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Three down: Mobile network customers could be receiving calls and have no idea

The Independent - Tech

Three is down โ€“ and its users might have no idea. The network has stopped letting its users receive phone calls โ€“ though ringing out appears to work โ€“ but it hasn't notified anyone who uses it that it has broken. And it won't be telling them when it's fixed again, either. The problem means that people might be trying to make important calls to Three customers, but that they wouldn't have any idea. 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.


InMotion is the world's first driverless living room

Daily Mail - Science & tech

When you're having a lazy day, it can be tough to drag yourself away from the sofa. But a bizarre new driverless vehicle concept could soon mean that you don't have to. InMotion is the world's first self-driving room, which ditches the steering wheel and driving column in favour of a spacious area, for comfort on the go. InMotion is the world's first self-driving room, which ditches the steering wheel and driving column in favour of a spacious area, for comfort on the go The InMotion vehicle was revealed by National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) at the CES technology show in Shanghai this week for the first time. Its designers see it as a vision on how we can travel safely in the future without owning a car, and without a driver.


Xbox One X: Microsoft reveals price of new console at E3 2017

The Independent - Tech

People are going to keep buying the new Xbox One X despite its huge price tag, according to experts. The new console costs ยฃ449 โ€“ ยฃ100 more than the similarly new and powerful PS4 Pro. But Microsoft hopes that the new console โ€“ the most powerful ever made, and 40 per cent quicker than any other โ€“ will be enough to win people over. 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.


Jaguar Land Rover invests ยฃ20m in Lyft

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Britain's biggest carmaker Jaguar Land Rover has invested ยฃ19.6 million ($25 million) in taxi-hailing company Lyft, one of Uber's biggest rivals. Jaguar Land Rover, which will supply a fleet of vehicles as part of the deal, said the money would help develop and test technology for self-driving cars. Uber and Lyft, both based in San Francisco, are racing to develop self-driving taxi technology. Jaguar Land Rover has invested ยฃ19.6 million ($25 million) in taxi-hailing company Lyft, one of Uber's biggest rivals. Ninety-five per cent of miles travelled will happen in autonomous electric vehicles which are owned by fleets rather than individuals in little more than a decade, a report by California research group RethinkX found last month. The report found Autonomous Electric Vehicles (A-EVs) will be owned by companies providing Transport as a Service (TaaS) by 2030 which will make up 60 per cent of vehicles on US roads.


Amazon's Alexa vs. Google's Assistant: Same Questions, Different Answers

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The cheetah can accelerate from zero to 96.6 kph in under three seconds. These cases show where the Google approach gives inferior answers. If you type the first question into Google, you get a "Popular on the web" snippet with photos of several candidates. Google just reads this, even omitting any kind of pause after "web" and before "cheetah." To top it off, the correct answer isn't even in the list it reads, and appears 10th in the list of animals. In the second question, you also don't get the correct answer from Google.


Xbox One X: Microsoft reveals 'Project Scorpio' console, including release date and price

The Independent - Tech

Microsoft has revealed its new console, which it says is the most powerful ever made. The Xbox One X has the fastest chip ever used in a console and will be capable of showing games with better graphics and clarity than ever before, the company said. It will go on sale on 7 November, Microsoft said during a spectacular demonstration at the E3 games conference. 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.


AI And Ethics: We Will Live What Machines Learn

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Big Data analytics, machine learning, and other emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have, in a very short time, become astonishingly good at helping companies see, and react to, patterns in data they would otherwise have missed. More and more, however, these new patterns carry difficult ethical choices. Not every connection between data points needs to be made, nor does every new insight need to be used. Consider these embarrassing real-world examples': Similarly, Microsoft had a mortifying experience in early 2016 with "Tay," a chatbot intended to be a fun experiment in training an AI to understand conversational language. However, when trolls coordinated their efforts on Twitter and in messaging apps GroupMe and Kik, they were able to teach Tay to respond to them in appallingly racist ways, forcing Microsoft to take the AI offline after just 16 hours. Artificial intelligence has already progressed to the point that we're already asking it to automate not just business processes, but ethical choices.


Xbox One X is unveiled by Microsoft at E3 in Los Angeles

Daily Mail - Science & tech

'That is what the future of gaming is going to look like.' Microsoft is also courting players by working to make more popular games from earlier Xbox console versions playable on its latest hardware. Microsoft also just launched a subscription service for Xbox, letting players pay a monthly fee for access to a videogames library for its console. Sony makes a library of videogames available as part of a subscription service for PlayStation consoles. Attendees wear t-shirts reading'Nerd Must Die, I Witnessed the Most Powerful Console Ever' at E3


Artificial Intelligence is the next big threat to job creation Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis

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Weiqi is a 2500-year-old board game from China. In English, the game is called Go. Played on a large square board, with 19*19 squares (chess is 8*8), Go is a two-player game of strategy. Each player tries to win by encircling the other. Given the number of squares and moves, it is believed that there are more moves than atoms in the known universe. The game is complex, and it takes great skill to master.


Researchers have found a way to root out identity thieves by analyzing their mouse movements

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Identity theft is often a multi-layered process. Once a thief gets one bit of your information, they try to use it to get more. The hackers behind the 2015 data breach of the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS), for example, used personal information they'd previously stolen from thousands of Americans to answer security questions on the IRS website, and in turn get access to their tax returns. The security questions asked about personal details, like, "On which of the following streets have you lived?" and, "What is your total scheduled monthly mortgage payment?" The hackers in the IRS case successfully got through that security measure, but what if the agency had a system in place that could detect whether the person answering the questions really was who they claimed to be?