Google announced today that Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs are now available in public beta on its Google Cloud Platform (GCP), accessible through its infrastructure-as-a-service offering Compute Engine and on Kubernetes Engine, its managed environment for deploying containerized applications. The cloud giant also announced general availability of Nvidia's previous-generation P100 parts, in public beta on Google's platform since September 2017. The Tesla V100 is Nvidia's highest-end datacenter GPU, aimed at high-performance computing and machine learning workloads. The first product based on the Volta architecture, unveiled by Nvidia in May 2017, the Tesla V100 for NVLink offers 125 teraflops of mixed-precision floating point, 15.7 teraflops of single-precision floating point, and 7.8 teraflops of double-precision floating point performance. The NVLink 2.0 interconnect provides up to 300GB/s of GPU-to-GPU bandwidth, nearly 10x the data throughput offered by traditional PCIe, boosting performance on deep learning and HPC workloads by up to 40 percent, according to Nvidia.

According to a new report by the House of Lords select committee on AI, the UK is already in an exceptionally strong position. "Britain contains leading AI companies, a dynamic academic research culture, a vigorous start-up ecosystem and a constellation of legal, ethical, financial and linguistic strengths located in proximity to each other," the committee concludes. In the heavy industry sector, the cost of unpredicted repairs or machine failures can be very expensive. For example: A cargo train with an engine failure in will incur costs from its own repairs, from the transit required to reach the broken down engine, and with holding up other trains and cargo in the process. In this episode of the O'Reilly Podcast, I talk with Simon Moss, vice president of industry consulting and solutions, Americas, at Teradata.

A deep-learning system that can sift gravitational wave signals from background noise has been created by physicists in the UK. Deep learning is a neural-inspired pattern recognition technique that has already been applied to image processing, speech recognition and medical diagnoses, among other things. Chris Messenger and colleagues at the University of Glasgow have shown that their system is as effective as conventional signal processing and has the potential to identify gravitational-wave signals much more quickly. Gravitational waves are ripples in space-time that can be observed using the LIGO-Virgo detectors – which are laser interferometers with pairs of arms several kilometres long positioned at right angles to each other. As a wave passes through the Earth it very slightly stretches one arm while squeezing the other, before squeezing the first and stretching the second, and so on.

For centuries, new substances were found during trial and error conducted by scientists or by chance and serendipity. Scientists are utilizing artificial intelligence to hasten this approach. Lately, researchers at Northwestern University utilized AI to find out the way to earn fresh metal-glass hybrids 200 times quicker than they'd have to perform experiments in the laboratory. Other scientists have been constructing databases of tens of thousands of substances so that algorithms may predict that ones unite to form intriguing new substances. Others, however, are utilizing AI to mine printed papers for "recipes" to create these substances.

MPs today warned Mark Zuckerberg they are ready to issue a formal summons to force him to give evidence on the Facebook data scandal. The Culture Committee has written to the billionaire insisting the 40million UK users of his site deserve'answers'. There was fury last week after it emerged Mr Zuckerberg has agreed to give evidence to the European Parliament - despite still snubbing the House of Commons inquiry. He has already appeared before the US senate, but sent a deputy to be grilled by the MPs. The Culture Committee has written to the billionaire insisting the 40million UK users of his site deserve'answers' Culture, Media and Sport Committee chairman Damian Collins stunned his colleagues by revealing the development while they grilled another executive sent in Mr Zuckerberg's place In a letter to Facebook UK's head of public policy Rebecca Stimson, committee chairman Damian Collins wrote: 'Following reports that he will be giving evidence to the European Parliament in May, we would like Mr Zuckerberg to come to London during his European trip. We would like the session here to take place by 24 May.

For the first time, IQ has been linked to neuron size and performance. What makes some people smarter than others? It could come down to your individual brain cells – the bigger and faster your neurons, the higher your IQ. If confirmed, the finding could lead to new ways to enhance human intelligence. Most intelligence research to date has identified brain regions involved in certain skills, or pinpointed hundreds of genes that each play a tiny role in determining IQ. To continue reading this premium article, subscribe for unlimited access.

Artificial intelligence (AI), robots, automation and machine learning are concepts that are appearing more frequently in mainstream media as the technology behind them is constantly improved. But do people in the UK see these making a real difference to how they live their lives? According to a survey this week by Lightspeed, 83% of UK adults believe that AI will one day be smart enough to take over from humans in many types of job, with 27% of respondents claiming this day will come'in my lifetime.' Will machines take over from real people in manufacturing and industry? With Brexit (and a drop in the cost of robots), it's hardly surprising that so many people see this scenario on the horizon.

It's been almost three years since we first came across the Lumos smart cycling helmet, which got our attention with its cunning automatic brake lights and wirelessly-controlled turn signal indicators. The helmet has since been shipping as of late 2016, but the Hong Kong startup didn't stop there. Today -- which happens to be the first day of Bike Month -- Lumos is releasing an update that adds gesture control for the helmet's blinkers via Apple Watch, along with Apple HealthKit integration for automatic cycling tracking. To enable gesture control, the user simply has to install the iOS and watchOS apps, pair the iPhone with the helmet over Bluetooth, calibrate the watch with your left- and right-turn gestures using your watch-wielding hand, then you're good to go. The turn indicators will continue to blink until you shake your hand.

The French Government has designed a new law making it compulsory for the drones to be fitted with signalling lights. The proposal would mandate the installation of beacons on all unmanned aircraft. The proposed beacon would run on unlicensed spectrum allocation and the signalling message takes place in the payload part of Wi-fi frame including- the code for drone's manufacturer, drone's serial number, its latitude, longitude and altitude, its speed and timestamp. The light to be used must not contain the colours used for manned aviation, i.e. red, white, or green. The proposal especially signifies that a single beacon will be acceptable for a swarm of drones.

Russia operatives used an armed robot in a gunfight that left 11 jihadists dead - as they try to stamp out extremism ahead of the World Cup. Counter-terrorism forces engaged extremists in the volatile Islamic region of Dagestan over several days. Dramatic footage shows police marksman firing on a house from an armored vehicle. A compact armed robot is seen approaching the property to engage the jihadists. The bullet-ridden bodies of six men were later shown in pictures released by investigative authorities.