WhatsApp has finally added two-factor authentication to its app, letting people make sure their messages are kept safe. The change helps keep people from breaking into your WhatsApp account and reading your messages, even if they have a password. But it must be turned on manually and requires the latest version of the app. Two-factor authentication, often shortened to 2FA, allows people to keep their accounts more secure than just with a password. It also ties that same account to something else – like an email address or phone number – that anyone looking to get into the account needs to have access to as well.

Microsoft is preparing a new user interface for Windows 10, and a leaked screenshot has shown just how different to the current version it could look. The image, posted online by Twitter user Tom Hounsell, shows off a number of small but significant changes to the taskbar and open windows. The new-look Groove app shows that Microsoft is considering ditching both window borders and the title bar. For anyone who cares, here's the full concept image that was in the background of #Microsoft's "Sneak Peak" of #Windows10 #ProjectNEON pic.twitter.com/I3cIlZfX0k The minimise, restore/maximise and close buttons have been incorporated into the window itself, and content now extends right to the edge.

We are in an age where technology seeps into every aspect of our lives. We communicate with friends and family through Whatsapp and Facebook, sort out our finances on personal banking apps, largely carry out our jobs via email and other online arenas, and singles use dating apps as a platform for prospective partners. So it is no surprise that matters in our relationships can now be sorted online too.In our increasingly busy lives, it can be difficult to co-ordinate diaries, sort out the food shop or fairly split the bills. Meet the couples who are using apps in their relationships. A new study has revealed that Sunday at 9am is the most popular time of the week for Brits to get busy in the bedroom.

In light of recent world events it may be time to consider that letting people run countries based on their ability to get elected may not be the best way to do things. Perhaps it's time to let computers decide who is best equipped to be in charge of these enormous economies and bureaucracies. Handing the choice over to an unthinking machine algorithm may seem like a crazy alternative, but would it be any worse than the way we do things now? Humans have experimented with many different ways to select leaders, including elections, heredity, and military coups. But nobody has ever trusted the running of a country to a machine before.

As a Venture Capital firm for Artificial Intelligence we follow the growing AI market closely. For the German AI Landscape Map, we created a list of over 600 European AI startups based on internal research mainly deriving from our network and Crunchbase. Not every company that lists AI as a part of their product has AI in it. We have therefore taken the freedom to clean the raw data. We've ended up with 81 German Artificial Intelligence startups, which made it onto our map.

Lauding the transformative powers of artificial intelligence (AI) has almost become a cliche, and with good reason. And AI has the potential to transform the way governments design and deliver public services. Our report, published on 6 February, predicts that almost 250,000 public sector workers could lose their jobs to robots over the next 15 years. Governments around the world have recognised the potential of AI, but in practice actual application varies widely. Japan and Singapore are at the forefront of marrying intention and action to harness the power of AI.

The high radiation estimates in the No. 2 reactor of the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant will probably force a rethink of the nationalized utility's robot-based strategy for locating its molten fuel. According to an analysis of Thursday's abbreviated probe, the radiation in the primary containment vessel is about 650 sieverts per hour, more than the 530 sieverts estimated late last month, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holding Inc. said. That level could kill a person quickly and indicates the fuel likely burned through the pressure vessel during the meltdown and is somewhere nearby. Tepco, as the utility is known, halted Thursday's robot after its camera went dark. The company suspects the problem was caused by the radiation.

In June last year a fascinating aerial battle took place. It didn't take place in the actual sky but rather in the virtual one, which was appropriate considering it was a battle of man against machine. The man in question wasn't an ordinary pilot but a retired US Airforce pilot, Gene Lee, with combat experience in Iraq and a graduate of the US Fighter Weapons School. The machine he was battling was a simulated aircraft controlled by an artificial intelligence (AI). What was surprising about the outcome was that the artifical AI emerged as the victor.

Slush, Europe's leading startup event, took place in Helsinki from November 30th to December 1st. Thousands of attendees including startups, investors, tech companies, and researchers came together to get a glimpse of the latest developments in a massive range of fields. Futurice was there in force: our Futucafe went on tour, providing good coffee and a meeting space for attendees, and we launched the Chilicorn Fund as a way to make the world a slightly better place. Our data science team went along too, and I'm going to talk about some of the trends we saw there. Machine learning, artificial intelligence, analytics, data science: these terms were on the lips of companies and speakers throughout Slush.

Major smartphone makers are following Apple and Google into the smartphone trend of 2017: artificial intelligence. LG's G6 could feature Google Assistant, Samsung said its Galaxy S8 will feature its own AI assistant, and Huawei's Mate 9 is the first phone with Amazon's Alexa. The Chinese conglomerate has been especially vocal about AI in their smartphones--unusual for top smartphone makers, who are normally secretive about their latest devices. Huawei said they will have an AI-focused "Superphone" in 2020--just a year before their goal to be the world's top smartphone maker. The Chinese tech giant has been sitting at No. 3 since last year, behind Samsung and Apple.