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A league of their own: six of the best football video games

The Guardian

It has been a rare old summer of football. England's heroic โ€“ or at least, much better than expected โ€“ efforts in the World Cup were followed by three weeks or so of cold turkey, with nothing but the opaque machinations of the transfer window to keep us occupied. But already, the season has resumed, in all its relentless glory. If you want to join in but were born with two left feet, flex your thumbs instead with one of these games โ€“ the six best on the market right now. Video game football isn't just about pretending to be Harry Kane or Pep Guardiola: some of these take a strikingly original approach to the beautiful game.


Trump news: President claims Google is rigging search results to make him look bad

The Independent - Tech

Donald Trump has accused Google of rigging its search results to make him look bad. People who search for the latest news about the president are in fact being shown intentionally damaging stories, he claimed. Mr Trump even suggested that the results could be getting illegally manipulated from inside the search giant. 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.


Get ready for the robot invasion -- of our classrooms

The Japan Times

The idea of using robots in classrooms to teach our children is unsettling to many people. Fumihide Tanaka of the University of Tsukuba's Department of Intelligent Interaction Technologies, however, uses a technique that cleverly allays fears of robot superiority. He uses robots in the role of novices in the classroom. "Our solutions do not replace humans but help humans to feel, think and act," he says. Rather than the conventional roles of the robots as the teachers or caretakers of children, in Tanaka's method, this is reversed.


The Artificial Neural Networks handbook: Part 1

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I have written several articles on Artificial Neural Networks earlier but they were just random articles on random concepts. This series of articles will give you a detailed idea about Artificial neural networks and concepts related to it. The resources and references to all the contents will be mentioned at the end of series so you can study all concepts in depth. So, let's start with a very basic question what is AI and what are artificial neural networks? In this very first article in this series I will try to answer this basic questions and then we will go ahead in depth in further articles.


How This AI Startup Is Developing A Virtual Friend For India's Semi-Urban Markets

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Indians living in Tier-2 cities are driving mobile penetration and represent largely untapped markets for many app developers. India is one of the app-friendliest countries around, having this year surpassed the U.S. with the highest number of downloads. However, while India's most popular apps largely cater to urban dwellers, there is a growing segment of Indians residing in smaller towns and cities that are responsible for the country's rapid internet growth. This became a focal point for four Indian entrepreneurs, who decided to develop a platform for users living in India's Tier-2 cities and towns that speak a variety of regional languages. The startup aims to be a one-app solution that will communicate with users in their preferred language and help to complete financial transactions.


Air pollution may harm cognitive intelligence, study says

BBC News

Chronic exposure to air pollution can cause harm to cognitive performance, a new study reveals. Researchers believe that the negative impact increases with age, and affects men with less education the worst. Over four years, the maths and verbal skills of some 20,000 people in China were monitored by the US-Chinese study. Researchers believe the results have global relevance, with more than 80% of the world's urban population breathing unsafe levels of air pollution. The study was based on measurements of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and particulates smaller than 10 micrometres in diameter where participants lived.


Asian Stock Mostly Rise on US, Mexico Preliminary Trade Deal

U.S. News

TOYOTA GAINS: Toyota Motor Corp. shares got a perk from the NAFTA news as the top Japanese automaker benefits from free trade. The manufacturer was also boosted by its announcement that it was investing $500 million in ride-hailing service Uber and will partner with Uber to build self-driving cars. Toyota was trading up nearly 2 percent in the morning session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange but settled at 0.9 percent higher in the afternoon.


Driverless taxi debuts in Tokyo in 'world first' trial ahead of Olympics

The Guardian

A self-driving taxi has successfully taken paying passengers through the busy streets of Tokyo, raising the prospect that the service will be ready in time to ferry athletes and tourists between sports venues and the city centre during the 2020 Summer Olympics. ZMP, a developer of autonomous driving technology, and the taxi company Hinomaru Kotsu, claim that the road tests, which began this week, are the first in the world to involve driverless taxis and fare-paying passengers. The trial took place as Toyota and the transport giant Uber said they were intensifying efforts to develop a self-driving vehicle, pitting themselves against rival initiatives in Japan, the US and Europe. Toyota will invest $500m in the venture, which will develop vehicles based on the carmakers' Sienna minivans, with a view to start testing in 2021, the firms said this week. Uber and Waymo, owned by Google spinoff Alphabet, have started testing their vehicles on public roads in the US, but the venture suffered a serious setback in March when a Waymo self-driving van struck and killed a pedestrian during a trial in Arizona.


The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Upskilling

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The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly coming upon the world. Business executives have both heralded and cautioned against its rise. Most notably, famous entrepreneur Elon Musk has used his platform to sound cryptic alarm bells, famously citing AI as the "biggest risk that we face as a civilization." Adding to the conversation, a recent McKinsey report anticipates that the effect of AI on the world will be "akin to coping with the large-scale shift from agricultural work to manufacturing that occurred in the early 20th century in North America and Europe, and more recently in China." AI is coming, what can we do to prepare?


Artificial Intelligence - Choosing A Learning Approach Based On Your Current Role

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Almost every other day, either one of my colleague, college friend or an online contact from LinkedIn/Twitter will ask me "I have been reading a lot of hype around artificial intelligence and machine learning, I tried to read some of the articles and watched some videos but I really don't know where to start. Can you help or share something?". It is difficult to give a structured answer. It is totally crazy to learn everything about artificial intelligence. This field is so wide that it is easy to hit a roadblock because you started learning it in the wrong way (difficult way) without assessing your readiness.