World chess champion Magnes Carlsen (right) won't play his computer or play the game like a computer. Instead, he chooses his strategy based on what he knows about his opponent. World chess champion Magnes Carlsen (right) won't play his computer or play the game like a computer. Instead, he chooses his strategy based on what he knows about his opponent. Next month, there's a world chess championship match in New York City, and the two competitors, the assembled grandmasters, the budding chess prodigies, the older chess fans -- everyone paying attention -- will know this indisputable fact: A computer could win the match hands down. They've known as much for almost 20 years -- ever since May 11, 1997.

A capsule carrying 5,300 pounds of food, clothing, spare parts, lab equipment, and science experiments arrived at the International Space Station Sunday morning. Astronauts grabbed the vehicle, called Cygnus, with a robotic arm and pulled it to the station for docking. Over the next month the crew will unload its contents while Cygnus remains tethered to the station. Ultimately, the space station crew will reload the empty vessel with about 4,000 pounds of trash and release it to burn up in the atmosphere in mid-November. But before the vehicle destroys itself, an onboard experiment called Spacecraft Fire Experiment-II, or Saffire-II, will intentionally start a small fire to test how zero gravity and limited oxygen affect flame size and the spread of fire.

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An American team of robots defeated an Australian rival in soccer on Monday to win the RoboCup Challenge as technical problems plagued the Australian side. The University of Texas at Austin's Austin Villa beat the University of New South Wales' Runswift 7-3 during China's 2016 World Robot Conference The University of Texas at Austin's Austin Villa beat the University of New South Wales' Runswift 7-3 during China's 2016 World Robot Conference RoboCup is an annual international robotics competition founded in 1997. It aims to promote robotics and artificial intelligence research. The official goal of the project is that by 2050 a team of fully autonomous humanoid football players will be able to compete against the most recent winning team of the real Wolrd Cup - and comply to all of Fifa's rules. 'We've been using that robot for three or four days straight, and just before the finals, it stops,' said Collette.

Data scientists and data engineers, choose their own tools or flavor, work on their own. Learn how Data Science Experience can make data science a team sport, bringing data scientists and data engineers together to make data science and machine learning available to everyone. Presenter: Juergen Schaeck - IBM 2. Telco data stream simulation, processing and visualization Koen will discuss the development of a prototype for processing of data coming from cell towers, executed for a telco operator in the Middle East. The added difficulty was that the customer could not provide real data.In the end he developed a data generator in Scala/Akka, a data processor with Spark Streaming, and a visualization front-end with Node.js. Presenter: Koen Dejonghe - Eurocontrol 3. Hyperparameter Optimization - when scikit-learn meets PySpark Spark is not only useful, when you have big data problems.

The White House has recently released its Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence report. The report reviews the history of AI, outlines a few applications, surveys current efforts by federal agencies, and makes some policy recommendations. Like most such government reports, it is more about the present than the future. The federal government has funded significant research in AI through programs like the DARPA Grand Challenge to develop autonomous vehicles. The report recognizes agencies, such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), as being at the forefront of the AI movement.

Analysts expect Tesla Motors (TSLA) to show that it has reigned in its losses when the automaker releases its third quarter earnings Wednesday after more than doubling analysts' loss expectations last quarter. Investors polled by FactSet expected the California-based company, led by South African investor and engineer Elon Musk, to post a loss of 53 cents per share--an improvement from last year's third quarter losses of 1.78 per share and second quarter losses of 1.06 per share. Analysts surveyed by Reuters, however, estimated the company's earnings per share (EPS) would turn positive, hitting 37 cents for the quarter ending in December. Such optimistic forecasts are likely fueled by Tesla's announcement that it saw a 70 percent rise in third-quarter deliveries early in October--welcome news after, two months earlier, it disclosed third quarter expenditure needs of 1.1 billion. The earnings report will come one week after the automaker announced all of its cars currently in production would be self-driving, with "a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver."

It's a question that nuTonomy, a company that's launched a self-driving taxi service in Singapore, is trying to answer. It appears that some version of the "uncanny valley"--a visceral negative response people feel to robots that seem almost human, but not human enough--also applies to automated vehicles. "For better or worse, we have to bridge this divide between developing cars that drive by the book and cars that drive how you and I drive," Karl Iagnemma, CEO of nuTonomy, said today at EmTech MIT 2016, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "It's an open question where on the continuum you want to drive--and it's something we're researching." Iagnemma says his company began offering rides in order to gather data about the public's reaction to the technology.

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Scientists have heard hugely unusual messages from deep in space that they think are coming from aliens. A new analysis of strange modulations in a tiny set of stars appears to indicate that it could be coming from extraterrestrial intelligence that is looking to alert us to their existence. The new study reports the finding of specific modulations in just 234 out of the 2.5 million stars that have been observed during a survey of the sky. The work found that a tiny fraction of them seemed to be behaving strangely. From the International Space Station, Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Terry W. Virts took this photograph of the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. Gulf Coast at sunset This image of an area on the surface of Mars, approximately 1.5 by 3 kilometers in size, shows frosted gullies on a south-facing slope within a crater.