Google celebrated its 20th birthday Monday, marking two decades in which it has grown from simply a better way to explore the internet to a search engine so woven into daily life its name has become a verb. The company was set to mark its 20th anniversary with an event in San Francisco devoted to the future of online search, promising a few surprise announcements.

Global waste growth will outpace population growth by 2050, with most of the trash being generated in urban areas. The World Bank said urgent action is needed to prevent untreated waste from clogging the streets. Global waste is set to swell to 3.4 billion tons by 2050 from around 2 billion tons in 2016 with the greatest increase projected to be generated in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, according to a report released Friday by the World Bank.

A recent study from the Business Software Alliance confirmed that the piracy rate in Egypt has dropped by two percent, reaching 59 percent. The study also proved that Egypt has succeeded in lowering the use of unlicensed software, which have dropped in value from US $157 million in 2015 to $64 million in 2017.

German business software giant SAP published Tuesday an ethics code to govern its research into artificial intelligence (AI), aiming to prevent the technology infringing on people s rights, displacing workers or inheriting biases from its human designers. “SAP designed these guiding principles to steer the development and deployment of our AI software to help the world run better and improve people s lives,” the firm said in a statement.

A Japanese billionaire and online fashion tycoon, Yusaku Maezawa, will be the first man to fly on a monster SpaceX rocket around the Moon as early as 2023, and he plans to bring six to eight artists along. Maezawa, 42, will be the first lunar traveler since the last US Apollo mission in 1972. He paid an unspecified amount of money for the privilege. “Ever since I was a kid, I have loved the Moon,” Maezawa said at SpaceX headquarters and rocket factory in Hawthorne, California, in the middle of metropolitan Los Angeles, late Monday.

Germany on Monday rolled out the world’s first hydrogen-powered train, signalling the start of a push to challenge the might of polluting diesel trains with costlier but more eco-friendly technology. Two bright blue Coradia iLint trains, built by French TGV-maker Alstom, began running a 100-kilometre (62-mile) route between the towns and cities of Cuxhaven, Bremerhaven, Bremervoerde and Buxtehude in northern Germany — a stretch normally plied by diesel trains.

Company regained first place in the tablet sales in Egypt during August, after raising its market share to 42.4%, equally with Samsung. Notably, Apple s share grew by almost 5% compared to July, when Apple s market share was 37.2%. According to the Statcounter report, Samsung s market share in the Tablet PC market fell to 42.4% in August from 45.5% in July.

Google announced the launch of a new feature on its Search homepage and app, which allows people to look for jobs available right on its main search results page. Starting today, users will find a series of results from across the web on the main Google Search results page, after entering a job-related query in Arabic, (for example, marketing jobs in Riyadh), which meet their specific needs. The results will include details under each job position, such as salary information, employer reviews, and ratings, as well as different job options to apply for, or using a location filter to locate jobs in areas that are most convenient for the user.

The Dryve car rental platform agreed with Uber, a peer-to-peer ridesharing, to offer vehicles for its licensed drivers, in partnership with French AXA multinational insurance. According to dryve, car owners can earn EGP 5,000-12,000 per month. Last month, Uber Egypt and Nacita AutoCare announced the launch of the first Rent to Own vehicle solutions programme in the Middle East and Africa.

We tend to think of bots, whether they re Twitterbots or (ro)bots on other platforms, as being negative — automated artificial intelligence systems, programmed by bad actors who want to misinform the public or influence elections. But you and your co-author, Mike Cook, have decided to take a more positive look at the creative side of bots. Why? Tony Veale: Well, yes, there is a malignancy at the heart of the public image of bots — that they re simplistic, zombie-like, that they behave badly and are quite dangerous when they behave in concert on behalf of bad actors. But there s a very large community of people who build bots as a form of creative expression, and their bots are artistic tools, if you will. They are a form of automated art, a "meta-creativity," where you build something that s created for you.

