The transport ministry plans to test "congestion pricing" in four municipalities with major tourist attractions, including Kyoto and Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. The plan was presented to a panel on Thursday, with tests slated to begin this fall in Kamakura, Kobe and Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture. No fees will be collected in the tests. Congestion pricing is a new system that employs state-of-the-art technologies to counter traffic jams, said University of Tokyo professor Eiji Hato, who chairs the panel. The ministry hopes to ease congestion by using artificial intelligence and other technologies.

T-Mobile is willing to pick up the tab for your Netflix habit, and trackball mice are back. Here's the car that AI steering wheel is made for.All Jaguars will have electric drivetrains in 2020 Jaguar has announced that within a few years, all of its new cars will be some type of hybrid or EV. To go along with the news, it also announced two concept vehicles, including this Future-Type autonomous vehicle, shown above, that works with its Sayer AI-powered steering wheel. The other is its E-Type Zero, a classic roadster reworked to fit a 220 kW electric motor. Out of the shadows.Epson's ultra bright projector can hide in plain sight Basically, according to Epson, this $2,000 projector can be mounted within a few inches of a nearby wall and display a 120-inch 1080p image, even in a brightly lit room.

The first time Alex Acero saw Her, he watched it like a normal person. The second time, he didn't watch the movie at all. Acero, the Apple executive in charge of the tech behind Siri, sat there with his eyes closed, listening to how Scarlett Johansson voiced her artificially intelligent character Samantha. He paid attention to how she talked to Theodore Twombly, played by Joaquin Phoenix, and how Twombly talked back. Acero was trying to discern what about Samantha could make someone fall in love without ever seeing her.

If you are among the millions of Americans concerned about cybersecurity at the Democratic National Committee--and how could you not be?--then the home of the party's tech braintrust might not give you much hope. The tiny, charmless office, with "DNC Tech" scribbled in dry-erase marker on the door, contains one desk and two computer monitors. Nearby, an overturned couch pokes out from an elevator shaft, a leftover from the widespread departures that followed Hillary Clinton's defeat. And that, of course, came after intruders, believed to be tied to Russia, hacked into the DNC's computers. If the office itself seems lacking, the resume of its newish occupant is anything but.

She saw the window of opportunity and took it! A British man launched a GoFundMe campaign Tuesday asking viewers to help buy him a new window after his Tinder date got stuck in his old window while trying to retrieve her feces she discarded and had to be rescued by emergency officials. Liam Smyth, a student at the University of Bristol, wrote on the page that he had recently went on a first date with a fellow college student. He and his date had a lovely evening and went back to his residence for a "bottle of wine and a Scientology documentary." Smyth said his date went to the bathroom at one point but came out "with a panicked look in her eye."

Software is eating the world and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at the heart of this takeover. Since we at Asgard are deeply involved in the European AI market, we thought we would share our insights. The United Kingdom takes the lead as the strongest AI ecosystem in Europe. We have counted 121 AI firms in the UK, with London clearly the largest hub. In second place is Germany (51), with Berlin as the main AI hub supporting 30 AI companies.

In a bid to help fix the nation's child care crunch, a Tokyo-based start-up is testing a new service combining robots and sensors to monitor kids at nurseries. Global Bridge Holdings, a child care and nursing care venture, is working with academics from Gunma University to develop a system aimed at alleviating the burden of nursery school teachers, many of whom are overworked amid a nationwide staffing shortage. The project features a specially designed bear-shaped robot called Vevo that can greet and identify children and record their body temperatures using a thermograph. During naps, sensors embedded in cots can monitor heart rates and body movements of children to make sure they are breathing. An alarm system will notify teachers if any abnormalities are detected.

This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Fintech Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions are increasingly gaining traction in the banking industry, with organizations deploying them across ever-more areas of their businesses. Japanese-based Mizuho Bank has now joined this trend, announcing last week that it will test IBM's new AI-based regtech solution, Financial Crimes Due Diligence with Watson, as it seeks to improve its ability to prevent and detect financial crime like money laundering (ML) and financing of terrorism (FT). Mizuho will first deploy the solution, which automates the retrieval and analysis of data used in detecting financial crime, in Singapore.

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is doing recruitment in China as it seeks development in this marketplace. There are multiple positions that involve machine learning and artificial intelligence. Li Jia, head of Google's machine learning and artificial intelligence R&D unit, previously revealed some of the recruited positions at a summit held in Wuzhen in May 2017. The machine learning positions offered by Google include software engineers, technical directors, and research scientists. They also offer jobs located in Shanghai and Guangzhou.

Leading AI based assessment platform from Bangalore announces integration with the top ATS provider in Silicon Valley. Bengalūru, September 1, 2017 -- Interact, the leading AI based smart assessment platform from Xobin, and Greenhouse, the world's leading recruitment platform, today announced an integration. This integration adds intelligent proctored assessments in every software skill for human resource professionals using Greenhouse's platform. Hiring doesn't have to be crazy. All growing tech companies run into the same fundamental problem while hiring -- UNCERTAINTY.