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Presently several researches on artificial intelligence are in progress across the world. Recently the University of Cambridge announced that it will be setting up a £10million New Interdisciplinary Research Centre to explore the challenges and opportunities to humanity.

According to a statement by the University, human-intelligence is familiar in biological welfare. Science and technology are now moving towards a possibly similar future where computers can create similar intelligence.

So far, no one is aware of when human-level artificial intelligence (AI) will be created. But several scientists hope that the time is no far when it will occur and this might happen before the end of this century, they say.

It’s the time for the annual Geminid meteor shower, which is great news for skywatchers, as the celestial event will offers a seasonal celestial show is beginning this week. It will peak on December 13 and December 14.

Experts call this meteor shower as an early holiday gift for skywatchers. Moon’s absence will serve as cherry on the cake when the shower will be at its peak.

The Geminid could be considered quite rich when it comes to the amount of shooting stars it releases in the sky. There are expectations that people in the light-polluted suburbs will be able to see meteors falling at rates anywhere from 20 to 60 per hour on the nights of December 13 and December 14.

Samsung Electronics Co. has decided to pay $548 million to Apple Inc. this month in court-ordered damages. The agreement has marked that the first meaningful exchange of money from a roughly 5- year-long patent quarrel between the smartphone companies.

On Thursday, in a filing in US District Court in San Jose, Calif., Samsung said that it is going to pay the damages after the company’s latest appeal in the case got denied by a court. But, Samsung said that it could look for reimbursement from Apple on the basis of any future rulings from the US Supreme Court or the US Patent and Trademark Office.

The findings of a new study revealed that kids and teens battling attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and are taking prescription medicines to treat the mental health problem are at high risk of being bullied compared to their peers.

The findings of the study showed that adolescents who sold their prescribed drugs to other kids had more than four times greater odds of being bullied compared to their peers who don’t have this mental health problem.

At present, there are several drugs available in the market to cure chronic pain, and now researchers have come up with another promising treatment that could help cope with severe pain.

According to UPI, using mice that were genetically altered to lack a distinct nerve channel that enables people and animals to feel pain researchers developed a two-drug method of treatment.

Nerve cells use several channels to communicate with the nervous system some previously conducted studies have shown that the sodium channel Nav1.7 is important factor for signaling pain, and people who are born with a non-functioning Nav1.7 do not feel pain.

Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc on Friday said in a statement that its sales have been largely impacted due to E. coli outbreak that sickened dozens of people across the United States. Stock of the company dropped 8% in after-hour trading on Friday.

According to the company, its shares dropped nearly 8% to $518 in extended trading after the popular burrito chain warned that its sales might drop eight to 11% for the fourth quarter from a year earlier.

This is a huge and the very first such decline in the company’s history. Investigators said that the outbreak of the infectious disease could even widen.

Chipotle said further widening of the E. coli outbreak and potential additional announcements from federal and state health authorities will have huge impact on its sales.