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Business Briefing: when robots and customers meet
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Customers might prefer digital robots who don't judge for now but physical robots with empathy may be the customer service workers of the future.
While the US is reeling from rampant fake online news, political movements in Europe are using the internet as a powerful democratic symbol to win elections. Will cyber-optimism or pessimism win?
Bringing back the diminished tradition of eating lunch together may be the solution.
Buildings, thinkers, books, films and works of art can ask central questions about how to live on this planet and its consequences.
Phone snubbing, or ‘phubbing,’ has become a real relationship downer.
After such a difficult political experience, empathy is the key not only to feeling connected, but feeling understood – and understanding others.
Medical students are using virtual reality to help them learn anatomy. But is it the game changing technology some people say it is?
Postage-stamp sized patches that target vaccines to the immune system are now in clinical trials.
While students enjoy learning with robots, research finds that teachers are more sceptical – worrying about their job security and technical capabilities of robots.
We need to educate children about how to behave responsibly online.
E-book sales are falling, even though many said they would “kill” print books. Computers and television were also supposed to spell the book’s demise. At one point, people even feared the phonograph.
Design will make the difference between smart city projects offering great promise or actually reinforcing or even widening the existing gaps in unequal ways their cities serve residents.
Having begun as a military answer to a Cold War threat (the Sputnik), the ARPANET turned into a completely different kind of network.
Opinion in the medical establishment is sure to be divided as to whether AI helpers are a good thing or just a flashy toy.
Apparently, the world is holding its breath on the unloading of a few bales of cotton, which “could change trade forever”. In Qingdao sometime in early November, 88 bales of cotton will be unloaded and…
The dark web is often used for illegal activity and because of the way it’s structured, it’s hard to police.
Angst when you forget your smartphone is not only a real psychological phenomenon–it also highlights a quintessentially postmodern problem: what the author calls the “anxiety of the disconnected”.
The closure of the car manufacturing plants in Australia is a sad loss of knowledge and jobs that will be difficult to replace.
There’s a disturbing history of solar flares taking out the technology we depend on. As tech becomes more and more vital, knowing what is happening in space is growing ever more crucial.
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