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  Bloomberg Google can see a future where robots help us unload the dishwasher and sweep the floor. The challenge is making sure they don’t inadvertently knock over a vase — or worse — while doing so. Researchers at Alphabet Inc. unit Google, along with collaborators at Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, and OpenAI — an artificial ...

  Rio de Janeiro / DPA The Morro da Mineira favela (slum) in Rio de Janeiro holds a striking number of turquoise houses: you can see them from afar, like boxes piled up on the hill, all of them turquoise. The story goes that a well-known drug lord hid in this poor neighbourhood near the Sambadrome, in central Rio. Police ...

  Tribune News Service The speed of technology advancement is driving the evolution of your business. Turn the challenges into important competitive opportunities. Anticipate and apply the new technologies in a smart way. The perspective of Montserrat Corominas. The whole world is in a continually escalating technology race. This race of technology is apparent in how it took 30 years ...

  Chirag Kulkarni / TNS Social media channels can take all the time you are willing to throw at them and then take the same again. Yes, we need social channels for marketing, but it needs to be on our terms and work for us, not against. Luckily there is a wide range of third-party apps that make Twitter and ...

  Berlin / DPA In the middle of southern Israel’s desert, engineers are hard at work building the world’s tallest solar tower, reflecting the country’s high hopes for renewable energy. Once completed in late 2017, the Ashalim Tower will rise to 240 metres (787 feet), taller than Paris’s Montparnasse Tower and London’s Gherkin, according to the Israeli government and the consortium ...

  Neil C. Hughes / TNS An unprecedented speed of technological change has transformed almost every aspect of our lives. We can book a table in a restaurant, hail a cab or even rent an apartment on the other side of the world at the click of a button. But not all industries have embraced this digital transformation. Healthcare, for ...

  Ashalim / AFP In the middle of southern Israel’s desert, engineers are hard at work building the world’s tallest solar tower, reflecting the country’s high hopes for renewable energy. Once completed in late 2017, the Ashalim Tower will rise to 240 metres (787 feet), taller than Paris’s Montparnasse Tower and London’s Gherkin, according to the Israeli government and the ...

  Paris / AFP First postulated more than 230 years ago, black holes have been extensively researched, frequently depicted, even featured in sci-fi films. We’ve all seen the artists’ impressions and read of their ravenous star-gobbling feasts. But here’s the thing… science is still not 100 percent sure what they look like, how they behave or even that they exist. ...

  David Finkel / TNS Have you ever wondered how the world’s top entrepreneurs get so much done in their days? After all, they have the same 24 hour days and 7 day weeks, yet they consistently get so much more done in that time. Here are 15 time habits of the best entrepreneurs. Tap into the real power of ...

  Basel / AFP Hundreds of suitcases hang eerily from the ceiling, old publications depict colonial scenes of dark “savages” committing horrific acts of violence, and an anti-protestor gun blasts into life… with rounds of birdsong. A common theme — of angst at a world in political turmoil, beset by a migration crisis and dread of terrorism — unites many ...