WhatsApp has added a pair of new features designed to encourage you to share more pictures through it. The messaging app now offers a selection of filters, which you can use to edit your photographs, videos and even GIFs, before sharing them. It's a mildly surprising move, but is clearly designed to keep younger users engaged. 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.

Aircraft fuel is without a doubt the biggest cost for any airline and often receives widespread attention, especially when airlines hedge their bets the wrong way. Cathay Pacific reported a HK$4.49 billion fuel-hedging loss in the first half of 2016, which has hurt the airline's profitability. The second biggest expense for an airline is human capital, and researchers from Hong Kong Polytechnic University and University of Nottingham Ningbo China Business School may have found a solution to ease some of Cathays financial woes through an unlikely source – Machine Learning and Data Science. The researchers say that a "poorly designed airline crew schedule can result in unreliable flight schedules, significantly jeopardizing airline operations and profitability if insufficient crew members are available or other glitches occur. For that reason, managing airline crew scheduling and costs are one of the most crucial topics for airlines because it yields enormous economic benefits and ranks as the second highest expenditure after fuel costs."

Phoenix, one of Kodi's most popular add-ons, has just closed down. It provided access to TV shows, films and sports channels, and the announcement will undoubtedly surprise and disappoint a huge number of fans. While specific reasons for its closure haven't been detailed, one of Phoenix's developers has hinted that it was because of the legal issues surrounding Kodi. 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.

DeepTech, or deep technology, is an ambiguous term that is generally used to refer to AI, robotics, chip development, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and the Internet of Things combined. It is also described as a merger between science, creativity and entrepreneurship. DeepTech companies are founded on scientific discovery and innovative engineering as opposed to business models. This means they have the freedom to work towards positively affecting humanity without adhering to a specific strategy. Due to their complicated nature and perceived lack of business applications, DeepTech startups have found it difficult to gain funding.

In 2015, after much research, I wrote about China having 194 robot companies and used screen shots of The Robot Report's Global Map to show where they were and a chart to show their makeup. We've just concluded another research project and have added hundreds of new Chinese companies to the database and global map. China installed 90,000 robots in 2016, 1/3 of the world's total and a 30% increase over 2015. Simply said, China has three drivers helping them move toward country-wide adoption of robotics: scale, growth momentum, and money. Startup companies can achieve scale quickly because the domestic market is so large.

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Alcides Moreno and his brother Edgar were window washers in New York City. The two Ecuadorian immigrants worked for City Wide Window Cleaning, suspended high above the congested streets, dragging wet squeegees across the acres of glass that make up the skyline of Manhattan. On 7 December 2007, the brothers took an elevator to the roof of Solow Tower, a 47-storey apartment building on the Upper East Side. Over 420,000 people die worldwide each year after falling. Falls are the second leading cause of death by injury, after car accidents. They stepped onto the 16-foot-long, three-foot-wide aluminium scaffolding designed to slowly lower them down the black glass of the building. But the anchors holding the 1,250-pound platform instead gave way, plunging it and them 472 feet to the alley below. Scientists studying falling are developing'safe landing responses' to help limit the damage from falls. If you are falling, first protect your head – 37 per cent of falls by elderly people in a study by Professor Stephen Robinovitch of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, involved hitting their heads, particularly during falls forward. Fight trainers and parachute jump coaches encourage people to try not to fall straight forward or backward. The key is to roll, and try to let the fleshy side parts of your body absorb the impact.

We met with Lundbeck, a Danish pharmaceutical company interested in experimenting with bots and Artificial Intelligence. We started the day meeting Holm Kommunication, a digital agency working with public institutions to help them implement bots and AI technology in their operations. Then we moved to Copenhagen Fintech Lab, where Francesco Stasi and Kumar Shridhar took the stage to talk about bots in FinTech. We concluded the day publishing a new article on Generative Model Chatbots, written by our Co-Chief Scientist Kumar Shridhar. We met with BetterHome to kick start our latest bot project.

THE PERFORMANCE of humans' puny brains will be outmatched by computers within just 13 years, billionaire Elon Musk has claimed. The Tesla and SpaceX founder said that artificial intelligence will beat us at just about everything by 2030. He made the comments on Twitter, where he was responding to a new study which claims our race will be overtaken by 2060. "Probably closer to 2030 to 2040 in my opinion," he wrote. Machines will be better than us at translating languages by 2024 and writing school essays by 2026, they claimed.

From Silicon Valley's perspective, Brexit, President Trump, and populist revolts around the world are incongruous to what is really going on. Large numbers of workers are getting left behind in the wake of automation and artificial intelligence and most governments are not nearly nimble enough to react. Most people have a skewed perception of their role in a situation, as well as others' motives. The majority will happily take credit for positive outcomes, while often feeling victimized by negative ones. There's a push to return to the days where people weren't feeling choked economically.