Whether it s to help fighter pilots gun down the enemy, or guide rescue teams to an accident site, flight simulators have been used to help pilots practice their skills for almost as long as we ve been flying. The simulators show us the way, help us plan routes, highlight places we should avoid, and train us how to calculate distances and risk. And as our flying machines continue to advance, so do the simulators. One of the earliest flight simulators was little more than a wooden barrel on stilts. Today s simulators, meanwhile, ride on hydraulics, the cockpits boast as near to real instrumentation as possible, and the entire flight can be mapped out on a huge wrap-around screen.

Middle East ride-hailing firm Careem said on Sunday it had started a service in Sudan, one of few international companies to enter the country since US economic sanctions were lifted last year. Sudan is grappling with an economic crisis as a foreign currency shortage and an increasingly expensive black market for dollars weakened its ability to import and made prices soar.

Following a successful three-month trial of its first electric bus, Alexandria will receive 14 new buses from the Chinese BYD company by mid-September, according to CNN Arabic. The coastal Egyptian city will become the first in the Middle-East to operate electric buses, as a part of a government initiative to manage air pollution.

Ambitious action on climate change could contribute an extra $26 trillion to the world economy by 2030, international experts said on Wednesday, urging nations and businesses to step up their engagement. The economic benefits offered by a shift to a low-carbon economy have been “grossly” underestimated, according to the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, a think tank grouping former heads of government and top economic and business leaders.

Russia launched checks Tuesday after its space chief said an air leak on the International Space Station last week could have been caused by deliberate sabotage. Space agency chief Dmitry Rogozin said the hole detected Thursday in a Russian space craft docked at the orbiting station was caused by a drill and could have been done deliberately, either back on Earth or in space.

The payment process is the last step made by customers when they shop online. This process results in customers becoming your regular clients, and if they did not have a good experience, this would certainly affect the possibility of them coming back to purchase something from you again. Regardless of the type of products or services you offer, making the payment process easier for customers will mean more customers, hence, more profits. Payfort platform presents to you the best three methods to improve this aspect.

Head of the Egyptian-Russian Foundation for Culture and Science, Hussain al-Shafei announced on Friday that the Russian State Corporation for Space Activities, Roscosmos, is currently testing a new Egyptian remote sensing satellite (EgyptSat A), projected to be launched towards the end of the year or the beginning of 2019. Speaking to RT channel, Shafei said that the new Egyptian satellite was manufactured after the loss of “EgyptSAT 2”, which was launched in April 2014 for the National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences (NARSS) and announced missing and out of control in 2015.

Did you know that the bass makes us move? That some people smell things that aren t there? Or that hostile relationships can make us sick? DW brings you this week s health news, all in one handy guide! Why does music make us dance? Music can be found in pretty much all cultures worldwide and a lot of the time it makes us dance. But what is the driving force in music that makes us want to bob our heads, wave our arms and shuffle our feet?

Electronics manufacturers are betting on artificial intelligence weaving itself ever more tightly into our relationships with their products on show at this year s IFA, the sector s annual Berlin trade fair. From Friday, “new releases in the artificial intelligence niche will be the ones everyone is talking about” at the industry event in the German capital, predicted Gartner analyst Annette Zimmermann.

French Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot announced his resignation on Tuesday, citing disappointment with the lack of progress on climate and other environmental goals. Hulot said his decision, taken on Monday night, was the result of an “accumulation of disappointments” over the inadequacy of steps to tackle climate change, defend biodiversity and address other environmental threats.

In wars of the future, life-or-death decisions may be made by machines — independent of human control. The development of autonomous weapons is moving fast. The UN in Geneva is trying to get countries to agree on a ban. UN debates banning use of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Noisy mini-drones buzz through a lecture hall, home in on specific students and shoot them in the head. This a scene from a fictional film posted on the video portal YouTube by opponents of autonomous weapons. Each smaller than a saucer, the drones use algorithms to identify their victims. Once they ve locked on, the target cannot escape. The mini-drones gather their data from social media and are networked in swarms. In the fictitious story, they only kill people who ve shared a certain critical video. Just science fiction?