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Toyota Motor Corp is targeting developing in the next five years driver assistance systems that integrate artificial intelligence to improve vehicle safety, the head of its advanced research division said. Gill Pratt, CEO of recently set up Toyota Research Institute, the Japanese automaker’s research and development company that focuses on AI, said it aims to improve car safety by enabling vehicles to anticipate and avoid potential accident situations. Toyota has said the institute will spend $1 billion over the next five years, as competition to develop self-driving cars intensifies.

Tata is edging closer to retaining its loss-making UK steel business as the company tries to nail down details of financial support on offer from the Government. They say they choose which branches to close on the basis of where they have the fewest customers and deny they specifically target poorer areas. Executives from the company have held what one Whitehall insider described as “daily” meetings with officials from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) for the past three weeks. These talks are understood to be focusing on the mechanics of how the Government will deliver on its…

Algeria has temporarily blocked access to social media across the country in an attempt to fight cheating in secondary school exams. Almost half of students are being forced to retake the baccalaureate exam, which started on Sunday, after the initial session was marred by online leaking. Many students were able to access questions on other social media ahead of the exam in early June. In recent years the country has been struggling with the leaking of the baccalaureate exam The decision to block social media was taken to protect students de la publication of “bogus questions on those networks”, officials…

The number of people displaced by conflict is at the highest level ever recorded, the UN refugee agency says. It estimates that 65.3m people were either refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced at the end of 2015, an increase of 5m in a year. This represents one in every 113 people on the planet, the UN agency says. Meanwhile, the UN refugee chief says a worrying “climate of xenophobia” has taken hold in Europe as it struggles to cope with the migrant crisis. The influx of people, the biggest since World War Two, has led to greater support for far-right…

MH370 have released photographs of personal items that washed up on a Madagascar beach, hoping to identify them. Some 20 items found include purses, backpacks and part of a laptop case. There are no labels identifying them as belonging to the 239 people on board the jet that vanished two years ago. The items were found by US lawyer Blaine Gibson, who concedes they may be irrelevant in the hunt for MH370. “They may have just fallen off a ship,” Mr Gibson told Reporters “Still, I found them on the same 18km (11-mile) stretch of beach where I found suspected…

David Cameron was challenged over whether his EU negotiations would be upheld in Brussels after the referendum, in his final set-piece TV showdown with the public before the vote on Thursday. Appearing in front of a BBC Question Time audience in Milton Keynes the Prime Minister also admitted “it is very challenging controlling immigration”, but insisted Britain should “stay and fight” its corner in the EU. As the battle resumed after being suspended following the death of Labour MP Jo Cox, campaigners on both sides have been considering whether they should tone down the rhetoric in this divisive EU debate.

In Today’s post the man of God pastor Chris quoted Psalms 91:7-10 declares: “A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling”. In both 15min sessions at 12noon and 10pm (Local/GMT), we’ll pray fervently in the spirit, setting our thoughts on these scriptures and…

God’s Desire Is for you to prosper. God wants you to prosper in your spirit, soul, and body, everyday of your life. He desires your well-being in every area of your life. He not only wants you rich but also healthy. He doesn’t want you tied down by any kind of diseases. Perhaps you’re down with an ailment or someone close to you is afflicted with a disease, and the doctors have given up on him. I’ve got good news for you. God desires above all things for you to rise up from that sick-bed. He desires for that loved…

UK sports fashion retailer JD Sports has received a sales boost from the Euro 2016 football tournament in recent weeks. As a result, it was set to deliver “excellent” half-year results. The trading update came ahead of the retailer’s annual shareholder meeting. Shares  have risen 86% in the past year, and its market value has now overtaken that of rival Sports Direct. JD Sports executive chairman Peter Cowgill said: “We have, in recent weeks, seen a further boost to sales from the UEFA Euro 2016 tournament. Consequently, we are well positioned to deliver an excellent first half-year result.

Microsoft has teamed up with California-based technology start-up Kind Financial, which helps businesses and government agencies track sales of legalised marijuana “from seed to sale”. It is the first-ever partnership of its kind for Microsoft. Kind has been selling its marijuana tracking software to businesses and governments for some three years. The start-up will now be able work on Microsoft’s government cloud. Microsoft told the Weed Blog it was looking forward to working with Kind “to help our government customers launch successful regulatory programs.”