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From flatulent dinosaurs to ones that can pee, a new dinosaur exhibit in Canada is causing quite a stir. It includes twenty dinosaur skeletons and robots, up to more than 60 feet (18 meters) in length. The new exhibit at the Manitoba Museum presents a touring collection of some of the world's largest dinosaurs. The World's Giant Dinosaurs exhibit opened at the Manitoba Museum on Thursday, featuring a robotic velociraptor named Vicky the Velociraptor The World's Giant Dinosaurs exhibit opened on Thursday morning, with the exhibit's creator'Dino' Don Lessem in attendance. 'We want to give the impression of every aspect of dinosaur life,' Lessem told CBC News, also mentioning that there's discussion in the science community that dinosaur flatulence may have led to global warming.

New system for i-vector speaker recognition based on variational autoencoder (VAE) is investigated. VAE is a promising approach for developing accurate deep nonlinear generative models of complex data. Experiments show that VAE provides speaker embedding and can be effectively trained in an unsupervised manner. LLR estimate for VAE is developed. Experiments on NIST SRE 2010 data demonstrate its correctness. Additionally, we show that the performance of VAE-based system in the i-vectors space is close to that of the diagonal PLDA. Several interesting results are also observed in the experiments with $\beta$-VAE. In particular, we found that for $\beta\ll 1$, VAE can be trained to capture the features of complex input data distributions in an effective way, which is hard to obtain in the standard VAE ($\beta=1$).

But modern tools are helping to revive Ireland's national language. An Irish proverb advises that it is often wise for one to hold his tongue. An té is ciúine is é is buaine, or "he who is silent is the stronger." But that ancestral wisdom isn't the best policy when the very language it comes from is threatened. The Irish language, Gaelic, is one of more than 40 percent of the world's 6,000 spoken languages that are endangered, according to UNESCO.

A detailed characterization of phases of matter is at the forefront of research in condensed-matter and statistical physics. Although physicists have made incredible progress in the characterization of a wide variety of phases, the identification of novel topological phases remains challenging. Now, Yi Zhang and Eun-Ah Kim from Cornell University, New York [1], have taken a big-data approach to tackling this problem. In their work, thousands of microscopic "images" or "snapshots" of a phase, created using a special topography procedure, are fed into a machine-learning algorithm that is trained to decide whether these images come from a topological or a conventional phase of matter--exactly as modern computer vision algorithms are designed to tell cats from dogs in a picture. Traditionally, phases of matter are differentiated by their symmetry properties [2].

Roborace, the firm hoping to kick-start the future of driverless racing, has demonstrated its electric, 200-mile-per-hour (320km/h) self-driving car on a public track for the first time. The futuristic vehicle completed a lap of the Paris ePrix circuit ahead of the city's 2017 Formula E race, which took place on Saturday. The demonstration saw the car complete 14 turns of the almost 2 kilometre (1.2 mile) track while driven entirely by AI and sensors. The Robocar weighs almost 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lbs), and measures 4.8 metres long (15.7 ft) and two metres wide (6.5 ft). Four motors, each with 300kW of power and a 540kW battery, allow the car to reach dizzying speeds of over 320kph (200mph).

A Japanese soccer fan after Japan loses its 2014 World Cup soccer match against Colombia. It's midnight in Tokyo and Takehiro Onuki has just left the office, 16 hours after his shift began. Onuki, a 31-year-old salesman, is headed to the train station to catch the 12:24 a.m. The train will quickly fill up with other professional working men. At about 1:30 a.m., after having made a pit stop at a convenience store to grab a sandwich, Onuki arrives home. When he opens the bedroom door, he accidentally wakes his wife, Yoshiko, who just recently fell asleep after working an 11-hour day.

Artificial Intelligence Set to Transform Insurance Industry but Integration Challenges Remain, According to Accenture Report Insurers are investing in AI technology to enhance the customer experience, empower their own people NEW YORK; Apr. 19, 2017 – Insurance executives believe that artificial intelligence (AI) will significantly transform their industry in the next three years, with insurers investing in AI to empower agents, brokers and employees to enhance the customer experience with automated personalized services, faster claims handling and individual risk-based underwriting processes, according to Accenture's Technology Vision for Insurance 2017. At the same time, however, the report found that insurers face challenges integrating AI into their existing technology, citing issues such as data quality, privacy and infrastructure compatibility. Titled "Technology for People," the report is based on the insights of a technology advisory board, interviews with industry technologists and a survey of more than 550 insurance executives across 31 countries. According to the report, three-quarters (75 percent) of insurance executives believe that AI will either significantly alter or completely transform the overall insurance industry in the next three years. One-third (32 percent) believe that their own company will be "completely transformed" by AI within that timeframe, and an additional 39 percent believe that AI will "significantly change" their company.

When Mom or Dad spends long tours of duty far from home while serving in the military, their kids sometimes need extra understanding, encouragement and emotional support. If a parent dies in combat, these children can struggle mightily to cope with the loss and adjust to a new reality. According to a recent study, one-quarter of such kids contemplate suicide. Creative agency We Believers is stepping up with Ai Buddy, an artificial-intelligence system designed to assist youngsters caught up in such difficult situations. The technology features a kid-friendly interface with a cast of cute cartoon characters, including a teddy bear, a monkey and an oversized, cuddly purple beetle.

Google is set to let users pay off their debts without lifting a finger. The tech giant has announced a new feature that will allow users to transfer funds to friends or family via Google Assistant. Those living in the US will just say'Ok Google, send $10 to Jane for pizza', and the AI will pull money from a linked debit card and forward it to the recipient. Google announced a new feature that will allow users to transfer funds to friends or family via Google Assistant. Those living in the US will just say'Ok Google, send $25 to Manuel Martinez', and the AI will pull money from a linked debit card and forward it to the recipient Google is rolling out a feature that lets users add a credit or debit card to their Google Account, enabling them to easily purchase goods online without.