WhatsApp is to start filling its "status" feature with ads, according to one of its bosses. Unlike other Facebook companies, WhatsApp has always been resistant to advertising. Its original founders committing not to fund the app by harvesting data, for instance, which is central to Facebook's business model. But since it was bought, Facebook bosses have looked for a way to make money from the vast success of WhatsApp and have repeatedly suggested that ads could be on their way. 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.

Twitter has apologised after the phrase "Kill all Jews" appeared to a number of users. The words came up as part of a trending topic on the site's homepage, which meant that people were shown the violently antisemitic messages when they logged in. The phrase had been posted because of an attack on a synagogue in New York, where the words were sprayed onto a wall in just the latest of a series of high-profile attacks on Jewish people. 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.

Samsung has been teasing the release of a foldable phone since 2014 but the groundbreaking device may now be just a week away, as rumours abound that it will be unveiled at a conference hosted by the South Korean electronics giant. Potentially named the Galaxy X or Galaxy F, it is believed the bendy gadget will be demonstrated at the electronics giant's developer conference beginning on 7 November, with a potential release date set for some time in 2019. Samsung has been working with YouTube and Netflix to figure out ways to deliver content on the folding screen, The Wall Street Journal reported. The foldable screen may even have name – the Infinity-V – after a separate leak revealed Samsung had trademarked the name with the Korean intellectual property office. A spokesperson for Samsung was not immediately available for comment.

NAGOYA – Toyota Motor Corp. is considering trials using autonomous vehicles to transport residents and deliver food in central Japan by the late 2020s as it focuses on new mobility services using self-driving technology, company sources said Friday. Toyota will likely carry out the trial on the approximately 260,000-square meter premises of a plant in Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture, that its subsidiary Toyota Motor East Japan Inc. will close by the end of 2020, they said. In the envisioned urban development on the lot, the auto giant, which also has a housing arm, is weighing collaboration with information technology companies to offer homes with electrical appliances that can be controlled through its internet-connected vehicle, they said. Toyota said it has not made a final decision about how the plant premises will be used but that it is "considering ways to grow and develop with the local community through the implementation of our mobility business." Toyota has been stepping up efforts to develop autonomous cars that can offer various services such as ride-hailing and package delivery, as the auto industry faces a dramatic shift in demand from owning cars to sharing them.

It's not just Ford that's working with Baidu to develop self-driving cars for the Chinese market -- Volvo has also revealed its team-up with the tech giant. While Ford announced the partnership earlier, the Swedish luxury automaker says it's the "first foreign car maker to collaborate this closely with Baidu" when it comes to autonomous vehicles. The two companies will pool their resources to create and mass produce electric and fully autonomous vehicles when the time comes: Volvo will be in charge of developing the cars themselves, which will be powered by Baidu's Apollo autonomous driving platform. Their ultimate goal is to create and sell Level 4 autonomous vehicles -- those that don't need a human driver at all -- but it's unclear if they're also releasing semi-autonomous models before they achieve that. At this point in time, Baidu's Apollo is already capable of driving in basic urban environments, even at night.

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!): Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. Oregon State's Cassie dressed up as an AT-ST from Star Wars. AT-ST stands for "All Terrain Scout Transport," which is basically accurate for Cassie, too.

The warning by Lars Klingbeil, general secretary of the Social Democratic Party, comes less than two weeks before Chancellor Angela Merkel's squabbling coalition is due to sign off on the blueprint. An initial draft released earlier this year fell short of expectations, Klingbeil wrote in a commentary for the Tagesspiegel newspaper: "We really need a breakout. We have to stop taking it easy." Policy makers in Europe's largest economy have been late to realize that its industrial export model is vulnerable at a time of rapid digitalization and growing trade frictions. Car makers such as Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) or Daimler are vulnerable to competition from asset-light companies, such as ride-hailing platform Uber, that use artificial intelligence - essentially computers that can be trained to solve problems - to crunch data and run digital services.

A poster is seen at the Next forum, which was held by New York-listed Medidata earlier this month in New York. Artificial intelligence is playing a key role in new drug development and smart medical treatment by capturing, analyzing and activating data. It's a category of AI often underestimated by the public, even though it influences the health of millions of people. China, as well as the Asia-Pacific region, is regarded as fertile ground for technology firms working with drug developers, providing artificial intelligence and cloud services. For example, US-based Medidata, the biggest software firm in the life sciences industry, has 357 clients in the Asia Pacific, or about one-third of total client numbers.

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, computer technician Jim Delfino was laid off by the Florida company at which he had worked for over two decades. After five years of looking for employment in the same field, Delfino gave up and instead took a job as a sorter at a Chinese-owned scrap yard in Tampa. The pay was decent, and since it was manual labor, it didn't matter that Delfino's computer skills were somewhat out of date. In fact, the first time Delfino's son Christian came to visit the site, in 2015, he couldn't help recognizing some of the old monitors, CPUs, and printers piled up in stacks, waiting to be processed. "The same equipment he was working with in the computer tech industry was now getting trashed," recalls Christian, a Brooklyn-based photographer.

Artificial intelligence (AI), in its many forms including self-driving cars, robo-advisors, mechanical baristas, and state-run facial recognition campaigns will go ahead and continue to redefine how individuals work and have their views about school, work, government, and daily life. AI startups have been marching ahead in the technology bandwagon gaining funding in a world where supergiant rounds are now quite common. The top well-funded AI startup to date, SenseTime has brought a funding in a total of $1.6 billion. Most recently, in May 2018 the company raised $620 million in a Series C round led by Tiger Global Management and Fidelity International. This round raised SenseTime's valuation to more than $4.5 billion, making it the world's most valuable artificial intelligence startup.