Can new advances in AI bring the ‘human touch’ chatbots are sorely missing?

When chatbots first became commercially accessible, companies big and small embraced them with open arms. “Have a robot handle easy customer service questions in seconds? Amazing!” — we thought. The…

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Europe-built robotic arm to launch into space aboard Airbus’ OneSat satellites

A robotic arm made solely by European manufacturers has passed its qualification review for launch into space on the OneSat range of satellites.  The robotic deployment and pointing system enables…

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Spain fines Apple and Amazon €194M for colluding to restrict competition

Spain’s antitrust watchdog has fined Amazon and Apple €194mn for colluding to limit the sale of Apple products by third-party sellers on the huge online retail platform, which “drastically” reduced…

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