Earth's oceans are having a rough time right now. They're oily, hot, acidic, full of dead fish--and their levels are rising. But even though these things are true, it can be hard to grok (or muster up the will to care about) the oceans' subtle changes over decades. Every time you go to the beach, everything's still as blue and salty and vast as it ever was. But these changes directly impact human life (just ask the Marshall Islands). So to make the ocean's plight more relatable, a Swedish sustainability group is putting out a message that will hit you where it counts: right in the nerd.

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

Soulless computer algorithms are already churning out weather bulletins, sports reports, rap lyrics and even passable Chinese poetry. But it seems machines have now taken another step towards replacing human enterprise by generating their own reviews of serious academic journal papers that are able to impress even experienced academics. Using automatic text generation software, computer scientists at Italy's University of Trieste created a series of fake peer reviews of genuine journal papers and asked academics of different levels of seniority to say whether they agreed with their recommendations to accept for publication or not. In a quarter of cases, academics said they agreed with the fake review's conclusions, even though they were entirely made up of computer-generated gobbledegook – or, rather, sentences picked at random from a selection of peer reviews taken from subjects as diverse as brain science, ecology and ornithology. "Sentences like'it would be good if you can also talk about the importance of establishing some good shared benchmarks' or'it would be useful to identify key assumptions in the modelling' are probably well suited to almost any review," explained Eric Medvet, assistant professor at Trieste's department of engineering and architecture, who conducted the experiment with colleagues at his university's Machine Learning Lab.

Not too many years from now, your day will look very different. You will have self-driving cars to rid you of your nightmare commute and AI assistants to take care of everyday drudgery: from grocery shopping to setting up appointments. Smart drugs and nanobots loaded in your blood will keep your body and mind performing at their peak. Wearable sensors and smart clothing will ensure that your doctor knows if anything goes wrong. It'll be a life that even the Jetsons will be jealous of, and it'll be yours if you just let Silicon Valley do its thing--right?

When most people think holograms, they think of a floating image, a 3D projection of light. But scientists have designed technology that replaces light in the hologram with sound, giving us acoustic holograms that can be used to manipulate small objects. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany, have created these acoustic holograms by first printing a hologram plate using a 3D printer, and then transmitting ultrasound waves through it and into another medium, which could be liquid or gas. The uneven surface of the plate causes phase delays in the waves which affect the medium and therefore other objects or particles suspended in or on it. Peer Fischer, who usually works on tiny robots, was "looking for a way to move large numbers of microparticles simultaneously so that we could assemble them into larger more complex structures" when his team came up with acoustic holography, he said in a statement.

Come and talk about machine learning! We speak about everything from your favorite algorithmes like Random forest and deep learning to domain applications like genomics, image processing, robotics and so on. We also talk implementation because tools and infrastructure are also important. You are welcome to present your startup project or your work related to machine learning.

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

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

We eat, breathe and sleep artificial intelligence; it truly is running the world as we know it! Now, it's the turn of education; an industry that has been somewhat left behind in recent years. This however, is set to change. We've all read countless articles on how artificial intelligence is stealing our jobs, so surely something must be done to counteract this? Artificial intelligence and automation are now beginning to enter the workplace at a more graduate level and so it's about time that universities rethink what they're doing and how they're doing it; that is to equip graduates with the ability to work effectively alongside artificial intelligence.

Tucked within Google's unremarkable Allo messaging app is a real treasure: Google Assistant, which injects Google Now with an eager-to-please personality that finally provides the give-and-take other digital assistants lack. We've always talked about Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana, and Google Now as the three digital assistants from the top smartphone platforms. But the truth is that Google Now was little more than a series of informative cards, while Siri and Cortana preferred a text-based approach with a bit of sass. Google Assistant retains its visual approach, but within a messaging context that really nails it in how you interact with the app itself. Google announced Google Assistant this past May, and the preview version of it is live in Allo, which itself can be used on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) on up.