October 11, 2021

US has lost AI battle to China, Pentagon’s ex-software chief says

 The United States has already lost the artificial intelligence battle to China which is heading towards global dominance because of its advances in a emerging cyber capabilities, the Pentagon’s former software chief told the Financial Times. Nicolas Chaillan, the Pentagon’s first chief software officer who resigned in protest at the

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Latvia to resell 200,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine for Vietnam

     The Parliament of Latvia (Saeima) has announced that it will resell 200,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Vietnam.  This is in response to a letter from Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue to heads of parliaments in European nations attending the Fifth World Conference

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Vietnam climbs two spots in global postal development index

Vietnam climbed two places from last year to rank 47th out of 168 countries and territories in the Integrated Index for Postal Development (2IDP) 2021, according to the Universal Postal Union (UPU). The 2021 2IDP ranking was announced by the UPU during a ceremony last week to mark World Post Day. The

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Nobel Economics Prize awarded to 3 US-based economists

 Economists David Card, Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens have been awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. Card was recognized for his contributions to labor economics, while Angrist and Imbens won the award for their contributions to the analysis of causal relationships. The Nobel committee said in a statement that

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