A new bike lock bring on immediate vomiting and trouble breathing for anyone who tries to break into it. Two inventors from San Francisco, irritated by seeing bikes stolen, have created a new lock that makes anyone who tries to break through it be sick. The lock is triggered whenever it senses someone trying to break into it – and when it is, it shoots out a burst of noxious spray, like a skunk, that has effects similar to pepper spray. The lock was created after the inventors kept seeing their friends have their bike stolen. The robot developed by Seed Solutions sings and dances to the music during the Japan Robot Week 2016 at Tokyo Big Sight.

Being scared of self-driving cars means that you're killing people, Elon Musk has warned. The Tesla founder and CEO has criticised people who write critical articles about self-driving vehicles, arguing that by putting people off using them they might be leading to deaths. Experts have said that once self-driving cars are used everywhere they could keep everyone far more safe, by preventing accidents and driving more safely. But people remain terrified about autonomous vehicles, as multiple surveys have showed. The robot developed by Seed Solutions sings and dances to the music during the Japan Robot Week 2016 at Tokyo Big Sight.

Halloween is believed to be a time when the spirits of the dead roam the earth, and so we decorate our homes with macabre items and wear costumes to fool them and scare them away. By extension, it seems like scary movies, with their projection of unholy images and sound, could serve to keep ne'er-do-well ghouls out of our living rooms (and their paws off our popcorn). Or maybe such movies just give us a fittingly chilling thrill at this most sinister time of the year. Whatever your motivation, we've got 13 (in honor of a witches coven) superb examples of the horror genre that will add some grisly grins to your holiday. All are represented for your enjoyment. I know it's hard to believe, but this sixth movie in the Child's Play slasher series is actually surprisingly well made. Don Mancini, who wrote the screenplay for the original Child's Play (1988), takes on directing duties and brings the series back to its roots.

Through the internet of things, smart devices, and sensors both in the industrial and public landscapes, the amount of data being generated is growing fast...too fast for any one person or organization to follow unaided. The theme at last Thusrday's SAS Forum in Brussels was again'Analytics Everywhere'. Analytics, machine learning and cognitive computing were explored as central to harnessing this omniprescent data to drive innovation. Priviledged as I am to be able to attend all five of the South West Europe SAS Forums, I will try to provide some personal reflections on each forum. Each will undoubtedly show some local color, but I generally expect there to be great similarities in the views and approaches outlined for embracing and shaping the potential of'Analytics Everywhere

Google tweeted Wednesday that it has opened pre-orders for Daydream View headset and Chromecast Ultra. The devices will be available on pre-orders for the U.S. U.K. and Germany online. The Daydream View headset is priced at 79, while the 4K-capable Ultra is priced at 69. The View is compatible with the Daydream VR platform-capable Google Pixel smartphone. The headset will use VR images generated by Pixel smartphone so users will need the smartphone before they invest in the headset.

AK: We just launched the cloud face recognition software platform, which is available for every business to plug into and use for their own recognition tasks. But we will thoroughly monitor its usage and ban those organisations and people who try to use it inappropriately. AK: Facial recognition technology can simplify our lives. It can be used for security, as part of ID checks at e-gates, or realtime criminal CCTV searches; it can be used in retail to display targeted advertising; in dating services to let users search by photo; or in banking to improve credit and ID checks. It can even be used in entertainment – by casinos who let you have your own gambling profiles, or amusement parks who want to send you personalised photos of you on rides.

Professor Stephen Hawking on Wednesday opened a new artificial intelligence research centre at Britain's Cambridge University. Funded by a 10 million (11.2 million-euro, 12.3-million) grant from the Leverhulme Trust, the centre's express aim is to ensure AI is used to benefit humanity. Opening the new centre, Hawking said it was not possible to predict what might be achieved with AI. "Perhaps with the tools of this new technological revolution, we will be able to undo some of the damage done to the natural world by the last one--industrialisation. "And surely we will aim to finally eradicate disease and poverty. Every aspect of our lives will be transformed.

Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It's in your smart phone, your car, and it has the run of your house. It makes most of the trades on Wall Street, and controls our transportation, energy, and water infrastructure. Artificial Intelligence is for the 21st century what electricity was for the 20th and steam power for the 19th. The Hollywood cliché that artificial intelligence will take over the world could soon become scientific reality as AI matches then surpasses human intelligence.

In the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in a corner of South Carolina sits a town that should be economically dead. For decades, Greenville was the heart of the state's textile industry--and its economic engine. First attracted by the area's fast-moving rivers as a way to power looms, textile manufacturers employed tens of thousands of people here. Beginning in the 1970s, however, facing competition from lower-cost manufacturing regions like Mexico and Southeast Asia, these companies began to struggle. Over the next decades, many factories closed.

In May, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced "a new series of workshops and an interagency working group to learn more about the benefits and risks of artificial intelligence." They hosted a June Workshop on Safety and Control for AI (videos), along with three other workshops, and issued a general request for information on AI (see MIRI's primary submission here). The OSTP has now released a report summarizing its conclusions, "Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence," and the result is very promising. The OSTP acknowledges the ongoing discussion about AI risk, and recommends "investing in research on longer-term capabilities and how their challenges might be managed": General AI (sometimes called Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI) refers to a notional future AI system that exhibits apparently intelligent behavior at least as advanced as a person across the full range of cognitive tasks. A broad chasm seems to separate today's Narrow AI from the much more difficult challenge of General AI. Attempts to reach General AI by expanding Narrow AI solutions have made little headway over many decades of research.