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Lacking health workers, Germany taps robots for elder care
Lacking health workers, Germany taps robots for elder care
Business and Economy
by  AFP

The white-coloured humanoid "Garmi" does not look much different from a typical robot -- it stands on a platform with wheels and is equipped with a black screen on which two blue circles acting as eyes are attached. - 'We must get there' - In the Garmisch laboratory, Steinebach sat down at a table equipped with three screens and a joystick as he got ready to test the robot's progress.

How AI 'revolution' is shaking up journalism
How AI 'revolution' is shaking up journalism
Business and Economy
by  AFP

Journalists had fun last year asking the shiny new AI chatbot ChatGPT to write their columns, most concluding that the bot was not good enough to take their jobs. The technology news site CNET perhaps heralded the way forward when it quietly deployed an AI program last year to write some of its listicles.

UBS and Credit Suisse: similar Swiss banks with differing fortunes
UBS and Credit Suisse: similar Swiss banks with differing fortunes
Business and Economy
by  AFP

UBS and Credit Suisse, the two biggest banks in Switzerland, are in takeover talks, according to several media -- a move long deemed unthinkable as the pair are so similar. Investment banking represents 25.2 percent of UBS's turnover, compared to nearly 20.6 percent at Credit Suisse, with the pair running many similar activities such as mergers and acquisitions advice.