A revolution that has been quietly brewing in the sphere of machine learning and predictive analytics is taking flight. For customers, the analytics revolution is putting powerful new analytical tools in the hands of financial planners and business managers in every area of the business, enabling more comprehensive, effective, and reliable planning. While the value of machine learning has been known for some time, the advances needed to make the practice accessible to a mainstream audience have been made only recently. As KDnuggets reports,[1] the convergence of three key trends is breaking down the barriers that have impeded the growth and employment of machine learning:[2] The abundance of data enables more features and better machine learning models to be created. Data scientists no longer are needed to manage the machine learning infrastructure or implement custom code.

Imagine it's 2018 and some scientists from NASA are at the White House to see President Clintrump. There's a piece of space coming toward us; it is rocky, and icy, and big, and the risk of it hitting the Earth is much larger than anyone is comfortable with. Even if there's time to act, there won't be much of it. Where did it come from? How come we didn't spot it until now? What's the best course of action to take?

I try to not to get all worked up over recruiters being replaced by robots, or recruiting-is-dead click-bait articles, but some of them are just annoying as heck. I want to try and bring some additional facts and sanity to this discussion, as most of the discussions I have seen are based on emotional and anecdotal responses. I also wanted to bring other industry voices into this discussion like China Gorman, Gerry Crispin, Kevin Wheeler, and Glen Cathey as we believe this particular topic has an enormous impact on the future of our profession. You build a great case for recruiters to take seriously the advancements that AI, algorithms, bots, and VR are making in the talent acquisition space and tie it up in a way that makes one look away at their own peril!" -- China Gorman I am not a futurist. I don't have a crystal ball, but what I do have is 20 years of global recruiting experience leading functions all around the world, and I have been an agency and corporate recruiter.

Olivia is patient and tireless, with soft brown eyes and a gentle bedside manner. She wears the light blue scrubs and fob watch of an NHS nurse, which in fact she is. But Olivia is also a robot, a virtual avatar accessed on a smartphone app. Currently on trial with the groups responsible for Vanguard in NHS Dudley Clinical Commissioning Group in the West Midlands, the NHS service for non-emergency calls, Olivia will check your symptoms, give advice on treatment and help schedule an appointment, whether that's in English, Spanish or Dutch; she speaks all three, as well as Czech and Japanese. Is it the same as talking to a live nurse?

Will Artificial Intelligence help Big Data deliver on its promise? One of the major trends I have been researching recently, has been the shift in interest towards Artificial Intelligence (AI) in its multiple forms and guises, and the potential it has to analyse vast quantities of data and quickly derive actionable insights. As we all know, AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning are not new. However, there has been huge investment in the space in recent years and the ability to automatically apply complex mathematical calculations to Big Data – over and over, faster and faster – is a recent development. With steady advances in digitisation and cheap computing power, no wonder people are excited about the possibilities.

The best reason to revisit World of Warcraft by way of its new Legion expansion, out August 30 for PC and Mac, is that you're a lapsed devotee. You already grasp exactly the sort of rock-rolling footslog you're signing up for, though maybe a year or three or five away from the game was enough to bleed off any lingering longing to return. And to think: five years would be less than half the time Blizzard's online fantasy opus has been with us (of upwards of 12 million concurrently subscribed in 2010, and over 100 million if we're talking discrete accounts). Released in November 2004, it predates YouTube, Hurricane Katrina, Angela Merkel's chancellorship, Twitter, the Wii, the 2008 global financial crisis, Barack Obama's presidency, both the iPhone and iPad, the Deepwater Horizon explosion, Edward Snowden's leaks, Brexit, and of course, Donald Trump's candidacy. Which bring us to Legion, the sixth expansion to a game that's managed to buck all attempts at shelf life prognostication.

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

Kawasaki announced it is working on an artificial intelligence system that would allow a motorcycle to communicate with, and adapt to its rider. The AI would be able to converse with a rider and, using cloud computing and a motorcycle's electronics, adapt the bike's settings to the rider's needs and skills. The AI wouldn't just allow a motorcycle to talk to a rider; Kawasaki says the AI will use a technology called an "Emotion Engine" to interpret a rider's emotions and perhaps even develop its own personality. Kawasaki says the AI will allow a motorcycle to converse (??) with its rider while processing data from the internet (???????) and vehicle information (????). While this may sound like science fiction, the Emotion Engine is already being used in the real world.

A new signal has been found deep in space that could come from aliens. The community of astronomers and scientists who scan the skies with telescopes in an attempt to find extraterrestrial life is abuzz with excitement over a "strong signal" detected deep in space that could come from an alien civilisation. But some scientists have cautioned people not to get quite so excited – at least yet. The evidence remains preliminary and more work will need to be done to establish whether it is not just a mistake, let alone wheat it's actually a message from aliens. The message appeared to have come from a nearby star, HD164595, in the constellation Hercules.

Robots beating humans in games has become pretty common these days. There's chess, of course, and now the ancient and complex game of Go. But mankind has always held the upper hand in the game that separates the older frat brothers from the younger frat brothers, foosball. Students at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) have developed a robot meant to challenge humans at the miniature indoor soccer game. "This is already enough to beat the average player," said head researcher Christophe Salzmann in a statement.