Facebook has launched yet another politically focused feature. The social network is making the most of the general election, and has created a collection of new graphics breaking down the results. A notification saying, "You have newly elected representatives. Find out who represents your constituency," has just started rolling out to users. 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.

Scientists have figured out a way to understand the facial expressions of sheep using artificial intelligence, which they hope will help improve the welfare of sheep and other animals. Researchers from the University of Cambridge developed a machine-learning technique to estimate the severity of a sheep's pain using the Sheep Pain Facial Expression Scale (SPFES)--a tool used to assess pain based on facial expressions of the sheep. The work built on earlier research into teaching computers to recognize human emotions and expressions. "There's been much more study over the years with people," said Professor Peter Robinson, who led the research. "But a lot of the earlier work on the faces of animals was actually done by Darwin, who argued that all humans and many animals show emotion through remarkably similar behaviours, so we thought there would likely be crossover between animals and our work in human faces."

Apple is introducing a convenient new Wi-Fi password-sharing feature in iOS 11. The next time somebody wants to connect to your home network, you won't need to go through the hassle of rummaging around for your password card and, once you've found it, desperately hoping they type out the complex string of characters correctly. Instead, you'll be able to get them connected with a single tap of a button. 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.

Humans are not either thinking machines or feeling machines but rather feeling machines that think.

Lecturer Steffen Pfiffner of University of Weingarten in Germany is teaching ROS to 26 students at the same time at a very fast pace. They connect to a web page containing the lessons, a ROS development environment and several ROS based simulated robots. Using the browser, Pfiffner and his colleague Benjamin Stähle, are able to teach how to program with ROS quickly and to many students. This is what Robot Ignite Academy is made for. "With Ignite Academy our students can jump right into ROS without all the hardware and software setup problems. And the best: they can do this from everywhere," says Pfiffner.

Enterprise software giant SAP is positioning its Leonardo Innovation Platform to be an Internet of Things (IoT) powerhouse on par with rivals like GE's Predix, IBM's Watson, and Siemens' Mindsphere. SAP's Leonardo IoT platform is a collection of software and services that embrace technologies like big data, analytics, blockchain, and machine learning. Leonardo resides in the microservices layer and offers an open API. The company refers to Leonardo as a digital innovation system and markets it to customers as a way to evolve their business and take advantage of automation. Leonardo will provide edge connectivity and will work with all types of connectivity protocols including cellular, WiFi, and even low-power options like Bluetooth.

Yusuke Goto would have crashed his Toyota Crown five years ago if the premium sedan hadn't detected the 45-year-old was veering off and righted the steering wheel. So when he found similar features in the cheaper Nissan Serena minivan, it was an easy choice. "Earlier you could only find such features in premium sedans but I have a big family and I want to make sure they are safe when we drive for a weekend getaway," Goto said on a recent visit to a Nissan showroom in Tokyo with his family. "I've become hugely interested in autonomous driving after that experience." At ¥3 million ($27,400), Nissan Motor's Serena minivan was the first model in Japan in its price bracket that offers what's known in the industry as "level 2" autonomous driving features, similar to what Tesla offers with its Autopilot function in the $80,000 Model S. A car with level 2 functionality can control steering and speed simultaneously without intervention for a short period, allowing the driver to take his hands off the wheel and foot off pedal at the same time. Nissan chose to debut its autonomous features in its mass-market model instead of the premium Infiniti brand, and the decision has paid off for the automaker.

So there's a blend of anticipation and dread within a wide range of organizations and industries--and public-sector agencies are no exception.4 Conversations with government executives suggest that most lack a clear vision of how AI applications might affect their staff and missions, which is understandable, since prior research hardly offers an actionable forecast. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics optimistically predicts that government workforces will see almost no job losses between now and 2024,5 while a recent study by Deloitte-UK and Oxford University suggests that up to 18 percent of UK public-sector jobs could be automated by 2030.6 We've attempted to bring clarity to the confusion, for agency chiefs looking to future workforce needs. Our view is that the key to planning ahead is understanding how much time cognitive technologies could save. And indeed, our research, based on a new method for studying AI-based technology's effects on government workforces, indicates that cognitive technologies could free up large numbers of labor hours by automating certain tasks and allowing managers to shift employees to tasks requiring human judgment. These new applications could save hundreds of millions of staff hours and billions of dollars annually.

Your mother was right: you are special. While each of us is a perfect little snowflake in our own right, that doesn't necessarily mean we possess world-shaking skills. But back in the lab, data scientists are cranking out algorithms that exceed human capability on a regular basis. About a year ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg predicted that artificial intelligence (AI) would generally surpass humans in core sensory capabilities (like seeing and hearing) in about five to 10 years. AI still can't "actually look at the photo and deeply understand what's in it or look at the videos and understand what's in it," he said at the time.

We knew that Masayoshi Son, founder and CEO of telecom giant SoftBank, loved robots. Now the Japanese billionaire is about to significantly expand his collection. Minutes ago, SoftBank announced that it will be acquiring Boston Dynamics and Schaft for an undisclosed sum, in order to "collaborate in advancing the development of smart robotics technologies." Boston Dynamics and Schaft were two of the nine robot companies that Google acquired in 2013 to form the core of its robotics division, headed by Android founder Andy Rubin. As far as anyone could tell, not much happened after all those companies became part of Google, and not much continued to happen through 2016, much to the frustration of roboticists everywhere.