This time last year Steve Wozniak was sounding a cautionary note about the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI), warning that computers would one day take over from humans and joking that we might even end up as their pets. In a recent interview with Australia's ABC TV's Lateline the engineering genius appeared more sanguine about the future of self-aware, super-intelligent Artificial Intelligence and much more concerned with the real world killer robots that are all but with us: Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS). The Apple co-founder maintains that human-level Artificial Intelligence won't happen for "a very long time": It might take 200 years before they are really fully able to operate all of their needs in the world, until then they're going to need human beings … I'm not really worried at all. It's very scary to make autonomous weapons that are just following some programmed set of instructions … even when you're driving a car there is no one set of rules … if a lane is closed off you have to do something against the rules … I don't think it's a good idea at all. I don't think we can really stop it.

"Sales and revenue generation are as a result of human interaction; it is that human interaction that is changing" – when asked to keynote speeches on the subject of technology in sales and marketing this is often a quote that gets a lot of heads nodding- it is very pertinent in this discussion too. This is due to the fact that I believe, ultimately, there will be little human interaction in certain real estate transactions in the future; some and future being the key points. Could there really be a possibility that artificial intelligence and real estate could work together? Which elements and when are pivotal to the debate and I hope to cover a few here. Ultimately it is my belief that in the near future the real estate industry could be automated and run algorithmically. However, it is important, from the outset to distinguish between automation and the more challenging theory of machine learning which is a term often used to describe Artificial Intelligence.

Maurice Stucke, a professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law and a former trial attorney with the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, recently received a 2016 Antitrust Writing Award for a legal article regarding artificial intelligence. The article, "Artificial Intelligence & Collusion: When Computers Inhibit Competition"--co-authored with Oxford University Faculty of Law Professor Ariel Ezrachi--discusses the challenging legal and ethical questions that are emerging as artificial intelligence development and implementation throughout society continues to develop at an accelerating rate. Artificial intelligence is "set to change the competitive landscape and the nature of competitive restraints," Stucke and Ezrachi write. "We are shifting from the world where executives expressly collude in smoke-filled hotel rooms to a world where pricing algorithms continually monitor and adjust to each other's prices and market data." Stucke and Ezrachi have frequently collaborated on intersectional issues concerning law and technology.

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

The development centre of the global telecommunications operator Orange, Orange Silicon Valley (OSV), starts cooperation with Finnish artificial intelligence (AI) startup Valossa. Orange, which is one of the world's leading telecommunications operators, will be using Valossa's Val.ai platform for identifying objects and people in real-time across more than 25 simultaneous HD video streams. Val.ai platform is based on years of research at the computer vision and AI labs of the University of Oulu in Finland. The platform is capable of analysing movies and streaming videos in real-time and identifying thousands of concepts, like places, objects and unique topics, from any video stream. "We are excited to collaborate with Valossa and OSV to bring High Performance Server and Storage platforms, which normally are only available in Supercomputing Data Centers, to the Media and Entertainment industry," says Andy Lee, Echo Streams' Director of Product Marketing.

Which industries will come to the fore in the next decade, and beyond, and become hubs of innovation? According to former State Department official Alec Ross, they won't be the industries that have dominated technology thus far. Instead, artificial intelligence (AI), genomics and robotics will lead the way. On Tuesday, the Italian Embassy in Washington, D.C., held an event to discuss Ross' recently published book, The Industries of the Future. He expounded on the book's themes and highlighted what it will take for individuals, companies and countries to harness the changes that he sees coming to the global economy.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 11, 2016) - Grishin Robotics announces new 100 million fund, four times the size of its initial 25 million fund, announced in mid-2012. Originally one of the first exclusively robotics funds in the world, the firm now expands its investment focus to companies involved in the "Hardware Revolution" and becomes one of the ecosystem's largest players. While Dmitry self-financed Grishin Robotics' investments until now, a number of institutional and individual investors from Europe and the U.S. became partners in this new fund. Until recently, people mainly thought about robots as multi-functional products in humanoid form-factor. Today single-purpose devices, combining sensors with software and data analytics components, have the potential to radically automate the physical world around us -- eliminating "dirty, dull & dangerous" tasks from our lives and, thus, realizing the ultimate purpose of robotics.

Mobileye, the Israeli car automation company that came onto the self-driving car scene as sort of an anti-Google, is now looking at the future in terms that seem a bit closer to Google's than used to be the case. Speaking Friday at a conference organized by Goldman Sachs (which owned a chunk of Mobileye's shares when the company first became publicly traded in 2014), Amnon Shashua, Mobileye's founder and chief technical officer, placed a lot of emphasis on mapping, something Google has done all along. And now Shashua is predicting utterly hands-free driving--if only on the highway--by 2021. Mobileye had always emphasized incremental steps, such as active cruise control and emergency braking, collectively called advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). It was Google that proposed to skip all half measures and get right to full-bore self-driving cars.

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

Spoiler alert: If you are yet to watch the Season 5 finale of "Game of Thrones" and have also managed to avoid a year of headlines about the fate of one particular character, read on at your own peril. For the rest of us, we've been subject to months of speculation that Jon Snow may not be completely dead, despite being run through with cold, hard steel by most of the Night's Watch when we saw him last. Now, a machine learning algorithm designed by a team at the Technical University of Munich has analyzed data on all the characters in Westeros, both dead and alive, and concluded that it is very likely that Snow is actually a survivor. The project, dubbed "A Song of Ice and Data", basically scrapes info from the online Wiki of Ice and Fire encyclopedia, which focuses largely on the series of books by George R.R. Martin, but also covers the HBO show they inspired. Using this data source, two dozen features of each character are statistically compared to try and figure out which features make a character most likely to die.