Busy Britons are suffering from "gadget confusion," a study has found. Research revealed millions are baffled by the number of buttons, symbols and switches on devices which are difficult to use. It also emerged a large percentage claim they don't have the time to read instructions and three quarters confessed to being confused by gadgets. Why the connected home's best place might be the garden New at-home beauty gadgets you need to try The latest smart gadgets keep homes cosy -- and safe -- all year round The best kitchen gadgets for creating healthy meals, fast Why the connected home's best place might be the garden Another eight in 10 admitted using a "trial and error" approach when it comes to their devices and appliances. And more than a third can't be bothered to try different settings or options.

Billionaire Elon Musk has said cash handouts'will be necessary' if robots take human jobs, in his latest flurry of tweets. Musk made the comment in response to a question from a Twitter user about whether he supported universal basic income (UBI) - a cash handout that could be given to people irrespective of their employment. Musk believes UBI could be a possible solution for unemployment caused by machines taking over the workforce. Billionaire Elon Musk has said cash handouts'will be necessary' if robots take human jobs, in his latest flurry of tweets A universal basic income would give a standard amount of money to every citizen to cover basic expenses like food and living costs each month. Musk first joined the growing list of tech executives supporting the payment system in 2016 when he spoke about the concept in an interview.

A bio-ID surveillance framework that can recognize subway users may soon come to Beijing. China Daily reports two forms of bio-recognition being put forward -- palm touch and facial recognition. Together, they could offer a viable long-term solution to ease congestion issues and help reduce fare evasion. Beijing's subway is the world's busiest; it groans under the weight of around 10 million daily commuters and is a prime candidate for ticketless operations. That's where the bio-ID tracking comes in: once properly installed, cameras with online network connections would be able to identify individuals entering the city's subway stations, and palm scanning devices would allow riders to use their hands in lieu of a traditional tickets.

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SAN FRANCISCO – IBM pitted a computer against two human debaters in the first public demonstration of artificial intelligence technology it's been working on for more than five years. The company unveiled its Project Debater in San Francisco on Monday, asking it to make a case for government-subsidized space research -- a topic it hadn't studied in advance but championed fiercely with just a few awkward gaps in reasoning. "Subsidizing space exploration is like investing in really good tires," argued the computer system, its female voice embodied in a 5-foot-tall machine shaped like a monolith with TV screens on its sides. Such research would enrich the human mind, inspire young people and be a "very sound investment," it said, making it more important even than good roads, schools or health care. The computer delivered its opening argument by pulling in evidence from its huge internal repository of newspapers, journals and other sources.

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.

IBM's new AI supercomputer has been shown to argue, rebut and debate humans with incredible skill. Named Project Debater, the'unsettling' AI competed in what the company describes as'computational argumentation'. This is when debaters know a subject, present a position and defending it against opposition. Neither the machine or nor the human debaters were given prior knowledge of the subject of the on-stage debate, which took place in San Francisco. Both man and machine were asked to present a four-minute introductory speech, a four-minute rebuttal to the other's arguments, and finish with a two-minute closing statement.

"It is more important than good roads or improved schools or better health care," it added. Noam Slonim, an IBM researcher who helped oversee the project, estimated that the technology could have a "meaningful" debate on those 100 topics 40 percent of the time. IBM chose the topic for the live debate before it began. In some cases, the machine's lengthy speeches hinted at how it was stitching together its arguments -- identifying relevant sentences and clauses and then combining them into a reasonably coherent, computerized thought. Google Duplex is also limited to narrow tasks.

Google has announced it will open an Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) research center in Accra, Ghana this year, becoming the first A.I research center in Africa. The search engine's giant made this announcement in a blog post on Wednesday. Google Chief executive Sundar Pichai tweeted '' excited that we'll be opening a new Google AI center in Accra, Ghana''. He added '' really looking forward to our research teams solving challenges with AI for Africa and beyond''. The AI center will bring together machine learning experts and engineers on projects focused on technology and its numerous applications.

"SWEET disorder", the poet Robert Herrick wrote, is more bewitching to the human eye than precise art. What he applied to Elizabethan fashion sense applies equally to football, whose World Cup is just kicking off in Russia. It will be the first one to supplement on-pitch decision-making with officials viewing video-replay footage, officially only in cases of "clear and obvious error" (see "Why video-assisted referees won't stop World Cup errors"). After all, football is big business: decisions must be right and seen to be right. This magazine is mostly as resolute as a solid centre back in defence of technology, but here not so much.