Developing an unmanned aircraft is a complex and expensive process, and even retrofitting manned aircraft for autonomous operation can be tricky. At KAIST in South Korea, researchers are testing a humanoid robot that's designed to operate a regular aircraft by sitting in the pilot's seat and using the controls just like a human would. PIBOT (pilot robot) demonstrated its skills on a flight simulator at IROS 2016. PIBOT can manage all aspects of a flight: turning the engine on, taxiing, taking off, flying, and even landing. The robot relies on input from the simulator to determine the location and state of the aircraft and lands successfully 80 percent of the time.

The decapitation of the robot named hitchBOT has offered greater insight into social robotics. More than 100 million robots with social skills will populate the planet by 2020, according to a research study by Tractica. While machine-to-machine communication is based on tested principles, the growing study of social interaction between humans and robots draws on developments in our understanding of empathy. What will our relationship be like with these domestic robots which are about to invade our day-to-day lives? "We can compare it to our relationship with pets, which is complex, emotional and relatively thankless," My trip must come to an end for now, but my love for humans will never fade.

Through machine learning, researchers have repeated the historic criminology experiment of telling criminals apart from law-abiding people using facial recognition. Physiognomy, the ability to judge a person's character from appearance alone, has been around since ancient Greece and was widely accepted by philosophers. Although the theory has generally been disbanded, studies still crop up now and again. Xiaolin Wu and Xi Zhang, Chinese researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, released a controversial paper on arXiv, an online open-sourced pre-print journal – it has not been published officially. They have singled out three features that can supposedly tell if a person is more likely to be a delinquent or not by probing upper lip curvature, eye inner corner distance, and the angle from nose tip to two mouth corners (nose-mouth angle). It's bad news for those who have smaller mouths, curvier upper lips and closer-set eyes, as you look more like a crook, apparently.

Predicting the future is hard. It's nearly impossible to know what technological marvels await in the next few years, let alone the next eight decades. Undaunted, we've put together a list of 10 super-advanced technologies that should be around by the year 2100. Some of these technologies are rather "out there," but I'm reasonably confident in making these predictions. As radical as some of the items described here appear, most--if not all--should be around by the turn of the 22nd century.

Information technology is an industry that has always experienced change, and the dramatic change sweeping across the industry today could not be truthfully described as the first time we've seen such widespread change impacting customer investments. However, the rate of the change, and the potential outcomes from today's digital transformation has the distinct potential to separate the industry into two camps: Organizations that see the change coming, embrace it, and successful leverage it; and on the other side, organizations that will find themselves as roadkill on the technology highway. All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades. With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing Cloud strategies, now is the perfect time to attend @CloudExpo @ThingsExpo, June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY and October 31 - November 2, 2017, Santa Clara Convention Center, CA.

Between 2005 and 2020, data volumes will grow by a factor of 300 - enough data to stack CDs from the earth to the moon 162 times. This has come to be known as the'Big Data' phenomenon. Unfortunately, traditional approaches to handling, storing and analyzing data aren't adequate at this scale: they're too costly, slow and physically cumbersome to keep up. Fortunately, in response a new breed of technology has emerged that is cheaper, faster and more scalable. Yet, in meeting these new needs they break many of the traditional security approaches on which enterprises depended.

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MOSUL, Iraq--Clashes between advancing Iraqi forces and ISIS militants in Mosul's Intisar and Aden neighborhoods continued on Sunday as the troops carried out a house-to-house search for remaining militants and explosives in liberated quarters. Nobody noticed the heist at the time, but they were caught – after the event. Myerson reckons intelligent agents could have prevented it happening in the first place. Glesni Holland reports from World of Watson 2016 in Las Vegas, where IBM executives unveiled the latest innovations in cognitive computing and demonstrated the impact that Watson can have – and is already having – on some of the world's most important industries. Following the successful launch of Elder Scroll 5: Skyrim Special Edition a few weeks ago, fans are too eager to stop speculating about what to expect from the upcoming game, The Elder Scroll 6.

Artificial intelligence (AI) can become a game changer for Vietnamese technology startups, say experts, as they are betting big on the potential to deploy chatbots, image recognition to deep learning in the country. "AI can be integrated into many verticals because the ultimate purpose of AI is to assist, or even to replace, human efforts in doing things in a more effective way," Nghiem Xuan Bach, project director at Cinnamon AI Lab, told DEALSTREETASIA. Consider some of the recent developments in this space, Cyberagent Ventures-backed healthcare app ViCare is applying AI technology, with a chatbot to solve users' queries. It is reportedly the first chatbot to be launched in Vietnam. Users interact with the bot through Facebook Messenger to ask for information about clinic facilities, doctor identity and remedies, as ViCare claims to have a database of over 21,000 healthcare facilities and 22,000 doctors across the country.

Microsoft principal software development engineer Jennifer Marsman talked about the applications of machine learning at Microsoft's Ignite NZ conference. From teaching computers to make predictions to helping blind people "see", machine learning technology has already made incredible advancements in a short timeframe. Microsoft's Jennifer Marsman's interest is machine learning and helping to make the technology understandable to the average person. The Detroit-based principal software development engineer was in New Zealand last week for Microsoft's Ignite New Zealand conference, where she gave talks about applications of machine learning. It can be easy to let our imaginations run too wild when it comes to the future of technology, so Marsman to gave examples of machine learning's relevance in real life.