Today on In Case You Missed It: The European Space Agency and Russia are joining up to launch their ExoMars project next week, which will look for traces of extraterrestrial life on the red planet. Meanwhile, a newer kind of wind energy harvester is being installed in Paris, where leaves on a fake tree can capture energy in breezy conditions. The Red Bull video showing skydivers swinging in between two hot air balloons should get heart rates going, and the Disney robot is today's dose of squee, because even machines can look adorable to us. As always, please share any interesting tech or science videos you find by using the #ICYMI hashtag on Twitter for @mskerryd.

When a sleepy Marc Dubois walked into the cockpit of his own aeroplane, he was confronted with a scene of confusion. The plane was shaking so violently that it was hard to read the instruments. An alarm was alternating between a chirruping trill and an automated voice: "STALL STALL STALL." His junior co-pilots were at the controls. In a calm tone, Captain Dubois asked: "What's happening?" Co-pilot David Robert's answer was less calm. "We completely lost control of the aeroplane, and we don't understand anything! The crew were, in fact, in control of the aeroplane. One simple course of action could have ended the crisis they were facing, and they had not tried it. But David Robert was right on one count: he didn't understand what was happening. As William Langewiesche, a writer and professional pilot, described in an article for Vanity Fair in October 2014, Air France Flight 447 had begun straightforwardly enough – an on-time take-off from Rio de Janeiro at 7.29pm on 31 May 2009, bound ...

In a quest to understand the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in advertising, The Drum, in partnership with Teads, has unveiled a new documentary, The Automation of Creativity, shot in Tokyo, London and Amsterdam. The 16-minute film explores how artificial intelligence is beginning to impact the creativity of advertising and the role of human creatives. To date, artificial intelligence (AI) machines have been able to write poetry, drive cars and there is even talk of a machine possibly winning a Pulitzer one day. Turning the focus on the ad industry, The Automation of Creativity film stars the world's first artificial intelligence creative director, AI-CD ß, launched by McCann Erickson Japan. AI-CD ß is set a brief by Mondelez in the film and presents its creative idea back to the client.

It is no doubt that the sub-field of machine learning / artificial intelligence has increasingly gained more popularity in the past couple of years. As Big Data is the hottest trend in the tech industry at the moment, machine learning is incredibly powerful to make predictions or calculated suggestions based on large amounts of data. Some of the most common examples of machine learning are Netflix's algorithms to make movie suggestions based on movies you have watched in the past or Amazon's algorithms that recommend books based on books you have bought before. So if you want to learn more about machine learning, how do you start? For me, my first introduction is when I took an Artificial Intelligence class when I was studying abroad in Copenhagen. My lecturer is a full-time Applied Math and CS professor at the Technical University of Denmark, in which his research areas are logic and artificial, focusing primarily on the use of logic to model human-like planning, reasoning and problem solving.

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How does one of the largest players in global travel view the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence? As the tech world salivates over its game-changing potential, Expedia Inc. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company plans to first use artificial intelligence for customer service rather than for something like trip-planning. "For me to be able to message Expedia on [Facebook] Messenger or text … 'cancel my hotel booking in New York next week,' it is a much more delightful experience than calling or even my getting on the website etc.," Khosrowshahi said at Skift Global Forum in New York City last month. While leisure travelers might take on average perhaps just one or two vacations annually, artificial intelligence isn't practical at this point for travel research and planning because artificial intelligence needs huge amounts of data to work, Khosrowshahi argued. "We are going to take it on the service side," Khosrowshahi told the audience last month in a session with online travel founders.

This 4-foot-tall robot with a tablet for a chest may soon find its way to a big-box store near you. Omar Abdelwahed, Head of Studio at SoftBank Robotics America, demos the capabilities of a humanoid robot, called Pepper, which is supposed to help customers shop in stores. SAN FRANCISCO – The four-foot tall robot whirling around the new offices of SoftBank Robotics America could well be your big-box store greeter of the near future. "Hi, I'm Pepper," says the sentient hunk of whirling white plastic and blinking lights. That remains to be seen.

A driverless vehicle carrying passengers has taken to Britain's public roads for the first time today. The trial is aimed at paving the way for autonomous cars to hit the roads by the end of the decade. The government is encouraging technology companies, carmakers and start-ups to develop and test their autonomous driving technologies in Britain. A pod, like a small two-seater car, developed by a company spun out from Oxford University during testing in Milton Keynes. Six Chrysler Pacifica minivans have been spotted at a Google car park in Mountain View, California.

Being tone deaf could affect more than just your karaoke ability. A new study shows that being unable to recognise musical pitch could also have a serious affect on social skills. People with'congenital amusia' - the scientific term for tone deafness - may find it more difficult to accurately read facial expressions or tell if a laugh is fake, according to a new study. As part of the study by researchers from Goldsmiths, University of London and University College London (UCL), 24 participants were asked to judge the emotion in extracts of speech, based on patterns hear in the tone of voice. Some people claim they're born to sing, while others openly admit they're tone deaf, but what if you could take a pill and become pitch perfect?

Artificial intelligence continues to have its moment in the spotlight, with a surge of interest in startups and efforts from huge tech companies to push the boundaries of how we might best use machine learning, computer vision and other areas of AI in the future. The latest development on that front comes from China's Huawei, which today announced that it would form a research partnership with UC Berkeley focused on AI, and fund it to the initial tune of 1 million. The alliance, between Huawei's Noah's Ark Laboratory and Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR), is being billed as a "strategic partnership into basic research", and it will cover areas like deep learning, reinforcement learning, machine learning, natural language processing and computer vision. "The two parties believe that this strategic partnership will fuel the advancement of AI technology and create completely new experiences for people, thus contributing greatly to society at large," Huawei notes. Some of these areas of AI you will have heard a lot about already.