They can unload the dishwasher, deliver packages to your home and open doors. Their thin, metallic legs are able to traverse a steep flight of stairs -- or crawl straight into your worst nightmares. Now Boston Dynamics' awkward, four-legged, doglike robot, SpotMini, is evolving from a YouTube sensation to a purchasable pet of sorts, according to the company's founder, Marc Raibert. Raibert told an audience last month at the CeBIT computer expo in Hanover, Germany, that his company is already testing SpotMini with potential customers from four separate industries: security, delivery, construction and home assistance. His presentation at the expo was reported by Inverse.

Marketers' relentless focus on customer experience has pushed customer relationship management (CRM) into the background. At its most basic level, CRM is a customer database but it should be the glue that holds everything to do with the customer journey together. So before embarking on a mission to overhaul the customer experience with shiny new things like chatbots and augmented reality marketers have got to get the basics right and that means getting legacy technology like customer relationship management fit for purpose. According to Gartner, $40bn was spent worldwide on CRM software in 2017 and it is predicted to be the fastest growing software market in 2018 at a rate of 16%. However, CRM is perceived as a key business driver for only a third of businesses, according to figures from this year's CRM Barometer by Wiraya, which also reveal that in the UK only 35% of companies have fully integrated CRM systems.

On the heels of United States President Donald Trump's historic de-nuclearization summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, non-proliferation is once again a timely topic. Since the dawn of the nuclear age, keeping tabs on who has military-grade nuclear capabilities and materials has been a vital – and difficult – task. Thankfully, it's also one that may be getting easier, thanks to leaps forward in fields like data analysis, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Last month, Thomson Reuters Labs was invited to present at a workshop called "Applications of Innovative Tools and Technologies for Nonproliferation and Disarmament" held in Krems, Austria, for diplomats representing their countries at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and other international organizations. The diplomatic workshop was preceded by a day-long session for technical participants at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation.

Everything was small data before we had big data. The scientific discoveries of the 19th and 20th centuries were all made using small data. Physicists made all calculations by hand, thus exclusively using small data. And yet, they discovered the most beautiful and most fundamental laws of nature. Moreover, they compressed them into simple rules in the form of elegant equations.

Last week, Amazon Studios issued a series order for a new domestic-dystopia drama from Legion writer Nathaniel Halpern. The show, called Tales From the Loop, is based on Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag's award-winning artbook of the same name. Stålenhag's digital paintings, which combine bucolic visions of rural Sweden with sci-fi elements, evoke a haunting familiarity. I caught up with Stålenhag this week to understand his artistic process for Tales From the Loop and to find out what he was most excited to see translated onto the screen. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.

The race to build fully autonomous cars has gone into hyperdrive, with major carmakers such as GM, Daimler, BMW and Audi promising SAE Level 5 autonomous driving by sometime in 2021. Goldman Sachs predicts that robo taxis will grow the ride-hailing and sharing business from $5 billion in revenue today to $285 billion by 2030. Autonomous driving will redefine mobility and historic earning streams are sure to be toppled. Even with all the road testing the carmakers are doing, the only way the car companies can meet their ambitious goals is by leveraging the power of analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to learn on real-world roads and accelerate development using simulations. The automakers are using simulation techniques such as hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and software-in-the-loop (SIL) to make this happen.

Fortnite is celebrating its first anniversary with a special set of Birthday Challenges for players of the popular game, which include dancing in front of cake. There are 10 different cakes to dance in front of, each one placed in a different location on the map. Fortnite players have been sharing where to find them on Twitter and Reddit, as well as through YouTube explainer videos. The beginning of Fornite's birthday was marked with down time, as the popular Battle Royale game deployed the v5.10 update. Scheduled for 9am BST, the update was scheduled to minimise disruption for Fortnite's more-than 125 million players around the world.

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They can unload the dishwasher, deliver packages to your home and open doors. Their thin metallic legs are able to traverse a steep flight of stairs -- or crawl straight into your worst nightmares. Now Boston Dynamics's awkward, four-legged, dog-like robot, SpotMini, is evolving from a viral YouTube sensation to a purchasable pet of sorts, according to the company's founder, Marc Raibert. Raibert told an audience last month at the CeBIT computer expo in Hanover, Germany, that his company is already testing SpotMini with potential customers from four separate industries: security, delivery, construction and home assistance. His presentation at the expo was reported by Inverse.

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian chipmaker AMS, mainly known as a supplier of sensors for Apple's iPhone X, aims to expand further into the fast-growing business of making sensors for self-driving cars. The Swiss-listed company already develops sensors that can help to map roads and control gear shifters and chassis in autonomous vehicles.