News UK's data assets include newspaper sales, digital news readership, subscription data, web-traffic information and data from brand extensions, such as Sun Bingo, Handpicked, and The Sunday Times Wine Club. The company has more than 200 different sources of customer information and 50 million pieces of transactional data captured every day. Chief technology officer Christina Scott says the firm is using both Amazon Redshift and Google's BigQuery cloud services as the key platforms for its data management. "Sometimes it's a case of'We've got this data, so what?' You need to prove the value of the data then build the technology, but so many firms do it the other way around, build the tech then try to prove the value," she told Computing magazine.

Jerry Kaplan is widely known as an Artificial Intelligence expert, technical innovator, serial entrepreneur, and bestselling author. He is currently a Fellow at The Center for Legal Informatics at Stanford University and a visiting lecturer in the computer science department, where he teaches social and economic impact of Artificial Intelligence. Kaplan founded several technology companies over his 35-year career, two of which became public companies. As an inventor and entrepreneur, he was a key contributor to the creation of numerous familiar technologies including tablet computers, smart phones, online auctions, and social computer games. Kaplan is the author of three books: the best-selling classic Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure; Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2015); and Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know (2016). In 1998, Kaplan received the Ernst & Young Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Northern California. He has been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Forbes, among others. He received a BA degree from the University of Chicago and a PhD in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Jerry will be speaking at the Gigaom AI Now in San Francisco, February 15-16th.

The problem with trends is that they are like a freight train gaining speed; everyone can see the train, but at what point do you say the train is really moving at speed? With that in mind, here are the trends I'm following, the predictions I am making, or if not a prediction, the inflection points I am paying attention to. Donald Trump and the'Made in America' Supply Chain – There was a quote in the Atlantic I liked, "The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally." But when it comes to trade with China and Mexico, I take him both seriously and literally. I think it likely that by the end of 2017 we will have seen a decrease in trade with China and to a lesser extent Mexico.

Google's search results currently tell people that the Holocaust didn't happen, and aren't going to be changed. Searching for "did the holocaust happen" on Google brings up a first result from Stormfront, the neo-Nazi website. The title of the piece is "Top 10 reasons why the holocaust didn't happen", and anyone clicking through sees a list of Those proclaimed reasons include a suggestion that since "there were survivors", nobody can have been killed in the supposedly fictional mass execution of Jews during the Second World War. In its facilities, JAXA develop satellites and analyse their observation data, train astronauts for utilization in the Japanese Experiment Module'Kibo' of the International Space Station (ISS) and develop launch vehicles 32/39 The robot developed by Seed Solutions sings and dances to the music during the Japan Robot Week 2016 at Tokyo Big Sight. At this biennial event, the participating companies exhibit their latest service robotic technologies and components 33/39 The robot developed by Seed Solutions sings and dances to music during the Japan Robot Week 2016 at Tokyo Big Sight 34/39 Government and industry are working together on a robot-like autopilot system that could eliminate the need for a second human pilot in the cockpit 35/39 Aurora Flight Sciences' technicians work on an Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automantion System (ALIAS) device in the firm's Centaur aircraft at Manassas Airport in Manassas, Va.

Super Mario Run is going to drop any time now. And it will bring with it a new era in the iPhone and Nintendo: the first time that the two of them have worked together. The game will be released through the iPhone App Store. It's supposed to arrive on 15 December, and always has – but the company hasn't said one time it will be available in the App Store. Thankfully, Apple has done something unprecedented and apparently specifically made for Super Mario Run: added a "Notify" button to the game so that you can get alerted as soon as it hits.

This Thursday morning you'll be reading about Yahoo's huge data breach, Amazon's first drone delivery (in time for the holidays!) How do you top a 2014 security breach that leaked info for 500 million accounts? If you're Yahoo, apparently you reveal that another one in 2013 resulted in the theft of info (names, security questions and answers, and more) from over one billion email accounts. Also, the company believes that the unnamed state-sponsored hackers from the 2014 incident were using forged cookies to target specific accounts directly. You always remember your first Amazon's first drone delivery In three years, Prime Air has gone from concept to reality, with Amazon sending its first delivery to a customer in Cambridge, England. Operating autonomously, it completed the order in just 13 minutes.

The latest artificial-intelligence techniques are being adopted by companies at a blistering pace. Before long, hackers might start taking a closer look, too, and they could cause all sorts of trouble by tricking these systems with illusory data. Speaking at a recent AI conference in Barcelona, Spain, Ian Goodfellow, a research scientist at OpenAI who has done pioneering work on deceiving machine-learning systems, said attacking the systems is easy. "Almost anything bad you can think of doing to a machine-learning model can be done right now," he said. "And defending is really, really hard."

Britain's fertility regulator is meeting to decide whether or not to allow so-called'three-parent baby' treatments for inherited diseases (stock image used) Mexican clinic plans 20 three-parent babies in 2017:... Crop spray makes wheat 20% larger... and it's GM free!... The robotic arm you can control with your MIND: Researchers... Thinking with your hands can boost creativity: Children who... Mexican clinic plans 20 three-parent babies in 2017:... Crop spray makes wheat 20% larger... and it's GM free!... The robotic arm you can control with your MIND: Researchers... Thinking with your hands can boost creativity: Children who... A fertility clinic in Mexico which helped a couple to conceive the world's first'three-parent baby' says it plans to conceive a further 20 babies using the technique in the first half of 2017 (stock image used) WHY IS THE METHOD CONTROVERSIAL? Dr John Zhang, head of the New York City embryonic team, holds the world's first'three-person' baby after the boy was born in Mexico in April.

The game will be the title developed by Nintendo for iPhones, and the first time that Mario has been available on Apple's App Store. It follows the success of Pokemon Go, earlier this year. While Nintendo does own a third of the Pokemon Company, it didn't have much to do with the game and it was developed by a third party. But just like Pokemon Go, the game requires that anyone playing it has a connection to the internet. That's intended as a way of stopping pirates getting around the game's relatively expensive $10 price – not required to download the game, but to unlock it – but has already drawn some complaints. In its facilities, JAXA develop satellites and analyse their observation data, train astronauts for utilization in the Japanese Experiment Module'Kibo' of the International Space Station (ISS) and develop launch vehicles 32/39 The robot developed by Seed Solutions sings and dances to the music during the Japan Robot Week 2016 at Tokyo Big Sight.

Now that the Amazon Echo is available in the UK, lots of brands and services have been working on introducing their own Alexa Skills. Owners can ask the intelligent digital assistant for news updates, to hail an Uber and even re-order their favourite takeaway, but one important feature has been missing: IFTTT integration. US owners have enjoyed IFTTT integration for over a year, but the recipe-based service has finally confirmed the launch of its Alexa channel in the UK. Connecting everything up is as simple as visiting the Alexa channel and following the prompts. It'll first request access to Alexa, which requires logging into the Amazon account linked with the Echo, and then ask to integrate with the chosen service. Currently, the channel hosts recipes that allow interaction with Hue lights, Samsung's SmartThings hub, smart thermostats, Evernote, Spotify and Google Drive.