After Corralling AI Expertise, Facebook Now Offers to Share Some

Deutsche Telekom executive Axel Clauberg says his employer and other telecom companies are eager to tap artificial-intelligence techniques that are revolutionizing other industries. There’s only one problem: The telcos can’t hire AI experts. “It’s not as easy as it sounds for telcos to attract top […]

Chinese firm nabs social video app Musical.ly for as much as $1 billion

Since its launch, Musical.ly has expanded its content offerings beyond just social lip-syncing video creation. Last year, it spun off a separate live-streaming app called Livel.ly and earlier this year it began offering original mini-shows. In June, a short version of MTV’s Nick Cannon’s Wild […]

Mafia, blitz a Palermo: 17 arresti. Trovato il “libro mastro” del pizzo

10,30 – L'inchiesta ha anche permesso di individuare i responsabili di una sparatoria avvenuta la sera del 4 marzo 2015, nella piazza centrale del quartiere. Coinvolti Giuseppe e Domenico Tantillo, all'epoca ai vertici della cosca, e i componenti della … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #thisisnews […]

Alibaba breaks ‘Singles Day’ record, racking up $18 billion in sales in just 12 hours

Well, it’s 11/11 on the other side of the globe which means Alibaba is already raking in loads of cash from Singles Day, otherwise known as the biggest day for global online shopping of the year. The company has a running sales counter on its […]

Meet Tug, the Helpful Robot Rolling Its Way Into Hospitals and Hotels Around the World

Robots seem so far away. We’re so many years from Jetsons-esque machines that live among us and wash our dishes and fold our clothes. But the reality is the robots have arrived—you’re just not noticing them. Take a robot called Tug, for instance. No, Tug […]