USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham breaks down what you can and cannot do with the new Siri, available with iOS 10. LOS ANGELES -- Siri, Apple's personal digital assistant, soon will be on more apps -- but not all. Apple, with great fanfare at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, announced Siri was now open to app developers to bring Siri voice functionality to apps such as Uber, Lyft, Runtastic and WeChat. It will be part of a September upgrade of iOS 10, Apple's mobile operating system. "Siri works with your favorite apps from the App Store, so you can ask it to book a ride through Lyft, or send money to someone with Square," Apple said then.

MUMBAI: Gurgaon-based startup Staqu Technologies has entered into a research partnership with Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi to boost research in the field of artificial intelligence and deep learning. "This partnership will be the first of its kind in India as we aim to develop cutting edge deep learning based algorithms to tackle problems currently plaguing consumers worldwide," said Atul Rai, co-founder & CEO of Staqu Technologies in a statement. Experts from both the organizations will be working on creating innovative solutions in the domains of video and image understanding. IIIT Delhi is one of the leading institutes in the field of Artificial Intelligence and computer vision, with Infosys granting it a large amount to advance research and technology. Dr. Chetan Arora of the CSE Department from IIIT Delhi will be the Principal Investigator on this collaboration.

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

Mars, our neighboring planet, has captured people's imaginations for centuries. In the last 50 years, orbiters and rovers have been exploring its environment, its atmosphere, and its geology, sending back a wealth of information. The more we learn about the Red Planet, the more we want to send human explorers there. Is now the time to go? The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's priority is Mars, but there are conflicting opinions among US decision makers about the country's space-travel priorities.

The manufacturing hub for the electronics industry, Kunshan, in Jiangsu province, is seeking a drastic reduction in labour costs as it undergoes a makeover after an industrial explosion killed 146 people in 2014. The county, one-seventh the size of neighbouring Shanghai and the mainland's first county to achieve US 4,000 per capita income, was adjudged the best county for its economic performance by Forbes for seven years in a row. However, the blaze, blamed on poor safety standards and haphazard industrialisation, dented Kunshan's pride. More than a year on, the county, which attracts much of its investment from Taiwan, is trying to reinvent its growth strategy. It is accelerating growth by replacing humans with robots and encouraging start-ups.

Kawasaki announced it is working on an artificial intelligence system that would allow a motorcycle to communicate with, and adapt to its rider. The AI would be able to converse with a rider and, using cloud computing and a motorcycle's electronics, adapt the bike's settings to the rider's needs and skills. The AI wouldn't just allow a motorcycle to talk to a rider; Kawasaki says the AI will use a technology called an "Emotion Engine" to interpret a rider's emotions and perhaps even develop its own personality. Kawasaki says the AI will allow a motorcycle to converse (??) with its rider while processing data from the internet (???????) and vehicle information (????). While this may sound like science fiction, the Emotion Engine is already being used in the real world.

A new signal has been found deep in space that could come from aliens. The community of astronomers and scientists who scan the skies with telescopes in an attempt to find extraterrestrial life is abuzz with excitement over a "strong signal" detected deep in space that could come from an alien civilisation. But some scientists have cautioned people not to get quite so excited – at least yet. The evidence remains preliminary and more work will need to be done to establish whether it is not just a mistake, let alone wheat it's actually a message from aliens. The message appeared to have come from a nearby star, HD164595, in the constellation Hercules.

Though I haven't lived there for nearly three decades, I still consider myself a citizen of Los Angeles. That means, among other things, I drive. For me, a car is like a suit or a good exoskeleton. Road trips, going 100 miles per hour on a freeway, racing through Park La Brea--they're all sewn as tightly into my DNA as ice-skating in Central Park is for a New Yorker. Despite that heritage, I've been running an experiment on myself and my hometown. My last three trips there, I didn't rent a car; it's been nothing but taxis, Uber, and one time I borrowed my dad's. Not only did I move through space and time every bit as efficiently--more, if you believe that screwing around on Twitter and email is useful--I took new routes.

The world is not moving towards a dystopian future just as yet, but one can't deny the effect innovations in the robotics field will have on human life, especially when it comes to a waning workforce as a result of increased use of automation technologies. Experts have already started sounding the warning bells. As per a report published by advisory analyst firm HfS Research in July, the true impact of the emergence of intelligent automation will be felt on the global industry of 15 million IT services and BPO workers, which will see about 1.4 million job losses--a net decrease of 9%--by 2021. In India, the services industry workforce is expected to shrink by 4.8 lakh by 2021, a decline of 14%--HfS Research estimates that the IT services and BPO industry employs about 3.5 million people in the country. Last year, technology research firm Gartner predicted that one in three jobs will be converted to software, robots and smart machines by 2025.

KYOTO – Shimadzu Corp. launched on Monday a near-infrared camera system to help diagnose metastatic breast cancer, making a foray into the Japanese medical camera market. Lightvision, the new product, allows surgeons to identify easily the positions of lymph nodes to be removed for diagnosis, by creating a real-time visualization that makes lymph nodes appear to glow blue or green following the injection of a special medical agent. With the system, which has 10-times zoom and auto-focus functions, surgeons will be able to perform operations while confirming the images on the monitor, the precision equipment maker said. In the future, Shimadzu hopes to use the technique to develop products for angiography.