Science has proven what many a beer drinker probably already knows – drinking beer makes you nicer and more likely to be attracted to others. That's according to a new study conducted by researchers in Switzerland, the BBC reports, where a team from University Hospital in Basel conducted tests with 60 men and women. Researchers had an equal number of both sexes engage in a wide variety of tasks, including face recognition, empathy and sexual arousal tests while drinking either regular beer with alcohol or a non-alcoholic brew. The study found that those who drank beer with alcohol wanted to be around others and drinking also made people more talkative. The desire to be more social was also more pronounced in women and in those study participants with higher initial inhibitions.

Stanford student Joshua Browder just launched a new "chatbot" service on his website DoNotPay.co.uk that's designed to help tenants force their negligent landlords to fix problems like leaky taps or moldy walls. The new online service launched Friday in the U.K. and follows the highly publicized success of Browder's online parking ticket appeal service, which started in the U.K. but recently expanded to New York and Seattle. Browder estimates he has saved drivers about 5 million through successfully appealing 180,000 parking tickets. CNNMoney was given exclusive access to the new landlord service before the launch. It's not a glamorous website and it's got a few kinks, but it generally works as promised.

The global "hotspot of the digiconomy" for the next two days is Cologne, Germany, where 50,000 digital marketers have gathered to learn about the latest and greatest in digital innovation. From the business of drones to the chatbot revolution, dmexco is off to a great start. And with the announcement of our partnership with Bombora, the leading provider of B2B demographic and intent data, even B2B marketers had something to get excited about. The partnership, which Outbrain's VP of Products, Amit Elisha, discusses below, allows B2B marketers to take their content marketing and account-based marketing to the next level. We've already started to roll out the offering with a select group of customers and seen some great results.

In this special guest feature, Alexander Khaytin, COO for Yandex Data Factory, explains how businesses can introduce "data democracy" and systematic testing and how agility can be introduced into even the most inflexible of organizations, overcoming the barriers prohibiting machine learning adoption and benefit. As Chief Operating Officer at YDF, Alexander oversees projects from concept to completion, alongside contributing to YDF's partnership, sales and technology strategies. Prior to joining Yandex in 2014, Alexander spent over a decade providing consulting and strategic analysis services for businesses in telecom, construction, energy, retail and finance industries. As a Partner at a system integrator, Korus Consulting, from 2011 to 2014, he ran projects for some of Russia's leading brands, including state-owned hi-tech corporation Rostech, Moscow City Telephone Network, mobile broadband services provider and smartphone manufacturer Yota, Bank Saint Petersburg and Russia's largest e-payment system Yandex.Money. Machine learning has come to play an important role for businesses looking to transform the way they work.

"We will cooperate with each other and exercise leadership to support the early commercialization of automated and connected vehicle technologies," a declaration adopted at a meeting in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, said. Ministers and representatives from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States plus the European Union also pledged in the declaration to set up a group to work on resolving problems pertaining to introducing self-driving cars. "We obtained a common understanding to make efforts in the same direction to create regulation frameworks that (will) tend to vary depending on region," transport minister Keiichi Ishii told a news conference after the meeting. The envisioned international safety regulations would enable automakers to sell the same car models worldwide, resulting in lower sales prices due to mass production, experts say. The declaration noted that the introduction of self-driving cars is expected to have such benefits as reducing traffic accidents, improving efficiencies including logistics and alleviating burdens on drivers.

Photo: Pixabay Rise of Artificial Intelligence Ushers Era of Robot Criminals As scientists continue to develop more and more advanced computer systems and the probability of creating a true artificial intelligence construct continues to increase, news headlines warning about the prospects of killer AIs threatening mankind are becoming increasingly widespread. Access to the historical limit order book for all global liquid securities at L3 resolution along with associated metadata. This AMI contains the interface to this AWS hosted multi-petabyte dataset, along with the software framework required to perform analysis on it. This framework integrates use of big-data tools and applies a world-leading machine learning library designed at Cambridge and MIT universities.

If pen retailers and state legislators are to be believed, cursive handwriting is facing an existential threat. Since the advent of the Common Core standards--which emphasizes keyboard skills over nicely shaped P's and Q's--it's been common knowledge for years that teachers are abandoning cursive in droves, spending classroom time instead on new technology and typing. But lately, fancy handwriting is having somewhat of a comeback. Louisiana's governor signed a law in June requiring cursive instruction all the way through grade 12. Mississippi's education department recently added script to its standards. And starting this school year, third graders in Alabama are required to write legibly in cursive under the newly passed "Lexi's Law."

Google has achieved something major in artificial intelligence (AI) research. A computer system it has built to play the ancient Chinese board game Go has managed to win a match against a professional Go player: the European champion Fan Hui. The research is documented in a paper in this week's issue of the journal Nature. The Google system, named AlphaGo, swept France's Hui, who is ranked a 2-dan, in a five-game match at the Google DeepMind office in London in October. AlphaGo played against Hui on a full 19-by-19 Go board and received no handicap.

A subset of those scientists, engineers and programmers have a different goal: They're trying to use computer science to solve one of the most complex and deadly challenges humans face: Cancer. And, for the most part, they are doing so with algorithms and computers instead of test tubes and beakers. "We are trying to change the way research is done on a daily basis in biology," said Jasmin Fisher, a biologist by training who works in the programming principles and tools group in Microsoft's Cambridge, U.K., lab. One team of researchers is using machine learning and natural language processing to help the world's leading oncologists figure out the most effective, individualized cancer treatment for their patients, by providing an intuitive way to sort through all the research data available. Another is pairing machine learning with computer vision to give radiologists a more detailed understanding of how their patients' tumors are progressing.

According to technologists, the future of Fintech looks like this: we are all going to be paying for goods and services with our thumbs, robots will make sure our pensions don't decrease, AIs will manage hedge funds, online only banks will be available, we'll be able to get cash from our favorite merchant with our cell phones, credit and debit cards will become extinct, global money transfers will be automatic, market place lending will offer a peer-to-peer option, and it will be impossible to launder money. The incumbents and infrastructure that drive future finance will eventually be replaced by financial technology. However, I believe only those Fintech firms doing it for the right reasons will be successful. Is the new technology cheaper than the current norm? Does it provide a seamless, easy to use solution?