Facebook has asked big banks to share detailed and intimate financial information about their customers, according to a new report. The social network would get access to people's card transactions and how much money they have in their account, the Wall Street Journal said. The potential agreement comes as Facebook continues to face criticism for failing to protect user data as part of the Cambridge Analytica and other scandals. 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. Japan's On-Art Corp's CEO Kazuya Kanemaru poses with his company's eight metre tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot'TRX03' and other robots during a demonstration in Tokyo, Japan Japan's On-Art Corp's eight metre tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot'TRX03' performs during its unveiling in Tokyo, Japan Singulato Motors co-founder and CEO Shen Haiyin poses in his company's concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China A picture shows Singulato Motors' concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China Connected company president Shigeki Tomoyama addresses a press briefing as he elaborates on Toyota's "connected strategy" in Tokyo.

Facebook is testing a dating feature for its users. But only employees of the social network can currently sign up for it. The feature appears to be integrated into Facebook's normal social network and allows them to search out dates from among their network. The testing process of the new feature, known as'dogfooding', is designed to uncover any bugs or issues before it is officially launched for all users. Most of us are Facebook friends with some people we don't actually care about, and there are several ways to keep their updates off your News Feed.

Want to know what Amazon.com Inc. will be doing in physical retail tomorrow? Look at what is happening in China today. If you'd taken this advice, you wouldn't have been surprised when the behemoth spent $13.7 billion last year buying Whole Foods. Eighteen months earlier Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. had launched Hema, a technologically advanced blend of online grocery shopping, dining and bricks and mortar.

The computer virus outbreak tore through the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) factory, but is now being contained, analysts claim. TSMC is the world's largest contract chipmaker and revealed over the weekend that the virus had infected a number of its computer systems and fab tools. The firm has said it hopes to make a full recovery later today as it had safeguards in place for this exact scenario. The company blamed the infection of its computer systems on'misoperation during the software installation process' for new equipment, it revealed in a statement. The virus was found to be in the equipment and didn't come from a hack or cyberattack. Mark Li, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, said in a report that Apple was one of the impacted customers but a swift recovery in the fourth quarter should minimise the impact.

Nasa is launching its latest space exploration mission this week, the Parker Solar Probe. The robotic craft will fly closer to the Sun than any man-made object has ever been before, beaming back invaluable new data on the star's properties and atmospheric conditions over a seven-year period. The project is named in honour of American physicist Eugene Parker who first speculated on the nature of solar winds in 1958. This is the first time a Nasa mission has honoured a living person. When and where is the launch?

A company that makes chips for Apple's iPhones has warned of delays after it was hit by a huge cyber attack. Taiwan Semiconductor Co, or TSMC, is still recovering from the virus and it will raise costs and delay shipments, it said. TSMC supplies chips to Apple as well as a whole host of other companies. The cyber attack came just weeks before the expected launch of the new iPhone, which is due to be released next month. 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.

"It should be better known as artificially inflated," says Fabrice Brossart, CRO of AIG, upon discussing the role that Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays within the insurance giant. A buzzword of many years, Brossart believes that there is not enough penetration into the various sectors of AI. Chris Gledhill, a former Lloyds Group developer and current CEO of Secco, is of much the same opinion when it comes to AI. "That's the problem with emerging tech," says Gledhill, "For whatever reason we don't think about the unknowns-unknowns, chaos-style disruptions that may arise from the technology." For Gledhill, that technology, the one that he is most excited about, is neural networks, a sub-sector of the AI label. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) mirrors the concept of biological neural networks within the human brain.

The CardLinx Association today announced that their industry-defining event The CardLinx Asia Forum will be held in China for the first time on September 5th at the Grand Hyatt Shanghai. This executive-level event will focus on artificial intelligence and commerce in the development of payments, retail tech and travel tech in Asia. The speakers are from global leaders such as Mastercard and Sumitomo Mitsui Card Company and leading Chinese innovators like 55Haitao, YouWorld, MaFengWo and CTrip. "CardLinx Forums have consistently launched strategic partnerships and spawned new fintech innovations around the globe," said CardLinx President and CEO, Silvio Tavares. "Major online-to-offline commerce innovators in China and across the world will participate to develop the next generation of AI-driven fintech and commerce technologies."

Alex Jones' Infowars podcasts have been removed from Apple's podcasts platform, marking the latest in a series of damaging takedowns. The controversial TV and radio host – who has endorsed conspiracy theories including the idea that many mass shootings are faked – has now been banned from just about every major tech platform, severely limiting his reach. After receiving punishments from YouTube, Facebook, Spotify and more, Apple has removed his podcasts from its platform. That means that he has been removed from the dominant platform for publishing podcasts. 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.

Linear Squared, a Sri Lankan company offering Machine Learning and Advanced Data Analytics solutions, has launched a fully automated planning platform for apparel industry. The company claims the solution, Capacity Squared, to be the world's first AI driven production planning software. The process of capacity planning on a shopfloor has always been manual, which consumes more time and is prone to human errors and biases. In unforeseeable situations like delay of raw materials, missed targets etc., sometimes even the well-planned schedule runs on low efficiency. Thus, the solution lies in the optimisation of the planning schedule without expanding the factory by adding new machinery or hiring labour.