On June 28, Brian Eno will launch a new video experience for the title track of his latest album The Ship, which was released in April. What's different about this music video is, according to Eno, it isn't really a music video at all, but rather a visual experience informed by and created with artificial intelligence. "Just as I'm excited about the possibilities of artificial intelligence and new technologies, I'm so incredibly and numbingly bored with videos and the traditional music videos, that I just couldn't imagine wanting to do that," said Eno, on stage at Cannes Lions. "So really, this is an attempt to say, is there some other way we can do this thing?" The legendary artist and producer said that he's interested in finding out what new technologies can do, primarily because they so often can do something nobody ever thought they could do.

Last weekend, a drone flown by Pakistan's air force crashed just shy of four miles from an airbase in the Punjab. The drone appears to have been a Chinese-made Wing Loong. The drone, also known as the Pterodactyl, serves with the Chinese military, as well as that of Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. Until this crash, Pakistan was not a known operator of the Wing Loong. The drone resembles America's iconic Predator drone, and like how the Predator begat the Reaper, there's likely an improved version in the works, which might be what Pakistan is really after.

Despite the sophistication of their products, video game publishers are just as susceptible as less technically inclined brands to finding their carefully organised media coverage turning on them. This month, the trailer for upcoming game of drones and shooting people Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare became the second most disliked video in YouTube history, while fellow online first-person shooter, Battlefield 1 became one of the 150 most liked. One reason posited for this vast discrepancy is that players have finally got bored with the glib futurism of many current military games, their fatigue at yet more satellite strikes and exoskeletons brought into sharp relief by Battlefield 1's earthy, steampunk alternate first world war. While there may be an element of truth in that, it's mostly the result of vote-brigading by rabidly contrarian posters on games forums, and demonstrates that even with rigorous planning and budgetary figures normally associated with money laundering operations, you can still be the victim of unintended consequences. Capcom, makers of the Resident Evil series, also found out that publicity can create unpredictable knock-on effects.

After setting their conquest to saffronise Bharat in motion, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat is all set to make an international debut and take the sangh global. I can exclusively tell you that Bhagwat and RSS all-India join...

Before giving smart machines the ability to make decisions, people need to make sure the goals of the robots are aligned with those of their human owners. Google can see a future where robots help us unload the dishwasher and sweep the floor. The challenge is making sure they don't inadvertently knock over a vase -- or worse -- while doing so. Researchers at Google, along with collaborators at Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, and OpenAI -- an artificial intelligence development company backed by Elon Musk -- have some ideas about how to design robot minds that won't lead to undesirable consequences for the people they serve. They published a technical paper on Tuesday outlining their thinking.

Large-scale brain-like machines with human-like abilities to solve problems could become a reality, now that researchers have invented microscopic gadgets that mimic the connections between neurons in the human brain better than any previous devices. The new research could lead to better robots, self-driving cars, data mining, medical diagnosis, stock-trading analysis and "other smart human-interactive systems and machines in the future," said Tae-Woo Lee, a materials scientistat the Pohang University of Science and Technology in Korea and senior author of the study. The human brain's enormous computing power stems from its connections. Previous research suggested that the brain has approximately 100 billion neurons and roughly 1 quadrillion (1 million billion) connections wiring these cells together. At each of these connections, or synapses, a neuron typically fires about 10 times per second.

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It is not every day you see a runaway robot causing traffic chaos in a city centre - but in one Russian suburb is has happened twice in the last week. The robot, named Promobot, was being put through its paces at a research lab in the city of Perm in central Russia's Perm Krai region. In its first escape, the robot, designed to avoid obstacles and to turn around when it reached a boundary, had been left walking around an outside yard. This is the hilarious moment a runaway robot causes traffic chaos in a city centre. The robot - called Promobot - was being put through its paces at a research lab in the city of Perm in central Russia's Perm Krai region Promobot - short for Promotional Robot - is a unique robot created by Russian scientists and is designed to work in customer relations.

The analysis and diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) can be based on genetic variations, e.g., single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and phenotypic traits, e.g., Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) features. We consider two important and related tasks: i) to select genetic and phenotypical markers for AD diagnosis and ii) to identify associations between genetic and phenotypical data. While previous studies treat these two tasks separately, they are tightly coupled because underlying associations between genetic variations and phenotypical features contain the biological basis for a disease. Here we present a new sparse Bayesian approach for joint association study and disease diagnosis. In this approach, common latent features are extracted from different data sources based on sparse projection matrices and used to predict multiple disease severity levels; in return, the disease status can guide the discovery of relationships between data sources. The sparse projection matrices not only reveal interactions between data sources but also select groups of biomarkers related to the disease. Moreover, to take advantage of the linkage disequilibrium (LD) measuring the non-random association of alleles, we incorporate a graph Laplacian type of prior in the model. To learn the model from data, we develop an efficient variational inference algorithm. Analysis on an imaging genetics dataset for the study of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) indicates that our model identifies biologically meaningful associations between genetic variations and MRI features, and achieves significantly higher accuracy for predicting ordinal AD stages than the competing methods.

On 14 June, news broke that someone had hacked into computers at the US Democratic National Committee, exposing opposition research on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, as well as a trove of chat logs and emails. Some blamed Russia – although as ever details are unclear. The same day, NATO announced that it was designating cyberspace as an "operational domain" for war alongside land, sea and air. Reports of one country attacking the computer systems of another – like this week's hack on the Democrats, last year's Chinese breach of the US Office of Personnel Management, or North Korea's attack on Sony in 2014 – have become common. The details of hacks may differ, but the story is a familiar one. Does NATO's announcement change anything?