A Google algorithm has narrowly beaten the world's best player in the ancient Chinese board game of Go, reaffirming the arrival of what its developers say is a groundbreaking new form of artificial intelligence. AlphaGo took the first of three scheduled games against the brash 19-year-old Chinese world number one Ke Jie, who after the match anointed the programme as the new "Go god". AlphaGo stunned the Go community and futurists a year ago when it trounced South Korean grandmaster Lee Sedol four games to one. That marked the first time a computer programme had beaten a top player in a full contest and was hailed as a landmark for artificial intelligence. This week's battle, in the eastern Chinese city of Wuzhen between Ke and an updated version of AlphaGo, was preceded by intense speculation about whether the world's top player could be beaten by a computer.

The world's best player of what might be humankind's most complicated board game was defeated on Tuesday by a Google computer program. Adding insult to potentially deep existential injury, he was defeated at Go -- a game that claims centuries of play by humans -- in China, where the game was invented. The human contender, a 19-year-old Chinese national named Ke Jie, and the computer still have two more matches to play this week. And the matchup does little to prove that software can mollify an angry co-worker, write a decent poem, raise a well-adjusted child or perform any number of mundane yet distinctly human tasks. But the victory by software called AlphaGo showed yet another way that computers can be developed to perform better than humans in highly complex tasks, and it offered a glimpse of the promise of new technologies that mimic the way the brain functions.

In March last year, Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence completed an historic victory. Its AlphaGo system beat world Go champion Lee Sedol in a five-game contest of the famously complex board game. Not content with defeating one of the world's best players four games to one, in one of the most challenging board games to exist, the firm can now add another victory to its tally. Ke, who has been the top-ranked Go player for the past two years claimed last year he would never lose to a "cold machine." The night before the event, Ke wrote on Weibo that "the advancement of AI has far exceeded our imagination" but added he would never play it again after this week and said he "cannot feel its passion and longing for the game of Go".

Google's AI AlphaGo has done it again: it's defeated Ke Jie, the world's number one Go player, in the first game of a three-part match. And its defeat of Ke shows that it was only getting started. "I think everyone recognises that Ke Jie is the strongest human player," 9th-dan professional and commentator Michael Redmond said before the match. And despite defeat, Ke's strategy suggested that the 19-year-old Chinese prodigy has actually learned from AlphaGo's often unorthodox approach. "This is Master's move," said Redmond of one of Ke's earliest plays, referring to the pseudonym that AlphaGo used for a recent series of online matches in which it racked up a 60-game winning streak.

Nokia has settled its legal battle with Apple with a new patent licence agreement and also signed a business deal with the US giant, surprising investors who had expected the dispute to drag on. The companies said on Tuesday that Nokia would receive an upfront cash payment and additional revenues from Apple starting from the current quarter, without giving details. Analysts said the revenue was likely to be far higher than a previous deal. Nokia shares, which fell in December when the patent dispute was announced, jumped as much as 8 per cent to their highest since February 2016 and were 6.5 per cent higher at €5.88 by 0848 GMT. "We are pleased with this resolution of our dispute and we look forward to expanding our business relationship with Nokia," Apple chief operating officer Jeff Williams said in a joint statement from the companies.

A panel of United Nations experts investigating violations of international sanctions on North Korea has been hit by a "sustained" cyber attack. The hackers managed to infiltrate a computer belonging to one of the experts on the the 1718 committee. Who exactly was responsible for the attack is not yet clear, but they are understood to have gained access to key details of the investigation. 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.

AccelStor will demonstrate its recently launched all-NVMe flash array -- the NeoSapphire P310 -- and reveal its new-generation all-flash array, a scaled-up model with up to 645TB capacity. The AccelStor booth will feature live demonstrations of the NeoSapphire 3706-ES1, showing how this high-availability flash array smoothly handles all kinds of IT scenarios, without a single point of failure. Outfitted for machine learning, artificial intelligence, and FinTech, AccelStor all-flash arrays deliver accelerated performance and effortless data processing for storage, enabling enterprise business to run efficiently. AccelStor's products and technology will be on display at booth J0818 on the first floor of the Nangang Exhibition Hall in Taipei, Taiwan from May 30 to June 3, 2017. "Today's data explosion is driven by a growing number of end devices and richer data streams. Data centers and networks empower enterprises to gain deeper insight into the world around us," said David Kao, AccelStor Vice President.

Consumers need to be more aware of the potential dangers of connecting to a public Wi-Fi network, a new security report has warned. Wi-Fi networks in cafés and coffee shops are "high-risk", according to the study, partly because of their popularity and convenience. Cyber criminals are targeting people who connect to public Wi-Fi networks, and can access their private data without them realising. 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.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now being hyped in earnest. The media is full of stories about its achievements: magical algorithms beating humans on their own turf in Jeopardy, the Chinese go-game and Texas hold' m, not to mention the stock traders and radiologists soon to be displaced by machines. IBM was very clever to name its AI software suite Watson. A bit of mystique is always intriguing. And that is not all: venture capital is pouring into AI start-ups – 15 billion US dollars since 2012!

From fast food cooks to concierges at restaurants and hotels, robots are slowly infiltrating the workforce in nearly every industry. Most recently, the world welcomed its first operational robot policeman. "Robocop," the newest member of the Dubai police force, debuted on May 22 at the Fourth Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference, where it greeted guests. At approximately 70 inches tall and weighing nearly 220 pounds, Robocop seeks to engage with city residents and tourists. Featuring an "emotion detector," the robot can recognize a person's gestures and body language from nearly five feet away.