Three years earlier, Apple had been the first major tech company to integrate a smart assistant into its operating system. Siri was the company's adaptation of a standalone app it had purchased, along with the team that created it, in 2010. Initial reviews were ecstatic, but over the next few months and years, users became impatient with its shortcomings. All too often, it erroneously interpreted commands. So Apple moved Siri voice recognition to a neural-net based system for US users on that late July day (it went worldwide on August 15, 2014.)

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More than 60 years after it was blown up by two atomic blasts then later sunk off the cost of California, the wreckage of the historic USS Independence has been seen for the first time. After being found in April this year, the Ocean Exploration Trust (OET) has now explored the wreck with robotic submarines, and released the first close-up images of how the ship looks now. This exploration is revealing the ship holds war secrets, including a fighter plane within the sunken aircraft carrier. After being found in April this year, a team of divers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA) has now explored the wreck with robotic submarines, and released the first close-up images of how the ship looks now. Walkway leading to personnel hatch near'gun tub' hanging over walkway on starboard side of ship is pictured USS Independence (CVL 22) operated in the central and western Pacific from November 1943 until August 1945.

The first female pilot to fly solo from Britain to Australia has been'brought back to life' with ground-breaking 3D technology. Amy Johnson completed the journey from London to Darwin in 1930 - one of many record-breaking flights during her career. To mark 75 years since her death, experts have created a fully interactive digital 3D version of Ms Johnson, which can even walk and talk about her achievements. The first female pilot to fly solo from Britain to Australia has been'brought back to life' with ground-breaking 3D technology. 'Virtual Amy' will go display in the children's library within Hull Central Library as part of the Amy Johnson Festival.

Earlier this year, Scott Kelly launched into the record books after spending the most cumulative days in space for any US astronaut, with 520 days 10 hours and 33 minutes. But as of Wednesday, the torch has been passed to International Space Station commander Jeffrey Williams, who just logged his 521st day in orbit. Williams is the second American to break the record this past year, and he will have spent a total of 534 days away from the planet by the time he returns to Earth. Jeffrey Williams (pictured) has logged his 521st day in orbit, setting a new record for the most cumulative days in space. Williams will spend a total of 534 days off the planet for Nasa by the time he returns to Earth.

Computers have already beaten us at chess, Jeopardy and Go, the ancient board game from Asia. And now, in the raging war with machines, human beings have lost yet another battle -- over typing. Turns out voice recognition software has improved to the point where it is significantly faster and more accurate at producing text on a mobile device than we are at typing on its keyboard. The study ran tests in English and Mandarin Chinese. Baidu chief scientist Andrew Ng says this should not feel like defeat. "Humanity was never designed to communicate by using our fingers to poke at a tiny little keyboard on a mobile phone.

High costs of treatment, long waiting time, affordability of airfares to overseas destinations and favorable exchange rate change are crucial factors related to the fast growth of Medical Tourism (Connell, 2006). Rapid development of medical infrastructure with international standards and certification, easy availability of skilled manpower bring South Asian countries like Thailand, Malaysia, and India at the forefront in this area. With current annual growth of 13.0 percent, the Indian health care sector contributes about $ 23 billion (nearly 4 percent of GDP) to the Indian economy, with'foreign exchange earning around $1.8 billion' (Chakraborty, 2006). Although research studies are abundant focusing on social impacts of Medical Tourism, there is no proper methodology for customers, both foreign and domestic, to assess the medical tourist destination in any country. The problem can be solved by taking the interest of stakeholder's in assessing the weights of a multiple criteria set, namely medical infrastructure, logistics service providers, 1 government policy along with city demography. Therefore, assessment of desirable medical destination selection and evaluation problem can be considered decision making problem with multiple attributes varying from consumer demands to resource constraints of medical related industry. In this regard, MCDM has become a very crucial area of management research and decision theory with lots of methods developed, extended and modified in solving problems in the present and past few decades.

Back in 2010, when the term "cloud computing" was still laden with peril and mystery for many users in enterprise and high performance computing, HPC cloud startup, Nimbix, stepped out to tackle that perceived risk for some of the most challenging, latency-sensitive applications. At the time, there were only a handful of small companies catering to the needs of high performance computing applications and those that existed were developing clever middleware to hook into AWS infrastructure. There were a few companies offering true "HPC as a service" (distinct datacenters designed to fit such workloads that could be accessed via a web interface or APIs) but many of those have gone relatively quiet over the last couple of years. When Nimbix got its start, the possibilities of running HPC workloads in the cloud was the subject of great debate in the academic-dominated scientific computing realm. As mentioned above, concerns about latency in the performance-conscious realm of these applications loomed large, as did the more general concerns about the cost of moving data, the remote hardware capability for running demanding jobs, and the availability of notoriously expensive licenses from HPC ISVs.