Ray Kurzweil, a Google expert in artificial intelligence, predicted that by 2029 robots will make jokes and flirt, the Observer reported. In an interview with the Observer, the entrepreneur and futurologist has predicted that in 15 years‘ time computers will be more intelligent than we are and will be able to understand what we say, learn from experience, make jokes, tell stories and even flirt.“My project is ultimately to base search on really understanding what the language means,” he said.Goo

Dance“Two in Two”: Kim Ji-young and Kim Joo-won, two of the most celebrated ballerinas in Korea, will collaborate onstage for the upcoming restaging of choreographer Ahn Sung-soo and fashion designer Jung Kuho’s 2000 piece “Two in Two.” The piece is a mix of tango and flamenco, as well as ballet and contemporary. Joining the two Kims are dancer and choreographer Kim Bo-ram, who was a backup dancer for pop singers Uhm Jung-hwa, Koyote and Lee Jung-hyun from 2000 to 2007, and Jang Kyung-min, who a

LOS ANGELES ― Chen Si, 35, and her husband visited Los Angeles from Shanghai for the first time in December, excited about local attractions like Disneyland and Hollywood.They were less enthused about the idea of American food. They booked a room in San Gabriel, where friends said they could find “acceptable” Chinese food in the surrounding neighborhood, Si said.The once-quiet suburb about 19 kilometers east of downtown Los Angeles is in the midst of a transformation built on the growing interna

CARLSBAD, California ― It’s mid-afternoon on a hot summer day. After a full morning at a theme park, energy is running low. While the adults are ready to leave the fun behind for a few hours of rest, there are many in the party who don’t want to leave.Legoland has come up with a solution.The Legoland Hotel, which opened in April, sits just outside the entrance to the theme park. The three-story, 250-room hotel is an explosion of primary colors made to resemble the colorful structures that can be

Chinese group dining specials at Grand Hilton SeoulGrand Hilton Seoul’s Chinese restaurant Yeohyang is offering special group dining specials until the end of February. The menu for five-seven people, priced at 430,000 won, includes deep-fried chicken in hot pepper sauce, Hong Kong-style blue crab, sweet and sour pork, a main dish and dessert. It also includes a bottle of the Australian red wine Koonunga Hill or Tianjin kaoliang liquor. The menu for eight to 10 people, priced at 735,000 won, inc

Tasty take on Vietnamese street sandwich in Hannam-dong

Agujjim (also called agwijjim) is a spicy fish dish made with agu (monkfish) and kongnamul (soybean sprouts). The dish originated from the southern coastal city of Masan. In the past, this not so good-looking fish wasn’t consumed as a food item in Korea due to its appearance. The story behind the birth of this dish is that some fishermen didn’t want to waste their catches, so they brought them to an eatery and asked the cook to make a tasty dish. That was in the 1960s. The dish is now enormously

Graduate student Choi Yoon-young, 25, suddenly fainted one day after feeling severely dizzy. She was worried she had a serious disease such as anemia or a brain tumor, but it turned out to be a few tiny stones in her ears. About 80 percent of vertigo, or severe dizziness, cases are caused by moving calcium crystals in the ear, doctors say. This is called otolithiasis ― a functional disorder of physical balance and kinesthetic sense, A layer of stones settles in the ears to control physical balan

Low academic grades do not always mean that your child has learning difficulties. Children with lower intellectual abilities or emotional stability may have low academic grades. Some children may even hare mild mental disorders.Learning disorders, or learning disabilities, are likely in children who follow academic classes well, but cannot differentiate between left and right, or who cannot read numbers or days of the week from back to front.John, who is now an elementary student, could only say

LONDON (AP) ― A saliva test for teenage boys with mild symptoms of depression could help identify those who will later develop major depression, a new study says.Researchers measured the stress hormone cortisol in teenage boys and found that ones with high levels coupled with mild depression symptoms were up to 14 times more likely to suffer clinical depression later in life than those with low or normal cortisol levels.The test was tried on teenage boys and girls, but found to be most effective