Robot" Season 2, Episode 11, "eps2.9_pyth0n-pt1.p7z" was the perfect way to usher in the final episode of the season. It offered a lot of questions. And there was even a little treat at the end. The episode opened with Dom (Grace Gummer) having her cuts and bruises checked after the shooting at Lupe's. She's adamant that she doesn't need to be treated and that it would be better if she were working at the crime scene. Her boss is not sold on the idea of letting her go back to work, though, so she's forced to take some time off. But not before she learns that China has loaned E Corp trillions of dollars. Phillip Price's (Michael Cristofer) plan to be the most powerful man in the world seems to be proceeding perfectly. Meanwhile, Dom was uneasy the entire time she was at home. The desperation and loneliness was palpable. One has to wonder what the significance of learning about Dom's loneliness is. Will it be something someone will use against her? Will it drive her to do things you ...

A former Philippine militiaman testified before a Senate panel on Thursday that President Rodrigo Duterte, when he was mayor of a southern city, ordered him and other members of a liquidation squad to kill criminals and political opponents in gangland-style assaults that left about 1,000 dead. Edgar Matobato, 57, told the nationally televised Senate committee hearing that he heard Duterte order some of the killings and acknowledged that he himself carried out about 50 of the abductions and deadly assaults in Davao, including one in which they fed a man to a crocodile in 2007. The Senate committee inquiry was being led by Sen. Leila de Lima, a staunch critic of Duterte's antidrug campaign that is believed to have killed more than 3,000 suspected drug users and dealers since he assumed the presidency in June. Duterte has accused De Lima of involvement in illegal drugs, alleging that she used to have a driver who took money from detained drug lords. She has denied the allegations.

Tesla says it can't verify whether a vehicle autopilot system is to blame for the death of a Chinese man whose father claimed on state television that the driver-assist feature was active.

Chinese Internet search company Baidu Inc. has launched Baidu Venture, a USD 200 million venture capital unit. It will focus on artificial intelligence projects which are at the early stage. The company also plans to develop a self-driving car platform by partnering with chipmaker Nvidia Corp, according to South China Morning Post. "AI is our opportunity and we're pretty fortunate the world is coming to this stage," said Baidu Venture chief executive Robin Li Yanhong, who also commented on its "first-mover advantage" over competitors. Sign in and read the full article in emis.com

Attorneys defending Indiana Gov. Mike Pence's order to bar agencies from helping Syrian refugees resettle in his state faced unusually fierce questioning before a federal appeals court Wednesday, suggesting the panel might side with a lower court that found the order discriminatory. A three-judge panel for the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago zeroed in on the intelligence and intent behind the Republican vice presidential candidate's order, which a federal judge said in February "clearly discriminates" against refugees from the war-torn nation. Judges suggested that Indiana could've had a stronger argument for opting out of the refugee program -- in which states disperse federal money to resettlement organizations -- instead of excluding Syrians. "If you're in, you play by the government's rules," Judge Frank Easterbrook said. The oral arguments came the same day the White House announced that the refugee program will be expanded in the next year as concern continues about the refugee crisis stemming from Syria's civil war and conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Our dreams of watching giant robots battle it out in front of us have almost come true. The folks behind the MegaBots Kickstarter have released the first trailer for their upcoming web series that follows the trials and tribulations of building a 10-ton, 350HP combat robot. The team hired an Emmy-nominated video team to capture all the gory details, and it sounds like the main event -- a hand-to-hand battle against Japan's Kuratas robot -- will be the season finale. The first episode of real-life Titanfall will drop September 28th on the MegaBots YouTube channel and Facebook page. After that, release cadence will be every two weeks.

Over the last 30 years, consumers have reaped the benefits of dramatic technological advances. In many countries, most people now have in their pockets a personal computer more powerful than the mainframes of the 1980s. The Atari 800XL computer that I developed games on when I was in high school was powered by a microprocessor with 3,500 transistors; the computer running on my iPhone today has two billion transistors. Back then, a gigabyte of storage cost 100,000 and was the size of a refrigerator; today it's basically free and is measured in millimeters. Even with these massive gains, we can expect still faster progress as the entire planet--people and things--becomes connected.

It'll just be a matter of months before driverless cars hit Boston's streets, city officials said Wednesday. "If this technology is going to yield benefits for the consumer, we want to make sure it works in the city of Boston," said Chris Osgood, the city's chief of streets. "We want to make sure we're doing our due diligence and understanding what the implications are. How do we set up the right policies and take the right approach to this so it's going to have the biggest net benefit?" The announcement came as Pittsburgh started testing autonomous Ubers on its streets.

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA – Taylor Pollier got an offer from Uber he couldn't refuse -- to be part of an experiment with a car of the future. Uber on Wednesday became the first company to make self-driving cars available to the general public in the U.S. through a test program in Pittsburgh. The ride-hailing service selected a group of customers, including Pollier, to take free rides in autonomous Ford Fusions, with human drivers as backups. Pollier, 27, said the Fusion "felt sharp," and the 15-minute ride to his bartending job went smoothly and felt "like taking an Uber any other day." If other riders have a similar reaction, and the autonomous cars are able to handle all the challenges Pittsburgh offers, including snowstorms, rolling hills and a tangled network of aging roads and bridges, then the self-driving car will be one step closer to going from science fiction to a realistic option for travelers.

Comma.ai founder George Hotz, who promises to ship a 999 self-driving car aftermarket package by the end of the year. SAN FRANCISCO - Would you pay 999 to give your car self-driving chops? George Hotz is betting the answer is yes. The 26-year-old iPhone and PlayStation hacker turned entrepreneur is behind Comma.ai, a new Bay Area company that is powered largely by his brains and chutzpah, as well as 3 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz. "It is fully functional, and about on par with Tesla Autopilot."