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Innovators: Great tech innovators: Ray Kurzweil

Age: 67 Company: Google Best known for: Future tech, AI, singularity, inventions Quote: “The power of ideas to transform the world is itself accelerating.” Ray Kurzweil is a futurist – someone who studies the future and predicts where humankind is headed – or rather, perhaps it’s better to say that he’s the futurist. The one whose words and predictions are clung onto and heard in every corner of the tech

Greece continues talks on aid, deal unlikely on Sunday: sources

Athens and its euro zone and International Monetary Fund (IMF) creditors have been locked in talks for months without luck on a deal. Pressure to strike one has intensified as Athens faces a debt payment on June 5 as well as the expiration of its bailout program on June 30. The government said this week it was looking for a deal by Sunday, but sources close to the talks at