A new study just confirmed that makeup does in fact make you feel smarter and can lead to better grades too. Researchers from Harvard Medical School and the University of Chieti, Italy put the'lipstick effect' to the test and discovered that female students who wear makeup cognitively benefit from the psychological phenomenon in which wearing cosmetics can make an individual feel a sense of overall enhancement in self-esteem, attitude, and personality. The effect of makeup even proved to be a better predictor for higher grades than mood boosters like listening to positive music. It's well-documented that wearers feels more physically attractive and consequently revel in a higher sense of self-esteem while wearing makeup, but the effect of cosmetics on cognitive abilities hadn't previously been determined Researchers sorted 186 female undergraduate students into groups. Each was tasked with a different'mood-influencing task': listening to a positive music, coloring a drawing of a human face or applying makeup.

Although hailed as a computing pioneer, and an icon for those promoting women in science, detractors persist in painting her as an intellectual lightweight with an overhyped reputation, and some suggest she didn't even write the paper for which she is famous. Invited to work on a display celebrating Lovelace, I had a chance to sort fact from fiction. Organised by the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library, it has now

Getting a pizza delivered just got easier, thanks to a new feature for the Alexa smart assistant. A deal signed between Domino's and Amazon means the firm's voice activated devices will now allow you to order your favourite items with a single command. GPS tracking in trial locations also means the service can tell you exactly how far away your delivery is, right down to the minute. Getting a pizza delivered just got a slice easier, thanks to a new feature for the Alexa smart assistant. A deal signed between Domino's and Amazon means the firm's voice activated devices (pictured) will now allow you to order your favourite items with a single command Pizza fans can now simply call for Alexa, who will take care of your order.

The world is experiencing an unprecedented rate of technologically-driven disruption - adding weight to the proposition that humanity will see more change in the next 20 to 25 years than the last 200. Although a critical driver, it is important to realise that exponential science and technology developments (e.g. While technological change is a constant factor across all these drivers, let's home in on how exponential technology development could impact the future of business and work. There have been several studies into the possible impact of automation - mostly through AI and robotics - on jobs and employment. There are a range of perspectives, but looking across the studies, the broad consensus is that something significant will happen – and arguably is already happening - to the jobs market.

Synechron Inc., the global financial services consulting and technology services provider, has announced that nearly 60 financial institutions are set to implement artificial intelligence (AI) technology – with interest spanning across four continents. Currently, 57 financial institutions based in Europe, the US, Middle East and Asia are being helped to adopt AI technology by Synechron: 28% of these firms are based in Europe with UK headquartered institutions accounting for nearly half (45%) of the interest in Europe, and 23% of interest worldwide. And, 25% of firms set to implement AI are also based in the United States. Of the 57 firms looking to implement AI, 30% are focused on robotic process automation, and another 30% is focused on chatbots. A further 26% involve natural language processing or natural language generation.

Will.I.Am is trying to get into your house. The Black Eyed Pea has already attempted, mostly unsuccessfully, to get onto people's wrists, around their phones and into their cars. But now he appears to be launching perhaps his most ambitious project: running people's homes. His company, i.am, has bought connected home startup Wink. That firm makes an app and a hub that are intended to talk to all the other smart products inside a person's home, unifying them all under one operating system.

FuboTV is a streaming bundle for fans of futbol, not football. For $35 per month--a promo rate that will eventually rise to $50 per month for new subscribers--FuboTV offers roughly 50 streaming channels, more than a dozen of which revolve around live sports. And with channels like BeIN Sports, Fox Soccer Plus, and Eleven Sports in the lineup, soccer always seems to be on TV. That focus helps FuboTV stand out from other streaming bundles such as Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, and Hulu with Live TV, but it involves a trade-off: Without ESPN channels, the NFL Network, TNT, or TBS, FuboTV is an incomplete sports offering, especially for fans of football, basketball, and the ESPN's army of talking heads. The $35-per-month promo rate also comes at a price, as Fubo's television apps remain a work in progress.

Over the past year firms like AggregateIQ and Cambridge Analytica have been credited with using AI-targeted ads on social media to help swing the Brexit referendum and the US presidential election respectively. But a lack of evidence meant we have never known whether the technology exists to make this possible. Now the first study detailing the process from start to finish is finally shedding some light. "This is the first time that I've seen all the dots connected," says Joanna Bryson, an artificial intelligence researcher at the University of Bath, UK. At the heart of the debate is psychographic targeting – the directing of political campaigns at people via social media based on their personality and political interests, with the aid of vast amount of data filtered by artificial intelligence.

Amazon's range of smart speakers and their artificial intelligence assistant Alexa have proved to be a huge sales hit. But the product is still a shadow of what the man in charge - Dave Limp - and indeed their owners, hope it will become. "We have thousands of engineers inside Amazon adding to [its] capability every day and then another tens of thousands of developers adding to the skills," he tells the BBC. "The thing I am sure of is that this time next year she will be significantly more intelligent than she is now, and that sometime in the future we will hit our goal of reinventing the Star Trek computer." It's a lofty goal, especially since any attempt to go beyond commanding a weather update or asking for the lights to be switched on is currently asking for trouble.

It's about to get a lot more expensive to play PlayStation online. Sony has announced that it will increase the price of its Plus membership – required to play the console over the internet – significantly next month. And the price rise will happen automatically unless people go through a complicated process to cancel it. 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.