Yoshua Bengio has been thinking for a while about what happens if the technology he helped pioneer becomes smarter than humans — and escapes our control."We could basically create new types of living entities that have their own preservation as a more important value than...
It used to be a hockey arena, then a badminton club. But on most weekday mornings, a gritty space situated in an industrial strip mall in Scarborough is home to Progress Pickleball Club."Badminton takes three quarters of the time," according to the club's manager Mike Livie, who said he is...
A bulldozer tears through a modern house in Meaford, Ont., a picturesque community on Georgian Bay. Occupied for just two years, the home's once soaring ceilings, large windows and backyard patio are now just a heap of crushed glass and wood. "It's traumatic," said Fayard Johnson,...
Third, long-awaited supply-side and regulatory reforms, including the development of a listed real estate investment trust (Reit) market, have improved the business environment significantly and catalysed the institutionalisation and financialisation of the property industry.Fourth, India is taking advantage of the geopolitical reshaping of supply...
“The market sentiment is still weak, as there is limited good news in the market,” said Martin Wong, director and head of research and consultancy for Greater China at Knight Frank.General view of residential buildings in Hong Kong’s Tseung Kwan O district. Photo: Sun YeungHong...
Bank of China said it plans to sell up to 150 billion yuan (US$21 billion) of loss-absorbing bonds, becoming the nation’s first big state bank to plug a major funding shortfall before a 2025 deadline to meet global capital requirements.The lender said it plans to...
ROTTERDAM, SOUTH HOLLAND, NETHERLANDS - 2022/02/08: The deep-sea creatures on board the Luciana and the mining vessel Hidden Gem seen in the background, during the demonstration. Ocean Rebellions protest The Deep Sea Says No Why the deep sea? The deep seabed is largely unexplored, many areas...
The US wants cloud services providers such as Amazon.com and Microsoft to actively investigate and call out foreign clients developing artificial intelligence applications on their platforms, escalating a tech conflict between Washington and Beijing.The Biden administration proposal, scheduled for release Monday, requires such...
A Hong Kong court on Monday ordered the liquidation of property company China Evergrande Group, a move likely to send ripples through China's crumbling financial markets as policy-makers scramble to contain the deepening crisis.Evergrande, the world's most indebted developer with more than $300 billion US...
Stocks in Hong Kong jumped after China’s market regulator suspended securities lending of restricted shares listed on mainland exchanges to stabilise stock prices, adding to a slew of measures to stem a market rout. China Evergrande sank after losing a court case to fend...