The second-oldest confirmed shipwreck in the Great Lakes, an American-built, Canadian-owned sloop that sank in Lake Ontario more than 200 years ago, has been found, a team of underwater explorers said Wednesday. The three-member western New York-based team said it discovered the shipwreck this summer in deep water off Oswego, in central New York. Images captured by a remotely operated vehicle confirmed it is the Washington, which sank during a storm in 1803, team member Jim Kennard said. "This one is very special. We don't get too many like this," said Mr. Kennard, who along with Roger Pawlowski and Roland "Chip" Stevens has found numerous wrecks in Lake Ontario and other waterways.

Which is the best iPhone voice control technology? And which is the best Mac voice control? Which mobile platform - or speaker setup - offers the best voice control technology: Siri, Cortana, Google Now or Amazon Echo's Alexa? Siri has made a lot of progress in the last couple of years, developing into an impressive digital assistant that can handle all sorts of tasks on your iOS devices, on the latest Apple TV and - once macOS Sierra launches in the autumn - on Mac as well. This last step is long overdue: Siri's absence on the Mac has been a glaring omission for years, especially as Microsoft has had its own Cortana voice-tech running on Windows PCs since the launch of Windows 10 last year.

The investment firm Susa Ventures won't have any partners based in Los Angeles as it begins investing from a new 50-million fund. Susa unveiled its second fund -- double the size of its first -- Tuesday. In looking at the first batch of investments, Susa's geographically spread apart team realized that most of the companies were in the San Francisco Bay Area, including finance start-ups Robin Hood and LendUp. They decided to consolidate in San Francisco, too. "To take it to take next level, we all needed to be in the same office and S.F. seemed like the best," said general partner Seth Berman, who moved there from Los Angeles more than a year ago.

Abstract--We consider N -way data arrays and low-rank tensor factorizations where the time mode is coded as a sparse linear combination of temporal elements from an over-complete library. Our method, Shape Constrained T ensor Decomposition (SCTD) is based upon the CANDECOMP/PARAF AC (CP) decomposition which produces r -rank approximations of data tensors via outer products of vectors in each dimension of the data. By constraining the vector in the temporal dimension to known analytic forms which are selected from a large set of candidate functions, more readily interpretable decompositions are achieved and analytic time dependencies discovered. The SCTD method circumvents traditional flattening techniques where an N -way array is reshaped into a matrix in order to perform a singular value decomposition. A clear advantage of the SCTD algorithm is its ability to extract transient and intermittent phenomena which is often difficult for SVD-based methods. We motivate the SCTD method using several intuitively appealing results before applying it on a number of high-dimensional, real-world data sets in order to illustrate the efficiency of the algorithm in extracting interpretable spatiotemporal modes. With the rise of data-driven discovery methods, the decomposition proposed provides a viable technique for analyzing multitudes of data in a more comprehensible fashion. A TRIX decompositions are critically enabling algorithms for scientific computing and data analysis applications across every field of the engineering, social, biological, and physical sciences. Of particular importance is the singular value decomposition (SVD), which provides a principled method for dimensionality reduction and computation of interpretable subspaces within which the data reside. So widespread is the usage of the algorithm, and minor modifications thereof, that it has generated a myriad of names across various communities, including Principal Component Analysis (PCA) [1], the Karhunen-Lo eve (KL) decomposition, Hotelling transform [2], [3], Empirical Orthogonal Functions (EOFs) [4] and Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) [5], [6]. However, in order to use the SVD, data, which generally may be of N distinct dimensions, must be flattened into a matrix form, potentially compromising the statistical accuracy of the subspaces computed. B. Lusch and J. N. Kutz are with the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, W A 98195-3925 USA email: herwaldt@uw.edu, E. Chi is with the Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8203 USA email: eric chi@ncsu.edu. It is often the case that one of the dimensions considered in the tensor is the time variable.

CyberLaunch, the leading accelerator for information security and machine learning startups, today announced its inaugural'Demo Day,' for Thursday, Aug. 25, at Atlanta Tech Village. Accredited investors, entrepreneurs and media are invited to attend a private viewing of the accelerators' first seven startups. Demo Day attendees will have the opportunity to meet with each startup founder, network with investors and executives from the corporate community, and get to know some of CyberLaunch's 140 mentors. The event will also include a Startup Showcase, featuring 20 additional startups, and a panel on information security and machine learning, consisting of global industry experts. "Information security and machine learning are two tech industries poised for exponential growth in the coming years," said Christopher Klaus, CyberLaunch co-founder and serial entrepreneur.

CAMBRIDGE, England--After a long push inspired by Silicon Valley, this centuries-old college town has taken on a new role as a modern, tech-industry hub. The reward has been a flood of jobs and money. The downsides have been the same sort of housing and traffic strains beleaguering the San Francisco Bay Area. Another, more recent complaint by some locals: Foreigners keep snapping up the best companies that have sprouted here. Cambridge's tech bona fides were validated afresh last month when Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank Group Corp. 9984 -0.17 % agreed to pay 32 billion for ARM Holdings ARMH -0.52 % PLC.

For thousands of years, humans have practiced the intimate art of tattooing – but tattoo artists may soon have competition. A team of French designers has revealed the'world's first tattoo by an industrial robot,' proving that these hulking machines can be put to delicate tasks. Footage of the event shows the yellow mechanical arm carving a neat spiral into a volunteer's leg, as he sits tightly strapped to a chair. A team of French designers has revealed the'world's first tattoo by an industrial robot,' proving that these hulking machines can be put to delicate tasks. Footage of the event shows the yellow mechanical arm carving a neat spiral into a volunteer's leg To create the tattoo, the process begins by scanning the body part.

Last week, I was in San Francisco's Mission District, betwixt testing Prisma filters on my photos, and enjoying the fine cuisine, when I noticed an actual painting of the Golden Gate Bridge on the wall. "It's like Prisma in real life," I reacted. In today's technology-fueled hyper-sensualized world, one of the many symptoms is a blurring of the line between art and design. Design is function-oriented, and though some readily fetishize consumer electronics as art objects, the bounds of design are neatly wrapped in utility. Art, on the other hand, is characterized by an effort that redefines the confines of knowledge with a particular emphasis on questioning the boundaries of emotions, politics, and society.

The decision has provided a solid legal foundation on which a rules-based approach for resolving disputes in the South China Sea can be built,

A few years ago, I started PredictionIO, an open source machine learning platform, with the mission to scale and simplify the development of machine learning technology. PredictionIO quickly grew in prominence and was even ranked on Github as the most popular Apache Spark-based machine learning product in the world. When Salesforce acquired PredictionIO in February, I was excited to have the amazing opportunity to continue to build our platform on a much larger scale. Today, I am thrilled to announce that Salesforce will donate the PredictionIO trademark to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and by unanimous vote the platform has been accepted into the ASF incubator program. This demonstrates the open source community's recognition of the importance of the PredictionIO project.