A 360-degree camera is used to document the Khe Min Ga Zedi temple in Bagan, Myanmar. A 360-degree camera is used to document the Khe Min Ga Zedi temple in Bagan, Myanmar. War, natural disasters and climate change are destroying some of the world's most precious cultural sites. Google is trying to help preserve these archaeological wonders by allowing users access to 3D images of these treasures through its site. Some critics call it a form of "digital colonialism."

Bacteria are likely not the first thing to come to mind when contemplating human cultures. Yet biologists cultivate bacteria in a culture in order to watch the community of bacterium interact. This is more than a simple analogy or clever wordplay. In fact, this idea forms the basis of neuroscientist Antonio Damasio's latest book, The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures. Unicellular organisms rely on chemical molecules to sense and respond to their environments. They need to know where to seek nutrients and when to flee from danger.

Japan is poised to flood the Pacific Ocean with one million tons of radioactive water contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear plant. Storage space at the abandoned facility is running dangerously low as officials race to secure the nearly 160 tons of contaminated water produced at the plant per day. As space for tanks dwindles the Japanese government and the plant's owner Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) may decide to dump treated water into the ocean. Japan is poised to flood the Pacific Ocean with one million tons of radioactive water contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear plant. This image shows the transportation of one of the plant's large steel storage tanks Tepco plans to secure 1.37 million tons of storage capacity by the end of 2020, but it has not yet decided on a plan for after 2021.

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A Brookings Institution survey offers fresh fodder for the debate, showing opinion is heavily tilted against AI at a time companies are increasingly looking for ways to include it in everything they do. Some 38% of respondents said AI would reduce jobs, while only 12% thought it would create positions, according to an online national survey of 1,535 adult internet users conducted May 9-11 by the Washington-based think tank. Men were more likely than women to say AI would cause job losses. By age, the group most concerned about that possibility was 25-to-34-year-olds: Just 10% said the employment impact would be positive and more than four times that expected a negative fallout. While the U.S. is seen as the global leader in AI, there's concern China is closing the gap, the Brookings survey showed.

A Brookings Institution survey offers fresh fodder for the debate, showing opinion is heavily tilted against AI at a time companies are increasingly looking for ways to include it in everything they do. Some 38% of respondents said AI would reduce jobs, while only 12% thought it would create positions, according to an online national survey of 1,535 adult internet users conducted May 9-11 by the Washington-based think tank. Men were more likely than women to say AI would cause job losses. By age, the group most concerned about that possibility was 25-to-34-year-olds: Just 10% said the employment impact would be positive and more than four times that expected a negative fallout. While the U.S. is seen as the global leader in AI, there's concern China is closing the gap, the Brookings survey showed.

EVERY DAY AROUND 10m people take an Uber. The company has made ride-hailing commonplace in more than 600 cities in 82 countries. But the Volvo XC90 picking its way through traffic on a wintry morning in Pittsburgh is no ordinary Uber. Climb into the back, and you will see a screen mounted between the front seats, showing a digital representation of the world around the car, with other vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists highlighted as clusters of blue dots. Tap the screen to say you are ready to leave, and the car starts to move.

For daily updates, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here. Nanit was founded in 2016 and operates out of offices in Tel Aviv and New York. Nanit raised nearly $30 million in funding to date. The company said it will use the additional funds to hire more computer vision and machine learning engineers and scale production. Nanit also said it will expand distribution to new markets including Canada and Europe.

WASHINGTON (Circa) - There's no way to turn back now – artificial intelligence is the way of the future. But with breakthroughs in technology come new questions about the best way to proceed. These robots can navigate steep terrain and carry up to 400 pounds of payload for military missions. It is part of an ongoing race to compete in the evolution of artificial intelligence. Gregory Allen is a technology and national security expert for the Center for a New American Security; he believes Ai can help detect weaknesses in our software systems.

Considering its work with Cortana, Microsoft's acquisition of Semantic Machines makes perfect sense. Announced Sunday, the purchase is designed to bolster not just Microsoft digital voice assistant Cortana but also social chatbots like XiaoIce, which has had up to 30 billion conversations across China, Japan, the United States, India and Indonesia. Berkeley, California-based Semantic Machines describes itself as developing the fundamental technology to allow humans to interact naturally with computers. It's led by tech entrepreneur Dan Roth, UC-Berkeley Professor Dan Klein and Stanford University Professor Percy Liang. "With the acquisition of Semantic Machines, we will establish a conversational AI center of excellence in Berkeley to push forward the boundaries of what is possible in language interfaces," said David Ku, chief technology officer of Microsoft AI & Research. "Combining Semantic Machines' technology with Microsoft's own AI advances, we aim to deliver powerful, natural and more productive user experiences that will take conversational computing to a new level."