Samsung Galaxy J6

Samsung has announced the latest in its budget smartphone offerings with the new Galaxy J6. The new handset will bring some of Samsung's higher-end design and features, like the Galaxy S9's AR Emoji to the budget market.

Front and center for the new Galaxy J6 is a 5.6-inch screen that covers a good percentage of the phone's front. With this style

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The psychopathic AIThe psychopathic AI
Image copyrightMITImage caption Norman was named after Alfred Hitchcock's Norman Bates from his classic horror film Psycho

Norman is an algorithm trained to understand pictures but, like its namesake Hitchcock's Norman Bates, it does not have an optimistic view of the world.

When a "normal" algorithm generated

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Visa says service returning to normalVisa says service returning to normal
Image caption A Sainsbury's store in Vauxhall, London, is not taking card payments

Visa says its service is "close to normal" again following a system failure which left customers across Europe unable to make some purchases.

The company apologised and said it had no reason to believe the hardware failure was down

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ZX Vega+ console faces Indiegogo's debt collectorsZX Vega+ console faces Indiegogo's debt collectors
Image copyrightRetro ComputersImage caption Retro Computers had promised to deliver the Vega+ console with 1,000 games pre-installed

Indiegogo has said that it is willing to extend the deadline it gave to a project attempting to make a handheld version of a classic British computer.

But the crowdfunding site says

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Alibaba reveals new driverless delivery botAlibaba reveals new driverless delivery bot
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Chinese retail giant Alibaba has unveiled a new automated vehicle which it says is easy to mass-produce and could serve a number of functions.

These could include delivery courier or automated coffee vendor, it said.

The Cainiao G Plus can travel at up to nine miles per hour, reports The Verge news site.

It was unveiled at a

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