Technology

Chinese telecom giant Huawei has issued an unusual invitation to foreign media outlets to visit its facilities and meet staff as the company pushes back against global pressure arising from US accusations that it spies for Beijing. Huawei on Thursday purchased full-page adverts in major US newspapers including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post to invite …

Social messaging application WhatsApp is testing an advanced search feature that will provide ease to users as they search through chats for important documents or photos. According to reports, the messaging application is presently busy working on the advanced search tool and has launched it for iOS users to test before it is introduced officially throughout. Before getting rolled out …

Barcelona: Chinese telecoms giant Huawei on Sunday unveiled a phone with a folding screen, just four days after rival Samsung became the first major handset maker to offer the feature. The phone, Mate X, will be compatible with the new fifth-generation wireless networks which are starting to be installed around the world, said Richard Yu, head of Huawei’s consumer business …

Moscow: Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and US astronaut Nick Hague said Thursday they were ready to head into space again next month after their last launch ended in failure. The two men previously took off in a Soyuz rocket for the International Space Station in October, but an accident minutes after blast-off sent them plunging back to Earth — a …

Paris: The world´s largest bee — a giant insect roughly the size of a human thumb — has been rediscovered in a remote part of Indonesia in its first sighting in nearly 40 years, researchers said Thursday. Despite its conspicuous size, no one had observed Wallace´s giant bee — discovered in the 19th century by British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace …

SHANGHAI: Leading Chinese internet search provider Baidu has announced a 50 percent plunge in net profit for the fourth quarter but revenue beat expectations on growth in its core search business and a push into artificial intelligence (AI). The Beijing-based, Nasdaq-listed company said late Thursday its fourth-quarter profit came in at 2.08 billion yuan ($303 million) in the October-December period. …

Taking a cue from Samsung, Apple is working to launch a phone that folds. A new patent filed by the Cupertino, California based iPhone maker, is all set to introduce the phone that it describes as ‘the purported device with a flexible display that enables it to fold in the middle’. The move will suitably complement the gigantic smartphone screens …

NEW YORK: The NBA, with one of the world´s largest Facebook communities, will make video recaps of every league game available on Facebook Watch, according to NBA Digital. The league, which resumes regular-season play Thursday following a break for Sunday´s NBA All-Star Game, has 400 million followers across all league, team and player Facebook accounts. In addition to NBA video …

Madrid: A new species of bat has been discovered in wooded areas of Europe, an international team of researchers said on Tuesday, as well as another “very rare” species that lives in caves in North Africa. The findings add to the family of roughly a thousand species of bats, an order of mammals which are capable of transmitting and receiving …

BEIJING: In a groundbreaking technological move, China’s state-owned TV channel Xinhua has introduced the world’s first ever Artificial Intelligence news anchor. On Tuesday, Xinhua announced that in collaboration with Sogou (search engine) has created the world’s first female AI news anchor, known as Xin Xiaomeng. The anchor will be making her debut during the upcoming Two Sessions political meetings in …