Chennai: Buying on Amazon, Flipkart or Snapdeal always comes with the prompt Do you want to save your card details?' A question that poses a lot of risks -at the merchant gateway, bank and customer end -irrespective of whether it is a large retailer or your neighbourhood florist and confectioners.For banks, customers using e-commerce sites poses the debate of convenience versus security . With convenience comes lesser steps and faster buying, but higher security would mean multiple authentications and more time -so to strike a fine balance between the two -Indian banks are now looking at software products like FSS' Access Control, geo-fencing of accounts and rule-based access. "What it means is, if you use your card at an ATM in Chennai and in the next 5 minutes your husband tries to buy a product online from an ecommerce site from Delhi -the card could get blocked or ask for further authentication. With artificial intelligence, the system could sense this is an unusual transaction because the same card is being used within 5 minutes at locations more than 1,000 kilometres apart," says Suresh Raja gopalan, president products, FSS. Banks now have the capability to set rules to ensure that any unusual transaction gets blocked or requires multiple authenticators.

About a decade ago, the author Alexander Weinstein suffered an unexpectedly affecting loss: His computer died, taking with it years of his creative work. "I was deeply upset," says the 39-year-old writer and instructor. "Around the same time, a lot of my students were getting iPhones, and talking about how much they loved them--saying that, if they lost anything, please don't let it be their iPhones. I got the sense that we were all starting to forge this very deep emotional connection with technology." Weinstein's response came in the form of a short story, "Saying Goodbye to Yang," which is now the first entry in his future-shocked, surprisingly moving, thoroughly excellent new speculative-fiction collection, Children of the New World.

With firms including Tesla, Google and Audi all working on self-driving cars, it is only a matter of time before they will be hitting the streets worldwide. While there are currently roadblocks that prevent the technology from making it to market quickly, that looks set to change. Obama administration officials have previewed long-awaited guidance that attempts to bring self-driving cars to US roadways, although many of the details remain unclear. Traditional automakers, such as Audi, and tech companies have been testing self-driving prototypes on public roads for several years, with a human in the driver's seat just in case (Audi self driving vehicle pictured) Under the proposal, the federal transportation regulators, rather than states, should be in charge of regulating self-driving cars since the vehicles are essentially controlled by software, not people, administration officials said. States have historically set the rules for licensing drivers, but when the driver becomes a computer'we intend to occupy the field here,' Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said.

A controversial neurosurgeon who wants to carry out the first human head transplant has outlined plans to conduct'Frankenstein' experiments to reanimate a human corpse to test his technique. Dr Sergio Canavero, director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, and his collaborators believe they may be able to conduct the first human head transplant next year. They have outlined plans to test whether it is possible to reconnect the spinal cord of a head to another body with tests that will stimulate fresh human corpses with electrical pulses. However, the Russian man who has volunteered to have the first transplant has also revealed that his girlfriend is opposed to him having the operation. Dr Sergio Canavero (pictured) believes the first human head transplant will take place next year.

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

WASHINGTON – When Hillary Clinton attended her first major White House meeting on Russia in February 2009, the new secretary of state insisted that she wanted to play a leading role in President Barack Obama's effort to "reset" U.S. relations with Moscow. But while Clinton became implementer-in-chief for one of Obama's signature first-term initiatives, she was consistently more skeptical than most of his top aides about how far Russian leader Vladimir Putin was prepared to go in turning the page, according to current and former U.S. officials. That stance is indicative of how she will go about dealing with Moscow if she is elected U.S. president on Nov. 8, aides to both Clinton and Obama said. With U.S. relations with Moscow already plumbing post-Cold War lows, the aides and veteran Russia watchers said she will likely take a harder line than Obama or Republican nominee Donald Trump, who has praised Putin as a strong leader. Dealing with Putin, who is flexing his geopolitical muscle from Ukraine to Syria to cyberspace, will be among Clinton's biggest foreign policy challenges -- one made more daunting by the personal bad blood between them.

HANOI – Younger students in Vietnam are learning Japanese after language classes were introduced at five elementary schools in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City this month. The schools are now offering Japanese lessons from the third grade, and classes are expected to be rolled out at elementary schools elsewhere, too. The Vietnamese education system has five grades in elementary school, four grades in junior high school and three years in high school. Japanese language classes are already offered in junior high and high school. "I became interested in Japanese language after reading the'Inazuma Eleven' manga series," said one student at Chu Van An Elementary School in Hanoi, which kicked off its Japanese language class on Thursday.

The Yomiuri Shimbun Next fiscal year the government plans to start developing a system for medical information and communication using artificial intelligence (AI, see below) to minimize the damage to humans in the event of disasters, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. If a large-scale disaster occurs, the AI technology will analyze the equipment and transportation routes that are best suited for the treatment of injured people and notify concerned authorities of the information. The government expects that high-level information-processing capabilities through AI will help reduce the damage of future disasters, and it aims to put the system into practical use within three to five years. To prepare for earthquakes and other natural disasters whose scales of damage have been increasingly large, the government intends to regard the disaster management field as a priority issue in AI development. The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology -- a state-run research and development institute -- will begin studies for the development in April next year jointly with private companies.

The media has declared chatbots the digital version of the little black dress: a technology staple that every brand must now have and every payment type must now commerce-enable. Technology enthusiasts draw pictures on whiteboards showing bots as the new king of the stack, out-stacking the last great stack -- apps, which sit on top of the next-to-last great stack -- mobile operating systems, which sit on top of the next-to-next-to-last great stack -- the web. VCs tout bots as commerce's next big frontier, one that can make the notion of contextual, conversational commerce real inside of the app where consumers now spend 75 percent of their time: messaging. The big bet is that bots will make it possible for brands to indulge the every digital whim of this group of consumers without them ever having to leave their digital home away from home. Facebook Messenger's announcement last week that 30,000 bots would soon be payment-enabled for the 900 million people who hang inside of its messaging ecosystem only stoked that fire.