photograph: Alamy. Alex Hern · @alexhern. Wednesday 28 September 2016 17.00 EDT Last modified on Thursday 29 September 2016 ...and more »

Business Standard
The disruptive power of technology
Business Standard
There is a new wave of automated technology sweeping the world. Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the form of intelligent agents, chat bots, digital assistants and AI-based services and apps are set to disrupt industries and eliminate jobs in the coming ...and more »

BlackBerry has seen its global market share slip to less than one percent amid domination by Apple and Android devices.

Google is also expected to unveil a new smartphone line that will replace the Nexus range.

Engineers has devised a way to send secure passwords through the human body using smartphone fingerprint sensors and laptop touchpads.

Currently, eight percent of women and 13 percent of men in India have dating apps on their mobile devices.

Accelerated innovation in the form of tablets, phablets and PCs that surround us are going to be billion times more powerful 10 years down the line than today.

"Facebook At Work" is a platform where subscribers can use the product's special Work Feed of posts from colleagues to exchange ideas and assume tasks.

By 2020, 21 billion IoT devices will be in use worldwide, up from fewer than 5 billion last year, research firm Gartner has estimated.

The study showed that 98 percent of Spaniards aged between 16 and 29 had Internet access.

Users can book a ride without ever opening up the Ola app and view ride estimates and trip progress in a notification.

Musk showed his vision for a giant rocket that would propel people to the Red Planet, 100 humans at a time.

Blockchain technology is the foundation of bitcoin digital currency.

The Volkswagen diesel scandal and falling battery costs persuade executives and investors that plug-in vehicles are ready to go mainstream.

Ride-sharing has stumbled in Japan partly because of a strong taxi lobby.

Honor 8 will run on Android Marshmallow operating system and will come loaded with the company's own Emotion UI 4.1 interface. The phone is expected to be priced under Rs 30,000 in India.

After visiting India and seeing the problems users had with a 2G connection, the video-sharing service realised that the next generation needed a whole new YouTube mobile app to make the most of the service.

Less than a quarter of smartphone users are unplugging at least an hour before they go to sleep.

Motley Fool
Why Ford Is Taking the Slower Road to Self-Driving Technology
Motley Fool
It could be 10 years before the automaker has a self-driving car you can buy. But the Blue Oval has good reasons for moving slowly. John Rosevear. (TMFMarlowe). Sep 27, 2016 at 7:06PM. Ford Fusion Av Public Road. A self-driving Ford Fusion undergoing ...and more »