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  Honda launches advanced self-driving cars in Japan

  Agence France-Presse . Tokyo | Updated at 10:11am on March 05, 2021

  Honda launched the world’s most advanced self-driving car licensed for the road on Friday, releasing an initial batch of 100 models in Japan. The Legend...

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  Australia passes landmark law requiring tech firms to pay for news

  Agence France-Presse . Sydney | Updated at 10:16am on February 25, 2021

  Australia’s parliament passed landmark legislation on Thursday requiring global digital giants to pay for local news content, in a move closely watched around the world....

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  People trust robots than themselves for financial tasks: study

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 06:16pm on February 16, 2021

  People trust robots more than themselves for accomplishing financial tasks, found a joint study conducted by Oracle and personal finance expert Farnoosh Torabi.   The study...

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  Singapore launches new driverless bus trial

  Agence France-Presse. Singapore | Updated at 03:16pm on January 28, 2021

  Singapore has moved a step closer to a driverless public transport network with the launch of a new trial of self-driving buses. Orderly and high-tech,...

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  Trump pardons engineer who stole Google trade secrets

  Agence France-Presse . San Francisco | Updated at 11:18am on January 21, 2021

  A former Google engineer who pleaded guilty to stealing secrets from its self-driving car programme was among those pardoned by Donald Trump on his last...

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  Virtual idols take to the real-life stage in China

  Agence France-Presse. Beijing | Updated at 10:37am on December 22, 2020

  Liu Jun has long been a fan of a Chinese star called Amy, a teenage pop singer with red hair whose autograph he treasures --...

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  Apple developing search engine to compete with Google

  Agence France-Presse .Washington | Updated at 10:30am on October 29, 2020

  Apple has accelerated work to develop its own search engine that would allow the iPhone maker to offer an alternative to Google, a Financial Times...

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  Plus-size model prompts Instagram nudity policy change

  Agence France-Presse. San Francisco | Updated at 10:55am on October 28, 2020

  Instagram has relaxed its nudity policy in response to a campaign to let people show pride in their bodies even if they don't fit beauty...

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  Bangladesh Supreme Court launches ‘cause-list app’

  United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 10:38am on October 20, 2020

  The Supreme Court has launched an app to ease the process of checking the cause-list and information about court activities. Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain...

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  Facebook unveils machine learning translator for 100 languages

  Agence France-Presse. Washington | Updated at 10:34am on October 20, 2020

  Facebook on Monday unveiled software based on machine learning which the company said was the first to be able to translate from any of 100...