Netradyne believes that road safety begins with understanding driver performance better. Self-driving and autonomous cars are touted as the next big thing, with all the big companies from Google to Tesla getting into it. But, to be sure, it is going to be a long time before we will see a self-driven car on Indian roads. Road safety, however, continues to be a major problem in the country, with the number of accidents going up by the day. According to a report published by the transport research wing of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, the total number of road accidents increased by 2.5 per cent, from 4,89,400 in 2014 to 5.01,423 in 2015.

A research team at Nagoya University is developing a system to help the elderly drive safely using a small robot, with the aim of releasing the technology by 2019. Authorities in Japan are stepping up measures aimed at encouraging the elderly to give up their driver's license as the number of fatal road accidents involving drivers aged 75 or older shows no sign of decreasing. But the research team, helmed by professor Hirofumi Aoki and associate professor Takahiro Tanaka of the university's Institute of Innovation for Future Society, hopes to create a society where they can still enjoy driving. The team is developing a 20-cm tall robot that uses a friendly voice and gestures to give warnings to senior drivers. "There are many blind spots at the intersection ahead," the robot said from where it is perched next to the driver's seat.

The true scale of the hack that hit the NHS could only become clear on Monday morning. Despite cyber security experts working hard to save hospitals from the attack, it may turn out to be far worse than previously thought after the weekend. In the NHS, experts are concerned that many pieces of equipment – not only computers but things like heart monitors – will be switched on for the first time after the weekend and may start being infected and spreading the malware all over again. More than 200,000 victims in around 150 countries have been infected by the ransomware which originated in the UK and Spain on Friday before spreading globally. 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.

Artificial intelligence or AI as it is called in cyber parlance, and believed to be the next big thing in information and technology, can play a key role in good governance, a senior Microsoft official has said. "We are seeing that governments are benefitting through Artificial Intelligence and are able to bring (governance) closer to people in their countries," Dave Forstrom, director of communications for the Artificial Intelligence (AI) group at Microsoft, told PTI. "Absolutely," he answered when asked if AI can be a tool in good governance. "In terms of helping create good governance we're seeing an approach industry--wide right now where it's focused on ethical design and those principles that will help to really govern that," he said on the sidelines of the Microsoft's annual developers conference Build 2017. Microsoft's India-born CEO Satya Nadella has identified AI as the center piece of the company's growth strategy. Forstrom said Microsoft is having partnerships with a number of governments in this regard. "Singapore is one that we recently worked with last year to actually help them create bots to better engage their customers," he said.

Supergirl Absent for most of this season, Calista Flockhart returns, and her character's reappearance complicates the problem Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) is facing involving actions that the president (guest star Lynda Carter) wants taken against Rhea (guest star Teri Hatcher). Dancing With the Stars In this new episode of the unscripted competition, each judge gives a couple a specific challenge. Also, Cheryl Burke returns to the dance floor for a special performance, and Calum Scott performs. Gotham The secret weapon earmarked by the Court of Owls to demolish the city is found by Gordon (Ben McKenzie), while Bruce (David Mazouz) discovers something dangerous in the plan devised by Kathryn and Temple Shaman (guest stars Leslie Hendrix and Raymond J. Barry). Man With a Plan Don and Marcy's (Kevin Nealon, guest star Kali Rocha) joy over getting a visit from their new grandson leads Adam and Andi (Matt LeBlanc, Liza Snyder) to consider having another baby.

He shares his takeaways in this guest post.] I was super-excited to attend Microsoft Build for the first time. Being a student, I definitely enjoyed the experience. I am very passionate about technology and have been working on a startup of my own. As I think about my role in the technology and business world, I believe that my friends and I, as teenagers, have a different perspective on technology than many of the other attendees at Microsoft Build.

TOKYO Desperate to overcome Japan's growing shortage of labor, mid-sized companies are planning to buy robots and other equipment to automate a wide range of tasks, including manufacturing, earthmoving and hotel room service. According to a Bank of Japan survey, companies with share capital of 100 million yen to 1 billion yen plan to boost investment in the fiscal year that started in April by 17.5 percent, the highest level on record. It is unclear how much of that is being spent on automation but companies selling such equipment say their order books are growing and the Japanese government says it sees a larger proportion of investment being dedicated to increasing efficiency. Revenue at many of Japan's robot makers also rose in the January-March period for the first time in several quarters. "The share of capital expenditure devoted to becoming more efficient is increasing because of the shortage of workers," said Seiichiro Inoue, a director in the industrial policy bureau of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, or METI.

Mr Virender Aggarwal, chief executive of Ramco Systems, knows what it is like to feel the world is collapsing around you. In January 2009, as the top man for Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa for Satyam Computer Services, a Big Six Indian outsourcing firm, he was summoned with other top executives to the company's Hyderabad headquarters for what he thought was a routine meeting. Gathered at the Novotel Hotel, he remembers a senior colleague staggering into the room, face ashen and so shaken that the Blackberry phone he was holding fell out of his hands. Dr B. Ramalinga Raju, Satyam's founder and CEO, had just admitted to cooking the company books on a massive scale and gone to the police with his confession. India's biggest corporate scandal had just broken, sending tremors around the world and shaking the nation's much-admired outsourcing industry to its core.

By year's end, the Pentagon wants computers to be leading the hunt for Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, through turning countless hours of aerial surveillance video into actionable intelligence. It's part of Project Maven, a fast-moving effort launched last month by Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work to accelerate, improve, and put to wider use the military's use of machine learning. "We have to tackle the problem a different way," said Air Force Lt. Gen. John N.T."Jack" Shanahan, director for defense intelligence for warfighter support, and the man tasked with finding the new technology. "We're not going to solve it by throwing more people at the problem…That's the last thing that we actually want to do. We want to be smarter about what we're doing."

In Asia, Dole sells a canned fruit called Seasons. The brand sells Seasons in two sizes, but it wanted to push sales in the smaller size where the margins were better. Enter Albert, an artificial intelligence platform created by AI company Adgorithms that hopes to reinvent how digital media planning and buying is done. The brand used Albert for a full digital campaign that included display, banners and Facebook images and video. The creative was developed locally in the Philippines capital of Manila, but Albert handled all the buying, optimization and placement.