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Nurten Akkuş, a pre-school teacher and principal at the Ayvacık Pre-School in the northern province of Samsun, has been named as a finalist for the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize 2018, philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft Bill Gates has announced. 

The Robot Erika will begin to read news on Japanese television in April, the Daily Mail reported.

The creator of Erica Hiroshi Ishiguro, from the Osaka University, says she is attentive and hearty and can soon acquire "independent consciousness." According to him, Erica is so realistic that she could have a soul.

Google pulled some of its core businesses out of China seven years ago, after concluding that government controls and surveillance ran counter to its commitment to a free and open internet, reported NY Times. 

Since then, as China's online scene has grown and prospered, the American search giant has been looking for ways to tiptoe back in.

There are plenty of stories about artificial intelligence ending the world as we know it (see 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Terminator, certain Elon Musk tweets). There are fewer about how AI could save the world, but believers are out there.

Bill Gates, billionaire, is known for his love of books. He reads 50 books per year, and every December he shares which works have made him the most impression in recent months.

Founder of Microsoft and multi-billionaire Bill Gates was elected a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Sciences, the site of the Academy said.

Jeff Bezos is the newest billionaire with over $ 100 billion in wealth.

Chinese tech giant Tencent's mega-rally has turned it into the world's fifth-largest company and the first Asian firm to enter the half trillion dollar club.

US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings show the George Soros' investment fund has disposed of its holdings in Apple and Snap in the last quarter, reducing stakes in other tech giants such as Facebook and Twitter.

The Forbes Global 2000 List is a well-known annual must-read in business. This year for the first time Forbes teamed up with Statista to take the project one step further, identifying the 500 World’s Best Employers and the 250 Top Regarded Companies around the globe.