Bouquinistes is the French word to call sellers of old books along the Seine River in Paris. The tradition has existed for over 400 years. However, modern technology like electronic book readers and sellers of books online are now hurting their profi

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Can Artificial Intelligence Make Doctors Better? Artificial intelligence (AI) technology may soon be a useful tool for doctors. It may help them better understand and treat diseases like breast cancer in ways that were never before possible. 人工智能

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Face recognition technology is being rolled out at Beijing West Railway Station, offering a quicker option for passengers to get their tickets checked. 近日,北京西站启用了人脸识别技术,为旅客验票提供了一种更为快捷的选择

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Shoppers at a supermarket in Beijing can now pay for their food using nothing but their face. 7FRESH, a supermarket in Beijing operated by Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com, is testing automated checkouts which use facial recognition. CRI's Yu Yang has

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A United Nations agency says the United States, China and Japan are leading the world in developing artificial intelligence, or AI, technology. The three countries were named in a new study from the UNs World Intellectual Property Organization, or WI

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A team of machine learning developers has created a system for making caricatures of peoples faces. In a caricature, the artist creates a drawing of a face, with different parts of it greatly enlarged, or exaggerated, in other ways. The pictures or i

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