Though fans may not always notice, professional athletes put thought into their outfits off and on the field. They'll choose custom sneakers on the court, fancy jackets at the press conference and color-coordinated headphones in the locker room. Professional video game players rarely do better than jeans and oversized hoodies. So at its first of several planned ventures to amp up e-sports, a Los Angeles start-up is hoping to give the growing industry a sophisticated look. Ultimate Media Ventures on Monday launched ULT Kills, a fashion line of T-shirts, hoodies, hats and eventually footwear that, in the words of co-founder Nate Eckman, isn't the usual "super-embarrassing … kitschy, nerdy gamer wear."

Japan's most famous novelist is set to return to his alma mater and teach -100 years after his death. Soseki Natsume is being recreated as an android by Nishogakusha University Graduate School, and will be programmed to read material out loud and give lectures. Created in a sitting posture, the robot will be 130 centimeters high and built using 3D scans of a death mask and vintage photos. Soseki Natsume is being recreated into an android by Nishogakusha University Graduate School, which will be programmed to read out material and give lectures. Students from Nishogakusha University Graduate School plan to explore Nastume's life and gather information regarding his physical appearance and size for a closely accurate robot, which they have been granted access to a large college of photos and works by the major newspaper Asahi Shumbun – a former employer of Nastume, reports RocketNews24.

This includes the future of messaging, photos, maps, and more. SAN FRANCISCO – Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference took place in San Francisco Monday morning, where the company introduced significant upgrades to iOS and its other operating systems, including redesigns to Apple Music and Messages. Apple also opened three key features – Siri, Maps and Messages – to third party developers and created the Home app to make for easier control of HomeKit using an iPhone, iPad or Watch. Details of the new features, plus reactions from our staff and other attendees, can be found in the live blog of the conference below. Thanks the audience and Apple community and ends WWDC.

After a whirlwind two days of game and hardware reveals, Nintendo is slowing things down on the final day of E3 2016. Prior to the press conference, Nintendo made it clear that "The Legend of Zelda" will be the only title it brings to E3. Nintendo has changed its tune slightly, but "Zelda" will remain in the spotlight. To find out if there will be any surprises, the Nintendo E3 2016 live stream begins at 9 a.m. With Microsoft revealing the Xbox One S and Project Scorpio during its press conference Monday and Sony confirming its PS4 upgrade last week, there has been a lot of hardware at E3 2016. Unfortunately for fans, Nintendo will not unveil is new console during its press conference.

A new method of assembling tyres that promises to improve quality and productivity while eliminating the risk of human error has been introduced within a Bridgestone Corporation plant in Japan. The tyre maker has announced the installation of the new Examation system at its flagship Hikone passenger car tyre production site. The tyre maker reports that Examation "combines Bridgestone's proprietary information and communication technologies with artificial intelligence." The proprietary technologies Bridgestone refers to have been developed in stages over the past two decades: Research into tyre production systems employing ICT and other cutting-edge technologies began at Bridgestone in the late 1990s with the aim of creating more functional tyres and improving quality. In 2002, the company developed the BIRD (Bridgestone Innovative and Rational Development) production system, which was the world's first system for realising complete automation in areas of production ranging from components processes to product inspection processes.

Two hospitals in Belgium have employed robots to welcome patients and visitors, in what is reportedly the first use of automata to greet people in a medical setting. The robot, named Pepper, was unveiled Monday at a hospital in the eastern city of Liege, where it will act as a receptionist, Agence France-Presse reports. The cartoon-featured humanoid robot, which costs about 30,000 euros ( 33,800), is also being introduced at another facility in Ostend -- in northwest Belgium -- where it will perform the extra function of guiding visitors to the hospital's appropriate departments. Pepper the robot is manufactured by Tokyo-based tech firm SoftBank and versions are assembled in France, where they have already been tested out in a few shopping malls. The robot, described by its makers as "kindly, endearing and surprising," has a tablet computer mounted on its chest.

One of China's most popular smartphone assistants, HTC's Hidi, has ambitions to serve as the voice and personality of countless home robots. The company behind Hidi, Turing Robot, supplies voice recognition and natural-language processing technology for a growing array of hardware, including car systems developed by Bosch and home appliances from Haier. Now the company has developed an operating system for service robots. So far, Turing Robot provides the voice--and brains--for several popular Chinese home entertainment robots. Supplying the intelligence for home robots could be a shrewd move.

NEW DELHI – Scientists from Britain and India will release underwater robots into the Bay of Bengal in a bid to more accurately predict India's monsoon, an event critical to millions of farmers, they said Tuesday. Researchers will also fly a plane packed with scientific equipment over the bay to measure the atmosphere as part of the multimillion-dollar study of the monsoon, which hit southern India last week. Better forecasting will improve the livelihoods of India's more than 200 million farmers and agricultural laborers, who are reeling from a devastating drought. Scientists from the University of East Anglia will release seven underwater robots from an Indian ship next week to study how ocean processes influence monsoon rainfall. At the same time, colleagues from the University of Reading and climate experts in India will use instruments on board the plane flying from the southern city of Bangalore to measure heat and moisture in the air.

The seasonal monsoon, which hits the region between June and September, delivers some 70 percent of India's surface water. Its arrival is eagerly awaited by hundreds of millions of subsistence farmers across the country, and delays can ruin crops or exacerbate drought.

It's a strong contender for the geekiest video ever made: a close-up of a smartphone with line upon line of numbers and symbols scrolling down the screen. But when visitors stop by Nicola Marzari's office, which overlooks Lake Geneva, he can hardly wait to show it off. "It's from 2010," he says, "and this is my cellphone calculating the electronic structure of silicon in real time!" Even back then, explains Marzari, a physicist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, his now-ancient handset took just 40 seconds to carry out quantum-mechanical calculations that once took many hours on a supercomputer -- a feat that not only shows how far such computational methods have come in the past decade or so, but also demonstrates their potential for transforming the way materials science is done in the future. Instead of continuing to develop new materials the old-fashioned way -- stumbling across them by luck, then painstakingly measuring their properties in the laboratory -- Marzari and like-minded researchers are using computer modelling and machine-learning techniques to generate libraries of candidate materials by the tens of thousands.