Facebook has taken a major step towards creating a drone designed to beam internet access to remote areas of the world. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph. Japan's On-Art Corp's CEO Kazuya Kanemaru poses with his company's eight metre tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot'TRX03' and other robots during a demonstration in Tokyo, Japan Japan's On-Art Corp's eight metre tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot'TRX03' performs during its unveiling in Tokyo, Japan Singulato Motors co-founder and CEO Shen Haiyin poses in his company's concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China A picture shows Singulato Motors' concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China Connected company president Shigeki Tomoyama addresses a press briefing as he elaborates on Toyota's "connected strategy" in Tokyo. Aurora Flight Sciences' technicians work on an Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automantion System (ALIAS) device in the firm's Centaur aircraft at Manassas Airport in Manassas, Va. The drone, which is solar-powered and has the wingspan of a Boeing 737, flew at 3,000 feet for an hour and 46 minutes.

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WhatsApp has built new features that are designed to make conversations look more visually appealing. The first of these improves on WhatsApp's existing text formatting functionality. While you've long been able to change the appearance of your messages to emphasise certain words or phrases, until now, you've had to remember a range of straightforward but fiddly commands to do so. To make text bold, you've needed to place it between two asterisks, like *this*. To italicise it, you've had to sandwich it between two underscores, like _this_, and to strikethrough a message, you've needed to use tildes, like this .

On a warm morning in early spring, June Huh walked across the campus of Princeton University. His destination was McDonnell Hall, where he was scheduled to teach, and he wasn't quite sure how to get there. Huh is a member of the rarefied Institute for Advanced Study, which lies adjacent to Princeton's campus. As a member of IAS, Huh has no obligation to teach, but he'd volunteered to give an advanced undergraduate math course on a topic called commutative algebra. When I asked him why, he replied, "When you teach, you do something useful. When you do research, most days you don't." Original story reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent publication of the Simons Foundation whose mission is to enhance public understanding of science by covering research developments and trends in mathematics and the physical and life sciences. We arrived at Huh's classroom a few minutes before class was scheduled to begin. Inside, nine students sat in loose rows. One slept with his head down on the table.

SHORTLY after 9/11, the US deployed a new form of high-tech warfare: sending drones into foreign airspace to kill terror suspects. At first the strikes were restricted to Afghanistan, but soon they were extended into Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. The strategy has been escalated by presidents Obama and Trump. Initially the US had a virtual monopoly on drone technology, but commentators pointed out that this would only be temporary. Legal scholars also warned that the strikes were of dubious international legality.

Yes, it's Monday, but you might've missed some interesting things over the weekend: kangaroos that confuse self-driving cars, some'Zelda' DLC that's a perfect fit and a new Sony smartphone that could be a contender. Samsung's resurrected Galaxy Note 7 launches on July 7th If you've missed the Galaxy Note 7 since it was discontinued over chronic battery fires, you now have a second chance at ownership... if you're willing to book a flight to Seoul. Samsung has confirmed recent rumors and its own teaser by announcing a refurbished version of the Note 7, the Galaxy Note Fan Edition, that will launch in South Korea on (appropriately enough) July 7th. As you might guess, it's largely the same phone hardware-wise -- the big difference is the use of safer, smaller-capacity batteries, which have, thankfully, passed stricter testing standards. The same things that made the core game great.The new'Zelda' DLC is all about exploration and survival Fans were worried Nintendo would stumble when it came to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's DLC packs.

THE GLOBAL appetite for voice assistants is growing and companies are taking note. This year, we've reported beyond Amazon's Alexa, the likes of Baidu, Huawei, and Samsung have all recently launched their own virtual assistants. It should come as no surprise then that Tencent, a dominating figure in China's software space, is also coming out with a voice assistant. As reported by Tech in Asia, the Chinese tech giant's new voice assistant, called Xiaowei, provides your standard run-of-the-mill offerings, including weather reports and news updates. It also responds to voice and facial recognition.

Providing a broad but in-depth introduction to neural network and machine learning in a statistical framework, this book provides a single, comprehensive resource for study and further research. All the major popular neural network models and statistical learning approaches are covered with examples and exercises in every chapter to develop a practical working understanding of the content. Each of the twenty-five chapters includes state-of-the-art descriptions and important research results on the respective topics. Applications to biometric/bioinformatics and data mining are also included. Ke-Lin Du is currently the Chief Scientist at Enjoyor Inc., China.

It was not long ago that Artificial Intelligence (AI) was only in the realm of science fiction. Today, it has become a reality and is only growing more prominent in many different industries every day. This includes the internet as AI in search engine technology has been around for a few years. The algorithms used to rank pages have been affected considerably by AI already and that trend will continue into the foreseeable future. Currently, Google's RankBrain, an AI process used help set search engine rankings, is having a major impact which is only expected to expand.

Many supervised learning tasks are emerged in dual forms, e.g., English-to-French translation vs. French-to-English translation, speech recognition vs. text to speech, and image classification vs. image generation. Two dual tasks have intrinsic connections with each other due to the probabilistic correlation between their models. This connection is, however, not effectively utilized today, since people usually train the models of two dual tasks separately and independently. In this work, we propose training the models of two dual tasks simultaneously, and explicitly exploiting the probabilistic correlation between them to regularize the training process. For ease of reference, we call the proposed approach \emph{dual supervised learning}. We demonstrate that dual supervised learning can improve the practical performances of both tasks, for various applications including machine translation, image processing, and sentiment analysis.