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US-Russia tensions not felt in space

Despite tensions, sanctions and recriminations between the United States and Russia, two American astronauts will join a Russian cosmonaut blasting off Wednesday from Kazakhstan for the International Space Station. Even when things...

Data science firm in Singapore, model to PH scientists

MANILA -- After meeting the head of Iraya Energies Pte. Ltd., a purely Filipino geoscience start-up that applies artificial intelligence (AI) to understand the earth, Philippine Ambassador to Singapore Joseph del...

Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking dies at 76

LONDON — World-renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking, who sought to understand a range of cosmic topics from the beginning of the universe to the intricacies of black holes, died Wednesday at...

Students build program that sniffs out Twitter ‘Bots’

SAN FRANCISCO — For months, university students Ash Bhat and Rohan Phadte had been tracking about 1,500 political propaganda accounts on Twitter that appeared to have been generated by computers when...

Moon to get its own mobile network

Several high-tech companies are teaming up on a plan to put a mobile phone network on the moon next year. Vodaphone Germany, Nokia, and Audi are working on a mobile network and...

Artificial Intelligence poses big threat to society, warn leading scientists

Artificial Intelligence is on the cusp of transforming our world in ways many of us can barely imagine. While there’s much excitement about emerging technologies, a new report by 26 of...

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