Researchers have overcome one of the major stumbling blocks in artificial intelligence with a program that can learn one task after another using skills it acquires on the way.

Developed by Google’s AI company, DeepMind, the program has taken on …

U.S. President Donald Trump (R) meets with Mohammed bin Salman, Deputy Crown Prince and Minister of Defense of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in the Oval Office at the White House, March 14, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) …

Ruby Singh is nominated for a Hometown Heroes in Education Award for defying stereotypes and promoting positivity through creativity.

Middle school teacher Ruby Singh gives voice to students from an underserved Brooklyn community with art classes based on mass incarceration, …

The waste has been dumped for decades, dry and wet, plastic, textiles, and what have you, without sorting, on the outskirts of the cities.

Isher Judge Ahluwalia & Almitra Patel

Most Indian cities are surrounded by hills of garbage which …

Two weeks ago, with Michelle O’Neill, the Sinn Féin leader in Northern Ireland, I led a delegation of the party to Downing Street to meet the British prime minister, Theresa May and the secretary of state, James Brokenshire. In our …

Microsoft’s latest software suite release reflects the state of our cloud-centric mobile-centric world with plenty of productivity focused augmentations and updates.

It is now a full 20-years since Microsoft first offered its Visual Studio software development product to the market. …

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — It was hard to imagine that ousted President Park Geun-hye could get any more unpopular in South Korea — until she moved out of the presidential palace and left her nine dogs behind.

Just days …

European broadcasters seem to have invoked a sort of Article Thrifty, creating a single market for crime dramas. At a time when the continent is riven politically, countries appear ever keener to imagine joint police operations.

Since Denmark and Sweden …

Simon Vallee is exactly the kind of person who venture capitalists like to keep on their radar.

He’s Canadian, for one thing. (Everyone knows how nice Canadians are.) He has also cofounded a number of small companies over the last …

A STRANDED British and Irish Lions supporter has told how a stranger’s act of kindness resulted in him bunking down at the home of All Blacks sensation Rieko Ioane and his brother Akira.

The stranger was the players’ mother Sandra, …