To incorporate drones in our lives in a good and safe way, we need anti-drone instruments. On 4 December the TU Delft Micro Air Vehicle Lab (MAVLab) will host the first ever anti-drone competition: DroneClash. During this competition, participants use their own drone(s) to take down as many other drones as possible. They also need to avoid a whole series of anti-drone interventions. 'Drones can fly into our lives, but we need to be able to take them out again if necessary' says Bart Remes of the TU Delft MAVLab. 'Drone development has grown hugely in recent years, and you can see the anti-drone industry growing too.

After months of leaks and countless rumours, the Samsung Galaxy S8 has been officially unveiled. The eagerly-awaited iPhone rival features a radical redesign to allow a massive 5.8-inch screen to be squeezed in to a device with a relatively small footprint. The device is one of two new phones with the S8 landing alongside the even larger 6.2-inch Samsung Galaxy S8 . Both feature facial recognition technology that allows users to unlock the phone with their face, and a Bixby'personal assistant' button. They are available for preorder on March 30th and will be shipping on April 21st.

Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy S8 and S8, the company's first flagship phones since the Note 7 debacle in 2016 threatened to sink its brand in the eyes of the public. The new phones' most eye-catching feature is an almost completely bezel-free display, running the full width of the device, even curving around the edge (akin to the screen on Samsung's Galaxy S7 Edge), and shrinking the chin and forehead of the front screen to tiny slivers. Samsung's calls this the "infinity display", and even the home button has been removed, replaced with a pressure-sensitive section at the bottom of the screen. Launching on 28 April (though pre-order customers will receive theirs a week early), the Galaxy S8 will retail at £689 and the S8 at £779. Those prices are £10 and £40 cheaper than the respective iPhone models Samsung is competing with, but leave the S8 £120 more than the S7 and the S8 £140 more expensive than the S7 Edge. Two colours will hit Britain, "Midnight Black" and "Orchid Grey", and Samsung is still decided whether to launch a third colour, "Arctic Silver".

This robot has eyes that appear to follow you around the room. Called Transgazer, the robot was designed by researchers at the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation in Japan, who think that eye contact could be the key to improving human-robot interactions. The robot has a concave eye design that makes it appear to stare at you even if you are not standing directly in front of it. "We thought'why be restricted by human eyes?' Robot eyes could be very different," says Yuki Kinoshita, one of Transgazer's creators. Human eyes only give the impression of looking at someone when we actually are.

An immersive film project is attempting to understand how people react in stressful situations by using artificial intelligence (AI), film and gaming technologies to place participants inside a simulated riot and then detecting their emotions in real time. Called Riot, the project is the result of a collaboration between award winning multidisciplinary immersive filmmaker Karen Palmer and Professor Hongying Meng from Brunel University. The two have worked together previously on Syncself2, a dynamic interactive video installation. Riot was inspired by global unrest, and was specifically inspired by Palmer's experience of watching live footage of the Ferguson protests in 2015. "I felt a big sense of frustration, anger and helplessness. I needed to create a piece of work that would encourage dialogue around these types of social issues. Riots all over the world now seem to be [the] last form of [community] expression," she said.

The global chain has dropped pies from the skies with drones. It's working to let you order from any gadget you can hook up to the internet. It launched an artificial intelligence platform. Starting today, when the hungry masses in Hamburg, Germany order from Domino's, it may not be a fellow in a car or on a bike making the delivery, but an autonomous, cooler-sized machine, casually rolling down the sidewalk. In a world where delivery giants like Amazon and UPS are racing toward high-flying drone deliveries, this robot reads more'cute' than'future.'

In my last column in this space, I wrote about the dominant technology trends of 2017 and beyond. Today, I want to address one of the most dominant technology trends in human history. Artificial intelligence is being mentioned everywhere in the media, as it is dramatically developing and being deployed everywhere in the U.S and in many other developed countries. In the last 20 years, AI has gone from science fiction to science and economic reality. In 2011, it beat the top two human champions of "Jeopardy."

LONDON (Reuters) – Artificial intelligence (AI) will become the primary way banks interact with their customers within the next three years, according to three quarters of bankers surveyed by consultancy Accenture in a new report. Four in five bankers believe AI will "revolutionise" the way in which banks gather information as well as how they interact with their clients, said the Accenture Banking Technology Vision 2017 report, which surveyed more than 600 top bankers and also consulted tech industry experts and academics. Artificial intelligence -- the technology behind driverless cars, drones and voice-recognition software -- is seen by the financial world as a key technology which, along with other "fintech" innovations such as blockchain, will change the face of banking in the coming years. More than three quarters of respondents to the survey believed that AI would enable more simple user interfaces, which would help banks create a more human-like customer experience. "The big paradox here is that people think technology will lead to banking becoming more and more automated and less and less personalized, but what we've seen coming through here is the view that technology will actually help banking become a lot more personalized," said Alan McIntyre, head of the Accenture's banking practice and co-author of the report. "(It) will give people the impression that the bank knows them a lot better, and in many ways it will take banking back to the feeling that people had when there were more human interactions."

Just imagine, if 100 years ago the Wright brothers would have tried to build an'artificial bird' rather than calling it an airplane? We would have had endless discussions around engineering this machine to emulate birds in every detail. Would you feel comfortable to fly on an artificial bird? Does an artificial factory produce better cars than a human-centered production environment? Artificial intelligence was invented as a term in the 1950's when computer science professors at Dartmouth College convened a conference in order to teach computers to think during one summer - a slightly optimistic view as it turned out.

Twitter has quietly started blocking certain words on the platform's built-in search engine. Words such as'porn', 'nsfw', 'sex' and similar terms will no longer appear when searched under'Latest' tab – but, racial slurs and the word'jihad' have not been removed. Although Twitter has blocked these words from being found in the Latest tab, users can still find some of the'forbidden' terms by searching in the'Top' tab. Twitter has quietly started blocking certain words on the platform's built-in search engine. Words such as'porn', 'nsfw', 'sex' and similar terms will no longer appear when searched under'Latest' tab Twitter says it'prohibits the promotion of hate content, sensitive topics, and violence globally.' But this policy does not apply to news and information that calls attention to hate, sensitive topics, or violence, but does not advocate for it.