Lately, tech companies have gone absolutely crazy for machine learning. They say it solves the problems only people could crack before. Machine learning is of special interest in IT security, where the threat landscape is rapidly shifting and we need to come up with adequate solutions. Some go as far as calling machine learning'artificial intelligence' just for the sake of it. Technology comes down to speed and consistency, not tricks.

Not an event goes by without us talking about the impact of technology, and terms like IoT (internet of things), cloud, big data, AI (artificial intelligence) are widely touted as being the'next big things'. For example, we talk about billions of connected devices enabling smart decisions, or robots taking over many types of jobs in the future, or how artificial intelligence will solve lots of complex challenges. It's no surprise then that governments and industry thought leaders are engaged in conversations on the consequences of having all this technology integrated into everything. Research published this month by the World Economic Forum says that for emerging technologies to achieve their full potential to improve human life and address global challenges, action is needed to make sure their use is governed properly. This was echoed by a survey of the world's top technology investors at the Web Summit in Lisbon, which said governments are failing to prepare for the impact of artificial intelligence – which is set to destroy millions of jobs, according to a poll of the.

Harambe, a gorilla, was described as "smart," "curious," "courageous," "magnificent." But it wasn't until last spring that Harambe became famous, too. On May 28th, a human boy, also curious and courageous, slipped through a fence at the Cincinnati Zoo and landed in the moat along the habitat that Harambe shared with two other gorillas. People at the fence above made whoops and cries and other noises of alarm. Harambe stood over the boy, as if to shield him from the hubbub, and then, grabbing one of his ankles, dragged him through the water like a doll across a playroom floor. For a moment, he took the child delicately by the waist and propped him on his legs, in a correct human stance. Then, as the whooping continued, he knocked the boy forward again, and dragged him halfway through the moat. Harambe was a seventeen-year-old silverback, an animal of terrific strength. When zookeepers failed to lure him from the boy, a member of their Dangerous Animal Response Team shot the gorilla dead.

Motorists could soon unlock the doors of their car simply by walking up to it and taking a selfie. Jaguar Land Rover is developing technology that uses facial recognition and gait analysis to detect when owners of its vehicles approach, to open the doors for them. Details have been revealed in a recently published patent application by Jaguar Land Rover, but it is unclear when the technology might become available. Two cameras on each side of the vehicle would be angled so the car could spot someone approaching from the front or from behind. The user of the vehicle must carry out a registration process which requires them to record a still image of their face and a moving image such as a hand gesture or their gait as they approach the vehicle. The video of a person walking towards the car would then be compared to these original images using gait or movement recognition technology.

The latest robot from Hanson Robotics took the stage at the Web Summit in Lisbon, displaying simple emotions, humanlike facial expressions.

International Space Station (ISS) crew work pretty hard, but when they do get time off, they often head to the "Cupola," according to Andrey Borisenko. The Russian cosmonaut shows us what it's like to hang around the space station's observational dome, thanks to a new 360 degree, 4K video from Russia's RT News. He dryly mocks flat-Earth types, saying "you can see from here that the Earth is round -- no elephants or whales holding it up. The Cupola was built in 2010 to give astronauts and cosmonauts the best view to operate the Mobile Servicing System robotic arm (the Canadarm2). However, it soon became a favorite R&R spot thanks to the spectacular view through the seven bay windows.

Artificial intelligence is getting its teeth into lip reading. A project by Google's DeepMind and the University of Oxford applied deep learning to a huge data set of BBC programmes to create a lip-reading system that leaves professionals in the dust. The AI system was trained using some 5000 hours from six different TV programmes, including Newsnight, BBC Breakfast and Question Time. In total, the videos contained 118,000 sentences. First the University of Oxford and DeepMind researchers trained the AI on shows that aired between January 2010 and December 2015. Then they tested its performance on programmes broadcast between March and September 2016.

The labor market always seeks to remove inefficiencies, and it is true that whatever can be automated will be. This has been true since the 1770s, when textile factories became the first to succeed with mechanization, ushering in the industrial revolution and delivering advances across industries, building great fortunes and elevating the life of the average worker. Artificial intelligence (AI) will define the next industrial revolution, delivering similarly game-changing benefits to companies and workers through efficiency and improved human capital allocation. Investors recognize this, and the record-breaking capital flows into the AI market underscore the awaiting opportunity. However, with revolution comes uncertainty, and the consensus is that AI will lead to job loss.

Some of Apple's iPhone 6s handsets are shutting down for no reason, the company has said. Apple will now replace any phones that display the issue, which the company says only happens on a small number of them. People affected by the issue will find that their handsets tend simply to shut themselves off for no reason and without warning. The problem appears to be related to an issue with the batteries in those phones. 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.

It is the classic defence for many men being asked to do two things at once – they can't multi-task. But the excuse that it would be easier for a woman to do it is probably right, as it has emerged men's brains work far harder to juggle tasks. Researchers at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow believe this is because hunter-gatherer men evolved to better judge spatial awareness. Women's brains, on the other hand, had to evolve to cope with managing the family at home, making it less hard work to use the same skills now. Researchers at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow believe men can't multi-task because as hunter-gatherers they evolved to better judge spatial awareness Brain scans of 140 people aged 20 to 65 given the same task-switching challenge found the front of the brain lit up far more in men than women, while parts of the male brain not even needed by women got involved.