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How AI will change the modern workplace
Technology is changing the way we live. Innovative products like smartwatches, virtual assistants like Siri and Cortana, and self-driving cars are raising the bar on expectations. So why shouldn't that change be reflected in the way we work? Business Insider spoke to Dave Wright, the chief strategy officer at cloud computing business ServiceNow about what they're doing to improve processes and productivity and the workplace, as well as trends we're likely to see in the future. But first if you're not sure what ServiceNow does, here's how Wright explains it.
10 jobs graduates will be applying for from 2026
Tomorrow's graduates will be applying for jobs working in virtual worlds and outer space, experts claim, following the release of a new report predicting career trends for the next ten years. Research conducted by a group of leading technologists, academics and industry analysts suggests that a host of new job options will become available to those graduating in less than a decade's time, including "ethical technology advocates", "sustainable power innovators" and "virtual habitat designers". Contrary to common fears that robots will render human employment worthless, the expansion of new technology will provide countless more as yet unheard of career paths, experts believe, using virtual reality environments and better connected remote office environments. Ryan Asdourian, Microsoft's Windows and Surface Lead said of the report: "While these jobs may seem like the realms of science fiction, in reality they are indicative of changes that we are already seeing today." "The job market is changing at a more rapid pace than ever before, partly because of artificial intelligence."
Robot serves as art guide at Australian gallery
Art lovers usually have to rely on headsets or humans to guide them around galleries. But visitors to the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth can now take a tour in the company of a little robot called Aggie. Like many galleries, it is dealing with a lack of money and falling visitor numbers. So, the curators are taking a less conventional route to attract more visitors. "We thought it would be really fun for family audiences to have something which was almost like a child-like guide, but a robot, who could excite them and also create new worlds around them," Chris Taverns, from the Art Gallery of Western Australia, told Al Jazeera.
SpaceX launches rocket carrying Japanese satellite; booster lands on drone ship
SpaceX launched a Japanese commercial communications satellite Saturday night. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 10:26 p.m. PT from Cape Canaveral, Fla., carrying the JCSAT-16 satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. At 10:40 p.m., the first stage landed on a platform floating several hundred miles off the Florida coast. The secondary objective of landing the first stage of Falcon 9 on the drone ship -- named Of Course I Still Love You -- is key to the SpaceX mission of reusing rockets. The satellite, operated by SKY Perfect JSAT Corp., will serve as a backup transmitter for the rest of the communications company's satellite fleet.
Exploring the Uncharted World of Artificial Intelligence
The market is a massive, irrational, and fluid amalgamation of all information available in the public domain, at least according to the efficient market hypothesis. The famous quote, that "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent," holds significance, because it illustrates the perpetual struggle that we face in trying to understand its inner machinations. The market is both a byproduct of human innovation, as well as a microcosm of the world we live in. Just as we can't definitively know how the market will move, we can't definitively know how the choices we make will affect the world we live in. Therein lays the real challenge, in which we take everything we think we know and make an analytical decision, because afterward all that is left is to wait and see if it was the right call.
Introducing the Bots Landscape: 170 companies, 4 billion in funding, thousands of bots
Since Facebook announced a bot developer framework and distribution platform in April, the media has been hyperventilating over its impact. I know we're a big part of this, and I don't apologize. Bots, as a new (or revisited) paradigm for human-computer interaction, are here, and we're observing hundreds of companies, billions in funding, and thousands of bots flying in your browsers and messaging apps. You can download the full landscape here, and more rich data is coming soon. This article is part of the Bots Landscape.
RoBattle the seven ton self driving robot tank that can kill on command
It is a terrifying vision of the future of battle. Called RoBattle, this heavy duty combat and support robot is strapped with a'robotic kit' consisting of vehicle control, navigation, RT mapping and autonomy, sensors and mission payloads. In addition to ambushing and attacking on command, this combat ready platform, developed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), can raise its body four feet in the air to tackle obstacles or crouch down 23 inches to hide from enemies. It may be focused on the sky, but Israel Aerospace Industries has stepped down on land to develop the newest member of its unmanned ground robotic systems family. RoBattle is a combat and support robot equipped with a'robotic kit' of vehicle control, navigation, RT mapping and autonomy, sensors and mission payloads RoBattle, is an semi-autonomous combat and support robot designed to assist ground soldiers in the field.
Lancaster scientist explores how humans might translate an extraterrestrial language
Aliens may look like giant jellyfish with orange bottoms, a leading space scientist has claimed. Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a satellite expert and government adviser, said it is likely that there is extra-terrestrial life - it is just more alien than you'd imagine. Rather than being the little green men so beloved of Hollywood directors, they may look like football-field sized jellyfish, complete with onion-shaped appendages and an orange underbelly or bottom. Generated from silicon, rather than the carbon that is the basis of life as we know it, the creatures are able to live off light absorbed through their'skin' and chemicals sucked in through their giant mouths. In physical terms, for example, wings and eyes have independently emerged among animals through evolution at several different times over, and birds in ecologically isolated New Zealand have evolved behaviours typically seen in mammals elsewhere.
Official coordinates change to reflect how Australia's moved 5ft north in 22 years
The Australian plate is the fastest continental plate on the planet, moving northwards and slightly to the east by about 2.7 inches (7cm) each year. Because of this movement, the continent has shifted by five feet (4.9 metres) over the past 22 years, making the country's co-ordinates slighty out of sync. To fix this, Australia is going to adjust its official latitude and longitude, putting the majority of the country back into alignment with the world's GPS systems. The Australian plate is the fastest continental plate on the planet, moving northwards and slightly to the east by about 2.7 inches (7cm) each year. Because of this movement, the continent has shifted by five feet (4.9 metres) over the past 22 years The movement of the Earth's tectonic plates makes land slide and causes a build up of tension.
Moon Express to send lander to the lunar surface in historic move
A Florida-based company has won U.S. government permission to send a robotic lander to the moon next year. The move is the first time the United States has cleared a private space mission to fly beyond Earth's orbit. The Federal Aviation Administration's unprecedented go-ahead for the Moon Express mission also sets a legal and regulatory framework for a host of other commercial expeditions to the moon, asteroids and Mars. The Florida-based company Moon Express, which is partnering with Nasa, hopes to send scientific payloads to the Moon, in the hopes to eventually provide commercial services. Artist's impression of Moon Express lander on surface of the moon pictured The moon is a'treasure chest' of lucrative materials.