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

Lyft is planning a subscription service, Tesla has shipped their vehicles with the feature, and Uber currently offers self-driving cabs for folks living in Pittsburgh. You can also count Nissan among these--the company's ProPILOT tech has appeared in its Serena minivan in Japan since August. But it isn't just limited to cars. Nissan has brought their ProPILOT tech to an unlikely receiver: chairs. The ProPILOT chair is Nissan's gift to line-sitters residing in Japan. Between the dates of September 27 and December 27, you'll be able to tweet out the hashtag #NissanProPilotChair to try one out.

Dubai International Airport was forced to ground flights for half an hour due to a drone flying in the area, the airport says. It said airspace around the airport closed just after 0800 local time (0400 GMT) on Wednesday because of "unauthorised drone activity". Arrivals resumed at 0835, with full operations restarting by 0907. It is not the first time drones have delayed flights at the airport, one of the world's busiest. "We remind all [drone] operators that activities are not permitted within 5km (3.11 miles) of any airport or landing area,'' Dubai Airports said on Twitter. On June 12 a similar incident saw Dubai International Airport close for 69 minutes.

Glancing around school classrooms in 2016, it's easy to miss just how far technology has transformed learning over the last decade. The desks, whiteboards and rows of chairs are the same, but so much else has changed that can't be seen. A third of Britain's schools are asking students to bring their own tablets and laptops into the classroom now, coding has been on the national curriculum for three years, and more and more education is happening outside school through apps and digital services. But these changes are just the start. Artificial intelligence (AI) is the next giant leap in learning and, according to those working in the field of education and technology, we haven't seen anything yet.

The Pentagon's oft-repeated line on artificial intelligence is this: we need much more of it, and quickly, in order to help humans and machines work better alongside one another. But a survey of existing weapons finds that the U.S. military more commonly uses AI not to help but to replace human operators, and, increasingly, human decision making. The report from the Elon Musk-funded Future of Life Institute does not forecast Terminators capable of high-level reasoning. At their smartest, our most advanced artificially intelligent weapons are still operating at the level of insects … armed with very real and dangerous stingers. So where does AI exist most commonly on military weapons? The study, which looked at weapons in military arsenals around the world, found 284 current systems that include some degree of it, primarily standoff weapons that can find their own way to a target from miles away.

Natural disasters are out of the reach and influence of human beings. However, a lot can be done to minimize loss of lives. Artificial intelligence is one viable option that can potentially prevent massive loss of lives while at the same time make rescue efforts easy and efficient. To learn more, checkout the infographic below created by Eastern Kentucky University's Online Masters in Safety degree program. In the period between 2005 and 2015, a total of 242 natural disasters occurred in the United States of America.

Bank bots are on their way. Text a question like "What's my credit card debt?" or "How much did I spend on gas this month?" "Let's see," it begins, before listing the requested information. This is a banking chatbot, a software program that understands and responds to questions and commands about your bank account. It's like your bank's customer service representative -- powered by artificial intelligence.

Toshiba Corp. raised its forecast for first-half operating profit to 70 billion from 30 billion, crediting growth in storage and electronic devices for a more than doubling of its earnings outlook. A weaker-than-expected yen and sales of hard drives and smartphone memory are the main factors, the company said in a statement Wednesday. Toshiba, which makes everything from computers to nuclear power equipment, in August reported its first operating profit in six quarters. The manufacturer is cutting thousands of jobs, shedding operations and narrowing the scope of its businesses to recover from an accounting scandal that upended the Tokyo-based company and its management. The company said demand from PC and game console manufacturers boosted sales of hard drives.

We are happy to announce one of the first new contributions driven by our AI Lab in Graz, Austria: adding a feature that provides semantic segmentations for a select number of object categories. In this blog post we will discuss what this is all about and why we think that this development will be useful for our members and customers. With over 20M Mapillary photos processed so far, we see this advancement as the beginning of our quest to apply broader object recognition globally to all Mapillary photos. Semantic segmentation is a long-studied problem in computer vision and one of the grand challenges to be solved when it comes to automatically understanding the world we live in. Essentially, semantic segmentation allows us to assign a categorical tag (also called a label) to each pixel in an image.

The technology, developed by UIMC's Vega Radio Engineering Corporation, enables the unification of "the management of robotic systems with specially-designed interface protocols. Figuratively speaking, a unified point operator is able to'speak' the language of the various robotic systems," a company representative told RIA Novosti. The ability to engage in a'dialog' is not restricted to only one robotic system at a time, as the operator is able to control "a large number of different machines at once no matter what company has manufactured them and what software is being used to operate them." To enable such enviable multitasking, the company has created an 8-teraflop supercomputer which serves as the so-called'brain' of the complex management system. The computer, equipped with a liquid silicon cooling system can match the performance of about "40 [of the] most powerful laptops," according to the company.