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TOKYO: Sony said it would start testing self-driving cars as early as this year to beef up the company's sensing and safety technologies, as the Japanese electronics and entertainment giant accelerates its automotive push. Sony revealed the plan as it unveiled an electric concept car with 33 ...

U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc on Tuesday officially started work on a Model Y programme at its US$2 billion Shanghai factory, in a ceremony attended by its billionaire CEO Elon Musk and senior Shanghai government officials.

Facebook Inc said it will remove deepfakes and other manipulated videos from its platform if they have been edited, but not content that is parody or satire, in a move aimed at curbing misinformation ahead of the U.S. presidential election.

"Do you want a piece?" beekeeper Ma Gongzuo says, looking into the camera of a friend's smartphone before biting into the dripping comb of amber-coloured honey.

LAS VEGAS: The White House on Tuesday proposed regulatory principles to govern the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) aimed at limiting authorities' "overreach", and said it wants European officials to likewise avoid aggressive approaches. In a fact sheet, the White House said ...

INTERNET group Sea, formerly known as Garena, is the first applicant to go solo in its bid for a digital full bank licence in Singapore.

STANDARD Chartered has launched a publicly accessible portal which allows cross-border payments to be traced real-time like how parcel deliveries are tracked.

Intel Corp on Monday released a video of its Mobileye autonomous car navigating the streets of Jerusalem for about 20 minutes with the help of 12 on-board cameras and, unusually, no other sensors.

REDWOOD CITY, California: Impossible Foods on Monday (Jan 7) launched a plant-based sausage patty that will be tested in 139 Burger King restaurants later this month, entering a category dominated by rival Beyond Meat. Silicon Valley-based Impossible Foods, which supplies plant-based Whopper ...

Nissan Motor Co Ltd on Tuesday said former Chairman Carlos Ghosn's flight from Japan would not affect its policy of holding him responsible for "serious misconduct", renewing its charges against him a day before he was due to speak publicly.