The European space agency (ESA) signed a deal worth €129m ($154m) on Tuesday to make a spacecraft for a joint project with NASA looking at how to deflect an asteroid heading for Earth, news wires reported.

Artificial intelligence (AI) will shortly replace people in mining industry. The Kazakh JSC AK Altynalmas teamed up with British tech start-up, which software uses sensors built into the plant to form a model of the grinding process and flag problems before they appear.

The focus of International Consumer Electronics Fair (IFA) 2020 Special Edition, held in Berlin, was on smart home applications and devices with positive influence on the way of life. Furthermore, the emphasis was on cutting-edge technologies, such as IoT, 5G, Mixed Reality, AI and robotics aimed to redesign the world in the era of digital working and learning, telemedicine and digital health, businesswire.com reported.

Apple has announced that it will increase its charges for app developers, as it becomes the latest tech giant to pass on some of the costs of new digital taxes to smaller businesses.

The cloud division of Google's aims to invest some $100m in Amwell, developer of technology for virtual doctors' visits. The company has filed to go public, and Google's investment will be a concurrent private placement at the IPO price.

The effectiveness of wearables as Covid-19 detectors is a milestone for several studies that show promising results, Bloomberg reported. Monica Valencia, whose family member died of Covid-19 amid an extremely short illness, was among 400 employees of the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System outfitted with wearable Fitbit fitness devices as a part of a study tracking early signs of Covid-19 launched in March by the Scripps Research Translational Institute in San Diego.

Looking for a new way to communicate during the pandemic? Well, now a Los Angeles company has created quite an interesting way to do that. To be exact - it has developed phone booth-sized machines to beam live holograms into your living room.

Researchers at Charles University, Svanda Theater and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague are currently working on an intriguing research project that merges artificial intelligence and robotics with theater. Dubbed, THEaiTRE, the project's main objective is to use AI to create an innovative theatrical performance, which is expected to premiere in January 2021.

A recently leaked internal Google document suggests that the company has marked the fourth quarter of next year for the release of a foldable Google Pixel phone, according to 9to5Google reports. The device, codenamed “Passport,” is said to be explicitly referred to as being “foldable,” and is included alongside a list of all Pixel devices going back to 2017’s Pixel 2.

Samsung’s anticipated Unpacked 2020 event is all packed up. The Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra are now real things, as are the Galaxy Tab S7 tablet, the Galaxy Watch 3, and the Galaxy Buds Live (FKA “Beans”). Also, it announced the new Galaxy Z Fold 2.