DUBAI / WAM Expo 2020 Dubai has seen a staggering 5,663,960 visits up to December 5, since it first opened on October 1, with recent figures buoyed by the UAE’s Golden Jubilee festivities and a raft of spectacular sport, music and cultural performances. During October and November, a total of 5,383 government leaders, including presidents, heads of state, prime ministers ...

Artificial intelligence isn’t always so smart. It has amplified outrage on social media and struggled to flag hate speech. It has designated engineers as male and nurses as female when translating language. It has failed to recognise people with darker skin tones when matching faces. Systems powered by machine learning are amassing greater influence on human life, and while they ...

For years, Facebook and other large technology companies grew into vast digital conglomerates by making so-called killer acquisitions, small deals for companies that could one day pose a competitive threat. Internal emails between executives at Facebook show CEO  Mark Zuckerberg and his executive team were quaking at their keyboards in 2012 as they watched WhatsApp grow to dominate the market ...