A new startup factory focused on building artificial intelligence companies is launching in Hong Kong this November. Zeroth, as the accelerator is known, will offer 10 startups 20,000 each ( 15,000) in exchange for a 6% equity stake. Startups will also receive mentoring and office space. The accelerator is being launched by Tak Lo, who was previously a director at accelerator TechStars London. Speaking to Business Insider on Tuesday, Lo said that he plans to make Zeroth a success with the help of his AI connections in Europe.

Swagbot can herd cows, tow heavy trailers, and traverse rugged terrain and has been designed to manage livestock on Australia's vast sheep and cattle stations, which are often remote and difficult to access. A trial which began last month has confirmed that SwagBot is able to herd cattle, and can navigate its way around ditches, logs, swamps, and other features of a typical farm landscape. The next step will be to teach the robot how to identify animals that are sick or injured, says Salah Sukkarieh of the University of Sydney, who is leading the trial. "The trial has been very successful so far, so it's given us the confidence to move to the next phase," he says. His team is planning to fit the robot with temperature and motion sensors to detect changes in body temperature and walking gait, as well as colour and shape sensors to make sure the animals have enough pasture to graze on.

Southfield, MI, June 2016 – Stefanini, a 1B global IT provider, announced today that the company is launching Sophie, its artificial intelligence platform with the ability to turn data into valuable solutions. Aware of the latest trends, Stefanini has invested and developed this platform over the last 3 years as a Research & Development and pilot project for clients in Brazil, and now, the company is launching the platform in the United States. "We are very proud to introduce Sophie for our clients in North America, reinforcing Stefanini's commitment to connect people and technology innovations with a goal to create business value," said Antonio Moreira, Stefanini CEO, North America and Asia Pacific. "Our artificial intelligence platform can improve the end-user experience and deliver smarter and more efficient services," affirmed Mr. Moreira. Technology research firm Gartner forecasts that by 2017, autonomics-based managed services and cognitive platforms will fuel a significant reduction in the cost of IT services by automating repetitive tasks currently tackled by humans.

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

How often do you ring your bank and forget the special dates, places or names needed just to get through security? Apparently, it takes us 45 seconds on average just to confirm who we are. Now that might not seem very long, but if you're a global bank like Citi receiving 35 million calls a year in Asia alone, that adds up to 437,500 hours of staff time a year. But by using computers to identify our voices, this authentication process can be cut to 15 seconds on average, saving the bank pots of cash and us lots of hassle. Citi has just begun rolling out this kind of voice biometrics authentication for its 15 million Asian banking customers, starting in Taiwan, Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Vivek Wadhwa has been named to the Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering faculty as a distinguished fellow on its Silicon Valley campus, the Pittsburgh, Pa.-based university recently announced. In his role, Wadhwa will be teaching classes in exponential technologies, technology convergence and industry disruption, and the new rules of innovation. He will also be researching technologies and helping members of the Pittsburgh faculty connect with the Silicon Valley. "CMU is doing some of the most advanced research in areas such as robotics, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, autonomous cars and almost every field of engineering and bioengineering," Wadhwa said in an emailed statement. "This will provide me direct access to the amazing faculty and enable me to help them make a much greater impact on the world."

A chart of global internet speeds, created using R. New features in the forecast package, updated to version 7. This year's Data Journalism Awards Data Visualization of the Year was created with R. Using GitHub avatars and the Microsoft Face API to estimate gender ratios of programmers by language used. Using the Data Science Virtual Machine and Microsoft R Server to analyze data from 600 million taxi rides. R is once again the top-ranked software in the KDnuggets annual poll.

The depths of the ocean can be a dangerous place, even for a drone. Incredible footage has captured the moment a Great white shark mistakes the machine for food and attacks it with amazing speed and precision. It is believed the video was filmed off the coast of Australia where Great whites are commonly spotted in southern waters from Exmouth in Western Australia to Southern Queensland. The video shows the metal drone sitting deep in the ocean, when almost out of nowhere the underwater beast appears. Within seconds the Great white wraps it teeth around drone and viciously tugs at it before realising the hunk of metal is not a tasty meal.

The race to build the world's first true quantum computer is on, with huge potential payoffs for businesses that harness the technology before their competitors. The computers we use today represent information in binary bits – on/off, 0/1 – while a quantum computer's qubit can, in simple terms, be both on and off the same time. That means many computations can be performed in parallel; a quality that, when fully realised, will give quantum computers a huge speed advantage over'classical' computers in solving certain problems. Microsoft and IBM are ploughing significant sums into related research. Google, NASA and Lockheed Martin have invested in a D-Wave 2X -- described by its maker as the "world's first commercially available quantum computer", although debate rages over its capabilities.

Machine learning artificial intelligence has unlocked big data as a source of military, weather and business intelligence that has opened up multiple options. Social Media giants Twitter and Facebook have been spending millions trying to keep their companies ahead of the flock, highlighted by Twitter Buys Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Star Magic Pony Technology Pavel Machalek co-founder of Silicon Valley data analytics firm Spaceknow working with commercial satellite data says the convergence of computing power, machine learning and satellite imagery is a perfect storm that s just beginning to peak, ... We could not have done this five years ago. Chinese government economic reports are notoriously inaccurate. Spaceknow's China Satellite Manufacturing Index uses satellite imagery to monitor changes at 6,000 industrial facilities in China as an alternative. The above image courtesy of DigitalGlobe shows how geospatial data companies can track activity by identifying surface material as seen here with individual trees in a forest (above) and aircrafts on the tarmac (below).