Apple has given Siri a new voice. The virtual chatterbox found inside the iPhone now sounds much smarter and more human, according to the company, which unveiled the changes at WWDC. The new voice uses machine learning to replicate the way that people actually speak, according to Apple's engineering head Craig Federighi. 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.

Apple has announced iOS 11, the latest version of its mobile operating system that boasts a variety of small, yet important, improvements. Messages, for instance, now syncs across all of your devices via iCloud and gains a redesigned app drawer for better discovery. Apple Pay is now capable of letting you send cash to other people via iMessage, with the payments authenticated with Touch ID. Siri, meanwhile, gets automatic translation native to its voice interface, a feature that's been sorely lacking in previous versions Siri isn't just a voice assistant anymore, and Apple is pushing the idea that it does a similar job to Google Assistant on Android. For instance, contextual learning and predictive suggestions will be synced across all of your devices, hoping to know what you need before you do.

Confidence in your abilities is usually a good thing – as long as you can recognise when it's time to ask for help. As we build ever smarter software, we may want to apply the same thinking to machines. An experiment that explores a robot's sense of its own usefulness could help guide how future artificial intelligences are built. Overconfident AI can cause all kinds of problems, says Dylan Hadfield-Menell at the University of California, Berkeley. Take Facebook's newsfeed algorithms, for example.

Apple is unveiling a raft of new products at its 2017 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) today. Apple boss Tim Cook is taking to the stage at the McEnery Convention Centre in San Jose and is expected to announce a new Siri smart speaker for the home alongside new iPads. Apple will also unveil iOS 11, the software that will power its eagerly awaited iPhone 8 - although the phone is unlikely to be revealed until September. Apple boss Tim Cook is taking to the stage at the at the McEnery Convention Centre in San Jose and is expected to announce a new Siri smart speaker for the home alongside new iPads. Rumours suggest that Apple will unveil four new iPad models, the iPhone 8, as well as a Siri-powered smart speaker to rival Amazon Echo and Google Home.

Talos I is a beautiful nightmare. The privately-owned research facility, suspended in space above the Earth, offers a captivating blend of science and art-deco design. Its offices are filled with tall, geometric art prints, red leather sofas and mahogany desks laced with gold. The station's lobby, large and extravagant, features two winged-lion statues carved from bronze and a huge set of windows overlooking the Moon. It's gorgeous, but there's a problem -- the vessel is overrun with black, wispy aliens that can hide in everyday objects and kill you in a couple of seconds. Welcome to Prey, the latest video game from Arkane Studios.

That's a broad topic which has been treated many times. Much of what has been written on this topic is good, much is bad. But I find that the stats vs. machine learning argument, at that level, tends to focus on the forest at the cost of completely overlooking the trees. Shah's definitions, which I believe are reflective of many approaches, tend to focus on different ends of the respective spectrums of each of these concepts, treating machine learning as a practical activity and statistics as a theoretical abstraction (and, yes, I'm lumping "statistical modeling" together with "statistics" in this case... at least, for now). The relationship between statistics and machine learning is actually a highly complex one, and merely defining the 2 concepts is not helpful in dissecting this connection.

Artificial intelligence is slowly proving that that video games aren't a total waste of time, at least for machines: It's through learning to play games that AI algorithms can acquire all sorts of generalizable skills, like problem-solving. Now, computer scientists from RWTH Aachen University in Germany and Microsoft Research have released the largest-ever database of human playthroughs for some of the most popular games for the Atari 2600. Artificial agents using deep learning techniques will be able to pull patterns out of these playthroughs and learn from them. According to a paper posted to the arXiv preprint server this week, which is undergoing peer review, the database contains more than 45 hours of gameplay from five games: Q*Bert, Ms. Pacman, Space Invaders, Video Pinball, and Montezuma's Revenge. Video games are an increasingly popular training ground for AI to solve general problems, like how to quickly arrive at a course of action, or how to effectively learn in an environment where the rewards for learning are sparse, which is notoriously the case for Montezuma's Revenge .

The number of threats that organisations are being subjected to is increasing exponentially. As a result, security incident response (IR) teams are being faced with an unprecedented dilemma. Once acting as a reactive, first line of defence against threats flagged by operational units within the organisation, IR teams and their skillsets are evolving to become proactive and preventative, with an emphasis on threat discovery. Centralised event log collection, network traffic archiving, the creation of "data lakes," and a plethora of query and inspection tools have become the new focus for IR teams. They are embracing threat hunting methodologies and employing the latest data mining tools in an attempt to identify threats in motion and reduce threat discovery and response times.

Microsoft has apologised for accidentally releasing a pair of Windows builds that caused serious problems for customers. The company has admitted it didn't intend to release the dodgy software, which affected both desktop and mobile users. The desktop build exposed people to a high number of usability issues, while the mobile build trapped users in a never-ending loop, forcing them to reset their phones and lose their data. 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.

Apple is about to host WWDC, its biggest developer event of the year. And it might also show off the future of your iPhone. Though WWDC is mostly a software event, because it's a developer conference, it does sometimes use it to show off software. This year that's rumoured to be the premiere of its Siri speaker, alongside updated versions of the iPad and Mac. But one thing will very much be lacking in that lineup: the iPhone.