HOW WILL PEOPLE RELATE MORE TO AI TECH BASED MACHINERY?
BICYCLING IN A hilly, busy city like San Francisco provides a cognitive as well as a physical workout. I survive in traffic by flexing not only my quadriceps but my theory of mind, the capacity to imagine
CHINA SCRAPS ANNUAL ECONOMIC GROWTH TARGET
China will not set an economic growth goal for this year as it deals with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic
NEW ZEALAND’S PM IS THE MOST POPULAR WORLD LEADER IN A CENTURY
New Zealand has found no new Covid-19 cases in the past two days, just as a new poll named Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern the country’s most popular leader in 100 years thanks to her pandemic
WORLD BANK ESTIMATES EXTREME CASE OF GLOBAL POVERTY
In 2015, there were 734 million people or 10% of the world's population in extreme poverty, which is defined as living on less than $1.90 a day, according to the World Bank's most recent estimates
ROLLS-ROYCE TO TERMINATE 9,000 JOBS
Rolls-Royce has said it will cut 9,000 jobs and warned it will take "several years" for the airline industry to recover from the coronavirus pandemic
JAPAN’S ECONOMY FALLS INTO RECESSION
Japan has fallen into recession for the first time since 2015 as the financial toll of the coronavirus continues to escalate
TAIWAN REPORTS NO NEW COVID-19 CASES.
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan's Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Tuesday (May 19) announced zero new cases of Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), marking the 12th straight day without
VACCINE FOR COVID-19 MUST BE DISTRIBUTED EQUITABLY
South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaking at the World Health Assembly through a video linik said on Monday that vaccines and treatments are "public goods" that must be "distributed equitably
CORONAVIRUS MAY BURN OUT BEFORE VACCINE
Coronavirus could “burn out naturally before any vaccine is developed”, according to a former World Health Organisation chief
SRI LANKA PREPARES TO OPEN DOORS BY JULY
Sri Lanka Tourism is seeing a silver lining as European and high-end Indian travellers have begun to inquire on forward bookings, while the Government is sorting out the COVID-19 protocol to welcome
WUHAN’S LATEST PLAN TO TEST PATIENTS
Wuhan, the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic began, has announced an ambitious plan to test all of its 11 million residents for the virus in the coming days, a campaign that will be
THE FUTURE OF PERSONAL CONTACT
In a normal week, it’s hard to count how many times we come into physical contact with other human beings. For many who are isolating alone, this may be the longest period in their lives that they’ve
HUMAN BEHAVIOUR DURING THE PANDEMIC HAS CONFUSED AI SYSTEMS
The chaos and uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic have claimed an unlikely victim: the machine learning systems that are programmed to make sense of our online behavior
WTO HEAD TO STEP DOWN A YEAR EARLY
The head of the World Trade Organization has said he will step down a year earlier than planned, at a crucial moment for the global economy
UK UNEMPLOYMENT TO DOUBLE AND ECONOMY TO SHRINK BY 14%
The Bank of England has warned the British economy could shrink by 14% this year and unemployment more than double by spring as the coronavirus causes the deepest recession in modern history
