The entire Tube network is down, they're told. And they're the only people with any hope of getting it back into operation. If the performance of the schoolchildren involved is anything to go by, one day they might really be relied on to maintain the transport systems of the future. But for now this is just an exercise, albeit one they take very seriously. It is just one of a a huge number of "Field Trips" happening at Apple Stores across the country as part of the iPhone maker's support of the government's Year of Engineering scheme.

Facebook has admitted it used a controversial PR firm to "investigate" George Soros, a Facebook critic who is the subject of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. In a post that has since provoked an outrage of its own, Facebook admitted it used the Definers PR firm as part of an effort to discredit people who raised questions about whether it was good for society. Bosses including Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg had denied any knowledge that the firm had been hired or what it was doing. But now it has admitted the company had hired Definers to "do work" on Soros, following his criticism of the site at the start of the year. Uber has halted testing of driverless vehicles after a woman was killed by one of their cars in Tempe, Arizona.

If you are anything like me, you will have become addicted to online shopping. And like me your addiction might have led you to questioning if you are buying things unnecessarily. So, as Black Friday creeps around the corner, I thought I would do some digging to see how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are spending our money for us. With Google purchasing'DeepMind Technologies', an artificial intelligence company founded back in September 2010, we are certainly seeing how their technology is impacting online shopping. Have you ever been on your phone and spontaneously googled'Flights to Dubai' or'Green flips flops with pink roses' and next thing it is all over your Facebook and Instagram feeds?

Geek Plus says that this is the largest-ever funding round for a logistics robotics startup. The round, a Series B, was led by Warburg Pincus, with participation from other shareholders including Volcanics Venture and Vertex Ventures. The company is not disclosing its valuation but we have asked and will update as we learn more. Warburg Pincus led the startup's previous round of $60 million in 2017, and Geek Plus has raised around $217 million since being founded in 2015. Part of the reason for this large round is because the company says its on track for a big year, projecting to growth business five-fold, and it wants to capitalise on that growth both inside its own giant home market of Mainland China as well as further afield.

SHANGHAI – A crowd gathers at a Shanghai hospital, queuing for remedies made with plant mixtures and animal parts including scorpions and freeze-dried millipedes -- medicines that China hopes will find an audience overseas. With a history going back 2,400 years, traditional Chinese medicine is deeply rooted in the country and remains popular despite access to Western pharmaceuticals. Now the authorities are hoping to modernize and export the remedies, but they face major obstacles. Some leave with boxes of pills, others take away plastic sachets filled with herbal extracts. Lin Hongguo, a 76-year-old pensioner, has bought herbal remedies that he will boil to make a tea to treat his "slow beating heart."

Though it's often talked about as if it's a single continuous structure, China's legendary Great Wall is actually a series of stone fortifications that crawl across the country's changing landscape from the Korean border to the Gobi desert. Thousands of miles long and more than 2,000 years old in some places, as much as 30 percent of the wall "lies crumbling into ruins" as it is slowly reclaimed by the natural world, according to National Geographic. To reach some of the most vulnerable sections of the ancient wall –– deteriorating portions that people have been completely cut off from or that remain too dangerous to traverse --Chinese authorities have deployed a new tool: drones. The drones have allowed Chinese authorities to map and measure sections of the wall, offering precise data that is already being used to rehabilitate a structure that is widely recognized as one of mankind's greatest feats of engineering, the BBC reported in a video published this week. Data collected by the drones has helped workers build support structures for vulnerable sections of the wall, the BBC reported.

Apple will be taking part in Black Friday, the company has confirmed. And it won't only be Friday: the sales are set to run over the entire long weekend, with deals available until Monday. Customers will have to wait until Friday to find out what they actually are, however, with Apple only announcing that it will be running offers between 23 and 26 November. Uber has halted testing of driverless vehicles after a woman was killed by one of their cars in Tempe, Arizona. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

Scientists have created an entirely silent plane that flies without any moving parts at all, like something out of science fiction. The plane can travel for relatively long journeys despite not having any kind of propellor, turbine or any moving parts at all. And it flies entirely silently, drifting across the air. Uber has halted testing of driverless vehicles after a woman was killed by one of their cars in Tempe, Arizona. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

Singapore-based Jarvis, who aims to create a "decentralized conversation platform" offering translation-as-a-service, language bots, and smart contract creation with natural language, has outlined its latest R&D and marketing developments in its 17th weekly report. Work has focused on Jarvis's new deep learning system, with a completed configuration planned for next week, to be followed by model construction and debugging. In addition, a voting management system has entered development, and the results of the Jarvis Mascot Design Contest will be announced soon. Jarvis co-founder Dean Gao spoke at the first annual Bytom Global DevCon in Hangzhou, China. In addition, Jarvis participated in the DoraHacks Blockchain Hack in Japan earlier in the month.

After a decade of stop-and-go development, Artificial Intelligence has now begun to provide real, tangible value to the business world. McKinsey published an 80-page report titled "Artificial Intelligence: The Next Digital Frontier?" which provides a comprehensive analysis of the value that Artificial Intelligence (AI) creates for businesses. The report points out that "wide application of Artificial Intelligence technology will bring great returns to businesses." This means that the disruptive nature of AI will continue to become more apparent in the future. Governments, enterprises, and developers should all be clear on this point. Currently, researchers and businesses are focusing on Artificial Intelligence systems such as robotics and automated transportation, virtual agents, and Machine Learning (including Deep Learning and the foundations of several recent advancements in AI technologies).