The company unveiled its Project Debater in San Francisco June 18. The AI program can form and articulate arguments and rebut those made by humans
Marriott has signed up for the service, and will place Amazon Echo smart speakers in 10 hotels this summer. The Alexa voice assistant will help guests order room service, ask for more towels or get restaurant recommendations
The feds say the transformative power of artificial intelligence and big data will generate new opportunities for job creation and economic growth, but privacy and security issues must be addressed
The U.S. president wants to assert American dominance in space, by creating an entirely new branch of the military. There is no indication of how this “Space Force” will be organized or how much it will cost
The Korean tech giant said it would use more renewable energy at factories in the U.S., Europe and China. It didn’t give a renewables target for its home country, where about three quarters of the energy comes from coal and nuclear power
The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s tunnel construction firm, will build an underground transportation system that will ferry people from Chicago’s downtown to its biggest airport in approximately 12 minutes
Oakville, Ont., based Geotab, a fleet management software firm, has gained a stronger foothold in the electric vehicle space. FleetCarma’s technology monitors EVs and provides data on power usage
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found potential building blocks of life in an ancient Martian lakebed
ZTE was given a lifeline by the U.S. government, which could smooth trade talks between the Trump administration and China, but there’s no guarantee of that
Carbon Engineering of Squamish, B.C., says it is capturing carbon for less than one-third the cost of other companies working on the same technology
