Singapore Tech News & Gadget Reviews

Two robots stood at an anchor desk in Beijing and read the news to a hall of delegates. Xinhua calls them the world's first bionic humanoid news anchors. The female of the pair, Xinyan, greeted the room and delivered the opening report at a forum on artificial intelligence and Chinese modernisation, staged inside the World Media Summit.

BYD has demonstrated a robotic charging arm in the United Arab Emirates that opens the charging port, inserts the connector and unplugs the car again without the driver leaving the seat, part of the company's pitch for an automated flash charging network abroad.

Google has warned Australian senators that a proposed internet safety law could force it to block under 18s from Gmail, in an argument that turns a bill about harmful content into a question about whether children can keep an email address.