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

UPS, despite its decades of delivery experience, is a latecomer to the drone delivery game. Drone startup Flirtey demonstrated a ship-to-shore drone delivery of medical supplies off the coast of New Jersey earlier this summer, and drone delivery company Zipline declared its intent to delivery needed blood to rural populations in Washington State's San Juan islands. And it's not just startups that are already doing delivery. Amazon's drone program is perhaps the most famous, but Europe's own DHL delivery giant experimented with drones in difficult mountain terrain. Chinese online retailer JD.com is also exploring drone delivery in marshy and channel-crossed provinces, where flying drones can fly easily over the car-impassible waterways.

The test for what is'fair' is a matter of degree and the impression the court forms of the defendant's conduct.

According to Elo's research, the biggest threat for the well-being of Finnish entrepreneurs seem to be the challenge of time management and the lack of supporting networks. This is one of the challenges hackers in'Elo Data Science Hack' hackathon are set to solve. "The aim of our hackathon is to help entrepreneurs flourish and maintain balance in their working life. As Finland's most popular employment pension insurer, we feel passionate about Finnish entrepreneurs' well-being. We have over 85,000 customers and the only way to reach each and every one of them is with digital solutions. This also calls for a new kind of intelligent services," tells Satu Huber, CEO of Elo Mutual Pension Insurance Company.

Ben Robinson, chief strategy & marketing officer at banking software firm Temenos, explains how the future of finance will be shaped by artificial technology. Google's DeepMind triumph this year over one of the world's highest ranked champions at Go is a sign: computers with artificial intelligence (AI) are learning how to outperform us. If computers can learn to beat us at a game, why not at things that we can't afford to get wrong – medical diagnostics, risk analysis, legal and investment advice? And what effect over time – say 20 years – will this have on the way a host of services, such as banking, are delivered? "Service will be all about data and algorithms," David Brear, co-founder and CEO at 11:FS recently suggested.

Accenture has teamed up with a coder, an orchestral composer and a datavis company to put artificial intelligence (AI) and big data to music, in a project called Symphonologie. Looking to combine data with art, Symphonologie's visual music piece has three influences: business, technology and the new digital world. To combine all of these into one artistic experience, Accenture looked to Hannah Davis, a musician and creative technologist; Rare Volume, an interactive design and data company; and composer Mathieu Lamboley. The project began with Davis' thesis, which dealt with putting music to words. She built a computer programme called TransProse, which reads bodies of text and determines the "densities" of eight emotions: joy, sadness, anger, disgust, anticipation, surprise, trust, and fear.

Anti-money laundering, fraud prevention and sanctions processing are three of the key areas people working in in the payments industry see potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to play a role. In a survey of senior payment professionals in banks and corporates, 63% of those polled identified these three areas as potentially benefiting from AI that can learn from previous experience and behaviour patterns. That's according to Pelican, a company that – it should be noted - helps financial institutions apply application technologies to transactions. Formerly known as ACE software solutions, Pelican says it combines tools such as natural language processing and machine learning to profile payments and apply human-like logic to transactions. Pelican CEO Parth Desai says it's time the industry "wakes up" to the need to replace manual processes and legacy systems for payments processing. He says the gradual appearance of AI into everyday life will raise consumer expectations of faster results and services in their banking products too.

It was December 2012, and Doug Burger was standing in front of Steve Ballmer, trying to predict the future. Ballmer, the big, bald, boisterous CEO of Microsoft, sat in the lecture room on the ground floor of Building 99, home base for the company's blue-sky R&D lab just outside Seattle. The tables curved around the outside of the room in a U-shape, and Ballmer was surrounded by his top lieutenants, his laptop open. Burger, a computer chip researcher who had joined the company four years earlier, was pitching a new idea to the execs. He called it Project Catapult. The tech world, Burger explained, was moving into a new orbit.

If I had to pick one area I find most exciting, most potentially disruptive and thus the best opportunity for return on investment, it would be A.I. Or is it the other way around? The anatomy of infrastructure is not unlike that of the human body, and we all know it's possible to live long, healthy lives. But we also know that systems out of balance in the body lead to sickness and disease (or, in the case of Industrial Revolution, economic disease and monetary sickness). It hasn't happened yet, as history has shown that human behavior, fear, and greed are more sure in life than death and taxes. Remember, we're trying to construct an infrastructure with systems working in harmony: the Anatomy of the (Healthy) Future Clearly, the best representation of the nervous system in our cyber-anatomy infrastructure is Artificial Intelligence, the future of which is Deep Learning (Augmented Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Neural Networks have actually been around some time).

Earlier this year, Google's DeepMind artificial brain conquered a world-class champion at the game of Go -- a feat that even amazed Elon Musk -- and might well take on "StarCraft," too. But Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is less impressed, at least judging from comments he made at Monday's Microsoft Ignite event in Atlanta. Instead of playing games, Nadella says, Microsoft is focused on putting artificial intelligence into every app, everywhere. "We are not pursuing AI to beat humans at games. We are pursuing AI so that we can empower every person and every institution that people build with tools of AI so that they can go on to solve the most pressing problems of our society and our economy," Nadella says.