Samsung has confirmed that the Galaxy S8 will not launch at technology tradeshow Mobile World Congress next month. The company has officially confirmed that Galaxy Note 7 handsets caught fire because of a range of battery issues, and says it will now focus on regaining consumer trust. "We look forward to moving ahead with a renewed commitment to safety," the company said in a statement. "The lessons of the past several months are now deeply reflected in our processes and in our culture. "More than ever, we are committed to earning the trust of our customers through innovation that redefines what is possible in safety, and as a gateway to unlimited possibilities and incredible new experiences."

There are tons of great-looking video games coming out in 2017. Many of these are western releases, but a huge number of fantastic titles are coming out of Japan also. In fact, many of my most hotly-anticipated games are Japanese this year. In any case, here's a list of all the best (or at least most important) video games currently announced for a 2017 release. I'll keep this list updated with other important releases as well.

Artificial intelligence (AI) on its own isn't enough to compete – companies need industry-specific solutions to business problems. So said Martin Schroeter, IBM's senior vice-president and chief financial officer, on the company's quarterly earnings call. Cognitive computing technology (IBM's term for AI) is just "table stakes," said Schroeter, claiming that his company is going the extra mile. IBM is building datasets for Watson to serve specific industries, including healthcare and finance. "You need more than public data or algorithms to solve real-world problems," Schroeter said.

Scientists have created what they say is a vaccine against the kind of fake and hyper-partisan news that is spreading quickly across Facebook. The researchers claim that by showing people lies, they can teach them to better see the truth. The solution works in a similar way to a real vaccine – exposing people to a small amount of the problem to help them better respond to larger amounts of it. The solution could help social networks and news organisations battle against fake news, which has been credited with helping the vote for both Brexit and for Donald Trump. The study claims that if people are shown well-established facts about climate change and then lies about it, the latter will cancel out the former.

Google is rolling out a new feature to Android users, designed to keep all of their devices connected to the internet all the time. Instant Tethering takes the hassle out of setting up a mobile hotspot, by automatically detecting when one of your devices loses internet access and prompting you to piggyback off another device associated with your Google account, which does have a mobile data connection. You usually have to enable tethering on one device before using another to connect to it, using a passcode. 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 ...

Welcome to California Inc., the weekly newsletter of the L.A. Times Business Section. California ended the year adding just 3,700 jobs in December, according to a jobs report released Friday, but that modest gain inched the unemployment rate down to 5.2%, what one economist called a reflection of a state "firing on all cylinders." That news was overshadowed by the inauguration of President Donald Trump, whose first speech as commander in chief helped the market snap a five-day losing streak. Still, Wall Street was holding its collective breath over what would come next. Oscar time: Nominations for the 89th Academy Awards will be announced Tuesday, kicking of a month of campaigning by the studios.

In 2014, Professor Hawking warned that: The development of (true) artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race, (Cellan-Jones, Technology correspondent, BBC). In a follow up later this month, he is again reported as saying that artificial intelligence could be humanity's greatest disaster

In 2011, 'supercomputer' Watson beat human contestants in a quiz game show Jeopardy!, sparking speculation on whether machines would one day replace human beings in the workforce. In the last six years, Watson has come a long way. It is now a cognitive technology platform that uses natural language processing and machine learning to reveal insights from unstructured data. For example, it can assist doctors by recommending possible diagnosis and lines of treatment. Sriram Raghavan, Director of India Research Labs, IBM, spoke recently on the rapidly evolving cognitive technology, and how it is being applied in different areas.

Corporate venture capital (CVC) is an investment by a corporate (fund) into external startups in order to make a financial return or to gain a competitive advantage. CVC is a polarizing subject and opinions are divided. Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures believes that it's evil and corporates should not invest in startups but simply buy them. While Marc Andreessen from Andreessen Horowitz on the other hand is co-investing with corporations such as General Electric. Whatever the opinions are, fact is that CVC is on the rise, also in the old continent.

That's the premise of Nugit, a Singapore-based startup focused on marketing that raised $5.2 million in fresh funding from Sequoia Capital's India fund this week. Nugit landed undisclosed seed funding from 500 Startups and The Hub Singapore last year. Founded by Australia-born marketing executive David Sanderson, Nugit sits between its customers and their data platforms -- it supports 15 right now, including Facebook Ad Manager, Google AdWords and DoubleClick -- to help make sense of realms of information. The idea is to make a digital marketer's job easier by cutting down on noise and producing "decision-ready reports," such as PowerPoint presentations, graphics and other visualizations. The company started out automating many of the processes that marketers are faced with when dealing with data, such as cleaning information and aligning it, until Sanderson -- formerly of GroupM and other ad agencies -- realized that computers could go beyond that and deliver insight that is difficult or seriously time-consuming for humans.