Drones aren't just good for getting your shopping in an instant – by carrying defibrillators they could prove to be life-saving if your heart stops beating. Only around one in ten people survives a cardiac arrest outside hospital. Having a bystander perform chest compressions improves your chances, but a shock from a defibrillator must be applied quickly to restart the heart. Every minute without CPR and defibrillation reduces someone's chance of survival by 10 per cent. Defibrillators are designed to give spoken instructions so that anyone can use them, and many are available in public places.

There have been numerous rumors about Apple's plans to develop self-driving cars, however Company CEO Tim Cook clarified to Bloomberg his company is working on an autonomous car system. Apple has been secretive about its autonomous driving program, called Project Titan. On June 5, during Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, Cook admitted the company is working on self-driving technology. Read: Alexa, Siri, Apple TV: Are Amazon And Apple Putting Their Rivalry Aside? "We're focusing on autonomous systems," Cook told Bloomberg.

A drone was faster at getting to a person's house than an ambulance, according to test runs conducted by Swedish researchers. A drone was faster at getting to a person's house than an ambulance, according to test runs conducted by Swedish researchers. Drones could soon be dropping off packages at customers' doors. But researchers in Sweden have drones in mind for a different, potentially life-saving delivery: automated external defibrillators, or AEDs. Using drones to carry AEDs to people who are in cardiac arrest could reduce the time that elapses between when people go into cardiac arrest and when they receive the first shock from an AED, the researchers say.

We are happy to announce SANSA 0.2 – the second release of the Scalable Semantic Analytics Stack. SANSA employs distributed computing for semantic technologies in order to allow scalable machine learning, inference and querying capabilities for large knowledge graphs. You can find the FAQ and usage examples at http://sansa-stack.net/faq/. We want to thank everyone who helped to create this release, in particular, the projects Big Data Europe, HOBBIT, SAKE and Big Data Ocean.

Since the advent of technology, the age-old battle of man versus machine has been an issue. Whether it's televisions entering homes in the mid-20th-century or personal computers coming onto the scene in the late 1980s, technology has no doubt had an effect on everyday life. By integrating tech into various aspects of everyday life, many processes have become streamlined. And in the case of the last decade, many processes have become automated. This brings into question the work of humans and the work of machines.

The best medicine for a person who goes into sudden cardiac arrest is an electric shock. That jolt temporarily stops the heart, along with its rapid or erratic beat. When the heart starts itself up again, it can revert to its normal rhythm and resume pumping blood to the brain and the rest of the body. The sooner this happens, the better. When a patient is shocked within one minute of collapse, the chance of survival is nearly 90%.

What could your computer, phone, or other gadget do differently if it knew how you were feeling? Rana el Kaliouby, founder and CEO of Affectiva, is considering the possibilities of such a world. Speaking at the Computer History Museum last week, el Kaliouby said that she has been working to teach computers to read human faces since 2000 as a PhD student at Cambridge University. "I remember being stressed," she says. "I had a paper deadline, and "Clippy" [that's Microsoft's ill-fated computer assistant] would pop up and do a little twirl and say'It looks like you are writing a letter.' I would think, 'No I'm not!'"

An Australian startup revealed its flagship product, an earpiece that can interpret 8 different languages in real-time, at a United Nations event in Switzerland on Friday. Lingmo International, a startup based in West Gosford north of Sydney, launched its TranslateOne2One earpiece at the UN's Artificial Intelligence for Good Summit in Geneva, revealing that IBM Watson machine learning technology had been used for its algorithms. Traditionally, converting one language to another orally in real-time is called "interpreting" whereas the term "translation" is reserved for processing text across languages with some delay. Lingmo founder Danny May, however, describes his product as performing "translation in real-time". And what I mean by independent is that it doesn't require any connectivity to your phone by Bluetooth or wi-fi.

Nikolas Badminton is a researcher and futurist based in Vancouver, Canada, and provides opinions about humanity, the future of work and life with technology. His opinions and thoughts on the future can be seen at nikolasbadminton.com. Money makes the world go round, or so they say. Payments, investments, insurance and billions of transactions are the beating heart of a fractal economy, which echoes the messy complexity of natural systems, such as the growth of living organisms and the bouncing of atoms. Financial systems are larger than the sum of their parts.

The purpose of this article is to clarify a few misconceptions about data and statistical science. I will start with a controversial statement: data science barely uses statistical science and techniques. The truth is actually more nuanced, as explained below. But the new statistical science in question is not regarded as statistics, by many statisticians. I don't know how to call it, "new statistical science" is a misnomer, because it is not all that novel.