SHANGHAI: United States electric vehicle maker Tesla is “very close” to achieving level five autonomous driving technology, chief executive Elon Musk said on Thursday (Jul 9), referring to the capability to navigate roads without any driver input. “I’m extremely confident that level five or essentially complete autonomy will happen and […]
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HONG KONG: China has punished video platforms including Alibaba-backed Youku and Baidu-backed iQiyi for carrying “low taste” content in a renewed effort to clean up the Internet, a pornography watchdog said. Authorities have outlawed more than 12,000 websites and deleted 8.4 billion pieces of pornography-related content in the first half […]
SAN FRANCISCO: Google said on Wednesday (Jul 8) it has shut down its cloud project named Isolated Region and added that it was not weighing options to offer its cloud platform in China. Earlier in the day, Bloomberg News reported, citing two employees, that Google had shelved the project in […]
SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday (Jul 9) announced measures to assist Hong Kong citizens start a new life in Australia, including extending visas by five years, after Beijing imposed a new security law on the Asian financial hub. Morrison also suspended an extradition agreement with Hong Kong. […]
TOKOROZAWA, Japan: Olympic boxing hopeful Arisa Tsubata is used to taking blows in the ring but it is during her work as a nurse that she faces her toughest opponent: Coronavirus. The 27-year-old juggles a brutal training regime in boxing gloves with long, irregular hours in surgical gloves at a […]
BEIJING: Senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi said on Thursday (Jul 9) that China and US relations face the most serious challenges since diplomatic ties were established in 1979 but the two countries can return to the right track. China and the United States should jointly explore ways for peaceful coexistence […]
WASHINGTON: George Floyd said he could not breathe more than 20 times, called out for his children and late mother and said officers would “kill” him before he died in Minneapolis police custody, new evidence showed. Floyd, a black man, died on May 25 when a white police officer knelt […]
SPIELBERG, Austria: Mercedes team chief Toto Wolff may have seen his world champion team claim victory in the season-opening Austrian Grand Prix, but he still insists the “gloves are off” when the duel for supremacy with rivals Red Bull resumes on Sunday (Jul 12). Valtteri Bottas gave Mercedes a pole-to-flag […]
SYDNEY: Australia warned its citizens and residents in Hong Kong that they were at “increased risk of detention” there and urged them to reconsider their need to remain in the Chinese territory. In an updated travel advisory issued on Thursday (Jul 9), the government said Hong Kong’s new national security […]
NEW YORK: Pakistani student Taimoor Ahmed is one of hundreds of thousands of foreigners enrolled in American universities now fearing for their future after Donald Trump’s administration threatened to revoke their visas. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced this week that foreign students whose entire courses have moved […]