The U.K. public service broadcaster BBC announced it would spend £34 million ($44 million) on children’s programming over the next three years to face off competition from global media giants like Facebook, Amazon and Netflix. Proposals to draw young audiences away from the Silicon Valley firms include multimedia content such as video, live online programming, […]
Read moreRussian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on Tuesday called North Korea’s latest test launch of a ballistic missile a breach of a U.N. Security Council resolution, the RIA news agency reported. It also cited Ryabkov as saying that tensions with Pyongyang risked leading to catastrophic developments and that the missile launch showed that the only […]
Read moreGrilling burgers may be fun on the Fourth of July, but less so if hot grease is your daily grind. Enter Miso Robotics. The southern California start-up has built a robotic “kitchen assistant” called Flippy to do the hot, greasy and repetitive work of a fry cook. Flippy employs machine learning and computer vision to […]
Read moreMicrosoft launched a new keyboard with a built-in fingerprint reader on Monday. The keyboard, officially known as the Microsoft Modern Keyboard with Fingerprint ID, lets you easily log in to a Windows 10 machine with the tap of a finger. It supports Bluetooth, which means you don’t need to plug it in and can easily […]
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Goldman Sachs: War or recession typically required to buck trend of low volatility
Central banks tightening is supportive of risk appetite but historically a large shock such as a war or recession has been required to snap low market volatility, according to strategists at Goldman Sachs. The low volatility “regime” currently plaguing the equity market is comparable to the last 14 cases since 1928, strategists Christian Mueller-Glissmann and […]
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Germany big target of cyber espionage and attacks, says government report
Germany is a big target of spying and cyber attacks by foreign governments such as Turkey, Russia and China, a government report said on Tuesday, warning of “ticking time bombs” that could sabotage critical infrastructure. Industrial espionage costs German industry billions of euros each year, with small- and medium-sized businesses often the biggest losers, the […]
Read moreThe Philippine Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld as constitutional President Rodrigo Duterte’s imposition of 60 days of military rule on a southern island, a ruling that would reinforce unity in the fight against militancy, his spokesman said. Duterte placed the southern island of Mindanao under military rule on May 23, hours after hundreds of pro-Islamic […]
Read moreAn experimental farm showcasing Israeli agriculture technology is in the planning stages outside Wagga Wagga. And no, for those not in the know, that’s not in Africa, nor in India, whose Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is this week in Israel, among other things to discuss agriculture cooperation. It’s in Australia. “That a country that is […]
Read moreSamsung Electronics Co. is developing a voice-activated speaker powered by its virtual assistant Bixby, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The project, internally known as “Vega”, has been in development for at least a year, the paper said, citing people familiar with the matter. The timing is not clear and many of the speaker’s […]
Read moreFrench President Emmanuel Macron vowed Monday that he would move to a public vote if lawmakers did not move quickly enough to back his ambitious reform agenda. In a rare address to both houses of parliament which echoed the U.S. State of the Union address, the newly-elected president said that he planned to cut the […]
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