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ESCAPE FROM JAWS Drone cam shows surfer's brush with Great White

FOX News

Incredible drone footage shows a great white shark stalking surfers in Australia. The video shows the shark chasing a surfer off the coastal town of Ballina, New South Wales. Apparently unaware of the predator, the surfer catches a wave and speeds away from the shark. Abandoning its initial pursuit, the shark shifts its attention to another surfer. The second surfer, who is dangling their legs in the water, also appears unaware of the great white's hulking presence.


Artificial Intelligence in Business Process Automation

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"I can't wait to push some paper today!" The mind-numbing work to keep the wheels of commerce rolling--filling out invoices, deciphering hand-written memos, processing insurance claims--can be a real grind. It's been that way since the time when Ebenezer Scrooge refused to provide another lump of coal to help warm overworked clerk Bob Cratchit. Lacking frailty of mind and body, artificial intelligence for business process automation appears to be a no-brainer. In fact, a number of companies are employing AI techniques such as machine learning, computer vision and natural language processing to automate business processes.


SpaceX Dragon capsule finally arrives at the International Space Station after errors and delays

The Independent - Tech

An important shipment has finally arrived at the International Space Station, after a series of errors, delays and challenges. The SpaceX capsule smoothly arrived at the station the second time around as astronauts grabbed hold of the cargo ship, as the two of them floated somewhere over Australia. The capsule had been scheduled to arrive on Wednesday. But a GPS error stopped it from getting too close and the move had to be aborted. From the International Space Station, Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Terry W. Virts took this photograph of the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. Gulf Coast at sunset This image of an area on the surface of Mars, approximately 1.5 by 3 kilometers in size, shows frosted gullies on a south-facing slope within a crater.


SpaceX freighter docks with ISS a little late but with load, including wounded mice, intact

The Japan Times

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA โ€“ SpaceX made good on a 250-mile-high delivery at the International Space Station on Thursday, after fixing a navigation problem that held up the shipment a day. Everything went smoothly the second time around as the station astronauts captured the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship as the two craft sailed over Australia. On Wednesday, a GPS system error prevented the capsule from getting close enough to be grabbed by the station's big robot arm. The Dragon -- loaded with 5,500 pounds of supplies -- rocketed away Sunday from NASA's historic moon pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Now leased by the SpaceX, the pad had been idle since the close of the shuttle program almost six years ago.


SpaceX makes good on space station delivery a little late

Daily Mail - Science & tech

SpaceX made good on a 250-mile-high delivery at the International Space Station on Thursday, after fixing a navigation problem that held up the shipment a day. Everything went smoothly the second time around as the station astronauts captured the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship as the two craft sailed over Australia. On Wednesday, a GPS system error prevented the capsule from getting close enough to be grabbed by the station's big robot arm. SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship is captured by astronauts at the International Space Station on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, a day after a GPS problem prevented the capsule from coming too close Everything was going well with this latest SpaceX flight until the GPS issue on Wednesday. The Dragon's computers halted the rendezvous from just seven-tenths of a mile away.


Robots can become role models, and that means we need to design them carefully

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When you spend a lot of time with someone, their characteristics can rub off on you. But what happens when that someone is a robot? As artificial intelligence systems become increasingly human, their abilities to influence people also improve. New Scientist reports that children who spend time with a robotic companion appear to pick up elements of its behavior. New experiments suggest that when kids play with a robot that's a real go-getter, for instance, the child acquires some of its unremitting can-do attitude.


Yojee adds artificial intelligence capability to logistics software

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Yojee (ASX:YOJ) has released its artificial intelligence (AI) backed fleet management software in South East Asia and Australia. The company is positioning itself as a leader in'plug in and play', semi-autonomous logistics management software. Yojee has bolstered its AI capabilities by introducing an intelligent context sensitive interface, enhancing the efficiencies in fleet management. A context sensitive interface reduces the time and difficulty in navigating through complex software and enables users to solve almost any problem with just a couple of clicks. World Economic Forum (WEF) data forecasts a US$810-billion upside for data driven logistics information services.


SpaceX cargo ship arrives safely at space station

USATODAY - Tech Top Stories

SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship docked with the International Space Station on Thursday, a day after a GPS problem prevented the capsule from coming too close. The SpaceX Dragon capsule flying the CRS-10 cargo resupply mission was captured by the International Space Station's robotic arm at 5:44 a.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. MELBOURNE, Fla. -- A SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying nearly 5,500 pounds of supplies and science experiments arrived safely at the International Space Station early Thursday, a day later than planned after an aborted rendezvous Wednesday. French astronaut Thomas Pesquet steered a 58-foot robotic arm to snare the unmanned Dragon at 5:44 p.m. EST, as the two spacecraft flew 250 miles above northwestern Australia. "Looks like we got a great capture," crewmate and Expedition 50 commander Shane Kimbrough radioed to flight controllers in Houston.


Archivists Want AI to Help Save, Analyze Everything Trump Says - The Crux

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A week hasn't even passed since the inauguration, but television news is saturated with the flurry of activity from President Donald Trump's administration. Trump, via Twitter, promised to launch an investigation into illegal voting and threatened to "send in the Feds" if Chicago police can't fix the "carnage." And that was just between Tuesday and Wednesday. This heightened scrutiny compelled the Internet Archive, a repository of everything posted on the web, to launch its Trump Archive in early January. You, perhaps, digitally time-traveled with the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, or checked out free books, movies and software. The Trump Archive, which draws content from The Internet Archive's TV News Archive, includes more than 520 hours of televised Trump speeches, interviews, debates and other broadcasts tracing back to 2009.


5 Languages That Could Change the Way You See the World - Facts So Romantic

Nautilus

I went to my neighbor's house for something to eat yesterday. It's pretty simple--English speakers would know precisely what it means. But what does it actually tell you--or, more to the point, what does it not tell you? It doesn't specify facts like the subject's gender or the neighbor's, or what direction the speaker traveled, or the nature of the neighbors' relationship, or whether the food was just a cookie or a complex curry. English doesn't require speakers to give any of that information, but if the sentence were in French, say, the gender of every person involved would be specified.