Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

In July of 2013 Toby Shapshak, the South African speaker, strategist and editor of Stuff Magazine, did a TED talk called You Don't Need An App For That. Business leaders, innovators and experience designers would soon realize how profound this TED talk was to the rest of the world. Shapshak's astute observations and message to the rest of the world was years ahead of a revolution that Forbes would call "the new way we'll be interacting with computers." Toby's 2013 Ted talk touted that "while the rest of the world is updating statuses and playing games on smartphones, Africa is developing useful SMS-based solutions to everyday needs". Since 2013 his TED talk has been viewed 1,438,046 times as of July 19, 2016. Fast forward a couple of years and we see more apps than anyone knows what to do with, as well as a notable decrease in usage and app-downloads. This has businesses confused and frustrated.

Music streaming app Spotify launched in Japan Thursday, making its official debut in the second-largest music market in the world about 18 months after it set up an office in Tokyo. Daniel Ek, CEO of the Swedish company, held a press conference in Tokyo where he announced two version of its service: a free one with ads and the other for 980 yen ( 9.7) a month. Ek added that the service will also be available through the popular PlayStation video game consoles, manufactured by Japan's Sony Corp, Bloomberg reported. However, the music market in Japan -- estimated to be worth about 3 billion -- may prove to be a tricky one for Spotify, as it has been for most music streaming services that operate in the country, given that CDs are still the most popular format for music sales. The continuing popularity of conventional physical formats of music storage, including vinyl records, was one of the reasons for Spotify to delay its launch there.

Virtual reality is on the cusp of becoming mainstream, but one startup in Japan is betting the technology won't really succeed unless it cracks a critical piece of the puzzle: human eyeballs. Fove Inc. is introducing the world's first commercially available VR goggles equipped with tiny infrared cameras to follow eye movements. By tracking human irises, the gadget aims to reduce motion sickness, improve graphics performance and enhance social experiences by making virtual eye-contact possible, says Yuka Kojima, Fove's founder and chief executive officer. "We want to be the company that figures out VR's unsolved problems," Kojima said. "The immediate goal for now is to get as many headsets into the hands of developers as possible."

Gary Glasberg, executive producer and show runner of CBS' hit "NCIS" and the creator and executive producer of its spinoff, "NCIS: New Orleans," has died. A statement from the network said that Glasberg, who was born in New York City, had died in his sleep. No other information was given. Glasberg joined "NCIS," which revolves around a team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, in 2009 as a co-executive producer and writer. He became its show runner in 2011.

From job automation to fears of a robot uprising, the growth of artificial intelligence has spurred numerous concerns over the future of humanity, many of which have long been stoked by science fiction. But now, the tech giants of Silicon Valley are working to take on the most pertinent challenges before they can even arise. Researchers with Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft have teamed up to create a new group, known as the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society, to develop a standard of ethics for the development of AI. Researchers with Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft have teamed up to create the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society. 'The objective of the Partnership on AI is to address opportunities and challenges with AI technologies to benefit people and society,' a statement said.

A 23-year-old employee of the city of Ota, Gunma Prefecture, lied that he had won an overseas video game contest, leading to false reports about his victory in two Japanese newspapers, it has been learned. On Wednesday, the major daily Asahi Shimbun and Jomo Shimbun, the regional newspaper distributed in Gunma, issued an apology and retracted their stories about the man, who has admitted that a detailed account of his win at a French gaming competition was all fiction. The man, who is a temporary employee of the Ota Municipal Government, even held a news conference at City Hall on Monday, saying he won the tournament for players of "Guilty Gear," a PlayStation game, held on Sept. 20-21 in Paris. He even cited the name of the tournament, saying he had been invited to the event based on his past records as an amateur player. The Asahi and Jomo both carried articles on the man with a picture of him holding a game console at the news conference.

Initially based in Peru, Laboratoria has expanded into Mexico and Chile.

You punch the destination into your phone and a driverless car soon swings to a stop next to you. You jump in and it whisks you north-west towards the I-80 on-ramp. But as you merge with the highway traffic, the car pipes up: "This car runs on the Uber network, which does not cover Detroit. You will be dropped at an appropriate interchange point." The way things are going, this could be the short-term prospect for driverless cars.