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The video game industry's annual jamboree, E3, is set to open in Los Angeles on Tuesday, but some of the biggest companies in the business will begin their quest to build buzz before then. On Sunday, Microsoft revealed a new game console that supports 4K video, called Xbox One X. It will go on sale on Nov. 7. On Monday, Sony is expected to promote exclusive games for its PlayStation 4, while Nintendo on Tuesday plans to show off games for its new Switch console, including the much-anticipated Super Mario Odyssey. The Federal Reserve is expected to raise its benchmark interest rate on Wednesday after a two-day meeting of its policy-making committee.

The sounds in videogames tell us to speed up, start over, and of course, to keep playing. But how does one set of beeps so effectively tell you you've gained power, while another indicates your character has died? And how, exactly, does someone create the sound of the Dark Knight punching the Joker in the face? Take, for example, slugging a bad guy in Batman: Arkham Asylum. The sound of that blow was made using a watermelon, a frozen turkey, and some archery skills.

A US intelligence director says a lot of espionage is more boring than you might think, and much of it could be handed over to artificial intelligence. "A significant chunk of the time, I will send [my employees] to a dark room to look at TV monitors to do national security essential work," Robert Cardillo, head of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency told reporters including Foreign Policy. "But boy is it inefficient." Cardillo calls out recent advances in artificial intelligence, giving algorithms the ability to analyze vast amounts of images and video to find patterns, give data about the landscape, and identify unusual objects. This kind of work is critical for assessing national security concerns like foreign missile-silo activity, or even just to check in on North Korean volleyball games.

In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue beat world chess champion Gary Kasparov, the first time an AI technology was able to outperform a world expert in a highly complicated endeavor. It was even more impressive when you consider they were using 1997 computational power. In 1997, my computer could barely connect to the internet; long waits of agonizing beeps and buzzes made it clear the computer was struggling under the weight of the task. Even in the wake of Deep Blue's literally game-changing victory, most experts remained unconvinced. Piet Hut, an astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in New Jersey, told the New York Times in 1997 that it would still be another hundred years before a computer beat a human at Go. Admittedly, the ancient game of Go is infinitely more complicated than chess.

Beijing is backing its artificial intelligence push with vast sums of money. Having already spent billions on research programs, China is readying a new multibillion-dollar initiative to fund moonshot projects, start-ups and academic research, all with the aim of growing China's AI capabilities, according to two professors who consulted with the government on the plan. China's private companies are pushing deeply into the field as well, although the line between government and private in China sometimes blurs. China is spending more just as the United States is cutting back. This past week, the Trump administration released a proposed budget that would slash funding for a variety of government agencies that have traditionally backed artificial intelligence research.

Connecting the human brain to computers is quickly becoming one of the hottest ideas in Silicon Valley, with Tesla's Elon Musk and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg among the many top tech entrepreneurs leading the charge. In March, Musk launched Neuralink, a medical research company that creates brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Musk has previously expressed the importance of upgrading human cognition in order to ensure people are not made obsolete by artificial intelligence. BCIs would initially be used for medical research, with the ultimate goal being to blur the lines between people and artificial intelligence. Read: Will Robots Take Your Job? Elon Musk Thinks We Have 30 Years Until AI Is Better Than Us At Everything Neuralink has been registered as a medical research company, and Musk said they will produce a product to help people with severe brain injuries within four years, the Washington Post reports.

SYS-CON Events announced today that MobiDev, a client-oriented software development company, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. MobiDev is a software company that develops and delivers turn-key mobile apps, websites, web services, and complex software systems for startups and enterprises. Since 2009 it has grown from a small group of passionate engineers and business managers to a full-scale mobile software company with over 200 developers, designers, quality assurance engineers, project managers in house, specializing in the world-class mobile and web development. The company's main focus is saving the time and efforts of clients by providing full-cycle product development, offering dedicated project teams for long-term collaborations, making quality assurance an integral part of development, and regular product deliveries. Another major work principle embraced by MobiDev is flexibility: the company adjusts its activities to clients' business processes, tools, and environments; enables transparency of actions and quick problem-solving; and establishes effective communication with other involved teams, if required.

Roaming charges are finally being killed off, after the EU forced phone companies to stop hitting people with massive, shock bills. But customers have been warned that they might still have to pay more than they expect and should continue to be vigilant. The roaming charges will come to an end after 15 June. That will mean that people in the UK can take their normal contract – with all its free calls, texts and data – anywhere in the EU, for no extra cost. 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.

There's a 50% chance that artificial intelligence (AI) systems will be able to perform every single task better than their human counterparts in the next 45 years, according to researchers from Oxford and Yale University. The research also gave the same odds that AI automate all human jobs in the next 122 years as well. The research, titled When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts, was submitted and later revised in late May 2017. Its purpose is to help anticipate the innovation in AI and machine learning for the purpose of developing public policy.