In it, the king of automation made some optimistic predictions about machines creating more jobs than they take away--in retrospect, very prescient. In 1940, the President of MIT, Karl Compton and President Franklin D. Roosevelt clashed over the question. As chronicled by the Times, the president of MIT didn't see a problem whereas the nation's president did. The same year a US senator suggested a tax on machines to offset the unemployment they may cause. "Who will have the last laugh in the gadget age -- man or machine?," asked Pulitzer Prize-winning AP writer Hal Boyle in 1949.

Thanks to a new deep learning system from Yahoo! Research, GIFs are just one more art form--in addition to poetry and calligraphy, to name a few--that computers are quickly mastering. A computer made that all on its own. In fact, not only did a computer make the above GIF, it actually scanned the original video and decided which bits had the highest GIF potential; a video went in, and a slew of appealing GIFs came out. We're on our way to what you could call a fully automated, bean-to-bar, GIF-making solution. Research in New York do, you could call it Video2GIF.

WIRE)--TSYS (NYSE: TSS), today announced an agreement with Featurespace, a global leader in adaptive behavioral analytics, that will reduce fraud for its clients with a revolutionary machine learning software platform -- the ARICSM engine -- that monitors every individual -- one customer at a time -- to deliver real-time decision capabilities. "TSYS' collaboration with Featurespace aligns with our overall strategy of integrating with advanced, innovative technology partners to help our clients grow their business, reduce costs, and deliver an exceptional customer experience," said Andrew Mathieson, group executive, issuer product group, TSYS. "We will incorporate these capabilities across the credit risk lifecycle, enabling our issuers to catch more fraudulent transactions while dramatically reducing false-positive alerts for genuine transactions -- a sharp contrast to the industry paradigm of blocking more valid transactions in order to detect actual fraudulent activity." The new agreement allows TSYS to strengthen its position in faster payments by leveraging machine learning to provide clients with actionable insights in real time, using adaptive behavioral analytics that result in operational efficiencies. "TSYS has a long-standing leadership position in authorization processing and fraud management and we are excited to integrate our ARIC engine for TSYS' clients," said Martina King, chief executive officer, Featurespace.

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

Scientists around the world are experimenting with techniques that could one day grow human organs inside of pigs and sheep. This controversial branch of research holds potential to save hundreds of lives each year among patients awaiting transplants, but many scientists are divided over the ethical implications. Despite a temporary ban on funding for these projects in the US, some researchers have been able to continue their work, implanting human stem cells into animal embryos. Scientists are experimenting with techniques that could one day grow human organs inside of pigs and sheep. To grow a human organ in an animal embryo, a researcher from the University of California, Davis uses new gene-editing techniques, according to NPR.

Flying robots can find uses from searching for victims following natural disasters to letting the military keep an eye on potential targets on the battle field. But flying can use a lot of energy and as drones get smaller, their ability to stay in the air for peroids of time that make them useful quickly diminish. But now scientists have come up with a solution - an aerial microbot nicknamed the RoboBee which can land on any surface to rest much like a real insect. Scientists have come up with an aerial microbot nicknamed the RoboBee (three attached to a leaf, pictured). By giving their tiny robot the ability to perching on a surface, researchers have dramatically reduced the amount of energy needed to power these mini flying robots.

If you were wondering what Microsoft's response would be to the next-generation, conversational Google Assistant that debuted at Google I/O, a job posting may have revealed it: Bing Concierge. ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley unearthed a job posting for what Microsoft calls the Bing Concierge Bot, a natural language agent that fulfills tasks on behalf of the user. But while Assistant appears to restrict itself to the Android platform, Microsoft seems to believe Bing Concierge could run on any number of instant-messenger platforms. "In Bing Concierge Bot... we are building a highly intelligent productivity agent that communicates with the user over a conversation platform, such as Skype, Messenger, SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram, etc.," the job listing reads. Why this matters: Just as Google moves on from Google Now, Microsoft appears to be evolving beyond Cortana.

A drone takes a practice flight in Virginia with medical supplies -- part of a project to evaluate the flying machines for use in humanitarian crises. A drone takes a practice flight in Virginia with medical supplies -- part of a project to evaluate the flying machines for use in humanitarian crises. She was a mother in rural Ghana. She only wanted four children. That's a story that Faustina Fynn-Nyame told at the Women Deliver conference this week in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Flapping two tiny wings, the small, thin robot wobbles its way towards the underside of a leaf, bumps into the surface and latches on, perching motionless above the ground. Moments later, its wings begin to flap once more and it jiggles off on its way. The little flying machine, dubbed a "RoboBee", has been designed to perch on a host of different surfaces, opening up new possibilities for the use of drones in providing a bird's-eye view of the world, scientists say. Know as micro aerial vehicles, such robots could be invaluable in reconnaissance of disaster zones or to form impromptu communication networks. But there is a hitch: flying takes energy, so the time these robots can spend in the air is limited by the size of the battery pack they can carry.