China has overtaken the United States to become the world leader in deep learning research, a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) inspired by the human brain. Deep learning algorithms are modeled on biological neural networks and enable machines to learn and mimic human-like responses. Think: smartphone assistants answering your questions, or Amazon recommending products based on your search and purchasing history.

Atlanta Braves coaches and players wearing the No. 42 in honor of Jackie Robinson stand during the national anthem before a game against the San Diego Padres at SunTrust Park. If you ask the media, who took the informal marker of the presidency as an opportunity to dive into Donald Trump's early record in office, it was a lot of talk and international outreach, but not much movement on the domestic issues -- like healthcare and tax reform -- that made him popular as a candidate. If you ask budget chief Mick Mulvaney, as NewsHour's Judy Woodruff did on air last week, the first hundred days was spent undoing damage from the previous administration. As for the chief: The presidency is harder than he thought, he told Reuters. No matter how you feel about the administration's first three-and-a-half months in the Oval, here are five important stories overlooked in the 100-day fanfare that are still worth your attention.

An RQ-4 Global Hawk surveillance drone arrived at Yokota Air Base Monday night, starting a five-month operation in Tokyo, the U.S. base announced. A Defense Ministry source said that the aircraft could be used to conduct surveillance of North Korea, over which political tensions have been ratcheted up over the past month. The aircraft is part of the 69th Reconnaissance Group Detachment 1 and provides near real-time aerial imagery reconnaissance support to U.S. and partner nations, according to the base's website. The aircraft was flown from its home at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, to avoid typhoons there, the Stars and Stripes quoted Detachment 1 commander Col. Jeremy Fields as saying. The drones and members of the detachment normally travel from their Guam home base to operate out of Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture during the summer to avoid typhoons, but that wasn't possible last year or this year because of renovations to the runway at Misawa, the paper quoted Fields as saying.

Nintendo's staggered release plan for the Nintendo Switch has been a talking point for critics, but for the company's first-party titles, the strategy has another point in its favor. "Mario Kart 8 Deluxe" sold more than 459,000 copies on its launch day April 28, making it the fastest selling title in the Mario Kart series. As Nintendo noted in a statement confirming the launch numbers, the record was previously set by 2008's "Mario Kart Wii," which sold 433,900 copies on its launch day. Nintendo also touted the game's MetaCritic score of 93 in its statement. "Mario Kart 8 Deluxe" is a Switch port of "Mario Kart 8," which originally released in May 2014 for the Wii U. Along with featuring many of the same core gameplay mechanics, the updated port also features an expanded Battle Mode, new levels, characters and in-game items.

Artificial intelligence is likely to bring benefits in post-trade processing for capital markets before distributed ledger technology such as blockchain is widely adopted. Vijay Mayadas, head of strategy and fixed income at Broadridge, told Markets Media that post-trade processing in capital markets generates huge amounts of data so workflows will benefit from intelligent automation and machine learning. He said: "There is huge interest in tackling the 5% of exceptions that cause 95% of settlement failures and costs. We are running a number of pilots and expect adoption sooner than blockchain." Mayadas is responsible for strategy, acquisitions, partnerships and growth-related activities at Broadridge including the firm's blockchain initiatives.

Apple's rumored Siri speaker could be announced as soon as June at the Worldwide Developers Conference, according to a note by KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo obtained by MacRumors. Kuo said there is an "over 50 percent chance" the speaker will be revealed at WWDC, which will be held June 5-9. "We believe there is an over 50 percent chance that Apple will announce its first home AI [artificial intelligence] product at WWDC in June and start selling in the [second half of 2017] in order to compete with the new Amazon Echo models to be launched," Kuo said in the note. The analyst also revealed the Siri speaker will cost more than the Amazon Echo. Apple's rumored speaker will supposedly support AirPlay, which had been rumored before, and will have "excellent" acoustics performance.

What began as a gladiator-style robot duel has turned into an all-out war. Chinese robotics company GREATMETAL is now the third competitor in the first giant robot battle of its kind – and the team has unveiled its massive'Monkey King' to take on America's MK. Monkey King is a single-seat machine that takes the form of a giant monkey, as it is capable of fighting while standing on two legs or on all fours. Chinese robotics company GREATMETAL is now the third competitor in the first giant robot battle of its kind – and the team has unveiled its massive'Monkey King' to take on America's MegaBots and Japan's Kuratas Chinese robotics company GREATMETAL has unveiled its robot to take on America's MegaBots and Japan's Kuratas. Called the Monkey King, this robot is able to fight while on two legs and also on all-fours.

Use our LinkedIn Login to download this post to PDF or save it to MyLibrary! Everyone has been hearing about AI, some have been hearing about NLP - and everyone has an opinion, belief, or thought about AI. However, that opinion, belief, or thought about AI (and/or NLP) is fully dependent upon the voices of whom everyone has chosen to listen. We are at a stage in our rate of change of technology where we have to let go of how we learned things in the past -- and step into a new stage of keeping ourselves always available to learn, no matter what we believe and/or think. We cannot, more than ever before, solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them (said Albert Einstein nearly 100 years ago!).

Samsung's ambitions to be a player in the self-driving car space aren't new, but today the company hit a big milestone. The company's home country of South Korea has approved Samsung's plans to test self-driving cars on real roads, not just test courses. Instead, the company is working on developing sensors and computer parts that are backed up by its artificial intelligence and deep learning software. The car itself that'll be hitting the road is a Hyundai customized with Samsung's own gear, but little else is known about exactly what sort of technology Samsung is providing. It sounds like a similar situation to Apple's own self-driving car that hit the road in Silicon Valley recently -- though Apple's Lexus is using plenty of off-the-shelf parts right now, it also likely contains some custom hardware of software on board.

The self-driving car market is set to reach $42 billion by 2025 and a new report has revealed that Samsung wants a piece of the action. The South Korean electronics maker has recently been approved to test it deep-learning based autonomous vehicles on public roads. Although the firm has been very quiet about the project, it has developed a'commercialized Hyundai vehicle equipped with the latest cameras and sensors' that will be used during testing. Samsung received approved to test it deep-learning based autonomous vehicles on public roads. It plans to use a'commercialized Hyundai vehicle (stock image) equipped with the latest cameras and sensors' that will be used during testing The news was first shared online by The Korea Hearald, which said Samsung received its approval from the South Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.