Ride-hailing company Uber has received approval from authorities in California, USA, to test self-driving cars on public roads. According to the Department of Motor Vehicles of the State of California, there are over 60 ...
Airbnb has suspended check-ins at all properties located in Beijing from 7 February 2020 to 29 February 2020, according to Bloomberg. The measure complies with local regulation intended to contain the coronavirus outbreak in China...
According to Teresa Bellanova, Italy's Minister for Agriculture, the country is interested in focusing on sustainable biotechnologies such as genome editing. One of Italy's leading farmers' organisation Coldiretti and th...
In a report on Artificial Intelligence and Public Standards, the UK Committee on Standards in Public Life notes that public sector organisations in the country are not transparent enough about their use of artificial int...
The Scottish government istestinga digital ID prototype, during a 10 week development and testing cycle. Announcing progress on the digital ID project, lead for the Digital Identity Scotland (DIS) programme, Mike Crockart explaine...
Preliminary results of a clinical trial that involved the use of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing show that the technique was safe to use on humans. More specifically, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia...
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), together with the UN-Habitat and a Swiss air quality technology company IQAir launched the world's largest air quality data platform. The platform known as 'Urban Air Action Platfor...
Due to the high risk posed by improper management of e-waste in Nigeria, experts called for an action to arrest the dumping of electronic products in the country. According to the E-waste Relief Foundation, not only does the...
Four members of China's military were charged with hacking into Equifax in 2017 and stealing personal data of about 150 million Americans, as well as trade secrets. The US Attorney General William Barr said the hack was a delibera...
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) called on better gathering and monitoring of agricultural data in the Asia-Pacific in order to ensure the attainment of sustainable development goals. Such a measure is necessary given t...
British Virgin Islands legislators passed a law, the Elections (Amendment) Act 2019, in January that will allow electronic voting with e-tabulating machines, removing the requirement for ballots to be counted by hand. The hope is ...
TheWorld Government Summit in co-operation with PricewaterhouseCoopers published a paper on Public Sector Readiness in the Age of Disruption at the World Government Summit held in Dubai between 10-12 February. The first part of th...