Brief:Toy maker Mattel is bringing characters like Barbie and Thomas the Tank Engine to life in the pages of children's books in a collaboration with Bookful, the augmented reality (AR) book app f

INSIDE A LAB at Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy, there are a half dozen refrigerator-sized cabinets designed to kill batteries as fast as they can. Each holds around 100 lithi

South Korea has set itself the ambitious national target of developing 50 types of AI chips within the next decade.The country’s ICT ministry made the announcement this week as South Korea positions i

Google is returning to using humans for YouTube moderation after repeated errors with its AI system.Moderating a large network like YouTube is no easy task. Aside from the sheer volume of content uplo

Japan has opened a consultation with the International Standards Organisation (ISO) in a bid to establish standards for human-assisting robots.Part of the reason for Japan’s huge investments into robo

Elon Musk has unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain to demonstrate his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface."It's kind of like

A report from Microsoft warns that the UK faces an AI skills gap which may harm its global competitiveness.The research, titled AI Skills in the UK, shines a spotlight on some concerning issues.For it

The tech industry has long been divided between the efficacies of low-price, easy-entry products for widespread adoption and high-priced, premium products that allow access to only those with the mean