Nintendo will start selling its new Switch console from 3 March, it has revealed. The new system – Nintendo's first since the Wii U, which was mostly seen as a failure – was revealed at the end of last year. Its primary selling point is that it can alternate between being used at home with a TV and anywhere else, with the "Switch" in its name referring to the fact that it can be disconnected and used on its own. The console will be released with games featuring a range of well-known characters from Nintendo's universe, as well as third party games like Fifa and Minecraft. The next instalment in the popular Legend Of Zelda series, Breath Of The Wild was also revealed as a launch title for the system, as was Super Mario Odyssey and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. 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.

Nintendo's new Switch gaming console is off to an underwhelming start. The new machine, a tablet-sized device with wireless controllers that can be used anywhere but also connects to TVs, will go on sale 3 March at a price of $300 in the US and £279.99 in the UK, with a brand-new Zelda game as its launch title. None of that, however, was enough to convince investors that it will be a big moneymaker for the Kyoto-based company, whose shares fell 5.8 perc ent to 23,750 yen (£169.96) after Nintendo executives held a presentation in Tokyo on Friday. Nintendo is counting on the Switch to end years of pain at its console division, which released a successor to the popular Wii in 2012 that flopped. After shunning the smartphone market for years, its long-awaited foray into mobile gaming got off to a rough start, with last month's disappointing debut of Super Mario Run.

Use of technology is not new to education sector. Over the years, there has been concerted effort of government and EdTech firms to promote information communication technology (ICT) in schools, and colleges in India. Though the technology intervention in the form of smart classes or self-learning tools have made progress but the advancement in the technology itself like emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR) or Augmented Reality are yet to take noticeable inroads into the schools and colleges in the country. However, with the proliferation of EduTech firms and traditional publishing houses like MBD focusing on these technology, possibility of big breakthroughs is quite high. Here are couple of breakthroughs technology that companies like Next Education says can change the EdTech in 2017.

On December 6 and 7, academics, medical professionals, even professional humorists, among others shared their expertise and vision for how technology is changing the world, and how we live in that world, at the Future Today Summit. Founder and CEO of the Future Today Institute Amy Webb, who is an adjunct professor on futures forecasting at the New York University Stern School of Business, spoke to IBM (a sponsor of the Future Today Summit) about what it means to be a futurist, how futurists predicted fake news, and skills we all need in the future. When and why did you decide to call yourself a futurist? Amy Webb: Fifteen years ago, I was a journalist based in Tokyo, reporting and writing about the future of technology, the economy and digital culture. I'd had grown restless, though – my reporting was inherently a reflection on the past.

A few months into my time as an insurance claims adjuster, a customer called and said he thought his house was breaking apart. He'd heard what sounded like wood beams snapping in the basement, so he went downstairs and crept into the crawl space to investigate. While he was lying in the dark surrounded by cement, he told me, he started to panic. It brought him back to years earlier when, as a firefighter with the New York City Fire Department, he served as a first responder on September 11, crawling through the giant blocks of brick and mortar that had collapsed hours earlier. This revelation came 10 or 15 minutes into our conversation, after I'd gathered his basic information and logged the details of the case.

Samsung Galaxy S8 is tipped to launch by the third week of April, reports reveal. Ahead of the launch, rumors regarding the flagship device is making rounds on the internet regarding the display, camera set-up, battery, storage capacity and more. Well, there's one very interesting feature the Galaxy S8 is confirmed to come packed with, guess what? Well, Samsung Galaxy S8 will be equipped with a newly developed digital assistant called - Bixby. Being just a rumor all this while, Samsung finally confirms Bixby's arrival.

In the world of the magic, the climax of a trick -- aka the grand reveal -- is known as the "prestige." Today, Nintendo officially announced more details on its Switch console, including that modular controller, dubbed JoyCon. In a video that is aimed to mimic a magician pulling off tricks, the Switch's general producer Yoshiaki Koizumi demonstrated just how much the JoyCon can do. The controller seems to be able to do everything. It's got enough buttons to be a traditional console controller, but there's also an accelerometer and gyroscope so it can do the same motion/gesture controls like the Wii's controller. That's not all: the JoyCon also has motion-depth infrared camera that can scan the distance and shape of objects, and a built-in haptic feedback engine that Nintendo calls "HD Rumble."

Big data is ubiquitous because it can provide valuable insight that is unavailable without it. Analyzing big data sets can pose problems, however. For starters, big data is big, sometimes too big to be handled effectively by commonly used analysis tools. Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the University of Haifa in Israel have developed a solution to this problem that turns big data into manageable data. Data analysis tools such as low-rank approximation, singular-value decomposition, principal-component analysis, and nonnegative matrix factorization are commonly used to reduce the number of variables in a dataset.

It could double economic growth rates in developed countries, writes Accenture's CTO. Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be the single most disruptive technology the world has seen since the Industrial Revolution. Granted, there is a lot of hype out there on AI, along with doomsday headlines and scary movies. But the reality is that it will positively and materially change how we engage with the world around us. It's going to improve not only how business is done, but the kind of work we do – and unleash new levels of creativity and ingenuity.

Chinese researchers are already savvy in AI. In 2015, 43% of the top academic papers relating to AI were published with one or more Chinese researchers, regardless of where in the world the work was primarily conducted. Chinese people are proud of their mathematics, engineering and science training. An influx of high calibre young talent has and will become the quintessential foundation of any new industry. Today, we meet many traditional Chinese companies lagging behind US enterprises in terms of the level of technological adoption.