Nestled in the heart of a historic city centre, this is Amazon's secret lab where it is building and testing drones that aim to deliver packages to customer's homes within just 30 minutes. The workshop, hidden in Cambridge city centre away from the public's eyes, is one of the main hubs where the online retail giant is developing its new Prime Air Service. Once launched, the service will allow drones to safely deliver packages to people's homes in under 30 minutes. The secret workshop is nestled in the heart of Cambridge city centre - unbeknownst to the general public - and it is the base where Amazon is creating special drones (above) that will safely deliver packages to customer's homes in under 30 minutes The lab is using 3D printing technology which allows it to make parts needed for the drone much quicker. It is the largest outdoor testing facility in the UK and is one of a number of testing sites in the UK along with those in Austria, Israel and U.S. The drones - created for Amazon's Prime Air Service - will use GPS coordinates to find their delivery destination and will fly to a maximum height of 400ft before identifying a marker to land and deliver the package using a'sense and avoid' system Packages that weigh just over 2kg - which make up 87 per cent of the items Amazon sells - will be delivered as far as 15 miles.

Since Tesla launched its Autopilot function last year, the system has come under scrutiny following two fatal crashes. Now Germany wants Tesla to stop advertising it as the Autopilot function, because it leads to false customer expectations, the regulators have said. The drive-assistance system requires drivers to pay attention and operate the car at all times, but some drivers involved in crashes have admitted to thinking their cars were'self-driving'. Since Tesla launched its Autopilot function last year, the system has come under scrutiny following two fatal crashes. Now Germany wants Tesla to stop advertising it as the'autopilot' function on its cars because it leads to false customer expectations The Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) has written to Elon Musk's company with the request to no longer use the'misleading' term Autopilot for the driver assistance system of the car.

Artificial Intelligence, with the help of IBM Watson, Yoast and Moz, has helped Mash'n Learn to produce one of the helping tool for all e-Commerce Merchants. Whatever the industry and the platform, copywriting great contents for Google search engine is a complex and long task. You can get Content Copywriters on the Market for a cheap cost, but you will still have to wait for quite a long time before they produce description for more than 100 products. Most of the successful Merchants have more than ten thousands SKU references. We estimated with our Content provider that thirty thousands descriptions of 300 words would take more than three months to produce.

The University of Cambridge has opened a 10 million research centre to explore the impact of artificial intelligence, Wired reports. The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence -- first announced last December and funded with a research grant from the Leverhulme Trust -- will study the impacts of this "potentially epoch-making technological development, both short and long term." The centre's new website details a list of projects that its researchers will look at. The centre also writes on its website that its aim is to build a new interdisciplinary community of researchers, with strong links to technologists and the policy world. Led by Cambridge philosophy professor Huw Price, the centre, which opened on Monday, will work in conjunction with the university's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), which is funded by Skype cofounder Jaan Tallinn and looks at emerging risks to humanity's future including climate change, disease, warfare, and artificial intelligence.

The legal AI market has another new cognitive engine: UK-based Cognitiv, which is a system designed to review documents and contracts, while also cross-referencing them with the latest regulation in order to provide a compliance tool. Based in King Cross, London, Cogntiv is the brainchild of CEO Vasilis Tsolis and CTO Achilleas Michos. Artificial Lawyer had a chat with Tsolis about how the company came about, where it's headed and how he sees the legal AI market evolving. Vasilis Tsolis is an engineer, but also has a law degree. He says he found himself having to deal with a lot of procurement and contract review issues in his previous jobs.

That's how XTX Markets Ltd. is using superior smarts to beat the faster speeds of many computerized traders to become a force in market making. Already, London-based XTX Markets Ltd. earlier this year was declared the world's fourth-largest spot currency trader with 7.6% of the spot FX market, according to a detailed story in Bloomberg. Now that it's become a major player in currencies, it's now eyeing expanding into the bond, commodities and stock markets. The firm describes itself as "a leading quantitative-driven electronic market-maker," for the purpose of providing "liquidity in the Equity, FX, Fixed Income and Commodity markets." As an electronic market maker, XTX has taken human decision-making out of trading, according to the company's Co-Chief Executive Officer Zar Amrolia.

You can star alongside Leo when cinema enters its'karaoke' phase The blockbuster era will come to a close in about 2042 with the colossal failure of Jedi Transformers V Jurassic Avengers 12: Revenge Of The Minions, an expensive crossover epic that bankrupts all the Hollywood studios simultaneously. By that time, the idea of "going to the movies" will have evolved anyway. Films will no longer involve two hours sitting in a cinema, predicted futurologist Faith Popcorn in The Hollywood Reporter: "They'll be gameified and will unfold in real time all around you. You pay for a time slot, tune in your technology, and literally become one with the action. Endings and events will be changed as you go; smells, tastes, sensations will all be experienced live. Casts will be comprised of your own avatars; you will be the star."

When the three founders of Blackwood Seven set up their artificial intelligence media agency in Denmark in 2013, they didn't pick the name just because it sounded enigmatic with military overtones. They wanted a short name that would work online and wasn't already taken. But Blackwood Seven, which has just opened a UK office, has provoked fear across the big media agency networks because its algorithm-based predictive technology threatens to challenge their business model. The Copenhagen shop already claims to manage 400m ( 360m) of billings a year for brands such as Volkswagen, Amazon, Groupon and Dollar Shave Club, and it has 200 staff in offices including Germany and the US. "So far, it's been a sprint – we've been running fast," Carl Erik Kjærsgaard, Blackwood Seven's chief executive, says on a visit to London with another founder, Henrik Busch, who is moving to the capital to be its UK chief executive.

Technology company Nauto has entered into agreements with BMW i Ventures and Toyota Research Institute, as well as with Allianz Ventures, part of the leading global financial service provider and insurance company Allianz Group. Nauto developed deep learning capabilities that run both in the cloud and on retrofit devices that can be mounted in any vehicle. Nauto is already deployed into commercial passenger, logistics and delivery fleets and enables these fleets to manage vehicle and driver safety and operate more efficiently. Nauto detects driver attention, coaches drivers and warns of collisions, keeps fleet managers in touch with their drivers and helps them optimize vehicle deployment. In fact, Nauto claims, its algorithms provide 5X more risk differentiation between the best and the worst drivers.

The United States has on its Aegis-class cruisers a defense system that can track and destroy anti-ship missiles and aircraft. Israel has developed a drone, the Harpy, that can detect and automatically destroy radar emitters. South Korea has security-guard robots on its border with North Korea that can kill humans. All of these can function autonomously without any human intention. Indeed, the early versions of the Terminator are already here.