In a world of smart machines that can drive cars, beat humans at chess, advise on medical diagnoses and perform a host of other tasks, imagine the next likely step as a smart machine as a people manager. As business investment in smart machines grows, "robobosses" will increasingly make workplace decisions that previously could only have been made by human managers. By 2018, more than three million workers globally will be supervised by robobosses, according to Frances Karamouzis, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. These smart machine managers will look at data derived from worker performance in new ways because of their ability to dispassionately discover previously undetected relationships and correlations, test their hypotheses, and then elevate them to production status. "Supervisor duties are increasingly shifting toward monitoring worker accomplishments through measurements of performance that are directly tied to output and customer evaluation," explained Ms. Karamouzis.

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HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) has launched a new corporate venture arm targeting early stage companies with innovative technologies. HP Tech Ventures will operate across teams in Palo Alto, Calif., and Tel Aviv, Israel, to pursue strategic investments and partnerships in technology areas including: 3D transformation, immersive computing, hyper-mobility, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and smart machines. Led by Andrew Bolwell, HP Tech Ventures will leverage its technology network, its channel and distribution partners, as well as manufacturing and supply chain relationships to help startups scale. The HP Tech Ventures group reports into Shane Wall, HP Chief Technology Officer and head of HP Labs. Palo Alto, Calif., and Tel Aviv, Israel, May 10, 2016 --HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) today announced the launch of HP Tech Ventures, a new corporate venture arm, targeting early stage companies with cutting edge technologies.

JD.com founder and CEO Richard Liu attends a launching ceremony of the "U.S. Mall" of JD.com in New York, the United States, July 20, 2015. BEIJING, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese online retailer JD.com has teamed up with robot maker Siasun to automate its logistic network, the company said on Friday. JD said it will work with Siasun to develop logistics robots to increase automation from order to delivery. JD has already invested heavily in making its warehouses and deliveries more efficient. "Logistics in the future will go beyond basic infrastructure," said JD's technology chief Zhang Chen, "Technology ranging from the Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data to artificial intelligence are making our service smarter."

Driverless cars, drones and a proposed first commercial spaceport for the UK will feature in the Queen's speech. The Department for Transport has said such cutting-edge technologies are crucial to the country's economy and that its proposals, to be unveiled on Wednesday, will help deliver jobs. Legislation will be introduced to enable driverless cars, already trialled in the UK, to be insured under ordinary policies. The government has said that the spaceport will be constructed by the end of the current parliament. The self-driving car market is currently growing at 16% a year and could be worth up to 900bn worldwide by 2025, while the port is part of the government's plan to raise revenues in the space sector from 12bn to 40bn by 2030, which would mean capturing about 10% of the sector worldwide.

This is my first blog here; my name is Fen. I was with MathWorks for almost 15 years. MathWorks is the creator of MATLAB andI built some of the modules in MATLAB. In the past 5 years, I led a team of consulting engineer to build data analytics solution for customers in APAC. In recent years, commercial banks and asset management companies in China started to build more quantitative models to measure credit risk. With our help, some of them chose to use MATLAB statistics and machine learning modules to build credit risk models; I would like to share a common approach I used on credit risk projects.

One day in January, Eric Wilson dashed off a message to the teaching assistants for an online course at the Georgia Institute of Technology. "I really feel like I missed the mark in giving the correct amount of feedback," he wrote, pleading to revise an assignment. Thirteen minutes later, the TA responded. "Unfortunately, there is not a way to edit submitted feedback," wrote Jill Watson, one of nine assistants for the 300-plus students. Last week, Mr. Wilson found out he had been seeking guidance from a computer.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is bettering the world in myriad ways, and its next task is to revolutionize healthcare. According to Dr Robert Wachter, MD – chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of San Francisco – radiology, dermatology and pathology will soon be upended by the technology. In his latest book, The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age, Dr Wachter outlines his case for why AI and other technologies are joining forces to create a "digital tsunami". In many ways, 2016 will mark the tipping point, as improvements in underlying technologies that power AI have helped more than three dozen startups to expand their presence in the market. Putting specific technologies aside for a moment, the biggest trend to watch may be how advances are dramatically altering the healthcare landscape.

It's probably years away from being used in West Virginia, but computer-based artificial intelligence appears to be helping law enforcement officers find wildlife poachers. Researchers are combining AI with something called "game theory" to plan patrols based on the topography, game movements and past instances of illegal activity in a given area. "In most parks, ranger patrols are poorly planned, reactive rather than pro-active, and habitual," said Fei Fang, a Ph.D. candidate in the computer science department at the University of Southern California. In other words, the horse is usually out of the barn by the time the law arrives -- and if the law does happen to arrive before law breakers do their thing, officers execute their patrols so predictably the bad guys often are able to avoid them. The National Science Foundation and the Army Research Office are supporting research into using AI to put patrols on the ground before poachers have a chance to poach.

"Here" is a funny word. So says Scott Hassan, the media-shy Silicon Valley billionaire who once set out to build the first fully autonomous humanoid robot, and ended up hawking what looks like a flatscreen atop two long legs with wheels. If Hassan has his way, this seemingly simple device--called a Beam--will close the loop between cyberspace and meat-space. The Beam was designed as a video conferencing tool, allowing instant, face-to-face communication--kind of like FaceTime or Skype, except you can drive the screen on legs around the room remotely, with a keyboard. It could one day become much more.