A privately owned company plans to use robotic spacecraft to launch a series of commercial missions to the moon, some 45 years after NASA s last lunar landing, officials said on Wednesday. Cape Canaveral, Florida-based Moon Express is developing a fleet of low-cost robotic spacecraft that can be assembled like Legos to handle increasingly complex missions, founder and Chief Executive Officer Bob Richards said in an interview. Ultimately the company plans to establish a lunar outpost in 2020 and set up commercial operations on the Moon, mining material and returning it to Earth to sell. The initial spacecraft, known as MX-1E,is a similar size and shape to the R2D2 droid from Star Wars, and is slated to fly before the end of the year aboard a Rocket Lab Electron booster, which launches from New Zealand. Google is offering a top prize of $20 million for the first privately funded team to land a spacecraft on the moon; have it fly, drive or hop at least 1,640 feet (500 meters) and relay pictures and video back to Earth.

Microsoft released a new app for iOS devices called Seeing AI. The app uses computer vision to provide verbal description for users who are blind or visually impaired. The Seeing AI app was developed by Research AI, an incubation hub inside Microsoft Research. Microsoft actually first showed off a prototype of the app back in March of last year during its Build conference. The Seeing AI app is very simple to use.

Facebook is going to start pushing more adverts out to users, the company has revealed. It's set to introduce ads to Messenger, its chat platform, which Facebook users have to install in order to message other users. The company has hinted that it's close to maxing out the total number of ads it can squeeze into people's News Feeds, and adding more of them to Messenger appears to be its solution. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

Google's parent company -- has an artificial intelligence company, called DeepMind. The company has developed an AI that has managed to learn how to walk, run, jump, and climb without any prior guidance. The result is as impressive as it is goofy. Get the latest Google stock price here. Site highlights each day to your inbox.

But the reality is that companies everywhere are still struggling with the fundamentals of developing and executing a solid CX strategy and based on conversations I've had with CX professionals, I can understand their frustration. Let's embrace the fact that more companies are working on CX and making it a priority and in the process making it better. As an example, earlier this year I helped organise a CX Journey Mapping workshop led by our own Steve Nuttall. In the session were, among others, representatives from a prominent men's fashion line who admitted that they were working against the clock to get their channels organised and bring CX to the forefront of their business. They admitted that their competitors are beginning to quickly pull away as they invest in cloud services and with Amazon coming to Australia, it seems clear to their team that the idea of waiting or dawdling will surely only lead to misery on the bottom line.

As with so many things, the pace of change- even in agriculture- is increasing rapidly, and it turns out that even agriculture is not immune to the changes of the digital age. Technological innovations have the ability to transform every link in the food chain, from seed to fork. The need to embrace the opportunities these innovations offer is real: in order to feed the nearly 10 billion people with whom we will be sharing this planet by 2050, crop and livestock productivity improvements are essential. Agricultural efficiency is still relatively poor: 7 tons of feed is needed to produce just 1 ton of meat. It takes 880 gallons of water to produce one gallon of milk.

A Kiwi company developing artificial intelligence has delivered its latest digital human, called Rachel. Rachel can see, hear and respond to you. She is an avatar created by two-time Oscar winner Mark Sagar, who worked on the blockbuster movie of the same name. Mr Sagar, of Auckland-based company Soul Machines, says his aim is to make man socialise with machine, by putting a human face on artificial intelligence. "So what we are doing with Soul Machines is trying to build the central nervous system for humanising this kind of computer," he says.

Professor James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park received his Ph.D. degree in Graduate School of Information Security from Korea University, Korea. From December, 2002 to July, 2007, Dr. Park had been a research scientist of R&D Institute, Hanwha S&C Co., Ltd., Korea. From September, 2007 to August, 2009, He had been a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungnam University, Korea. He is now a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech), Korea. Dr. Park has published about 100 research papers in international journals and conferences.

Here are 100 upcoming meetings and conferences, for July 2017 and beyond. You can also find the latest list on KDnuggets Meetings page Color code: Business-Oriented meetings in Blue, Research meetings (with calls for papers and program committee) in green Top countries: India, France, Australia: 3 New York City regained the top billing this month - here are the top cities for meetings: San Francisco, Boston: 8 Seattle, New Orleans, Berlin, Atlanta: 3 July 2017 Jul 5-8, 2017 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS). Register now and save 15% with code KDN15. Space is limited - register soon and save 20% extra w. Save 20% on most passes with discount code PCKDNG.

Four WWE superstars are unofficially in the running to be in the main event of SummerSlam 2017 on Aug. 20. The biggest match since WrestleMania 33 will be determined Sunday night at Great Balls of Fire 2017, WWE's next "Monday Night Raw" pay-per-view. Great Balls of Fire 2017 is scheduled to start at 8 p.m. EDT, and the pre-show gets underway at 7:30 p.m. EDT. Ordering the event on PPV costs $54.99, but fans can also watch the event with a live stream on the WWE Network. A subscription to the network costs $9.99 per month, though new subscribers get the first month free.