Automated lorries have long been talked about as the future of transport and now the first trials of driverless HGVs have launched in Rotterdam. More than a dozen self-driving trucks made by six of Europe's largest manufacturers arrived in the port in so-called'truck platoons' yesterday. 'Truck platooning' involves two or three trucks that autonomously drive in convoy and are connected wirelessly with the leading truck determining route and speed. More than a dozen self-driving trucks (pictured) made by six of Europe's largest manufacturers arrived in Rotterdam in so-called'truck platoons'. 'Truck platooning', similar to concepts with self-driving cars, involves two or three trucks that autonomously drive in convoy connected wirelessly Wednesday's arrival concludes the first-ever cross-border experiment of its kind with self-driving trucks.

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

Volvo Group announced Thursday it plans to launch an experiment involving a fleet of 100 self-driving cars in China, as part of its commitment to make its cars "death proof" by 2020. The experiment will see local customers test the cars on public roads in everyday conditions. The Swedish carmaker, wholly owned by China's Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., said in a statement it would start the project in the coming months based on talks with various Chinese cities to gauge interest and to "see which is able to provide the necessary permissions, regulations and infrastructure to allow the experiment to go ahead." Volvo called the project "China's most advanced autonomous driving experiment." The experiment will be conducted in a fashion similar to its testing program in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, scheduled to start in 2017.

The all-new Rembrandt painting is entirely digitally generated. How badly would you like to see a new work by them? Technology may be the key, if a newly completed project is any indication. A team of Microsoft data technicians and art historians have used digital analysis, facial recognition and 3D printing to create an entirely new painting in the style of Dutch Baroque painter Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669). The project, called Next Rembrandt, took 18 months to complete. It was a collaboration between ING, Microsoft, Delft University of Technology, The Mauritshuis and Museum Het Rembrandthuis.

Sharon Goldwater has won the BCS Roger Needham award for outstanding work in computational linguistics. BCS is the Chartered Institute for Information Technology. Their Roger Needham Award, sponsored by Microsoft Research Cambridge, is awarded for a distinguished research contribution in computer science by a UK based researcher within 10 years of their PhD. The BCS press release about Dr Goldwater's award says: Sharon Goldwater is a Reader in our Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation. She is an internationally leading researcher who has made major interdisciplinary research contributions across natural language processing, machine learning, and computational cognitive science.

Rembrandt may have died in 1669 but his artistic legacy lives on thanks in part to a new piece of work created with computer data, instead of the artist's hands. Revealed in the Netherlands, 'The Next Rembrandt' is the result of an 18-month project undertaken by a group of art historians, along with software developers, scientists, engineers and data analysts – not the usual team of artists for portraits work. Don't miss our biggest TNW Conference yet! The team worked tirelessly to anyalyze all known works of Rembrandt, which amounts to over 300 paintings, using high resolution 3D scans to capture every little detail and create an algorithm that would eventually be able to accurately recreate his style. That data was then fed to a 3D printer, which recreated the painting using 13 layers of paint-based UV ink.

Building technology companies worth tens of billions of pounds often requires one or two exceptionally talented individuals with strong computer science backgrounds and entrepreneurial spirits. Finding these people can be time consuming and difficult, which is why a couple of UK organisations have turned to artificial intelligence and software. In the last month, Founders Forum, a network of successful startup founders and business leaders, and company builder Entrepreneur First, have both revealed they are using artificial intelligence (AI) and custom-built software to identify the UK's most promising founders. Founders Forum, set up by serial entrepreneur and lastminute.com "An AI simulates what a human might do but at scale; with more data and no bias," said Dr Tom Bowles, data scientist and founder in residence at Founders Factory, a startup accelerator launched by Brent Hoberman.

The self-driving rigs started their journey from different parts of Europe and ended in the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Quartz notes that if this accomplishment convinces various government in the continent, then a number of corporations like Unilever will begin using autonomous trucks to pick up cargo from the port to distribute across Europe. If you keep an eye out for autonomous vehicle news, you might have already seen the video of Daimler testing its vehicle on public roads.

This workshop will attempt to present some of the very recent developments on non-convex analysis and optimization, as reported in diverse research fields: from machine learning and mathematical programming to statistics and theoretical computer science. We believe that this workshop can bring researchers closer, in order to facilitate a discussion regarding why tackling non-convexity is important, where it is found, why non-convex schemes work well in practice and, how we can progress further with interesting research directions and open problems.

With AI Scry, you'll never have to wonder how your iPhone would describe the world around you if it was capable of autonomous thinking. Available for iOS, AI Scry is a new app that generates automatic descriptions of whatever appears in front of your phone's camera. Don't miss our biggest TNW Conference yet! Created by Oakland-based art/technology studio Disc Cactus (or as it's stylized), the app aims to showcase the merits and weaknesses of machine learning technologies in a fun and entertaining manner. One of the developers who worked on the project, Sam Kronik, says that to give your phone a mind of its own it uses the open-sourced neural network Neural Talk introduced by Stanford scientist Andrej Karpathy.