The risk that your job will be automated out of existence depends, of course, on the job you do. For many, that's already happened--typically in roles and industries where the name of the game is eliminating human error and improving efficiency. But in order for artificial intelligence to take a much bigger bite out of the knowledge-economy workforce, the technology may need to start behaving more like humans, not less. And that will mean mastering one key behavior: small talk. Sociolinguists involved in the Language in the Workplace Project at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand have discovered that people switch naturally between "transactional" talk--such as discussing a business goal--and "interactional" talk, like when you encourage or show concern for a distressed coworker.

If you are among the players sick of pounding the pavements playing Pokemon Go – only to catch yet another Zubat – you may soon be able to outsource your gaming to a robot. An impressive machine dubbed'Baxter' has been caught on camera seemingly catching a Pokemon. While the video clip doesn't show the whole process, it does include the friendly-looking machine holding a phone showing the game, with its'hand' aloft and the capturing of a Spearow Pokemon. An impressive machine dubbed'Baxter' has been caught on camera seemingly catching a Pokemon (still shown above). While the video clip doesn't show the whole process, it does include the friendly-looking machine holding a phone showing the game, with its hand aloft and the capturing of a Spearow Pokemon Interestingly, hotel searches for Sokcho, Korea on the website are up by 95 per cent year-on-year between the 10th July and 19th July.

Men are far more aggressive on online dating sites - but often'mass mail' women that are out of their league in the hope of a response, researchers have found. They say that by comparison, women tend to be more conscious of their own attractiveness to other users and approach fewer people. The study found major behavioural differences between male and female users when it comes to contacting potential partners. The researchers say men are far more aggressive on online dating sites - but often'mass mail' women that are out of their league in the hope of a response, researchers have found. Using data collected from Baihe, one of the largest dating websites in China, researchers from Binghamton University, University of Massachusetts Lowell and Northeastern University analysed the messages and how suitable each person actually was.

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This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Data Availability: The sequence data for the two studied organisms were downloaded from SGD database (http://www.yeastgenome.org) The S.cerevisiae protein interaction data is taken from the paper: Feizi A, Österlund T, Petranovic D, Bordel S, Nielsen J (2013). The gene expression correlation data used in T. reesei PPI network evaluation is given in the supplementary material. Funding: This work has been supported by the European Union FP7 Cooperation Work programme (grant 289126: BIOLEDGE) (http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/home_en.html)

Dyson's 360 Eye robot vacuum is going global, with retail availability in Canada today, and a U.S. launch following soon. I spoke to Dyson's Lead Robotics Engineer Mike Aldred about the vacuum, which has been in development at the company long before its Japanese debut last year – in fact, the project dates back 18 years to 1998. But true advances takes time, and the tech behind Dyson's first robot vacuum is nothing if not advanced. The 360 Eye vacuum boasts a sophisticated 360-degree vision system that combines a top-mounted spherical camera with a pair of advanced sensors flanking the robot's'face,' and is designed to be much smarter than the competition from Roomba and others, as well as just offering better basic vacuum capabilities in terms of being able to pick up dirt, hair and dust. "Vision is absolutely critical, but it was a completely new technology [when development began]," Aldred told me, explaining the early days of 360 Eye's development.

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

A shake-up of Japanese-language schools is in the cards as the government tries to lure more foreign students but faces up to the fact that many facilities are poorly run or even corrupt. According to education ministry officials, most of the problems stem from the fact that oversight of language schools has been handed over to the Justice Ministry, whose primary concern is not learning but immigration administration. Although the education ministry still has some say, oversight of school quality ends up falling between the cracks. "Increasing the quality of Japanese-language schools is practically a national policy but bureaucracy is getting in the way," an education ministry official said. "It's going to be difficult to improve the situation unless some serious wrongdoing surfaces."

AlphaGo, Googles artificial intelligence (AI), has trounced the current world champion Lee Se-dol at the game of Go, four matches to one. Despite having very simple rules, this ancientgame has trillions upon trillions of possible moves and permutations, so AlphaGos victory is seen as a landmark in the evolution of AI. The tournament which took place in Seoul, South Korea showcased the AIs formidable calculating power, which is part of Googles overarching DeepMind program. Back in October of last year, AlphaGo defeated the reigning European Go champion five games to zero, and it has now risen to the very top of the field. Mr Lee said after that, although the defeat had "challenged" his ideas about the game Go, he did not necessarily think AlphaGo was superior to humans, reportedthe BBC.After the comprehensive win,Google said it would donate the 1 million prize to various organizations, including UNICEF, STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) charities and a few Go groups.

Could computers be capable of creating art? This new AI from Chinese search-engine giant Baidu seems to be able to do just that. In a new exhibit at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, Baidu's new AI is analysing photos and paintings and creating entirely original musical arrangements based on the imagery it sees. Baidu, often called the Google of China, is the country's largest search-engine provider. It comprises China's "big three" internet companies alongside Alibaba and Tencent. It's project is another example of what AI can do -- months after Google's AlphaGo artificial intelligence won four out of five games in Go against world champion player Lee Sedol.