Bletchley Park will once again serve as a cryptographic hub in the UK. Plans are afoot to create a new "National College of Cyber Security" in G-Block, a building which is currently in a state of disrepair. It's scheduled to open in 2018 and will serve as a specialised six-form college, teaching teenagers the fundamentals of encryption and computer science. As the Guardian reports, the center will take up to 500 students at any one time and offer free tuition, funding its efforts through venture capital, corporate sponsorship and possibly state funding instead. It's envisioned as a boarding school, however a day tuition option will also be available.

It seems like strange advice: if your phone is full up with rubbish and you want to free some of the storage up, then download even more rubbish. A new trick lets people get extra space on their iPhone just by downloading some new apps, and by tricking the phone into believing that it needs to clear up some space. To do it, all you need to do is to download a big app that takes up more space on your phone than you have left. As soon as you do so, your iPhone will automatically start clearing up much-needed storage space. 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.

For Katja Hofmann, Minecraft is not just a virtual world: it is a gym for artificial intelligences. Hofmann, 36, is the lead researcher on Microsoft Research Lab's Project Malmo, an open-source platform that makes it possible to test AIs inside the game's pixelated universe. "A question in artificial intelligence is how we get AIs to learn how to interact in a complex environment, to experiment in a wide range of settings," she says. Researchers using Project Malmo, which was made available to developers in July 2016 after a year of in-house testing at Microsoft's Cambridge-based lab, can create AI agents and set them loose in a modified version of Minecraft's free-to-roam 3D environment. There, through trial and error, the agents learn how to move, walk and dodge obstacles in a physically consistent world - something usually requiring expensive robots.

The term Artificial Intelligence was originally coined by John McCarthy in 1955, defining it as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines". Now more than a half a century old, the field of AI and machine learning is finally achieving some of its oldest goals by being used successfully in areas such as data mining, industrial robotics, logistics, speech recognition, banking software, medical diagnosis and search engines. Tech giants have all been investing heavily in AI and Machine Learning. In 2010 Facebook introduced facial recognition technology, and in 2013 Mark Zuckerberg dedicated a lab to AI research. In 2014 Google bought artificial intelligence startup DeepMind for $400 million (£263 million), making it one of the largest tech acquisitions to date.

PARIS – A tiny lander that crashed on Mars last month flew into the Red Planet at 540 kilometers (335 miles) per hour instead of gently gliding to a stop, after a computer misjudged its altitude, scientists said. Schiaparelli was on a test-run for a future rover meant to seek out evidence of life, past or present, but it fell silent seconds before its scheduled touchdown on October 19. After trawling through mountains of data, the European Space Agency said Wednesday that while much of the mission went according to plan, a computer that measured the rotation of the lander hit a maximum reading, knocking other calculations off track. That led the navigation system to think the lander was much lower than it was, causing its parachute and braking thrusters to be deployed prematurely. "The erroneous information generated an estimated altitude that was negative -- that is, below ground level," the ESA said in a statement.

Video games have always had an uneasy relationship with war. Using it as a setting is a shortcut to explosive action and easy-to-understand heroes and villains. Yet the fact that it's also the source of death and trauma to millions in the real world makes it an issue that needs to be tackled with a degree of thought and sensitivity, two things for which the games industry is not always known. As games get increasingly realistic and emotionally involving, it's harder to make excuses for their occasionally gauche attempts at representing human conflict. This Christmas's three biggest triple-A blockbusters are united in their desire to tell stories of internecine warfare, even if they can't quite agree on whether to whoop it up or get all Siegfried Sassoon.

Microsoft says that Artificial Intelligence (AI) should be built around three core directives: augmenting human abilities, being trustworthy and being respectful. Microsoft hosts its Future Decoded event on an annual basis at London's ExCeL center in the fast-regenerating'docklands' area. But was this year's event just another set of polished executives striding around talking about so-called'business transformation', or were there guts and substance of any kind? The firm in fact devoted much of its opening statements and arguments to discuss intelligent machines, neural networks and Artificial Intelligence (AI). By way of introduction, Microsoft UK CEO Cindy Rose leads the software firm's British operations.

A team of researchers at Oxford University have coaxed an artificial intelligence program into an impressive leap forward and towards our own obsolescence. The program, known as LipNet, is showing particularly promising ability to read lips in video clips, thanks to machine learning and a novel way of approaching the data. The key difference is that rather than try to teach the AI the mouth shapes of single words and phonemes, the LipNet is asked to interpret whole sentences. Using GRID, a huge bank of 3 second videos featuring brightly lit forward facing speakers, LipNet has learned to translate speech to text with a 93.4% accuracy rate. Compare that to humans' 52.3%.

For years London's Design Museum got by in a former banana warehouse near Tower Bridge. Now it has moved to a cool, minimalist home in Kensington. The new building is much bigger. It will offer, says the director, far more to intrigue all visitors - and not just the hardcore design fans. In 1962 the Queen opened the Commonwealth Institute on the leafy fringes of Holland Park in London.