The incredible moment a man solves a Rubik's cube in less than FIVE SECONDS to set a new world record (as the previous champion sits next to him and grins through gritted teeth) Feliks Zemdegs, 20, solved the famous 1980s toy in just 4.73 seconds Previous world record set by Mats Valk, 20, who is sitting next to Mr Zemdegs Mr Zemdegs got ten seconds to inspect the Rubik's cube before he has to solve it Feliks Zemdegs, 20, solved the famous 1980s toy in just 4.73 seconds Mr Zemdegs got ten seconds to inspect the Rubik's cube before he has to solve it His hands move so fast the camera struggles to pick up his finger movements. He solves the puzzle in just 4.73 seconds. The previous world record was set by Mats Valk, 20, (right) is sat next to Mr Zemdegs as he breaks his record. Valley Stream Best Buy associates gift a teen with a Wii U Watch woman get dragged off jet by police in Detroit Syria: Footage emerges of Russian special forces'fighting ISIS' Trash is dumped on woman's door ...

Speaking at Mobey Day in Toronto, IBM associate partner Pavel Abdur-Rahman moved to cool some of the hype surrounding AI, arguing that it is not going to be seen in a true sense until quantum computing takes off more than a decade down the line. However, the data scientist was keen to show off the capabilities of Big Blue's cognitive computing platform, Watson, and what this means for the financial services industry. Abdur-Rahman ran through seven ways in which Watson can help banks, ranging from the simple, such as a chatbot acting as a virtual assistant answering basic customer queries, to the "quite complex", including looking for patterns in unstructured data to find early signals of opportunities and risks for asset managers building portfolios. Watson caused a stir in 2011 when it beat two human competitors to claim the $1 million prize on the US quiz show Jeopardy. Since then several banks, including Standard Bank, USAA, DBS Bank, ANZ and Royal Bank of Canada have been attempting to take the platform out of the TV studio and into the real world, harnessing its power for a variety of tasks.

Today, the IEEE kicked off a broad initiative to make ethics a part of the design process for systems using artificial intelligence. The effort, in the works for more than a year, hopes to spark conversations that lead to consensus-driven actions and has already generated three standards efforts. The society published a 138-page report today that outlines a smorgasbord of issues at the intersection of AI technology and values. They range from how to identify and handle privacy around personal information to how to define and audit human responsibilities for autonomous weapon systems. The report raises a laundry list of provocative questions, such as whether mixed-reality systems could be used for mind control or therapy.

Udacity is positioned perfectly to benefit from the rush on talent in a number of growing areas of interest among tech companies and startups. The online education platform has added 14 new hiring partners across its Artificial Intelligence Engineer, Self-Driving Car Engineer and Virtual Reality Developer Nanodegree programs, as well as in its Predictive Analytics Nanodegree, including standouts like Bosch, Harma, Slack, Intel, Amazon Alexa and Samsung. That brings the total number of hiring partners for Udacity to over 30, which means a lot of potential soft landings for graduates of its nanodegree programs. The nanodegree offered by Udacity is its own original form of accreditation, which is based on a truncated field of study that spans months, rather than years, and allows students to direct the pace of their own learning. It also all takes place online, so students can potentially learn from anywhere. For Udacity, hiring partners help prove the value of their program to potential students, as they're effectively votes of confidence made by exactly the kinds of companies where students are looking to get jobs.

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Apple has finally released the AirPods, its controversial wireless earbuds. The little buds – which look like the company's traditional earphones but have no wires at all and sit in the ears – were unveiled along with the iPhone in September. They were pitched as Apple's fix for the fact that it had dropped the headphone jack from its phones, and the signal of a wireless future. But the AirPods never arrived when they were expected to, leaving some to worry that something had gone seriously wrong. Some reports indicated that it was having trouble making sure that the sound syncronised properly.

Those organisations who are only just realising the benefits they can bring will be playing catch up in 2017. Now that these terms have been thrust into the spotlight, are they fully understood? According to a Blue Yonder study, 77 per cent per cent of UK grocery retail directors say machine learning will make an impact, with 23 per cent saying it already is. Do companies know how it can be implemented into the business and how to harness it to get the best results possible? Machines interpreting data is nothing new.

More than two and half years before Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller "courageously" announced the Cupertino tech giant's take on the true wireless earbuds this past September, a small company in Munich had already planted the idea in people's heads: earbuds that are truly free of cords and dongles -- just two little nubs in your ear that play music. But when the Bragi Dash finally hit the market -- funded through a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign -- in early 2016, reviewers were left in awe and disappointment. They gushed about the Dash's build quality and feel, but lamented that the audio connectivity was unstable. "Wireless earbuds are still an unfinished dream," declared Sean O'Kane at the Verge during his testing of the Dash. That was nine months ago -- basically half a lifetime in tech circles -- and the Dash today has improved its Bluetooth connectivity significantly.

A U.S.-led coalition drone strike in Raqqa, Syria, killed three Islamic State fighters, two of whom helped facilitate the November 2015 terror attacks in Paris, the Pentagon announced on Tuesday. The third fighter killed on December 4 was involved in a foiled suicide attack plot targeting Europe in 2015, U.S. officials said. A Belgian court had convicted him in absentia. "The three were working together to plot and facilitate attacks against Western targets at the time of the strike," Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook told reporters. He said the fighters were involved in a terror network led by Boubaker Al-Hakim, who was killed in a coalition airstrike last month.

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