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

We hear plenty of stories about AI being used in medicine, whether it's discovering new drugs or helping diagnose diseases based on symptoms which may be imperceptible to even expert physicians. One area we've not previously heard about machines working in, however, is in the role of "resource nurse" in a hospital. A nurse in this position in the labor and delivery ward is responsible for making decisions about the rooms patients should be assigned to, or which physician should perform a C-section. That's work that researchers in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) attempted to replicate recently -- with a Nao robot trained to learn how these scheduling choices are made and make similar decisions on its own. "What we were able to show is that a system with only a few dozen training examples from people performing a task very well was able to make decisions which appear to be reasonable," Professor Julie Shah, of of the authors of the study, told Digital Trends.

Apple fixed this error shortly after its virtual assistant was first released in 2011. But a new contest shows that computers still lack the common sense required to avoid such embarrassing mix-ups. The results of the contest were presented at an academic conference in New York this week, and they provide some measure of how much work needs to be done to make computers truly intelligent. The Winograd Schema Challenge asks computers to make sense of sentences that are ambiguous but usually simple for humans to parse. Disambiguating Winograd Schema sentences requires some common-sense understanding.

Space telescopes like Hubble has given astronomers a unique glimpse at the universe unhindered by the thick atmosphere of our planet that can blur our view. But hauling a huge telescope into space can be difficult, which makes it hard to build the bigger space telescopes needed to peer into the furthest reaches of space. This problem could be solved by a new telescope-constructing robot capable of assembling a space telescope while orbiting around Earth. Each folded'mode' would be stored in a cargo unit until it was ready to be attached to the central'hub' by the robot Researchers at the California Institute of Technology and Nasa's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) came up with the new concept, which uses a modular structure so each part of the telescope could be carried separately. When the Hubble Space Telescope first went into space in 1990, it promised to provide spectacular views and an unprecedented insight into the cosmos.

In one month from now, the second edition of the Data Science Game, an international competition of data science for students, will start (more info here). Students in last year of Masters or PhDs from all around the world will be challenged through an online competion (June 17 to July 10) and a final hackathon (september 10-11). The first 20 teams of the online phase will come to Paris to demonstrate their skills and abilities to solve a data science challenge and meet professional data scientists coming from leading companies in Data Science (Microsoft, CapGemini, Axa Data Innovation Lab, etc.). We think our participants would love to learn from your data challenge experience since you were the former top ranked kaggler. But first of all, can you quickly introduce yourself?

Recently an AI-written novel made it past the first screening round of a Japanese national literary prize. True, the AI still had help from humans and no, it did not win the prize in the end. But what's groundbreaking here, is that AI is starting to display forms of creativity that have the potential to change the face of humankind. Many of us believe that creativity is one of the last beacons of humanity. It's what we believe distances us from animals and robots.

Learning needs to be less like memorization, and more like…Angry Birds. Half of school dropouts name boredom as the number one reason they left. The post is about why the future of education will be about flipping our current model on its head and about how key exponential technologies like AI, VR and gamification are going to drive a revolution in education. In the traditional education system, you start at an "A," and every time you get something wrong, your score gets lower and lower. You start with zero, and every time you come up with something right, your score gets higher and higher. It completely flips the way we currently learn, and it's addictively fun.

TOKYO--Japanese smartphone-game provider DeNA Co. said Thursday it has set up a company with Preferred Networks Inc., becoming the latest major firm to bet on the startup's artificial-intelligence technology for growth. The new joint project may mean Nintendo Co.'s future smartphone games would be powered by the technology, further beefing up the business potential of its popular characters, including Pokémon, for example, which was...

Using artificial intelligence to create smart farms Is the future of farming in the software? Texas TechPulse spoke with Blake about his new startup which got its start in Israel and what it's up to here in Texas. What exactly is Flux all about? Blake Burris: "Flux Farms is about a two year old company, which was started in Israel. We've built a framework technology, which is generic, in a sense, and can be applied to multiple sectors or realms. The first sector we're addressing, is the agricultural sector, and hydroponics. We've built a system that includes both hardware, a cloud platform, and a robust, artificial intelligence back end, which uses machine learning to help both the average Joe grow crops with the yield an expert might get. That might be you or I growing tomatoes on the back patio, or someone growing at scale. For example, we recently visited a possible customer in Lucas, Texas, North of Dallas, who has 8,000 square feet, with the vision to supply Texas restaurants with lettuce, herbs, and other vegetables. We can scale this from your backyard to urban farms, and even to larger, vertical farms in cities around the world."

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