An Islamabad High Court (IHC) judge has called for a ban on social media sites in Pakistan, due to the spread of'blasphemous' images online. Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui also wants people found to have posted blasphemous content online to have their names added to the Exit Control List, thereby prohibiting them from leaving the country. "I will go to every extent to bring this case to its logical end and if needed I will even ban social media in Pakistan," he is reported to have said. 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. Japan's On-Art Corp's CEO Kazuya Kanemaru poses with his company's eight metre tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot'TRX03' and other robots during a demonstration in Tokyo, Japan Japan's On-Art Corp's eight metre tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot'TRX03' performs during its unveiling in Tokyo, Japan Singulato Motors co-founder and CEO Shen Haiyin poses in his company's concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China A picture shows Singulato Motors' concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China Connected company president Shigeki Tomoyama addresses a press briefing as he elaborates on Toyota's "connected strategy" in Tokyo.

Big Data Analytics Tokyo is an event which brings together 400 experts and entrepreneurs from the US and Japanese tech hubs. The event featured 20 talks, panel discussions, business pitch sessions, and lightning talks, where all presentations were bilingual with simultaneous interpretation. Whether you are a business leader, data scientist or investor, this event would be of relevance to you. Presenting at this event was AI Business' Director, Daniel Pitchford, who enlightened the audience about the true business impact of artificial intelligence. Pitchford started off by defining artificial intelligence by looking at practical AI.

Most organizations today aspire to use predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to influence customer behavior and improve business performance. Unfortunately, the process for becoming a "predictive organization" is broken from both a technical and an organizational standpoint. It requires "Unicorns:" Well trained, expensive, rare data scientists and PhDs who are hard to hire and retain. Those teams then invest roughly six months on average cleaning data and building machine learning models, and then have to maintain those models as they degrade over time. Whenever products and consumer behavior change, the models break and need to be re-written.

Bad news for ugly, unsuccessful people: Tinder is no longer keeping up the pretence that they might one day enjoy a quirky romcom relationship with someone from a different league. Already, a velvet curtain is being drawn around the world's facial one-percenters with the launch of Tinder Select. The Select sub-platform is the world's biggest dating app's entry into the increasingly popular market for elitism. No one is yet sure what the criteria are for entry to Tinder Select. Some suggest it might be based on your Tinder Elo score, a sort of romantic Uber rating. Those whom Tinder invites to join are apparently allowed to invite someone else.

The CIA had a special programme allowing it to trick people into thinking they had been hacked by other countries, according to WikiLeaks. The agency was cataloguing the hacking methods of outside cyber attackers, including those from Russia, according to files published by the organisation. Once it had them catalogued, it could use them to break into other countries or people's computers or phones – making it look like a different country had done so. WikiLeaks made specific reference to the Russian Federation. Tensions between the US and Russia have escalated in recent months, in particular since American intelligence agencies blamed the hack of Democratic emails – credited with swaying the election of Donald Trump – on the country.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. Electronic Health Record (EHRs) systems are now used in 80% of doctors offices and contain a rich source of patient data available to innovate and improve healthcare. A team at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences developed algorithms and a system to extract EHR data to faster diagnose patients and provide a thorough understanding of the patient's health.

Back in January, Coupa acquired Spend360, a leader in artificial intelligence for spend management founded by Paddy Lawton, the author of today's blog post. What happens when a mathematician falls down a rabbit hole into the world of sourcing and procurement? Artificial intelligence (AI) comes to spend management, that's what. It's a tale that illustrates how AI has been evolving over the past several years, to the point where it's finally starting to deliver real value. I'll tell you all about how that happened and what it means, but first I want to give some background so you understand exactly what it is we're talking about, and why it's happening now. It seems that every third business article you read these days makes some mention of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and how they're going to transform the world.

Gory video games are often thought to make people more aggressive and less empathetic because they normalise brutal violence. But a new study has found that regular players of violent video games are not affected in the long-term. Researchers measured the brain signals of 15 avid gamers and found that their empathetic neural responses were untouched by long hours of violent games. GTA is one of the most successful and controversial game franchises of all time due to its graphic depictions of sex and violence. A new study suggests that violent video video games do not affect players' empathy Earlier this month, a pair of British psychologists claimed that violent video games can have a positive social impact.

Stephen Hawking has warned that technology needs to be controlled in order to prevent it from destroying the human race. The world-renowned physicist, who has spoken out about the dangers of artificial intelligence in the past, believes we need to establish a way of identifying threats quickly, before they have a chance to escalate. "Since civilisation began, aggression has been useful inasmuch as it has definite survival advantages," he told The Times. "It is hard-wired into our genes by Darwinian evolution. Now, however, technology has advanced at such a pace that this aggression may destroy us all by nuclear or biological war. We need to control this inherited instinct by our logic and reason."

As mentioned in the first part of these two pieces, we talk a lot about fintech. We talk about it as though it is one thing, when in fact it is many. There are nuances to this market, which is over a decade old, that need to be fleshed out in more detail because, as with technology in general, some of this fintech is in the hype cycle, some is in the chasm, and some is coming into the mainstream as accepted. I call this the Chris Skinner Fintech Wave (loosely based on Gartner's Hype Cycle), which I didn't share in the first entry, but now that you know where I'm going, here it is: As you can see, some technologies are rising, some falling and some are now widely adopted, such as lending marketplaces. In this second part, I thought it worth discussing the remaining areas that are primarily generic technologies with a financial flavour, such as AI, machine learning, IoT and biometrics.