In this paper we present GitDOX, an open source online, schema aware XML annotation interface linked to Natural Language Processing tools, which uses the online GitHub platform as a backend for version controlled electronic corpus development. We apply this platform to the use case of transcribing and annotating Coptic manuscript data from first millennium Egypt, in a collaborative team. The architecture of the tool is meant to be generic and extensible, supporting an unbounded range of annotation schemes, while being simple to use for annotators without extensive training in computational tools or version control software.

Welcome to the Remark Holdings First Quarter Financial Results Conference Call. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Becky Herrick of LHA. Thank you all for joining us today for the Remark Holdings first quarter 2017 financial results conference call. On the call today are Chairman and CEO, Shing Tao; and CFO, Doug Osrow. After the prepared remarks, we'll open the call for questions. A webcast replay of today's call will be available at www.remarkholdings.com. Some of the statements made today may be forward-looking statements. These statements involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements reflect Remark Holdings current views and Remark Holdings expressly disclaims any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements after the date hereof. This disclaimer is only a summary of Remark Holdings' statutory forward-looking statements disclaimer which is included in its filings with the SEC.

US ride services company Lyft and Google parent Alphabet's self-driving car unit Waymo have launched a self-driving vehicle partnership, bringing together two rivals to dominant ride-sharing service Uber. Lyft, the No. 2 US ride service by ride volume, in a statement said a deal to launch self-driving pilots would accelerate its vision for transportation and Waymo, which is beginning tests of a self-driving car service in Phoenix, said the partnership would let its technology reach "more people, in more places". Neither offered many details of the agreement, which was reported earlier by The New York Times. The car industry and technology companies are racing to develop self-driving technology, which they expect in a number of years will transform transportation, cutting costs of ride services and changing the way people buy and use cars. Uber is the biggest US ride service by volume and has been developing self-driving technology, which it sees as a key to its future, as it expands its ride service with human drivers.

The question of whether a god exists is heating up in the 21st century. In 2014, the proportion of the US who didn't believe in God was 33 per cent while in the UK it was 39 per cent. Despite this growing disbelief in a higher being, in a new article for The Conversation, Robert Nelson, a Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland explores why he believes that God exists. The question of whether a god exists is heating up in the 21st century. In 2014, the proportion of the UK who said they didn't believe in God was 39 per cent, while it was 33 per cent of people in the US (stock image) In 1960 the Princeton physicist – and subsequent Nobel Prize winner – Eugene Wigner raised a fundamental question: Why did the natural world always – so far as we know – obey laws of mathematics?

Google executive Mario Queiroz shows Google Home during the company's annual I/O conference for software developers in Mountain View, Calif., last May. SAN FRANCISCO -- When Christine Ha's techie husband ordered the Amazon Echo, she says she rolled her eyes skeptically, expecting another device to begin collecting dust in a forgotten corner of their Houston home. Then they plugged in the Echo on the counter ledge between their kitchen and living room and Alexa spoke to Ha. Ha, the vision-impaired contestant who won season three of the amateur cooking show MasterChef on FOX, routinely asks Alexa, the Echo's digital voice assistant, for an assist with everyday tasks. No screens to touch or buttons to push, Alexa can play jazz riffs or convert one U.S. dollar into Japanese yen. When Ha's making homemade ice cream, she can set a two-minute timer for the eggs she's whisking while monitoring the cream and milk heating on the stove.

When Christine Ha's techie husband ordered the Amazon Echo, she says she rolled her eyes skeptically, expecting another device to begin collecting dust in a forgotten corner of their Houston home. Then they plugged in the Echo on the counter ledge between their kitchen and living room and Alexa spoke to Ha. Ha, the vision-impaired contestant who won season three of the amateur cooking show MasterChef on FOX, routinely asks Alexa, the Echo's digital voice assistant, for an assist with everyday tasks. No screens to touch or buttons to push, Alexa can play jazz riffs or convert one U.S. dollar into Japanese yen. When Ha's making homemade ice cream, she can set a two-minute timer for the eggs she's whisking while monitoring the cream and milk heating on the stove. Ha's Nest thermostat is now voice controlled by Alexa, too, as are the lights, even the coffee maker.

Large retailers are starting to utilise machine learning, combined with predictive analytics, to assist them in enhancing consumer engagement and in creating more accurate demand forecasts as they expand into new sales channels. With machine learning, computers learn by mining massive amounts of big data, without human intervention, to provide unprecedented consumer demand insights. When one couples machine learning with other technologies, like facial recognition solutions, says David Cosgrave, Customer Intelligence Lead at SAS, there is the potential to shift from active engagement to automated engagement in the retail space. "A good example of how such automated engagement may change the retail experience in the future can be found in the experimental Amazon Go shop. This is a new US store, for Amazon employees, which is completely automated. Consumers simply walk in, choose their products and walk out, and the in-store technology detects who is taking what thanks to facial recognition software. This is combined with deep learning that enables the system to know what products have been taken, and the system automatically debits the user's account."

Mr Virender Aggarwal, chief executive of Ramco Systems, knows what it is like to feel the world is collapsing around you. In January 2009, as the top man for Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa for Satyam Computer Services, a Big Six Indian outsourcing firm, he was summoned with other top executives to the company's Hyderabad headquarters for what he thought was a routine meeting. Gathered at the Novotel Hotel, he remembers a senior colleague staggering into the room, face ashen and so shaken that the Blackberry phone he was holding fell out of his hands. Dr B. Ramalinga Raju, Satyam's founder and CEO, had just admitted to cooking the company books on a massive scale and gone to the police with his confession. India's biggest corporate scandal had just broken, sending tremors around the world and shaking the nation's much-admired outsourcing industry to its core.

Innovation continues to be a strategic priority in the banking industry, with new business models emerging including partnerships with fintech startups. As competition expands and consumer expectations for enhanced digital banking services increases, new business models in banking are emerging and being deployed in real applications. Investment in innovation and in technologies like artificial intelligence are transforming the way rich data is analyzed and applied, creating the potential for real-time contextual banking engagement. The innovation agenda has become intertwined with the digitalization agenda, with both requiring changes in culture and back office operating systems. Investment in delivery channel innovation continues to be the most important focus for the banking industry, responding to expectations set by other industries.

Twenty-six years after Talking Heads broke up, David Byrne remains one of New York's most recognizable people. There he is, about town, slim and white-haired--on his bicycle, at a just-opened restaurant, at the Public Theatre (his second musical, "Joan of Arc: Into the Fire," had a run there last month), or at a concert by an artist on his boutique record label, Luaka Bop. Before I took a seat at Carnegie Hall last Friday, then, I periscoped the room, wondering whether he was there and, if he was, whether he would wind up onstage. Angélique Kidjo, born in Benin, long based in Brooklyn, was performing "Remain in Light," and it seemed inevitable that Byrne would show, if only to see what another great artist would do with his strongest, strangest work. The band members strode out and took their places beneath the Stern Auditorium's broad arch: a dozen musicians, female and male, black and white, singers and instrumentalists. Kidjo emerged stage right, wearing an extravagantly patterned pantsuit and matching headdress of African design.