Technology-driven hedge fund manager Winton has named its second cohort from the Winton Labs accelerator, which will pitch at a Demo Day on 9 February. The second Winton Labs programme has been run in collaboration with The Alan Turing Institute, whose academics have provided the startups with technical mentorship. Unlike other accelerators, Winton takes no equity from the companies who participate in the programme, instead offering each selected business a cash injection to help further their development, said a statement. The programme involves companies meeting potential customers and over 70 leading industry experts including, investors, advisors and members of Winton's network. It culminates with a demo day where participants are invited to present their companies to attendees, comprising some of Europe's best-known investors.

A major Dark Web marketplace where people can buy illegal goods, such as drugs and guns, has gone offline without explanation. AlphaBay, which has been dubbed "the new Silk Road", went down earlier today. While this isn't completely unusual - the market goes offline for maintenance sometimes - users have started speculating that the downtime could be linked to huge Bitcoin transactions that have reportedly been made from AlphaBay's accounts. 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. Japan's On-Art Corp's CEO Kazuya Kanemaru poses with his company's eight metre tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot'TRX03' and other robots during a demonstration in Tokyo, Japan Japan's On-Art Corp's eight metre tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot'TRX03' performs during its unveiling in Tokyo, Japan Singulato Motors co-founder and CEO Shen Haiyin poses in his company's concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China A picture shows Singulato Motors' concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China Connected company president Shigeki Tomoyama addresses a press briefing as he elaborates on Toyota's "connected strategy" in Tokyo.

STEP into a taxi in south London later this year and you might not have to think about paying a tip. The UK's first fully public trial of autonomous vehicles will soon be under way. For four weeks, a fleet of driverless shuttles will each ferry up to five passengers and a "safety warden" along a 2-kilometre route in Greenwich. Previous trials there and in the town of Milton Keynes required participants to register in advance. This time the vehicles will pick up anyone wanting a ride.

Cycling fans will be able to get deeper insights into one of the most popular races, Tour de France, with the introduction of machine learning algorithm. The race, which began in Düsseldorf, Germany on July 1, finishes at the Champs-Élysées in Paris on July 23. The new data analytics platform combines live and historical race data, and also enables fans to benefit from rider profiles to understand better the environments and circumstances in which riders perform best. At the core of the live tracking and data analytics solution are GPS transponders installed under the saddles of each bike. The data collected from these transponders is combined with external data about the course gradient and prevailing weather conditions to generate insights such as live speed and the location of individual riders, distance between riders, and composition of groups within the race.

In 2013, Oxford University published research that said accountants and auditors have a 94 per cent chance of being replaced by robots. It is no surprise that areas of the finance function are at risk of automation. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are powerful, and are improving quickly and constantly. Evidence from areas like medical diagnostics show that algorithms can make vital decisions – and perhaps better ones than people. Attempts to ignore the fact that machine learning is superseding human capabilities are fated to end in failure.

Einride has just revealed the prototype of the T-pod, its autonomous electric truck. The Swedish company's self-driving vehicle can transport 15 standard pallets and can travel 124 miles on one charge. And because there's no need for a person to sit inside of it, the T-pod also has no cab space and no windows -- giving it a very futuristically odd look. The truck uses a hybrid driverless system. While on highways, the T-pod drives itself, but on main roads, a human will remotely manage the driving system.

The purpose of this essay is to understand some technologies that will impact the hospitality industry in the near future – the year 2020 is arbitrary, I had first titled the article as'Hospitality Technology 2025' but the pace of technological developments shifted the horizon! Each of these is elaborated in the next paragraphs. Caveat: This is a very quick overview. Each of these technologies is complex and is associated with a number of'human' and moral questions. For example, who is responsible for a death if the vehicle causing the accident is a self-driving car?

There is a lot of hype and plenty of fear around artificial intelligence and its impact on the future of healthcare. There are many signs pointing towards the fact that AI will completely move the world of medicine. As deep learning algorithms and narrow AI started to buzz especially around the field of medical imaging, many radiologists went into panic mode. In his presentation at the GPU Tech Conference in San Jose in May 2017, Curtis Langlotz, Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University, mentioned how he received an e-mail from one of his students saying he was thinking about going into radiology but does not know whether it is a viable profession anymore. But the assumption that the radiologist profession is dying, is just plain wrong.

A prototype Moby Mart is being tested in Shanghai, China. Per Cromwell, the project's lead designer, says four to six additional mobile supermarkets are planned in the coming year. A prototype Moby Mart is being tested in Shanghai, China. Per Cromwell, the project's lead designer, says four to six additional mobile supermarkets are planned in the coming year. Browse the science fiction aisles and you can find all sorts of dystopian future visions -- environmental catastrophes, robot overlords, zombies swarms, triffids.

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