For a brief moment last spring, the world was looking at artificial intelligence because it beat the world champion at Go, the ancient game that was long thought to be unplayable by A.I. because it requires human-like contextual thinking to win. On Thursday, news of a documentary about that moment was announced and will show at New York's Tribeca Film Festival at the end of April. The film is directed by Greg Kohs and follows the story of how the Google DeepMind team played through the go tournament and beat Lee Sedol -- the world's best go player who had dominated the international field for the last decade. With simple rules but a near-infinite number of possible outcomes, the ancient Chinese board game go has long been considered the holy grail of artificial intelligence. Director Greg Kohs' absorbing documentary chronicles Google's DeepMind team as it takes on one of the world's top go players in a weeklong tournament, pitting man against machine in a competition that reveals as much about the workings of the human mind as it does the future of A.I. Go sounds like a simple game -- two players place different colored stones on a checkered board, trying to capture their opponent's stones by surrounding them with nine of their own.

Simply reading someone's facial expressions and body language is not enough to understand the experiences of others, new research has found. The new study found that people who'put themselves in the shoes of others' are far more empathetic. While most people assume they can understand another's emotions simply by watching them, the study's results suggest otherwise. Simply reading someone's facial expressions and body language is not enough to understand the experiences of others, new research has found. The new study found that people who'put themselves in the shoes of others' are far better at understanding them (Stock image) But the findings showed they were actually better at estimating how they had felt if they simply viewed the pictures again.

An artist's illustration shows how a remote-controlled drone might one day be used to pollinate flowers. Courtesy of Dr. Eijiro Miyako hide caption An artist's illustration shows how a remote-controlled drone might one day be used to pollinate flowers. Near Esparto, in the beautiful Capay Valley region of central California, 1,400 young almond trees flourish in a century-old orchard overlooking the hills. Since November, they've stood in perfect rows without a hint of foliage -- resting, naked and dormant, for the upcoming growing season. Their branches now swell with bright pastel blooms in preparation for pollination. Like most almond growers, Brian Paddock, owner of Capay Hills Orchard, relies on bees to provide this important aspect of crop development.

Google's cryostats reach temperatures of 10 millikelvin to run its quantum processors. From aspects of quantum entanglement to chemical reactions with large molecules, many features of the world cannot be described efficiently with conventional computers based on binary logic. The solution, as physicist Richard Feynman realized three decades ago1, is to use quantum processors that adopt a blend of classical states simultaneously, as matter does. Many technical hurdles must be overcome for such quantum machines to be practical, however. These include noise control and improving the fidelity of operations acting on the quantum states that encode the information.

Wooed by the promise of faster innovation, lower TCO, and greater agility, businesses of every shape and size have embraced the cloud at every layer of the IT stack - from apps to file sharing to infrastructure. The typical organization currently uses more than a dozen sanctioned cloud apps and will shift more than half of all workloads to the cloud by 2018. Such cloud investments have delivered measurable benefits. But they've also resulted in some unintended side-effects: complexity and risk. End users now struggle to navigate multiple environments with varying degrees of performance.

With frequent suicide bombings and assaults on Somalia's hotels and military targets, the armed group al-Shabab continues to threaten stability in the war-ravaged country. The emergence of fighters pledging allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group can only make things worse. After vowing to target "radical Islamic terrorism", US President Donald Trump's administration plans to pursue wider military involvement in Somalia as current strategies, including drone attacks, are not enough, security experts say. Recommendations by the Pentagon sent to the White House would allow US special forces to increase assistance to the Somali National Army and give the US military greater flexibility to launch more preemptive air strikes. "The concern in Washington has been mounting for some time now. The Trump administration is simply reiterating what has been policy, with slight variations," said Rashid Abdi, a Horn of Africa analyst with the International Crisis Group.

The Nintendo Switch is finally on sale across the world. The much-hyped – and risky – mixed-use console appeared to immediately sell out and only people who queued at midnight or pre-ordered long in advance were able to actually get their hands on one. The console is unusual because it is made to be used in a variety of different ways. It can be used either on the move or plugged into a TV, for instance, and its controllers snap off the side so that they can be used by one or two players. 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.

Read our thoughts on its most important launch title, and while you're at it, gaze at the prettiest Windows Phone that's now turned Android, and how Roborace is turning robots into racecar drivers. This is the Nintendo Switch's hit. 'Breath of the Wild' is the best'Zelda' game in years Nintendo has changed Zelda a lot for its Switch incarnation -- arguably the most since the series debuted. With a bigger world, exploration key to your progress, and weapons that you'll need to keep an eye as they degrade, it's a different spin on Link's journey through Hyrule. But despite all that, Aaron Souppouris says that it remains unmistakably a Zelda game.

Software vulnerabilities, lost hard drives and CDs, malicious insiders, poor security - the UK's most important data breaches reveal just how many ways data can be put at risk

Amazon accidentally took down large swathes of the internet with just one typo. This week, many of the world's biggest websites and services stopped working because of a problem with Amazon Web Services, the platform that the retailer provides to power people's websites. One of its sites went offline because of the issue – and since thousands of websites rely on it, including many of the world's biggest, they immediately went competely offline or stopped working. Websites like Quora, Trello and some of the world's biggest news sites went offline or stopped working properly when the issue happened. It even emerged that people's houses broke down – internet-enabled ovens, lights and front gates stopped working as a result of the outage.