Nepalese police and army personnel inspect damage to houses in the aftermath of the powerful earthquake in Sankhu on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 21, 2015. Researchers at Harvard University with an assist from Google said they developed an artificial intelligence system capable of forecasting aftershocks from earthquakes. The team used algorithms to analyze a database of earthquakes worldwide to predict where aftershocks might happen. Results showed the AI offered a significantly better system for predicting where an aftershock might happen. "Aftershock forecasting in particular is a challenge that's well-suited to machine learning because there are so many physical phenomena that could influence aftershock behavior and machine learning is extremely good at teasing out those relationships," said Phoebe DeVries, a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University and co-author on the study, in a statement. Details on the AI system were published in the journal Nature.

When Samsung launched the Galaxy Home speaker earlier this month, people were quick to point out how its name seemed ripped off from Google. Not to be outdone, Huawei is unveiling its own AI speaker here at IFA 2018, and it's clearly borrowed much more from the Google Home... just not the name. The AI Cube is a cylindrical speaker that looks like a stretched out version of Google's device, though it will offer Amazon's Alexa instead of Assistant. Like Samsung, Huawei is promising high-quality audio on its speaker. That's not all -- the AI Cube is also a 4G router.

Artificial intelligence is heavily employed in video games for the purposes of non-player characters that can either assist or oppose the player in a number of ways. Combat-driven video games such as first or third-person shooters provide an ample backdrop for innovation in both technology and design. So what happens when you come to make a shooting game aiming at defying modern conventions? Not just deviating from expectation, but making us question the very games we play and the choices we make as players. In this instance I'm going to look at a game that did just that, Yager Development's critically acclaimed 2012 third-person shooter: Spec Ops: The Line.

But the applications of AI in media are not just limited to content personalization. Media teams have to deal with manual processes for everything - from tagging the media to creating multilingual subtitles. But recent advances in AI are automating many of these tasks. Developments in computer vision, speech to text and natural language processing algorithms are changing the face of media creation, distribution and most importantly, media consumption. Voice is the most natural way for people to communicate.

Search has always been a key enterprise technology going back to the days of the first enterprise content management systems. This is hardly surprising given how important finding the right data is for any of the applications used by enterprises in their business processes. Since the rise of big data and the use of big data sets, search has become even more important. If enterprise data is the real wealth of a business, then search is the tool that uncovers that wealth. But what do you do with the increasingly large amounts of data that enterprises now have access to?

Artificial Intelligence is growing at a rapid pace in the last decade. You have seen it all unfold before your eyes. From self-driving cars to Google Brain, artificial intelligence has been at the center of these amazing huge-impact projects. To aspiring candidates, it is the right time to become an artificial intelligence engineer. The buzz has been seen on our platform as many artificial intelligence experts are coming forward and broadcasting their projects.

Technology is undoubtedly a big driver of entrepreneurship and startups today. Smart models are today finding increased takers in the form of entrepreneurs, through technology. Now, finance in India has also been undergoing a rapid transformation as far as becoming accessible and utilizable by the vast majority is concerned. "AI is accelerating the velocity and ease of payments for consumers," states Varun Rathi who is Co-Founder and COO at Happay. He envisions disruptive technical aspects viz Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML) as driving major decisions in finance which traditionally were considered overly complex.

Sony won't allow Fortnite players on PlayStation to play against their friends with other consoles – because those people are having inferior experiences. The company might allow people to take part in cross-platform play on other titles, said the company's boss. But Fortnite on PlayStation will not get that privilege, he said. And that's because the best experience is to play on PlayStation, he said. So allowing other people to play would be a compromise.

The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) is preparing for the installation of a new national supercomputer which will also be accessible via the cloud to researchers across Ireland. Linux-based cloud and high-performance computing company Penguin Computing is one of the companies involved with the project along with Intel. ZDNet talked to Penguin CEO Tom Coull to find out more. ZDNet: Tell me a little about your company. Coull: We are a platform and performance scale-out company and we have been around for almost 20 years.

Nissan used the ProPILOT technology used in its semi-autonomous vehicles to build "self-driving" slippers. The slippers feature a motor and wheels that sink into the sole once stepped into. The sandals are currently being used at the ProPILOT Park Ryokan, a hotel in Japan, for its guest. Guest are expected to take off their shoes in the lobby and put on the slippers, which can be returned at the touch of a button. For more videos, subscribe to Mashable Daily: http://on.mash.to/SubscribeNews