The Rock's Baywatch reboot may be drowning, not waving, in multiplexes around the globe, but there is one territory where cinemagoers apparently can't get enough of it: Germany. Put it down to the enduring cultural impact of David Hasselhoff, but the country of Angela Merkel is almost single-handedly saving Baywatch from box-office infamy. It's not the first time a movie has struck an unexpected chord somewhere far from home, as these examples demonstrate. An ambitious $160m (£124m) adaptation of an ailing online video game, Warcraft was conceived as the first instalment of a trilogy set in the magical realm of Azeroth, telling a generation-spanning tale of displaced orcs and angry sorcerers. In some countries it even came billed as Warcraft: The Beginning.

Donald Trump is being sued because of his behaviour on Twitter. The president's unprecedented Twitter use – which he has said is "modern day presidential" – has landed him a range of criticism in recent weeks. But the new lawsuit actually focuses not on his tweets but something else more private: his blocking critics on the site. The new case argued that it is unconstitutional to stop people following him on Twitter. 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.

BUCHAREST – Someone in Romania thought he'd made a fair amount of money when he sold an old typewriter for €100 ($115) at a flea market. The "typewriter" was, in fact, a German Wehrmacht Enigma I, a World War II cipher machine, and the collector who bought it put it up for sale at the Bucharest auction house Artmark with a starting price of €9,000. On Tuesday, Artmark sold it to an online bidder for €45,000. "The collector bought it from a flea market. He's a cryptography professor and … he knew very well what he was buying," said Cristian Gavrila, the collectible consignment manager at Artmark.

If you're a regular visitor to our website you'll know that every month we scour the internet seeking out free eBooks to help you on your educational journey. Well, it has been so popular that we decided to create a regular monthly series here at Data Science Central. I hope this will prove to be a valuable resource to you that you will visit regularly (and invite your friends too). This month, we're taking advantage of O'Reilly offering a few of their Data Science eBooks for FREE and have picked up a few for you that we think you will find interesting. These are short and easy reports for you to read, so grab a coffee and a Danish, and let's get started... Going Pro in Data Science by Jerry Overton Digging for answers to your pressing business questions probably won't resemble those tidy case studies that lead you step-by-step from data collection to cool insights.

There was a time when every neighbourhood bank in North America and Europe was acquired by or merged with a larger institution. By 2000, global mega-banks offered fewer choices to consumers looking for competitive interest rates and other services. But the too big to fail banks are now facing competition in the form of a resurgence of customer-friendly, local banks. There is an even bigger challenge: Technology companies have been applying for financial licences that would allow them to enter the digital payments space. As traditional banks grapple with the challenges posed by fintech, legacy constraints and traditional operational models, artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as the saviour.

When Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency in November with a promise to lure back manufacturing jobs, Sean Patton trimmed his sales projections for 2017. Patton is head of business development for Genesis-ICESA Systems, a family-run automation integrator based in Mexico's Bajío region. His company largely caters to the country's burgeoning automotive industry, a big exporter to the United States. Midway through 2017, however, it looks as if Mexico's automotive engine can't be stalled: the industry is anticipating its eighth consecutive year of record-high production and exports. And in a bid to stay competitive, the Mexican car industry is embracing ever more automation.

Welcome to the first of a series of posts where we dive into use cases that are shaping and expanding what's possible with machine learning. Each month, we'll post the Top 10 use cases from the IBM Machine Learning Hub -- where IBM hosts data scientists to collaborate on prototypes with our in-house ML specialists. We anticipate the Top 10 will change as industries adopt machine learning at different rates and as entirely new use cases emerge -- so check back. We kick off the Top 10 with a look at three off-the-radar ways that machine learning is driving vital improvements to government agencies. Next month, we explore health care use cases.

Originally posted on The Horizons Tracker. Science offers one of the more interesting areas that could be impacted by the use of artificial intelligence, and I've written before about its use in enhancing medical research. A nice example of this in action comes via a couple of chemists from the University of Basel. In a recent paper they describe how AI was used to explore the characteristics of crystals as they hunt for those with certain thermodynamic properties. Crystals are commonly used in electronics because their application as both a semi-conductor and insulator.

As global experts continue to refine the technology behind artificial intelligence (AI), many also continue to debate whether that technology will help -- or hurt -- human society. For the last few decades, we've seen tons of movies outlining the ways giant, weaponized robots can outsmart humankind -- potentially wiping us out altogether. Last year, Hawking went on record saying AI could be the last major event in our history -- unless we learn to avoid the risks. But what exactly are those risks? And how can we avoid them?

Google's artificial intelligence (AI) subsidiary DeepMind has released a paper detailing how its AI agents have taught themselves to navigate complex virtual environments, and the results are weird, wonderful, and often extremely funny. The agents in the simulations were programmed with a set of sensors-- these allowed them to know things like when they were upright or if their leg was bent -- and a drive to continue moving forward. Everything else that you see in the video -- the agents' jumping, running, using knees to scale obstacles, etc. -- is the result of the AI working out how best to continue moving forward through reinforcement learning. The complexity of the agents' movements is a testament to how far AI has come in recent years. While agents in simulations like these often break down when faced with unfamiliar environments, DeepMind's have utilized startlingly sophisticated movements to traverse obstacles.