Like Beyoncé, we now know, Hillary Clinton has hot sauce in her bag. She said so on New York's Power 105.1, so it must be true. Still, Donald Trump doesn't believe her, nor do Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham nor many of Fox News' talking heads. Even Power 105.1 host Charlamagne Tha God kind of accused her of pandering. I think she just likes hot sauce -- and not just because she's on record as a chilehead in interviews going back at least to 2008.

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Google may have the most self-driving cars on the road and Ford might be testing its driverless vehicles in the most extreme conditions, but Jia Yueting certainly has the most autonomous auto brands under his belt. The Chinese Internet billionaire owns self-driving EV startup Faraday Future, has a big investment in its stealthy rival Atieva, and has partnered with Aston Martin to build a third EV. Now, Jia just revealed yet another self-driving car, under the LeEco brand. At a glitzy event in Beijing, Jia and Ding Lei, the man in charge of LeEco's car business, demonstrated a self-driving concept car called the LeSEE. LeEco (previously LeTV) is Jia's first firm; it was once known as the Netflix of China, but is now diversifying into smartphones, televisions, and original video content. During presentations that veered from enthusiastic to accusatory to emotional (Ding at one point said, "We have gone through the process of being laughed at, to being judged, to being trusted by people"), they managed to make some concrete claims.

The other day, the National University of Science and Technology (MISiS) hosted a meeting on the development of robot technologies during the implementation of projects for the National Technology Initiative. Meeting participants watched a presentation of an international project to create an online site for testing unmanned equipment. Russia's KAMAZ Automotive Plant and IT solutions developer Cognitive Technologies have said they are ready to unveil the first Russian-made autonomous truck, an autopilot system that can detect road signs, lane markings and other vehicles. According to developers, the first autonomous commercial trucks could reach production by 2020. Some estimates show that the use of online testing sites will make it possible to save up to two billion rubles that would otherwise be spent on real-life tests and simulated real-life situations.

The impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the world must surely be one of the greatest contemporary puzzles. The spectrum of risk and the gamut of possible applications are significantly complex that almost any scenario can be envisioned, from robot apocalypse to workless utopia. The only assurance is that change is coming, and in my opinion, it is likely to be a revolution of a scale seen only during the onset of history-shifting events such as industrialization or farming. The timing is auspicious: Google AI unit DeepMind's AlphaGo has recently beaten South Korean professional game player Lee Sedol at the ancient Japanese board game Go--a game of huge potential complexity based on simple rules and considered one of the biggest challenges in AI, since it defies brute-force planning. As a milestone in machine intelligence (and good PR), it sits up there with IBM Watson's victory on Jeopardy in 2011 and IBM's earlier AI DeepBlue's victory over chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997.

So when it came to tapping historical and streaming data stores to improve operational efficiency, as well as predict and circumvent potential issues in its production facilities, the company went for the most cutting-edge machine learning technology on offer: IBM's Watson. Speaking at the recent Chief Analytics Officer Forum in Sydney, Woodside's principal data scientist, Elsa Jordan, shared with attendees the company's journey to build a data science capability from scratch in one year that could be utilised by employees right across the organisation. Woodside established its data science practice in January 2015 and as part of its approach, is running the largest commercial instance of the Watson advisor engine. "Our premise was think big, prototype small, scale fast," Jordan said. "Key to that was using machine learning algorithms. What appealed was that we could learn from history, predict from streaming data and keep on learning as new information becomes available."

China exported military drones worth hundreds of millions of dollars to over 10 countries, state-run media said Thursday. The Asian powerhouse also plans to sell unmanned aircraft capable of launching laser-guided bombs. Chinese drones "have bigger payloads, which means they can carry more weapons" than their rivals, Shi Wen, chief drone designer at the China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics, told the China Daily newspaper. Shi did not name the countries that bought the drones, the numbers of drones sold or the exact deal value, but said that the academy's most valuable sale was worth "hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars." The report added that the drones are named Cai Hong, which means rainbow.

American drones fired more ammunition last year than manned warplanes for the first time, according to new data analyzed by Reuters. The news comes three years after U.S. President Barack Obama said that a drawdown of U.S. military forces after 2014 would "reduce the need for unmanned strikes." The data shows just how much American forces have come to rely on the unmanned vehicles to carry out missions in the Middle East and abroad, even while human rights organizations and some foreign governments have raised concerns over what they call an unnecessary amount of civilian casualties. "In recent months it's definitely flowed more," Lieutenant Colonel Michael Navicky, who commands the Air Force's 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, said. "We've seen increased weapons deployment in the past few months, and the demand is insatiable."

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

Subtly flashing your rolex, slipping in a mention of your private jet, surfacing in the Panama Papers leak... these are all methods to flaunt your wealth. But why approach with subtlety when you can roll up to a store with an entourage of robots? That's exactly what Wang Shi Chung, a Chinese man reportedly part of "China's nouveau riche circle" did last Thursday, Mashable reported. The human honcho was photographed in Guangzhou, China, flanked by eight robots, each dressed as a maid and holding a tray. The maid robots accompanied the man to a jewelry store and stood behind him holding water, a towel and a coat while he browsed "gold products", Ejinsight reported.