What you're looking at is not an art installation or set from the next Tron movie. It's the new RACE Robotics Lab in Singapore, used to display the latest industrial robots and train engineers working on automated assembly lines. According to architect Ministry of Design, the aim was to create "an engaging and future-forward spatial experience that denotes the idea of industrial automation and precision." Ministry of Design told Engadget that the lab's primary function is "to train and inspire more people to use robotics automation in their everyday work." The experience starts in the minimalist, all-black lobby that features just the lab signage (also created by the firm) and LEDs running at various crazy angles.

Claridge, founder of xCraft, is best known for being the first contestant on Shark Tank to receive money from all the Sharks – even Kevin O'Leary! Walking the floor of Xponential 2017, the annual convention of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems Integration (AUVSI), Claridge remarked to me how the drone industry has grown up since his TV appearance. Claridge has gone from pitching cellphone cases that turn into drones (aka phonedrone) to solving mission critical problems. The age of fully autonomous flight is near and the drone industry is finally recovering from the hangover of overhyped Kickstarter videos (see Lily drone's $34 million fraud). During the three days of Xponential 2017, several far-reaching announcements were made between stalwarts of the tech industry and aviation startups.

We could see Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda on smartphones and tablets as early as next year, the Wall Street Journal reports, referring to the Kyoto company's pledge to release a few mobile games based on its bestselling franchises per annual fiscal cycles. The report, if correct -- it's sourced vaguely to "people familiar with the matter" -- would be no great surprise. The Legend of Zelda is a cornerstone Nintendo property, far more recognizable to general audiences than something like Fire Emblem, a turn-based strategy roleplaying series that Nintendo brought to smartphones in early February. Or Animal Crossing, its next smartphone game, delayed but currently due by the end of March 2018. That's to say nothing of the whirlwind success of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, a novel take on the fantasy adventure series that at last check has sold nearly 4 million copies between the Wii U and Switch.

Internet of things technology was deployed in the Department of Defense long before IoT became a buzzword. But outdated technology stays in the field longer than might be desired, according to Charles Wells, who works on DOD projects at Symantec. Recent events, namely the Mirai botnet attack, have increased the urgency for securing devices that are connected to the internet, which typically means patching or updating software. But there are too many IoT devices in DOD to make that practical. "We've got a proliferation of sensors on the battlefield today," Wells told the audience at a May 9 IoT Tech Summit hosted by the Washington, D.C., Chapter of Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association.

SoftBank Group just invested $5 billion in China's Didi Chuxing, China's biggest ride-sharing service. Last year Uber sold their China business to Didi resolving (by giving up) all the legal and antitrust investigations it was undergoing in China. In other news, Chris Urmson, CTO of Google's self-driving car program for many years, left to start a new company. In a recent lecture at CMU, Chris Urmson (who got his PhD from and taught at CMU), co-founder and CEO of self-driving car startup Aurora and part of the DARPA Urban and Grand Challenge teams, described three major transitions involving self-driving cars and said that "It's a wonderful time to be a roboticist." Urmson's new startup, Aurora, will develop software, hardware, and data, to sell to automakers who want to build their own autonomous cars.

The question of whether a god exists is heating up in the 21st century. In 2014, the proportion of the US who didn't believe in God was 33 per cent while in the UK it was 39 per cent. Despite this growing disbelief in a higher being, in a new article for The Conversation, Robert Nelson, a Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland explores why he believes that God exists. The question of whether a god exists is heating up in the 21st century. In 2014, the proportion of the UK who said they didn't believe in God was 39 per cent, while it was 33 per cent of people in the US (stock image) In 1960 the Princeton physicist – and subsequent Nobel Prize winner – Eugene Wigner raised a fundamental question: Why did the natural world always – so far as we know – obey laws of mathematics?

India's National Informatics Centre, which builds and manages almost all government websites, and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, a premier research institute that has built supercomputers, have actively installed patches to immunize their Windows systems, Sundararajan said.

One small mistake might have allowed the hack that brought chaos to the NHS. Health trusts across England were sent details of a patch that would have kept them safe from the ransomware used in the huge cyber attack, according to NHS Digital. The attack brought problems for huge swathes of the NHS, leaving almost 50 trusts without proper access to their computers. The problems led to appointments being cancelled, doctors unable to work and may even have caused deaths within affected hospitals. 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.

Netflix is testing price increases for customers looking to sign up to the service on weekends. The company raised prices by as much as $3 AUD for a number of users in Australia, as part of a trial. Netflix hasn't confirmed whether or not customers in other markets will be included in the test, and hasn't yet revealed any of its findings. 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.

Desperate to overcome Japan's growing shortage of labour, mid-sized firms are planning to buy robots to automate a wide range of tasks. According to a Bank of Japan survey, companies are introducing robots in the hopes of boosting investment by 17.5 percent - the highest level on record. Tasks that will given to the robots include manufacturing, earth-moving and even hotel room service. Desperate to overcome Japan's growing shortage of labour, mid-sized firms are planning to buy robots to automate a wide range of tasks Kawasaki Heavy Industries says its two-armed, 170-centimetre tall robot is selling well because it can be adapted to a range of industrial uses by electronics makers, food processors and drug companies. Hitachi Construction Machinery says it is also getting a lot of enquiries for its computer-programmed digging machines.