It's not a stretch to say we'll all be speaking to AI-powered digital assistants in the future. But who will build the assistants we use the most? Till now that battle has been waged by tech giants in e-commerce, search and mobile hardware, through Amazon's Alexa, Google Now and Apple's Siri. Now a popular chat app in Asia is throwing its hat into the ring. LINE, the messaging app owned by South Korea's Naver and with 700 million registered users, wants to take a step beyond smartphones and towards screen-less technology, the company's chief executive, Takeshi Idezawa said at Mobile World Congress (MWC) on Wednesday, with its own digital assistant powered by machine learning. Moving past the smartphone screen is a wise strategy for any tech company these days, even those who were born on mobile.

In an era of maturing artificial intelligence technology, what does the future of the corporation look like? Will the rise of robots help us do our jobs better, or harm them? This dynamic has become a mainstay of the dialogue around AI, with voices from technology visionaries such as Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking weighing in. But at Fortune's Most Powerful Women International Summit in Hong Kong on Tuesday, leaders at two of the world's most powerful tech giants pushed back on those concerns. AI is intended to help--not hinder--the human workforce, they said.

Growing muscles and tendons on a humanoid like the University of Tokyo's Kenshiro robot however, would allow transplants to work because it has "structures, dimensions, and mechanics similar to those of the human body," say Mouthuy and Carr. Healthy tissue needed for a hand, could be grown on an actual robotic hand, a leg tendon on a leg. What's more this would be a step toward "biohybrid humanoids" – bots of the future whose human muscles, tendons, and skin can self-repair. Dressing up robots in human tissue isn't the only way scientists are using tech to innovate transplants: medical researchers in Spain are already using patient cells to 3D-print human skin. The process could transform millions of lives, say scientists from Charles III University of Madrid – in particular the 11m people who become burn victims each year.

Nintendo Switch games are coated in horrible chemicals that you should never eat, the company has confirmed. The Japanese game firm has released its new and perhaps riskiest ever console, the Switch, mostly to positive reviews and expected good sales. But one little secret is lurking on all of the games, which are delivered on small memory cards that are put into the machine. "To avoid the possibility of accidental ingestion, keep the game card away from young children," Nintendo told Kotaku. "A bittering agent (Denatonium Benzoate) has also been applied to the game card. 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 ...

Researchers have discovered a number of security vulnerabilities in existing robots, which they say can be used by criminals to cause serious harm to their owners. IOActive tested robot operating systems and other software in order to identify nearly 50 flaws in robots from vendors including SoftBank Robotics, UBTECH Robotics, ROBOTIS, Universal Robots, Rethink Robotics, and Asratec Corp. Insecure communications, authentication issues, weak cryptography, memory corruption and privacy problems were just some of the issues named by the firm's senior security consultant Lucas Apa. The research paper says that criminals could exploit the flaws to gain control of robots in homes and workplaces, using them to spy on people and cause physical damage. 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, ...

If you've ever caught yourself thinking, "She looks like a Sue," or "He doesn't look like a Bob," a new study may back up your instincts about whether people's names suit them. In fact, people often do "look like their names," perhaps especially those named Tom or Veronique, the research suggests. In the study, researchers found that people could correctly match an unfamiliar face to that person's name at a rate higher than expected due to chance, according to a new study. In two experiments involving 185 participants in Israel and France, people were shown only color headshot photographs of 25 total strangers, and the researchers asked them to guess the stranger's name from a list of four or five name possibilities. For example, a participant who is shown a face and given four names to choose from has a 25 percent chance of guessing the right name.

A robot sent inside the Unit 2 containment vessel last month could not reach as close to the core area as was hoped for because it was blocked by deposits, believed to be a mixture of melted fuel and broken pieces of structures inside. Naohiro Masuda, president of Fukushima Dai-ichi Decommissioning, said he wants another probe sent in before deciding on methods to remove the reactor's debris.

BARCELONA, Spain--Chatbots may be all the buzz for brands these days, but some tech execs anticipate it will be tough for brands to create them--much like they struggled to make branded apps. During a panel at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, execs from PayPal, Google, Adobe, Sprint and GupShup talked about how messaging apps are evolving as platforms for content and commerce. While voice technology and artificial intelligence have been big buzzwords in the industry thanks to Facebook's moves to create bots and apps like Kik and Line gaining steam, not all marketers have the resources to realistically create and manage them, argued Harper Reed, PayPal's entrepreneur in residence of next-generation commerce. "Brands don't know how to adapt these things for the technology that we find everyday and I think there's a lot of hurdles between a normal consumer brand in the West, for instance, to figure out what is their mobile strategy let alone what is their chat app strategy," he said. Harper used his company's own technology to explain marketers' problem.

The IBM CEO has been at Big Blue for more than three decades, we wanted to know how she keeps engaged, about IBM's future with artificial intelligence and what career tips she might have for young women interested in technology. These are questions she answered via email, just prior to the opening of HIMSS17, where she delivered the keynote. Q: You've been at IBM since 1981. How do you keep it fresh? A: As IBM has done throughout its 105-year history, we remain dedicated to leading the world into a more prosperous and progressive future.

A total of 37 people are suspected of violating the national drone flight rules in the year since the revised Civil Aeronautics Law took effect in late 2015, the National Police Agency said Thursday. Of the 36 cases in which police had taken action by the end of last year, most involved unmanned flights over prohibited areas, with the rest concerning breaches of regulations on appropriate drone use. The law was revised to regulate unmanned flights after a small drone carrying radioactive material was found on the roof of the prime minister's office in Tokyo in April 2015. The law allows police officers to destroy drones, if necessary. The revision was first applied in Shikoku in January 2016 against a male photographer who flew a drone over a crowded residential area in Takamatsu without authorization.