You're heading to the store to get an Xbox One right now, and need to know which games to get. Or you're at work or in school, daydreaming about what you want to play next. Or maybe you're suiting up for a battle in the console war, cinching on your armor and trying to remember which games will best help you make the argument for Microsoft's new console. We are here to help. In the first year of its life, the selection of games on Xbox One was a bit limited.

"The robots are coming for your jobs!" That was the gist of numerous news reports following the release of the 2016 U.S. Economic Report of the President. My first thought on reading this was that anyone who saw the videos of clumsy robots falling helplessly during the recent DARPA Robotics Challenge must have been incredulous: "That's what's coming after my job!?" My second thought was more sobering. Robots are, after all, only a subset of the computerization leading to the automation of traditional jobs. As engineers we can see steady progress in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and big data.

Is this the beginning of the end for Apple? The tech giant's inexorable growth has been a given for most of the 21st century but, on Wednesday, Apple reported its first decline in quarterly sales for 13 years: a 13% fall, down to 50bn ( 34bn). That's still enough to reduce the UK's budget deficit by half, but, in Apple's reckoning, it's a catastrophe. Apple's share price fell by 8% yesterday, wiping more than 40bn off its value in a few hours. Is the world falling out of love with the Croesus of Cupertino? Even Siri was sounding like an exhausted spin doctor when we asked it for answers.

The benefits of speaking more than one language have long been debated - with some experts claiming it gives the brain a boost, while others describing it as a distraction. But a new study has now suggested that even speaking two dialects of the same language can be as good for your brain as speaking two separate languages. The researchers found that bi-dialectalism - the ability to speak slang and proper English - can boost memory. Using slang (cockney rhyming slang on a cash machine pictured) can boost the brain in the same way as learning a new language. They found that while some people speak African American English at home, they also use Mainstream American English at school, which can benefit their brain.

In 2007, Stephanie Costello had a boring office job with a lot of downtime that she spent online. She recalls the day she read one of those articles on MSN.com that have become a staple of the Internet: how to make extra money online. These types of articles often appear in the soft-news sections of MSN, Yahoo and other sites, usually with the message that there is money being left on the table. Costello was intrigued at the prospect of cutting through the boredom of her day with the opportunity to pick up a little extra cash. She went to the website, Mechanical Turk, where companies can post tiny tasks and workers can find and perform them online. It was free to register--no call for an "investment" up front, which indicated that it was not on its face a scam. And she began making money immediately. Costello is a trailblazer of sorts. She was one of the early workers to join Mechanical Turk, the first online, crowd-based, micro-labor platform.

The development of artificial intelligence and robotics is not only seen as a key to economic competitiveness, but AI research is also a reflection of different countries' "soft power" influence. For instance, nations such as the U.S., Israel, and India consider AI as key to securing their borders. By contrast, Japan and South Korea expect the "fourth industrial revolution" to benefit their trade positions. Today, China and Russia are trying to predict events. Different approaches to AI are already changing the world.

"She," in this case, is an avatar created by IPsoft, the global information technology services company. In a demo shown to Tech Insider, she shifts her weight from side to side when waiting for someone to speak, and smiles in between questions. If you tell her you're upset about something, she'll frown in empathy. If all goes according to plan, Amelia will be the customer service agent of the future, an "employee" who can field customer support questions for people without needing to bringing a human in. IPsoft solutions manager Benjamin Case tells Tech Insider that these low-level tasks are remarkably consistent across industries.

There are some mistakes that we make habitually. Even as we're doing it, a part of our brain is screaming: "This is absolutely the wrong thing to do." But somehow, before we know it, we've gone ahead done it; we've bought a ticket to see Batman v Superman. Sometimes those things happen in games too. It doesn't matter how experienced you are at Call of Duty, there are moments you think you can take out several incoming players at once by charging at them with your pistol and two bullets in the clip.

The drones may go into service very soon. Paris is one of the key hosts for both the upcoming Euro 2016 football/soccer championship and the Tour de France, and the police will likely want whatever tools they can get to detect (and maybe even deter) criminals who might be lurking in the throngs of sports fans. However, there are privacy concerns. While there's a law requiring that security drone operators let people know they're being watched, French rights groups are still worried that the proliferation of drones could lead to widespread surveillance. The rules open the door to exceptions for police when "public order" and security are at stake -- and when there's still a state of emergency, officers might be tempted to use those exceptions often.

Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to land an unmanned spacecraft on Mars as soon as 2018 with the help of NASA, an extraordinary collaboration between the public and private sector in an effort to eventually get humans to the Red Planet. SpaceX made the announcement on Twitter Wednesday, laying out an ambitious timeline for an incredibly difficult mission that only governments have dared try. Landing a spacecraft or a robot that can then operate successfully on the Martian surface is so difficult that the U.S. is the only country to have done it, and many attempts over the years have failed. Planning to send Dragon to Mars as soon as 2018. Red Dragons will inform overall Mars architecture, details to come pic.twitter.com/u4nbVUNCpA