"Warcraft," the critically panned video game-inspired film from Legendary Entertainment, made more than six times as much money in China as it did in the U.S. during its opening weekend, and it had observers including Jackie Chan saying it could be the harbinger of a new age in blockbuster filmmaking. That's undoubtedly a historic split for a Hollywood film -- although it's not unusual for a movie to make more in China than at home -- and certainly something that could happen more as China's rapidly growing box office catches up with the U.S. Rather, "Warcraft" is just a movie with several unique factors that gave it a much bigger potential audience in China than anywhere else. The world is big, interests are regional, and Chinese companies have certain competitive (or anticompetitive) advantages that Hollywood studios don't, like a restriction on foreign competition and the ability to own theater chains. As a result of such factors, "Warcraft" blew the doors down in China, but it didn't really blaze a trail that too many other movies could realistically follow. China is a nearly 8 billion -- and growing -- movie market with only 34 slots for Western films, so naturally Hollywood is going to produce its megabudget blockbusters with that in mind, taking steps not to offend the Chinese state censors that have to approve every imported film.

Ask any soccer fan who will win the Euro 2016 championship and every one of them will have an opinion, fueled by a combination of patriotism, passion and hope. It's safe to say none of them will offer an opinion based on the results of more than 36,000 soccer matches held during the past 146 years and an analysis of 94 billion outcomes. That's what researcher Michael Feindt, a particle physicist who worked at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) for six years, has done. At CERN, Feindt created an algorithm to predict collisons of particles inside the Large Hadron Collider. Now he's CEO of Blue Yonder, a startup looking to commercialize the technology in retail, logistics, manufacturing and transportation, a process he describes as finding the "the possibilities of probable futures."

The world of autonomous vehicles just got a more luxurious, after Rolls-Royce unveiled a driverless super car of the future. It has dubbed its futuristic car, which looks like it could have come straight out of Batman's cave, the Rolls-Royce 103EX. The vehicle will be six metres long, with a canopy roof, covered wheels and a curved body. The six metre-long vehicle, dubbed the Rolls-Royce 103EX, has a canopy roof, covered wheels and a curved body. The front seat is replaced with a sofa-style body.

At the star-studded premiere of the Hollywood blockbuster "Warcraft" last Monday, Ben Schulz walked the red carpet as a relative unknown. That is, until he opened his mouth. He heard that Jamie Lee Curtis was in attendance, dressed as an orc shaman straight out of the film. While Curtis isn't in the movie, she's reportedly a big fan of "World of Warcraft," the hugely popular online game that's part of the video game series that inspired the film. To prove it, she and her son were making their way down the red carpet in green face paint, shouting the most celebrated battle cry in the game: "Leeroy Jenkins!" Schulz, his long blond hair in a ponytail and his bushy beard nicely combed, made his way over to Curtis.

"The robot was learning automatic movement algorithms on the testing ground, these functions will feature in the latest version of the Promobot." The co-founder of the robot's maker, Oleg Kivokurtsev, told ura.ru news agency. "Our engineer drove onto the testing ground and forgot to close the gates. So the robot escaped and went on his little adventure." The team only noticed their brainchild was missing 45 minutes into the robot's travel stint and by the time they located it, there was already a crowd of puzzled citizens and the police had arrived.

Appealing to your manager's human nature to get a day off work could get a whole lot more difficult in the future - because they may not be human at all. A robot office manager, named Betty, is being tested by a business in Milton Keynes for two months to help patrol the corridors and monitor its staff. The robot, developed by engineers at the University of Birmingham, uses artificial intelligence to help it keep track of where people are in the office, who is at their desk and keep tabs on clutter. Betty the robot (pictured), developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham, is working as an office manager at the Transport Systems Catapult in Milton Keynes. While there are many who fear robots are on the verge of stealing our jobs, it seems they have a weak spot - flat packed furniture.

You can almost hear the whooshing sound as the technology industry is sprinting to the marketplace with new solutions to help the enterprise garner useful and intelligent insights from their data. Analytics, Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) delivered in a simplistic form is what companies are demanding. To meet this mandate, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) has developed Haven OnDemand, which offers the latest technology in a simplified platform for developers. Jeff Veis, VP of Big Data Platform Solutions, HP Software, at HPE, spoke to John Furrier and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during HPE Discover 2016 Las Vegas to discuss Big Data and the needs of the enterprise. Furrier began the interview by asking Veis about the driving force behind the need for machine learning.

Analysts are saying that Apple's upcoming updates to its Siri voice assistant should help the company address criticisms that it can't compete on artificial intelligence. Apple is now opening Siri to apps made by other companies, and like Google and Microsoft, it's bringing the digital assistant to desktop and laptop computers. It's also making Siri smarter by using what Apple calls differential privacy. Patrick Moorhead of Moor Insights & Strategy explains it as Apple using non-personal information in aggregate to teach Siri new tricks, then having all the personalization take place on the individual device. It's in contrast to Google's approach of doing everything over the internet -- that is, in the "cloud."

To pitch its cloud storage business, Google is leaning on its artificial intelligence features. Amazon, the market leader, is too. Now Amazon has recruited a leading expert in the field to up its game. Alex Smola, a top machine learning scientist at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and research alum of Google and Yahoo, is moving over to run the "Cloud Machine Learning Platform" at AWS, he wrote in a post. Leaving CMU - Dear Friends, As some of you may have already heard, I'm leaving CMU to join Amazon.

FILE - In this Dec. 2, 2015 file photo, Germany's Kuka Robotics Co.'s robot LBR iiwa demonstrates a flower arrangement at the International Robot exhibition in Tokyo. Chinese appliance maker Midea has promised that German industrial robot maker Kuka will remain independent, as it seeks to allay fears about its takeover bid for the company. Midea's chairman said Thursday, June 16, 2016 that it doesn't intend to "dominate Kuka or delist the business" as it released more details about the share offer announced last month.