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Google reveals Pixel phone that bakes in AI assistant, to let people chat with their handset

The Independent - Tech

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display


Google Home revealed: New robot assistant built to sit inside people's houses and listen to what they want

The Independent - Tech

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display


AI trained to slay players in a computer game could one day lead to killer robots

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Two students have built an AI that could be the basis of future killer robots. In a controversial move, the pair trained an AI bot to kill human players within the classic video game Doom. Critics have expressed concern over the AI technology and the risk it could pose to humans in future. Devendra Chaplot and Guillaume Lample, from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh trained an AI bot - nicknamed Arnold - using'deep reinforcement learning' techniques. While Google's AI software had previously been shown to tackle vintage 2D Atari games such as Space Invaders, the students wanted to expand the technology to tackle three-dimensional first-person shooter games like Doom.


Nike Air MAG 2016 raffle and release date: How to buy the self-lacing Back to the Future shoes

The Independent - Tech

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display


IBM to pour 200 million into Watson Internet of Things A.I. business in Munich

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IBM said today that it will invest 200 million in a new global headquarters for its Watson Internet of Things business in Munich Germany. The move is part of the strategy of combining Watson -- the supercomputer that beat the world's best human Jeopardy player -- with the Internet of Things (IoT), or using sensors to make everyday objects smart and connected. It's also part of a global plan to invest 3 billion to bring Watson's cognitive computing to IoT. The investment in Munich is one of the company's largest ever in Europe and is in response to growing demand from customers who want to transform their operations with A.I. and IoT. IBM said it has 6,000 global clients using its Watson IoT solutions and services, up from 4,000 eight months ago.


Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing

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Is your firm prepared to welcome in an era of legal practice using artificial intelligence (AI)? Where is this technology headed and why must law firm leaders fully understand how cognitive computing works in order to benefit from it? With the vast amounts of structured and unstructured data firms have to deal with, there is increasing pressure from nimble technologies and clients to attract AI and cognitive technologies. Understanding the market implications of digital business information and trends is now key to attaining the best possible performance, revenue gains and cost savings. Berwin Leighton Paisner was one of the first firms to embrace AI in the UK, developing its'contract robot' which promised to complete work in seconds that would have otherwise taken a team of paralegals months to do.


Turning to the brain to reboot computing

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IMAGE: Sandia National Laboratories researchers are drawing inspiration from neurons in the brain, such as these green fluorescent protein-labeled neurons in a mouse neocortex, with the aim of developing neuro-inspired computing... view more ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Computation is stuck in a rut. The integrated circuits that powered the past 50 years of technological revolution are reaching their physical limits. This predicament has computer scientists scrambling for new ideas: new devices built using novel physics, new ways of organizing units within computers and even algorithms that use new or existing systems more efficiently. To help coordinate new ideas, Sandia National Laboratories has assisted organizing the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Rebooting Computing held Oct. 17-19. "We're taking a stab at the scope of what neural algorithms can do. We're not trying to be exhaustive, but rather we're trying to highlight the kind of application over which algorithms may be impactful," said Brad Aimone, a computational neuroscientist and co-author of one paper.


Google Pixel phone likely to be the least important thing at company's live event โ€“ here's what to expect

The Independent - Tech

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display


Pushing the limits of exoskeleton technology at the Cybathlon

Engadget

Andre van Rรผschen has no memory of the day he lost all feeling in his legs. After a car accident in Germany, he had a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed from the waist down. When he woke up from a coma in a hospital in Hamburg, the doctors told him he would never walk again. But now, thirteen years later, van Rรผschen is back on his feet, and he is training to compete as a pilot in the Powered Exoskeleton race at the Cybathlon in Zurich this month. In a high-rise office building on Leipziger Platz in Berlin, he slides out of his wheelchair onto a black leather pouf where a ReWalk exoskeleton sits folded.


IBM gives its Watson IoT headquarters a 200 million boost

Engadget

IBM is betting big on internet of things and setting aside 200 million for its Watson IoT division's headquarters in Munich. The company says this investment, one of the biggest it's ever made in Europe, is a response to the growing demand for AI technologies and the capability to connect everything to the internet. Part of the money will go to setting up hands-on labs where its clients can work with a thousand researchers, engineers, developers and business experts in the city. In fact, the tech corp has already secured new partnerships with German automotive parts supplier Schaeffler, Netherlands-based dronemaker Aerialtronics and three facilities at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals in Philadelphia. Schaeffler will use the Watson-powered IoT platform to give the various products it manufactures for the wind turbine, train, auto and other industries a way to monitor their own conditions.