Green technology has been prolific in the news recently with the UK's new industrial strategy demonstrating a step in the right direction towards embracing new technology in the energy space. There are plans in place to majorly change the way electricity is produced, used and stored, as the government becomes more aware of the need for a smarter, more flexible energy system. With UK consumers overpaying a staggering £5.4 billion a year on standard tariffs, it is time that the energy system is redesigned to optimise electricity prices and modernise the grid. As part of their strategy, the government has outlined plans to ensure that all households and businesses are given the option to have a smart meter installed. While these meters give the consumer greater control and a better understanding of their energy usage, the data made available to them only scratches the surface of what is actually possible and what can have a real impact on changing consumer behaviour.

Not that advertising is especially fickle, but even if you're looking to fly without a degree, you'll still have to figure out a few basics--compiling a portfolio, say, or understanding which awards are actually worth pursuing in a creative career. Thankfully, we have bots now. Bot Ad School (or BAS for short) is the labor of Daniel Liakh of BBH London, Kostia Liakhov and Kate Harrison of R/GA Sydney, and Sam Cable of Leo Burnett Sydney. Best experienced via mobile, the bot provides a crash course in everything from portfolio building and website creation help to information on awards (including student ones) and making the most of an ad internship. All in just seven bite-sized chapters, stuffed with GIFs.

TekMonks – Global, Skilled and Successful 2 Vision Statement To be a reputable Global Corporation providing quality solutions for business issues using technology and highly skilled people. Apple has 400m account holders holding an Apple Store or iTunes account, that's more than the top 3 banks in the world have in retail banking customers. That's more than the 6,985 smaller institutions in the US who on average have around $185m in deposits. A coffee company that is better at taking deposits than 95% of the FDIC insured banks in the US, and they don't even have a banking license. Publishers are not fully in control of their business.

Google has unveiled its first AI headphones with a smart assistant built in. Called PixelBuds, the new headphones will use Google's Assistant software - and can do everything from play music wirelessly to translate languages. The firm revealed the $149 headphones alongside a raft of new hardware including its Pixel 2 phones, two new AI speakers and even an AI camera. Called PixelBuds, the new headphones will use Google's Assistant software - and can do everything from play music wirelessly to translate languages. All of the the audio controls are in a touchpad on the right earbud.

Uber drivers could one day be spared from engaging in small talk with drunks if a National Transport Commission suggestion to allow people under the influence of alcohol to use fully automated vehicles is adopted by state road authorities. The NTC, an independent statutory body tasked with reforming Australia's driving laws to prepare for the arrival of driverless cars, has recommended an "exemption" from drink and drug-driving laws for people who ride in fully automated vehicles. In a new discussion paper it argues there is a "clear-cut" justification for an exemption from drink-driving laws because there is "no possibility that a human could drive a dedicated automated vehicle". "The situation is analogous to a person instructing a taxi driver where to go," the NTC report states. State traffic laws prohibit driving under the influence of varying levels of alcohol but the NTC says they could be a "barrier" to the benefits of driverless vehicles, which it argues could improve road safety by reducing the incidence of drink-driving.

One of the biggest advances in transportation has been self-driving technology, which has facilitated breakthroughs in not just self-driven cars, but even driverless trains, self-flying planes and self-navigating ships. Rio Tinto, an Australian mining corporation, has unveiled the first operational driverless train in Western Australia, even before China, which has its own similar automated train in the works. The train completed its first run of 100 kilometers (62 miles) in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, without anyone manning the train. "This successful pilot run puts us firmly on track to meet our goal of operating the world's first fully-autonomous heavy haul, long distance rail network, which will unlock significant safety and productivity benefits for the business," Rio Tinto Iron Ore chief executive Chris Salisbury stated in the press release issued Monday. "New roles are being created to manage our future operations and we are preparing our current workforce for new ways of working to ensure they remain part of our industry."

Elon Musk, founder, CEO and lead designer at SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla, speaks at the International Space Station Research and Development Conference in Washington, U.S., July 19, 2017. A revolution in warfare where killer robots, or autonomous weapons systems, are common in battlefields is about to start. Both scientists and industry are worried. The world's top artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics companies have used a conference in Melbourne to collectively urge the United Nations to ban killer robots or lethal autonomous weapons. An open letter by 116 founders of robotics and artificial intelligence companies from 26 countries was launched at the world's biggest artificial intelligence conference, the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), as the UN delays meeting until later this year to discuss the robot arms race.

David Fletcher was born in England in 1952. On leaving school he studied production engineering for five years then jumped on an aircraft bound for New Zealand where he's lived ever since. He was employed as an illustrator and cartoonist by New Zealand's largest daily newspaper, the New Zealand Herald, for three years, but for the last thirty years he's been pretending to work from home as a comic strip artist. He draws two daily strips called The Politician and Crumb the Blackbird, also several weekly strips. His cartoons are syndicated to Europe, Britain, US, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Tesla is developing a long-haul, electric semi-truck that can drive itself and move in "platoons" that automatically follow a lead vehicle, and is getting closer to testing a prototype. Love exists, but they are not together. Reports swirled over the weekend that the entrepreneur, Elon Musk, and Amber called it quits, after publicizing their couple status in April. TheStreet's Action Alerts PLUS Portfolio Manager Jim Cramer looks at Thursday's trending stocks. Tesla had roughly 63,000 people cancel their order for the companies Model 3 car in the last year. Tesla's greatly anticipated Model 3 will finally start rolling out of the manufacturing plant. CEO, Elon Musk took to Twitter to make the announcement.

Remember The Jetsons – the animated sitcom that reflected popular 1960s imaginings that technology had all the answers? Life, it envisaged, would continue much the way it had, but with our every whim served by platoons of sentient robots – dubious gender stereotypes aside. So, how did all that work out for us? "There is a fundamental disconnect between what we roboticists say and what the public perceives," says Ian Reid, deputy director of the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision, in Brisbane. Sure, we use robots for all sorts of things, but they aren't what fiction prepared us for – although the work of the centre is dedicated to turning that fiction into reality.