This means that programmers must account for every type of road situation a car may encounter. MIT's Technology Review spoke with Amnon Shashua, CTO and cofounder of the technology firm to learn more about the initiative. Mobileye has been in the news of late for another reason--its system was the one being used by the Tesla vehicle that was involved in a car crash in Florida recently--the incident is still under investigation by the NHTSA. Tesla publicly blamed Mobileye, and because of that, a rift developed between the companies, which are now no longer partners. Shashua does not believe that will harm the company's new initiative, though--building a system based on neural networking, which, if all goes according to plan, will allow a car or truck to learn how to drive in much the same way that humans do. First, by observing someone else doing it, and then by practicing (which the company calls reinforcement learning).

This could be the most touchy-feely robotic limb yet. For the first time, brain stimulation has made it possible for a paralysed person to experience the sensation of touch via a bionic hand. Robert Gaunt at the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and his team achieved this by implanting electrodes in the brain of Nathan Copeland, a 28-year-old quadriplegic. These were inserted into the region of the brain that registers touch from the hand, and linked to a robotic hand in the same room via a computer. When this robotic hand was touched, it triggered stimulation of Copeland's brain.

Most women who work from home spend the day makeup free, but an unexpected video conference can often force them to scramble for their handbag to look presentable. Now, a Japanese cosmetics firm has designed an app that could save them - by applying Snapchat filter style virtual make-up to your face that can be seen by others on the screen. Called TeleBeauty, users align their face in the center of the screen, and can then select one of the four styles of makeup available, and the amount to be applied. TeleBeauty applies virtual make-up to your bare face (left) and is seen by others on the screen. Users align their face in the center of the screen and the technology scans over the face.

Driverless car trials have finally reached the UK, in the form of two-seater "pods" zipping down pedestrianised streets in Milton Keynes. The purple and white vehicles, designed by automotive firm RDM, look like a cross between a golf cart and a bubble. The doors open vertically, but from the inside it just looks like a regular automatic car hooked up to an iPad. It's hard to tell that the car has been kitted out with the latest driverless control systems by Oxbotica, a spinout company from the Oxford Mobile Robotics Group. Tom Wilcox, a senior software engineer involved in the project, tells me he's there to grab the steering wheel if something goes wrong.

Researchers have tried for decades to create computers capable of learning. Recently, using the human brain as a model, they have had some success. Complicated algorithms have been developed, allowing computers to learn on a limited scale. Deep Learning (DL) is the name used for the process of computers "learning" appropriate responses as they interact with their users, or seek patterns in Big Data. This Big Data "pattern seeking aspect" has the potential to replace Data Scientists as Big Data pattern seekers.

Football is also one of the most popular sports to gamble on with a myriad of bet types to choose from. The in-play market is particularly busy for bettors with prices constantly updating during the ebb and flow of the game. Because of its popularity, football attracts a lot of academic interest. Here is a citation list for academic papers concerned with football. NOTE - If any links to papers are broken then just Google the paper's title to find an alternate.

This story was delivered to BI Intelligence Apps and Platforms Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Baidu unveiled on Monday a medical chatbot that aims to simplify the process of collecting and sharing information between patient and doctor, VentureBeat reports. Dubbed "Melody," the bot -- which is housed within the Baidu Doctor app -- collects and aggregates medical information from users that it then passes on to doctors who use the information to make diagnoses. Melody, which is only available in China, provides a proof-of-concept that could be replicated in Western markets and lay the framework for the wider implementation of chatbots within the mobile health (mHealth) industry.

As you may have noticed, we've been researching artificial intelligence (AI) and its economic and educational implications. From healthcare to transportation, we believe it is incredibly important for young people and adults to be learning about AI, and we are writing more about it to equip teachers and parents with information to help young people ask good questions about the implications of AI on their lives and livelihoods. To get the scoop, I sat Tom Vander Ark down for a podcast interview on AI. You'll also hear from Gerald Huff, a senior Silicon Valley software engineer, who shares his thoughts on AI and what it means for students and the transportation industry. Listen to the podcast, read excerpts from the interview below and be sure follow the campaign at #AskAboutAI.

PlayStations are no longer things that sit underneath your TV. Now they get strapped to your face. Sony has released the PlayStation VR, a special headset that represents its first foray into virtual reality gaming. And it might represent many other people's first try with it, too, since it is much cheaper than competing headsets and doesn't require a huge computer system. The PS VR plugs into existing PlayStation 4 consoles with a series of wires.

Alexander the friendly robot visits the Indoor Park to interact with children by telling classic fairy tales, singing and dancing at Westfield London on August 10, 2016 in London, England. For most, Artificial intelligence (AI) – loosely defined as the ability of machines to mimic human intelligence – feels like a known entity borne out of sci-fi and pop culture. However the reality of AI the burgeoning startup sector growing around it is perhaps far more exciting than anything ever dreamed up in Hollywood. AI is a diverse field, mostly dominated by efforts in machine learning that use algorithm frameworks to gather unprecedented amounts of actionable information. Within that field is the subfield of deep learning, which might borrow from fields like computer vision and image recognition to analyze data (text, images, video, speech, music, etc.) in order to properly identify something. Think about a computer seeing millions of pictures of a dog.