The International Drone Robot Contest is taking place in Incheon in South Korea. Humanoid bots battle it out in a martial arts contest while drones and rolling robots complete physical tasks.

MOSCOW – Search teams on Wednesday recovered another flight recorder from a military plane that crashed in the Black Sea, killing all 92 aboard, the Defense Ministry said. The first flight recorder was found the previous day and experts have started analyzing its data to determine the cause of the crash. The Tu-154 of the Russian Defense Ministry crashed into the sea early Sunday, two minutes after taking off in good weather from the city of Sochi. It was carrying members of the Alexandrov Ensemble, widely known as the Red Army Choir, to a New Year's concert at a Russian military base in Syria. The Defense Ministry said 15 bodies and 239 body fragments have been recovered from the crash site. It previously said 17 bodies had been found.

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Beer has a rich history in London. Even before the British Empire, Shakespeare or Buckingham Palace, people were crowding into pubs to gulp down local ales. Versions of pale ales, IPAs and porters were created in the U.K. long before they were trendy favorites on California and New York's microbrew scenes. Now a small startup is attempting to add its own twist to London's beer-making tradition. The company, IntelligentX, has invented a beer-recipe algorithm that determines the amount of hops, water, yeast and grain that should go into each beer.

For thousands of years humans believed that authority came from the gods. Then, during the modern era, humanism gradually shifted authority from deities to people. Jean-Jacques Rousseau summed up this revolution in Emile, his 1762 treatise on education. When looking for the rules of conduct in life, Rousseau found them "in the depths of my heart, traced by nature in characters which nothing can efface. I need only consult myself with regard to what I wish to do; what I feel to be good is good, what I feel to be bad is bad." Humanist thinkers such as Rousseau convinced us that our own feelings and desires were the ultimate source of meaning, and that our free will was, therefore, the highest authority of all.

Trying to replicate the sounds your car is making to the mechanic you're talking to is equal parts frustrating and embarrassing. But neural networks could put your best "worn out wheel bearing" impression into retirement. Israeli company 3DSignals uses deep learning to keep track of sounds, listening for deviations from the norm in musical and mechanical acoustics. According to an interview with IEEE Spectrum, the company is in talks with "leading European automakers" to put its ultrasonic microphones in their cars. But rather than consumer vehicles, the focus seems to be on applications for autonomous taxis.

Earlier this year, Samsung acquired Viv, an artificial intelligence assistant from the creators of Siri. Now it's been discovered that Samsung's Bixby will be powered by Viv's tech and will be supported in almost all of the Galaxy S8's native apps. Bixby is said to work system wide on the Galaxy S8. This means that most of the apps that are already preinstalled on Samsung's smartphone will support the AI assistant, according to SamMobile. For example, a user will be able to ask Bixby to show photos taken at a particular date in the Gallery app.

If you're fluent in more than you, already know that there's never any direct translation for a lot of phrases. Hell, I'll still use spanglish or other random blends to make sure I get the exact tone I'm looking for (And if my rather obvious humblebrag was a little off-putting, lo siento). But this is a big problem that computer scientists have been working on for years. And it's one that's almost impossible to solve without one of humanity's most recent (and terrifying) inventions: machine learning. The thinking goes that machines are dumb, and for them to do cool shit, like translating, driving a car, or winning Go, we need to make them smart.

Today, big data, that is generated exponentially every hour, becomes a treasurable asset to many organizations. To be competitive in a dynamic data-driven and Web-centric market, most of the high-tech companies such as Google, Apple, Intel, IBM, Microsoft, etc. employ big data analytics (BDA) to mine insights within their big data to drive productivity, effectiveness, and efficiency. On the other hand, artificial intelligence (AI) has grown rapidly from a nascent stage to intermediate one in the last decade. AI is a youthful field in Computer Science in building an autonomous machine that intends to replace humans with daily activities. Robots mimic human behavior and frequently perform dangerous tasks.

It's been over five years since disaster struck at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, but fear of the event's long-term effects is still present, as is the memory of the faulty response on the part of government and corporate entities. Future nuclear incidents might be prevented by avoiding dangerous energy sources altogether; however, it is impossible to prevent other nonnuclear disasters from striking vulnerable populations. The WAREC-1 robot is designed to navigate a disaster area through unique movements. This is particularly true given the increase in extreme weather events related to climate change, and it is particularly true for Japan, one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. In an effort to respond to such disasters as the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown, one team of researchers at Waseda University in Tokyo has developed a one-of-a-kind robot capable of traversing hazardous terrain to perform emergency safety procedures and rescue operations.