Ford's automotive revenue of $37 billion was in line with Wall Street's expectations. Total revenue rose 1 percent to $39.85 billion. The elevated performance in the second quarter was due mostly to a lowering of the company's corporate tax rate, from 30 percent down to 10 percent, Chief Financial Officer Bob Shanks acknowledged. Ford has put some overseas losses back on its books in anticipation of changes in the U.S. corporate tax code, Shanks said. The company expects to have a 15 percent rate this year, but that will return to 30 percent next year.

Tech billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have entered into a public squabble about artificial intelligence in which Musk described the Facebook CEO's knowledge of the field as "limited". The groundwork for the world's nerdiest fight was laid by Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, earlier this month, when he pushed again for the proactive regulation of artificial intelligence because he believes it poses a "fundamental risk to the existence of civilization". Musk told a gathering of US governors this month that the potential dangers are not so imaginary, and that they should move to regulate AI. "I keep sounding the alarm bell, but until people see robots going down the street killing people, they don't know how to react, because it seems so ethereal," he said. Musk, who has been issuing warnings like these for years now, is concerned that humans will become second-class citizens in a future dominated by artificial intelligence – or that we'll face a Terminator-style robot uprising. Enter Zuckerberg, who on Sunday denounced these types of warnings as "pretty irresponsible". Zuckerberg made the comments while taking questions during a Facebook Live broadcast from his Palo Alto home.

Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have both opined about the dangers posed by artificial intelligence, with Musk famously comparing it to "summoning a demon," and Hawking suggesting it could end mankind. But when they said that, I don't think they were talking about an undercooked chicken leg. That's right, AI is making its presence felt in all parts of life, and nowhere is this more pronounced than in the kitchen. Today, MIT announced it had created an artificial intelligence program that could look at a picture of a food item -- like a cookie -- and tell you its constituent ingredients. Pic2Recipe works by returning ten recipes that it feels most closely represent the photo of the dish.

What did we learn Ability to predict BTC ZAR price based on USD seems possible..? Ability to quickly dump and store data for later analysis hugely valuable Spark not so great for time-series data (?) Future plans incl.

Don Ingabire (L), 16 and Audrey Mwamikazi, 17, members of a teenage robotics team from the African nation of Burundi, who were reported missing after taking part in an international competition and later spotted crossing the United States border into Canada, are seen in pictures released by the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., U.S. July 20, 2017.

Tech billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have entered into a public squabble about artificial intelligence in which Musk described the Facebook CEO's knowledge of the field as "limited". The groundwork for the world's nerdiest fight was laid by Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, earlier this month, when he pushed again for the proactive regulation of artificial intelligence because he believes it poses a "fundamental risk to the existence of civilization". Musk, who has been issuing warnings like these for years now, is concerned that humans will become second-class citizens in a future dominated by artificial intelligence – or that we'll face a Terminator-style robot uprising. Enter Zuckerberg, who on Sunday denounced these types of warnings as "pretty irresponsible". Zuckerberg made the comments while taking questions during a Facebook Live broadcast from his Palo Alto home. One viewer asked: "I watched a recent interview with Elon Musk and his largest fear for the future was AI.

At the site of an ancient city on the West Bank, archaeologists are hunting for evidence of the tabernacle that once housed the Ark of the Covenant. Associates for Biblical Research, a consortium of individuals and universities, recently completed four weeks of excavation in Shiloh with the goal of eventually locating the tabernacle. Dr. Scott Stripling, director of excavations at Shiloh and provost at The Bible Seminary in Houston, Texas, told Fox News that the site could offer up vital clues. "We have just begun the process of accumulating evidence but we're confident that the tabernacle rested at Shiloh," he said, adding that that the tabernacle was located at Shiloh for about 350 years. "The tabernacle was set up at Shiloh in 1400 B.C. - Joshua 18:1 mentions it."

Using algorithms that iteratively learn from data, machine learning allows computers to find hidden insights without being explicitly programmed where to look. Although many such algorithms have been around for quite some time, current machine learning, which includes the ability to automatically apply complex mathematical calculations to big data – over and over, and faster and faster – is a fairly recent development. This ability is useful in a number of vertical markets, and can already be seen to be having an impact in the retail environment. The go-to example of machine learning in this space is how major online players like Amazon and Netflix regularly offer recommendations to customers of potential products they might also like. These recommendations are determined via machine learning, which parses through previous choices made by consumers and other products they have looked at on the Web site.

Six teenage members of a robotics team from Burundi, Africa -- who went missing last week after a competition in Washington, D.C. -- may have planned their disappearance, their coach said Monday. Burundi Police confirmed at least two of the missing teenagers were in Canada, and the remaining four were not in danger. Esperence Niyonzima, the director of Iteletique, the school which sent two of the teens said the students probably left the East African nation to get a better life, the Associated Press (AP) reported. Niyonzima mentioned that many Burundians, even those who travel outside for official or government assignments, remain in western countries. Read: What Happened To Burundi Robotics Team?

Six members of a robotics team from Burundi, Africa remained missing Monday after vanishing from an international competition in Washington, D.C. last week. The teenagers were last seen Tuesday evening at the competition's closing ceremonies. Police said two of the teens, identified as Audrey Mwamikazi, 17, and Don Charu Ingabire, 16, were in Canada. No further details were released regarding their exact whereabouts. The remaining four teens, Richard Irakoze, 18, Kevin Sabumukiza, 17, Nice Munezero, 17, and Aristide Irambona, 18, were still missing.