A robot will appear before a select committee for what is believed to the first time when it answers questions about the fourth industrial revolution. The education committee will ask Pepper about the implications for education of developments in artificial intelligence. The robot is part of an international research project developing the world's first culturally aware robots aimed at assisting with care for older people. On Tuesday the committee will hear about Pepper's work with students at Middlesex University, which includes an initiative involving teaching primary level children. It also examines what role increased automation and robotics might play in the workplace and classroom of the future.

It's been quite a few years since huge parts of our lives have ported over to digitalisation, and almost by accident, many organisations have accumulated swaths of data that they've more recently just realised could be turned into valuable analytics. Global trends by large corporations may hint at 2019 becoming the year of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Similar realisations have led to the prominence of machine learning and artificial intelligence in recent years, particularly in Singapore. There has even been talk about artificial intelligence as the fourth industrial revolution--probably why the Singaporean government is so keen on jumping aboard that train through advocacy, and throwing a lot of money into its development. It probably helps that artificial intelligence could make it easier for the island nation to govern its people--the Monetary Authority of Singapore's (MAS) foray into suptech (supervisory technology) comes to mind. Almost literally putting money where their mouth is, Singapore has thrown a lot of money into supporting its growth.

Huawei has unveiled an AI strategy and a portfolio of supporting products built on two new microchips, which the telecoms giant claims is the world's first AI IP and chip series designed for a full range of deployment scenarios. The Ascend 310 is designed for the low-power computing needs of smart devices and the Ascend 910 for cloud computing. Huawei's rotating chairman Eric Xu said the Ascend 910 has "greatest computing density in a single chip," but denied that it was designed to provide direct competition for the likes of Qualcomm and Nvidia. "As Huawei does not sell chips directly to third party companies, if you're talking about pure chip-vendors, there is never competition between Huawei and them," Xu explained at the Huawei Connect conference in the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center. "We provide hardware and cloud services so if it's a hardware company or a cloud service company, there is competition here."

Amazon has scrapped a "sexist" tool that used artificial intelligence to decide the best candidates to hire for jobs. Members of the team working on the system said it effectively taught itself that male candidates were preferable. The artificial intelligence software was created by a team at Amazon's Edinburgh office in 2014 as a way to automatically sort through CVs and select the most talented applicants. But the algorithm rapidly taught itself to favour male candidates over female ones, according to members of the team who spoke to Reuters. Amazon wage increase could result in lower pay for some employees Black Friday 2018: The best Amazon deals Will Amazon's deliver-on-demand smart homes be the future of housing? Will Amazon's deliver-on-demand smart homes be the future of housing?

Samsung has doubled down on the dual-lens smartphone camera trend by placing an array of four separate lenses on the back of its latest device. The Samsung Galaxy A9, set to be released at some point next month, is designed with social media in mind, with the South Korean firm saying it is "optimised for the Instagram generation." At £549, the mid-range smartphone sits below the Galaxy S9 and Note 9 phones, and puts it in competition with the similarly-priced OnePlus 6 and Honor 10. The four-camera setup may be eye-catching in an increasingly crowded market, but it comes just two days after Google also bucked the dual-lens trend by deciding to stick with just a single lens for the highly-impressive camera on its Pixel 3. 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.

SAVE for desserts, curry leaves are essential condiments in any South Indian dish, almost mandatorily so. There is really no other quintessential substitute for the cuisine. Likewise, there is no other common denominator in any of the new tech products than artificial intelligence. AI is omnipresent, demanded by all application users and touted as the new mantra by large and small technology-based lifestyle or industrial players. There is even a prediction that one day, the chess grandmaster could be a machine and that unsolved mathematical theorems will be solved in the 21st century by machines.

There are a number of robots designed to help kids learn the basics of coding, but this is the first we've seen that comes equipped with a purple mane and a light-up horn. Meet UnicornBot, a programmable robot kit that UBTECH Robotics is launching today. Recommended for children age 8 and up, it is on sale for US $120 on UBTECH's site and retailers like Target and Amazon. UBTECH, headquartered in Shenzen, China, with offices in Los Angeles, says UnicornBot "is for all children, but is especially designed to spark an interest in STEM among young girls." UnicornBot has an accompanying app for Android or iOS that helps you put the robot together by following step-by-step 3D instructions.

Apple is going to release its hugely powerful iMac Pro this week, it has confirmed. The new computer will come out on Thursday, 14 December, according to the company's website. It is the first confirmation or new information about the new desktop since it was unveiled in June. The company still didn't announce how much the iMac Pro – which looks like a normal iMac but comes in a dark grey – will cost, though it said in June that prices start at $4,999. But it did unveil a whole range of market-leading technologies that can be found inside, including an 18-core processor and a powerful Vega graphics chip.

Apple users have been urged to update their iPhones and other devices, as the effects of a deeply dangerous computer vulnerability still spread across the world. Last week, security researchers found they had found a security flaw so dangerous that fixing it could cause computers to slow down or even need to be re-designed entirely. It exploited a vulnerability in a technology called "speculative execution" – something that can be found in almost every computer made in the last 20 years. As such, computer companies have been looking to fix any vulnerabilities that computers may have, which if exploited would allow attackers to read secret information from a device. Indeed, they had already started before the weakness was leaked, as experts had hoped to do so secretly until the problems had been patched up.

KOLKATA: The Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBC-DSAI) at IIT Madras is collaborating with the Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency for enhancing data-driven governance in the state. This will be carried out by working closely with various official branches and entities within the government of Tamil Nadu. These collaborations are expected to contribute towards various aspects of governance, including education, healthcare, and agriculture. Santhosh K. Misra I.A.S, CEO, Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency, and professor Ravindra Gettu, dean (industrial consultancy and sponsored research), IIT Madras, signed the MoU on behalf of their respective institutions. "Societal impact through AI is a central objective of RBC-DSAI at IIT Madras. We believe that by teaming up with the TNeGA we can contribute towards multiple pillars of the government, covering areas such as education, health-care, and agriculture," said Dr. Nandan Sudarsanam, assistant professor, Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras, in a release.