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NASA asks public to help astronauts survive carbon dioxide on Mars


Called the CO2 Conversion Challenge, the competition asks public to discover ways to develop novel synthesis technologies that use carbon dioxide as the sole carbon source to generate molecules that can be used to manufacture a variety of products, including substrates for use in microbial bioreactors. Because CO2 is readily abundant within the...

Baghdad ‘astonished’ by report of Iran moving missiles to Iraq


The ministry confirms that all Iraqi state institutions are committed to Article 7 of the Constitution, which states that Iraqi territory should not be used as a base or passage for any operation targeting the security of any other state, the ministry said in a statement, Xinhua reported. Western media reported earlier that...

Facebook AI significantly improves Urdu to English translation


San Francisco, Sep 2: Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers at Facebook have set a new record in improving translation from Urdu to English.San Francisco, Sep 2 (IANS) Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers at Facebook have set a new record in improving translation from Urdu to English. Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is the field concerned with...

Google removing 100 ‘bad’ ads every second


San Francisco, Sep 2: Google is removing over 100 scam advertisements every second for violating its policies and will soon implement a verification programme to further weed out bad actors from its platform.After The Wall Street Journal reported that scammers were purchasing search ads and masquerading as authorised service agents for companies...

3 killed, 14 injured in Somalia blast


The blast also damaged nearby houses, blew off the roof of a mosque and caused a nearby school to collapse, BBC reported. Police officer Abdullahi Hussein said a suicide bomber had rammed a car into the district office in Howlwadag district. The militant group al-Shabab, which has waged an insurgency for more than 10...

Facebook AI significantly improves Urdu to English translation


San Francisco, Sep 2 (IANS) Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers at Facebook have set a new record in improving translation from Urdu to English. Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is the field concerned with using AI to do translations in any language. The team from Facebook AI Research (FAIR) has seen a dramatic improvement in its...

Google removing 100 ‘bad’ ads every second


After The Wall Street Journal reported that scammers were purchasing search ads and masquerading as authorised service agents for companies such as Apple Inc, Google said on Saturday it is taking action against such scam artists. Just last year alone, we took down more than 3.2 billion ads that violated our advertising policies...

McCain’s daughter takes shot at Trump during eulogy


In her remarks, she praised her father and contrasted his life with that of Donald Trump, Efe reported. He was a great man, Meghan McCain said of the two-time presidential candidate, long-time member of the US's upper house of Congress representing Arizona and chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee from 2015 until...

‘No political necessity’ to keep Canada in new NAFTA deal: Trump


If we don't make a fair deal for the US after decades of abuse, Canada will be out, Trump said via Twitter, threatening to terminate the 24-year-old trilateral trade deal. We were far better off before NAFTA -- should never have been signed ... we make new deal or go back to pre-NAFTA!,...