Category : science

Facebook's Chief A.I. Scientist Yann LeCun On the Future of Computer Chips, Lawnmowers, and Deep Learning

Facebook's AI Chief Researching New Breed of Semiconductor

Yann LeCun said that future chips used for training deep learning algorithms, which underpin most of the recent progress in artificial intelligence, would need to be able to manipulate data without having to break it up into multiple batches. Most e...

Iraq's Kurdish regional parliament elects interim speaker amid boycott

Iraqi Kurdish lawmakers on Monday elected an interim speaker of parliament, an assembly key to regional stability, although the Kurds' second largest party boycotted the vote due to a rift between the main political forces in Iraq's Kurdistan region....

Israel's first lunar mission to launch this week

Israel is to launch its first moon mission this week, sending an unmanned spacecraft to collect data to be shared with NASA, organisers said Monday. The 585-kilogram (1,290-pound) Beresheet (Genesis) spacecraft is to lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket...

'Zombie' deer disease could spread to humans, experts warn

People who eat deer meat could be at risk of contracting a deadly infectious disease that is spreading across the animals’ US populations, experts have warned. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) –dubbed “zombie” deer disease – has infected deer, elk and...

Philippines says 136 people have died in measles outbreak

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine health secretary said Monday that 136 people, mostly children, have died of measles and 8,400 others have fallen ill in an outbreak blamed partly on vaccination fears.

Merck Gets Priority Review for Keytruda Combo in Kidney Cancer

Merck's (MRK) sBLA looking for approval of Keytruda plus Pfizer's Inlyta for the first-line treatment of the most common type of kidney cancer gets FDA's priority review.

Out of Nowhere, Jaguar Has a Hybridized, Turbocharged, and e-Supercharged Inline-Six

The newest member of the automaker's Ingenium engine family is a high-tech 3.0-liter straight-six.

Smokers less likely to survive a dangerous form of skin cancer

New UK research has found that patients with melanoma -- one of the deadliest forms of skin cancer -- may be less likely to survive if they also have a long history of smoking. The findings, published in the journal Cancer Research, showed that ther...

Flying 1,300 mph on airplanes would be great. But future aviation has other plans.

In the year 2044, our cities might be energized by fusion power plants, our sleek cars may all run on electricity, and our doctors might regularly employ gene-editing to cure blindness. But our airplanes will probably still fly at the same speeds the...

Odey Says Regulator's Wirecard Short Ban Paves Way for Lawsuits

In an interview Monday, Odey said he’s now more excited about taking BaFin to court than his wagers on the Aschheim, Bavaria-based company. BaFin prohibited investors from taking new short positions in Wirecard or increasing existing ones through Ap...

U.K. Lawmakers Recommend Harsher Penalties for Tech Firms

Damian Collins, the policy maker who spearheaded the inquiry, called for Parliament to create new laws to help a proposed regulator oversee the industry, with fines for companies to be calculated based on their revenue. “Companies like Facebook exer...

Morocco looks to French as language of economic success

With so many students dropping out of university because they don't speak French, the government has proposed reintroducing it as the language for teaching science, maths and technical subjects such as computer science in high schools. It also wants...

Indonesian presidential hopefuls vow energy self-sufficiency via palm

Indonesia's two presidential candidates pledged to achieve energy self-sufficiency by boosting the use of bioenergy, particularly fueled by palm oil, to cut costly oil imports by Southeast Asia's biggest economy. Indonesia, the world's biggest palm...

U.S. pressing Gulf states to keep Syria isolated: sources

The opposing approaches are an early test of whether Syrian President Bashar al-Assad can gain political and diplomatic credibility after a nearly eight-year civil war turned him into an international pariah. Many countries cut links with Syria at t...

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