In 2016, Cruise, an autonomous vehicle startup acquired by General Motors, had about 50 employees. At the beginning of 2019, the headcount at its San Francisco headquarters—mostly software engineers, mostly working on projects connected to machine learning and artificial intelligence—hit around 1000. Now that number is up to 1500, and
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AWARENESS about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technologies are growing steadily across industries and there is really no better time to explore the intersection of the two. While AI carries out tasks that it is programmed to, blockchain can distribute and decentralize an immutable database. Together, they are perfect
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Monaco on Tuesday became the first country in Europe to inaugurate a next-generation 5G mobile phone network based on technology from Chinese firm Huawei, which is seen by the US as a major security risk. As mobile operators shift away from slower 3G and 4G networks, Europe has been torn over
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Eni, Vitol Receive WB03 Block Right In Offshore Ghana. Eni and its partner Vitol have received rights to block WB03 in the Tano basin offshore Ghana. The block, located in the medium deepwaters, was one of five blocks offered in Ghana’s first international competitive bid round. Eni will be the operator of
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The most valuable natural resource on the moon may be water. In addition to sustaining lunar colonists, it could also be broken down into its constituent elements—hydrogen and oxygen—and used to make rocket propellant. Although the ancients called the dark areas on the moon maria (Latin for “seas”), it has long
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The company behind a video-conferencing app revealed to suffer a worrying security flaw has backtracked on its initial decision not to put out a full fix, and now says a patch will be released tonight. Security researcher Jonathan Leitschuh revealed this week that Zoom, an app most notable for its click-to-join
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Spotify has officially introduced Spotify Lite. Lite, according to Spotify, is a small, fast, and simplified version of the main Spotify app. Users will still be able to search and play their favourite songs and artists, save them, share with others, discover new music, and enjoy playlists, but with the
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The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has commissioned a Research steering committee to join in steering ICT innovations in the country. The committee will not only drive innovation and manufacturing in the nation’s telecoms sector, but will also farm out a roadmap that would entrench research in the Nigerian telecoms industry. Executive
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Damen Shiprepair Amsterdam (DSAm) has completed a major maintenance program on TechnipFMC’s diving support vessel Deep Arctic. The 156-m (512-ft) long vessel came to the yard primarily for a main class renewal (intermediate) docking and for maintenance including the renewal of the steel plates to her box coolers. To achieve this
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Cyber-security firm Symantec says that criminals are able to steal millions by using “deepfaked” audio to fool financial controllers into transferring them money by making them believe they are speaking to the company’s CEO. Cyber-security software company Symantec says that it has seen at least three cases in which “deepfaked” audio
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