Elon Musk's company SpaceX will attempt to launch a Falcon 9 rocket Saturday evening, in a bid to send a refurbished Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). The CRS-11 mission is the eleventh for the commercial space company and was originally scheduled for Thursday evening, but had to be postponed due to weather conditions. The weather could play spoilsport once again Saturday, which has an instantaneous launch window at 5:07 p.m. EDT. According to forecast by meteorologists with the U.S. Air Force 45th Weather Squadron, announced Friday morning, there was a 60 percent chance of favorable weather at the time of the planned launch. That forecast was worse than the 70 percent favorable forecast announced Thursday night. "The primary weather concerns for Saturday's launch are anvil clouds, cumulus clouds and flight through precipitation," the forecast announcement on NASA's website said.

These days there are so many self-driving cars coming down the pipeline it seems inevitable they'll soon be stuck in a robot traffic jam – just like the human-piloted cars of today. Well, not if Anthony Barrs and Baiyu Chen get their way. The two graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley, have devised a system that would have tightly-packed clusters of autonomous vehicles zipping past local traffic at speeds of more than 100mph, all on existing roadways. They call it Hyperlane, and it works a lot like high-speed toll lanes already do, only with a central computer controlling everything. Although fully autonomous cars are not yet legal on most public roads, manufacturers like Volvo and Tesla already offer autonomous features on their vehicles – adaptive cruise control and, in some cases, systems that steer the car with limited driver input.

Editor's note: This post originally appeared as an answer to a Quora question, which also included the following: "As I understand, the chance of having a derivative zero in each of the thousands of direction is low. Is there some other reason besides this?" Yes, there is a'theoretical justification', and has taken a couple decades to flush it out. I will first point out, however, it has been observed in practice. This was pointed out by LeCun in his early work on LeNet, and is actually discussed in the'orange book', "Pattern Classification" by David G. Stork, Peter E. Hart, and Richard O. Duda. The problem has been addressed in condensed matter physics 20 years ago in the study of spin glasses.

Might such things as school examinations, tests, marked classwork and progress checks soon all be a thing of the past? They will be if Rose Luckin, Professor of Learner-Centred Design at the Knowledge Lab at the University College, London (UCL) Institute of Education, has her way. She argues that the way school pupils are assessed today is unsatisfactory. "Decades of research have shown that knowledge and understanding cannot be rigorously evaluated through a series of 90-minute exams. The prevailing exam paradigm is stressful, unpleasant, can turn students away from education, and requires that both students and teachers take time away from learning. And yet we persist in relying on these blunt instruments, sending students off to universities and the workplace ill-equipped for their futures," writes Professor Luckin in a research paper.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan on Thursday lodged a protest with China after four Chinese coastguard vessels entered what Tokyo considers its territorial waters near disputed East China Sea islets and a drone-like object flew near one ship, the Japanese government said.

While Tinder users have been analyzing profile pictures of potential dates, a programmer has been stealing them for artificial intelligence experiments focused on facial recognition. Some 40,000 photos were scraped from the dating app, all of users in the San Francisco Bay area, by a member of Kaggle – a platform focused on machine learning that was recently acquired by Google. The data set, named'People of Tinder', consisted of six downloadable zip files and each housed about 10,000 profiles pictures in each. Some 40,000 photos were scrapped from the dating app, all of users in the San Francisco Bay area, by a member of Kaggle. The plan was to use photos in artificial intelligence research focusing on facial recognition.

Hollywood gave us Sharknado, but real-life scientists have given us "Sharkcano" -- a highly active underwater volcano that is infested with sharks. And recently, those scientists presented us with another gift: They sent in a bunch of robots to get blown up in the eruptions. The robots, which were just some PVC pipes stacked with electronics, were necessary to take measurements of the Kavachi volcano in the South Pacific Ocean because it's too dangerous for humans to visit in the flesh, according to National Geographic. The scientific team was looking for things like temperature, carbon dioxide levels and acidity. After one enormous eruption, the researchers got even more than that when the robot caught pieces of ash that had just erupted as lava out of the Earth.

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Just days after China announced plans to grow its defense budget, the country's largest missile maker has started developing military drones with stealth abilities that can evade anti-aircraft weapons, local media reported Thursday. The move comes as China continues to advance in its military modernization program amid growing threats from its neighbors and the West. "Drones have become an indispensable weapon in modern warfare because they can play an important role in high-resolution reconnaissance, long-distance precision strikes, anti-submarine operations and aerial combat," Wei Yiyin, deputy general manager of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, told the China Daily. China has been working to develop new weapons, including stealth fighters and aircraft carriers but has clarified that its investment to upgrade its military prowess has no hostile intent. Amid tensions with U.S. over the South China Sea, and the recent threats from North Korea after its missile launches, China, which is ranked third in the list of biggest military in the world has stepped up research into military drones.

The Pacific Ocean might be hiding a whole other continent, Bill Gates wants to tax the robots, and some other robots crash in the midst of a road race. A pretty thrilling Monday morning, we'd say. Funds could help humans find new work when automation takes over. How would you deal with the likelihood that robots and automation will lead to many people losing their jobs? For Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, the answer is straightforward: tax the robots.