Science

News Hour: Sometimes the best place to showcase the potential of a bold, world-changing technology is a flower garden. Take the case of Ofer Dekel, for example. He manages the Machine Learning and Optimization group at...

News Hour: China’s top quality watchdog has asked General Motors, Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen to fulfill their obligations to recall vehicles in China affected by faulty Takata airbags, it said in a statement. The three foreign...

News Hour: Volkswagen is recalling 766,000 vehicles of its core passenger-car brand worldwide for a software update to their braking control systems, a spokesman said. The braking control system may not function properly in certain driving...

News Hour: Taiwan plans to spend T$1 billion ($32.73 million) every year over a period of five years on artificial intelligence research centers, the government said, in a move that will help its technology firms enter...

News Hour: SpaceX on Wednesday deployed a broadband communications satellite for IntelSat, after twice ditching launch plans in the final seconds before liftoff earlier this week. The satellite, known as IntelSat 35e, soared into the blue...

News Hour: All Volvo car models launched after 2019 will be electric or hybrids, the Chinese-owned company said on Wednesday, making it the first major traditional automaker to set a date for phasing out vehicles powered...

News Hour: China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd launched on Wednesday a cut-price voice assistant speaker, similar to Amazon.com Inc’s “Echo”, its first foray into artificially intelligent home devices. The “Tmall Genie”, named after the company’s e-commerce...

News Hour: A huge cyber attack that initially hit Ukraine has spread across the world, causing major disruption. The hack was already the biggest in Ukraine’s history but it has now affected other countries – including...

News Hour: After releasing the latest Android 7.1.1 Nougat update to ZenFone 3 Zoom last week, Asus is moving forward to bring the Nougat update to the other ZenFone 3 family members. The Asus ZenFone 3...

News Hour: During the 2017 spring semester a group of students organized to design and paint interactive murals covering a 200-foot long stretch of wall in the tunnel system located under the campus of MIT. The...