Someday, Boris Sofman wants families to sit down and debate: cat, dog or robot? Sofman is the chief executive and founder of Anki, a robotics company that's made its mark in the toy world since launching its first product in 2013, a set of smart racing cars. It followed that product's success with a toy robot called Cozmo in 2016, which the company says is the best-selling toy on Amazon in the United States, the United Kingdom and France. A new product, Vector, launched Tuesday on Kickstarter and offers the first hint of Anki's broader consumer robotics ambitions. "Our north star . . . is to have a robot in every home," Sofman said in an interview with The Washington Post.

A microchip security flaw has put tens of millions of Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphones at risk to hackers, prompting cyber security experts to issue advice to owners on how best to protect their device. The Meltdown vulnerability, first uncovered by researchers earlier this year, affects computers, smartphones and other smart devices but was initially thought to not affect Samsung Galaxy phones. Meltdown can be exploited by hackers to gain access to a person's private information, including banking details and passwords. 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. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

Today Dell EMC announced new Ready Solutions for AI. With specialized designs for Machine Learning with Hadoop and Deep Learning with NVIDIA, the Dell EMC Ready Solutions simplify AI environments, deliver faster, deeper insights than the competition1, and leverage Dell EMC's proven expertise to help organizations realize the full potential of AI. There's no doubt that AI is the future, and our customers are preparing for it now," said Tom Burns, senior vice president, Networking & Solutions, Dell EMC. "Our goal is to lead the industry with the most powerful and fully-integrated AI solutions. What we're announcing today allows customers at any scale to start seeing better business outcomes and positions them for AI's increasingly important role in the future." Emerging technologies such as AI will transform lives and how people work and conduct business over the next decade. According to Dell Technologies' research with 3,800 business leaders around the globe, conducted in partnership with VansonBourne, nearly 80% of organizations will be investing in advanced AI technologies within the next five years. AI is increasingly a strategic priority for most organizations. However, deploying and managing AI workloads is complex, costly, and requires extensive integration and testing of the hardware and software. The new Dell EMC Ready Solutions for AI were built to simplify AI, deliver faster, deeper insights, and leverage Dell EMC's proven AI expertise. Organizations no longer have to individually source and piece together their own solutions. Instead, they can rely on a Dell EMC-designed and validated set of best-of-breed technologies for software – including AI frameworks and libraries – with compute, networking and storage. Dell EMC's portfolio of services from consulting to deployment, support and education helps customers drive the rapid adoption and optimization of their AI environments. In this video from the Dell EMC HPC Community Meeting, Jay Boisseau from Dell EMC describes how the company is moving forward as a thought leader in Artificial Intelligence. Dell EMC and NVIDIA engineered this deep learning design to be built around Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with NVIDIA Tesla V100 Tensor Core GPUs. AI is being driven by leaps in GPU computing power that defy the slowdown in Moore's Law," said Ian Buck, vice president and general manager, Accelerated Computing Group, NVIDIA.

Humans' time may have run out and artificial intelligence could be about to take our place on Earth, according to James Lovelock. The leading environmental thinker, who became famous for Gaia theory and is soon to turn 100, said that the Earth was in dire trouble and could soon experience intense climate-related disasters. But he still believes himself to be an optimist and thinks that new kinds of life, in the form of AI, will be ready to take over from humans. Amid a flood in Islampur, Jamalpur, Bangladesh, a woman on a raft searches for somewhere dry to take shelter. Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable places in the world to sea level rise, which is expected to make tens of millions of people homeless by 2050.

The developers of Playerunknown's Battlegrounds have promised to fix the game and launched a special website to force them to do so. The page – called "Fix PUBG" – takes its name from a popular rallying cry of fans who are tired of the games various bugs, issues and problems. The website lists 100 major bugs and crosses them off as developers fix them. Many of them have been removed by the latest update for Xbox and PC, though many more are still remaining. 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. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

Nintendo has revealed new details about Super Smash Bros for Switch, the much anticipated game coming later this year. During one of its Nintendo Direct live broadcasts, developers showed off a whole host of new characters, stages, modes and music. And it even announced a new controller – a Gamecube themed accessory that will be available for the Switch. The game will be available for Switch on 7 December, and can be pre-ordered now. Fans who order the limited edition of the game now will get the Gamecube controller and adapter as well as the game itself.

Apple could be forced to drop the charging port in the bottom of its iPhones as part of new plans to help users. The company may be required to use another standard like USB-C instead, so that ports can be standardised across manufacturers. The European Union is looking at new ways of making phone companies all use the same phone chargers, which could include forcing companies to decide on a standard and use it in all phones. 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. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

If you're a tiny bit freaked out by the enormous potential of AI and blockchain, you're not the only one. When Dolly the sheep was cloned in the 90s, a pertinent question arose. Just because we can, does it mean we should? Just because AI and blockchain technologies combined may stop crimes before they happen, replace human jobs with robots, and assign every "thing" in the stratosphere an identity–does it mean they should? Are AI and blockchain combined super cool or a little creepy?

With all the information flying around in businesses today, M-Files has been helping businesses succeed by improving efficiency and maximizing the reusability of information by using M-Files' unique metadata-driven architecture, you can find the right document instantly with a simple keyword search. Recently, they have secured a EUR 27 million financing agreement which they plan to use for international growth, partner channel expansion along with accelerating their R&D. I was able to reach out to Miika Mäkitalo, CEO of M-Files to ask a few questions about what they plan to do with the funding. Miika: "M-Files will use this newly secured financing to fuel our continued international growth, partner channel expansions and accelerated R&D in Europe. As the need for intelligent information management solutions grows rapidly, we are expanding our global footprint and our offices in the UK, Germany, France, Australia and the U.S. M-Files grew revenue by almost 40 percent in 2017 over 2016, including strong growth in both direct sales and through our global partner network, now numbering more than 600 partners worldwide. This financing will continue to fuel that momentum. M-Files will also use this funding to advance our intelligent information management platform, so we can continue to redefine how companies around the world manage information and data."

In my many years testing all sorts of gadgets, few things have elicited as much spontaneous joy as Anki's Cozmo, its adorable robot for kids. Mostly, that was because it had a personality. Behind all of the sensors, cameras and other hardware, there was a team of animators breathing life into it. Now, Anki is taking everything it learned from Cozmo and putting it in a bigger, more powerful home robot: Vector. And unlike Cozmo, you won't need a phone to play with it.