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

FRANKFURT--China's Midea Group made its formal offer to take over Germany's Kuka AG in face of criticism by some of the robot maker's investors and German politicians that management hasn't done enough to find another suitor. Midea, primarily a maker of home appliances, announced its offer of 115 ( 130) a share for the shares it doesn't already yet own in Kuka on Thursday. The price represents a significant premium to the Germany...

Video surveillance is one of the fastest growing segments in the physical security industry. In the prevailing security environment, the need for video surveillance is growing exponentially. From smart cities to stadiums, from retail mega-markets to homes, video surveillance has become a pervasive phenomenon. Several petabytes of video data are being generated globally every year from this growing number of video surveillance installations. However, a large amount of video which is captured is never analyzed for actionable intelligence and, in many cases, a large team of human operators is required to monitor the video feeds.

Getting your hands on a Tirupati laddoo is not easy. To eat the famous holy sweet, given as an offering at one of India's holiest Hindu shrines, Tirumala Tirupati, you don't need to shell out a lot of money. The temple in southern Andhra Pradesh state provides two laddoos at a subsidised cost of 10 rupees ( 0.5; 0.1) each, and customers are allowed to buy another two at 25 rupees each. Actually getting your hands on the coveted sweet involves braving long queues, and procuring a high tech coupon complete with its own security code and biometric details like face recognition. Volunteers from various banks man counters where they check the validity of each ticket and money changes hands only after potential customers pass the facial recognition tests.

The announcement isn't too much of a surprise -- autonomous cars have been facing new scrutiny following a fatal Tesla Model S crash last month. China isn't the first nation to react, either: Germany is said to be drafting legislation that would place "black boxes" in self-driving vehicles. China hasn't said when the new regulations would be official, but noted that early drafts have already been written. Hopefully, the new rules will be finalized soon and enable China's auto-makers to resume testing.

Samsonovich made the comments while attending the 2016 Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA) in New York City, which takes place from July 16-19. The conference was sponsored by MEPhl and attracted more than 200 participants. "We are on the verge of a major breakthrough that was discussed since the fifties of the previous century," Samsonovich said on Tuesday. The breakthrough, according to Samsonovich, is the creation of free thinking machines capable of feeling and understanding human emotions, understanding narratives and thinking in those narratives, as well as being capable to actively learn on their own. "Those are the three key capabilities in my view that will determine the breakthrough," Samsonovich said, adding that progress is expected to be made in "several years."

The development of digital health technology causes many concerns regarding bioethics. Here are 10 examples why people should not be afraid of, but rather embrace the advancements of such technologies. The fear from the unknown is as old as mankind itself, thus the fear from technological development has the same age as advancement itself. When the telephone was introduced to Sweden in the late 1800s, people were afraid that the contents of the lines would spill out in some way if there was a break and many elderly persons refused to touch a telephone for fear of electrical shock. The fear is even scarier when it comes to one's health. Shortly after Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen introduced his discovery about the X-Ray, people got scared that it might read their thoughts, and they were afraid that such omnipotent gaze will see through their body and soul. Merchants even offered X-Ray proof underwear.

For more than a decade, Silicon Valley's technology investors and entrepreneurs obsessed over social media and mobile apps that helped people do things like find new friends, fetch a ride home or crowdsource a review of a product or a movie. Now Silicon Valley has found its next shiny new thing. And it does not have a "Like" button. The new era in Silicon Valley centers on artificial intelligence and robots, a transformation that many believe will have a payoff on the scale of the personal computing industry or the commercial internet, two previous generations that spread computing globally. Computers have begun to speak, listen and see, as well as sprout legs, wings and wheels to move unfettered in the world.

Japan-based IT products and services provider Fujitsu has collaborated with Jorudan which is a public transport and route navigation website. Both will be adding a train delay time prediction function, using Artificial Intelligence (AI) machine learning technology, to Jorudan's "Norikae Annai," a service that provides public transportation route-planning information. With this collaboration, Fujitsu aims to deliver, predicted train delay times using AI technology for the Norikae Annai service and verify prediction effectiveness. This process is provided as the cloud service Fujitsu Intelligent Society Solution SPATIOWL, a service that studies previous railway operations data and data submitted by the users and with this, it forecasts the changing delay times built on fresh submitted data and operational information. These predictions are displayed in the route search results in Jorudan's Norikae Annai app, supporting users' route selection when trains are delayed.

Pepper the robot participates in a Japanese ribbon-cutting ceremony earlier this year. Its manufacturer, SoftBank Robotics, is opening new offices in San Francisco and releasing a development kit for Android programmers. The proposed 32 billion acquisition of ARM Holdings, a U.K.-based maker of smartphone chips, by Japanese conglomerate Softbank is the second deal in two weeks that highlights the ascendancy of Asian technology investors. It likely won't be the last example this year, given global economic and investing trends. Last week, the Korean firm Naver -- parent of Japan-based messaging service Line (LN) -- sold off part of its ownership stake in the biggest tech IPO so far this year.