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At kindergarten, three-year-old Seven Kong has his schoolmates to play with, but at home his best friend is a kidney-shaped, lime-coloured android named BeanQ. The two spend hours together, with Seven peppering the robot with a continuous stream of questions. “What’s up BeanQ? Have you eaten? I wanna watch cartoons!” …

A new iPhone feature designed to help parents control their children’s smartphone usage is already being circumvented by tech-savvy minors. Apple Screen Time, a software update introduced to iPhones and iPads last week, lets users track and limit the time they spend online part of a push across Silicon Valley to …

Facebook is facing calls to take concrete action on cyber-bullying after it emerged a scheme it is helping fund to protect children has been forced to push back targets. Last October Facebook pledged to put $1.3m (£1m) into a programme,run by the Diana Award and Childnet, to help put a “digital …

For many people, the future inspires nightmare visions of a “robopocalypse,” a time when humans become subjugated by their own creations: robot overlords that possess superior physical and intellectual prowess. One Japanese researcher, however, has designed a robot that instills the opposite image of our future, particularly in the minds …

Dubai will host EmTech MENA conference on 23rd September, organised by Dubai Future Foundation and Haykal Media. The two-day conference will focus on three main pillars: information security, artificial intelligence, and future governments. Important subject matter such as future technologies for the generation and storage of energy, the design and …

Amazon has unveiled a line of electric plugs, microwaves and clocks powered by its Alexa digital assistant as it sought to position itself at the centre of the smart home. The gadgets see the company’s Alexa voice assistant extend well beyond the line of Echo smart speakers it first released …

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing Facebook on behalf of three women job seekers who accused the social media giant of posting ads that are shown only to men. The ACLU, along with the Communications Workers of America and the employment law firm Outten & Golden LLP, on Tuesday filed charges with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Facebook. The women …

More than half of all tasks in the workplace tasks will be carried out by machines by 2025. That’s according to the World Economic Forum, which predicts that AI and robots will kill off 75 million jobs worldwide by 2022. The Swiss nonprofit also claims as many as 133 million …

Apple has revealed the new iPhone XS as its most advanced iPhone yet. The announced iPhone XS has the following specifications: -Screen is almost edgeless. -It comes in three finishes – gold, silver and space grey. -Both the front and back are made from durable glass. and Apple Watch Series 4 at …

More than 1,500 listings of live animals for sale have been found on Facebook in Thailand by a wildlife trafficking watchdog. Traffic, which monitors such activity, said many of the species, despite having international protection, were not native to the country, and so trading them was unregulated. The listings were …