Additionally they used 3-D printing to replicate the body of Alexis Ohanian, infusing it with their proprietary Artificial Intelligence engine. "There's a lack of qualified IT professionals here in Armenia", said Dr. J.P. Hagopian, the CEO of 1AI Solutions. "We need to hire people, but we simply can't find enough good candidates. At some point our HR manager said that we should clone one of the high-performing Silicon Valley guys. She was kidding, but the idea stuck."

A standoff between police and one of the suspects in a Dallas shooting that left at least five police officers dead and seven others wounded Thursday night ended after the suspect was killed when a robot delivered and detonated explosives where he was holed up, according to local law enforcement officials. "We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate where the subject was," Dallas Police Chief David Brown said at a news conference Friday morning. "Other options would have exposed our officers to grave danger." Attempts by a hostage negotiator to convince the suspect to surrender were unsuccessful and the man exchanged fire with the police during the standoff, Brown said. Three other suspects are currently in custody, according to police.

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 long-standing gender stereotype has been that men are better than women at computer games. Dr Cuihua Shen, from the University of California, and Dr Rabindra Ratan, from Michigan State University, conducted a study to understand whether men pick up video games more quickly than women. The pair explained the results of their study in an article for The Conversation. Although women now make up almost half of all video game players, the gaming community remains, in some ways, hostile toward women. There's also the long-held stereotype that men are simply better gamers than women The researchers set out to examine whether men really make better gamers than women and what drove the gender performance gap.

The first Long March 7 flight took off from Wenchang, Hainan Island on June 25, 2016; to test new technologies in orbit that included space debris removal, satellite refueling and China's next generation manned spacecraft. On June 25, 2016, the Long March 7 rocket, China's largest space launch vehicle to date, blasted off from Wenchang, Hainan to a successful maiden flight. With a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) payload of 13.5 tons, the CZ-7 is China's new medium space launch rocket (the heavy Long March 5 will have its first flight later this year as well). In addition to that nice milestone for China's space program, the CZ-7 carried three important payloads in its cargo. The Tianyuan 1 satellite refueling system was carried in the upper stage of the first LM-7 rocket, and tested successfully days after the June 25th launch.

Billboards may never be the same. By early fall, a billboard in Tokyo will automatically identify the make and model of vehicles driving by it to display a targeted advertisement. "The ad could come up with'Hey you in the Mercedes, you could be driving this [instead],'" said Paul Turner, chief marketing officer with Cloudian, which is working with the Japanese company Dentsu on the project. A camera on the billboard will look hundreds of meters down the expressway to identify vehicles and present a corresponding ad for about five seconds. By targeting ads to specific types of vehicles, the companies should be able to charge a higher rate to advertisers.

We're excited to announce that Evercontact has created the first app with crowdsourced contact updates, Evercontact . Evercontact users now benefit from immediate updates whenever a new public email signature is detected for one of their contacts, without having to wait for an email from them directly. Picture this: Ellen is not one of your contacts, but you and Ellen are both in touch with Ben. Ben gets a new phone number, changes his email signature and emails Ellen right away. Evercontact will now update your address book even if you haven't yet received a mail from Ben yourself.

The aim of their collaboration is to achieve machine-based translation between the languages of the European Union so that comprehensible texts are achieved for as many language combinations as possible. Two of the EU-funded research projects are being led by the Saarbrücken computer linguist Josef van Genabith. Anyone who wants to learn Finnish has to be prepared to deal with a complex grammar that includes fifteen different cases. The grammatical cases are marked in part by appending syllables to nouns resulting in a dizzying array of word forms and expressive possibilities. "Teaching a computer to understand all these grammatical nuances and to translate them correctly into another language is exceptionally difficult," says Josef van Genabith, Professor of Translation-Oriented Language Technologies at Saarland University and a Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). His team is therefore following a different path.

At the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging in Prague this past April, a Harvard-based artificial intelligence system won the Camelyon16 challenge, a competition comprised of participants introducing their individual AI system and its ability to facilitate automated lymph node metastasis diagnosis. Referred to as PathAl, the computing system identifies cancerous cells through deep learning--an algorithmic technique that accumulates copious amounts of unstructured data and organizes it into clusters before analyzing it for patterns. Deep learning is predominately used in speech recognition systems like Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana. According to one of the challenge's organizers, Jeroen van der Laak of Radboud University Medical Center in Netherlands, the technology featured in the competition went "way beyond" his expectations, as the AI's accuracy proved strikingly close to that of human beings. In addition, van der Laak said AI technology has the propensity to intrinsically redefine the way histopathological images are handled in the medical community.

Discussing the pros and cons of articial intelligence is, to be sure, an emotional topic. People have feared artificial intelligence (AI) almost as soon as it was invented. Hollywood in particular has done a masterful job of stoking those fears with movies like "2001: A Space Odyssey," "Terminator" and "The Matrix" all making AI systems into demonic forces. Most recently, renowned scientist Stephen Hawking told Larry King he thought humans and AI could "co-exist," but that "a rogue AI could be difficult to stop" without appropriate safeguards in place. Coming from someone like Hawking, that kind of warning carries some weight with people.