In May of last year, after a 13-month slumber, the ground beneath Washington's Puget Sound rumbled to life. The quake began more than 20 miles below the Olympic mountains and, over the course of a few weeks, drifted northwest, reaching Canada's Vancouver Island. It then briefly reversed course, migrating back across the U.S. border before going silent again. All told, the monthlong earthquake likely released enough energy to register as a magnitude 6. By the time it was done, the southern tip of Vancouver Island had been thrust a centimeter or so closer to the Pacific Ocean.

TheBusinessResearchCompany.com offers "Legal Software (Focus On Machine Learning) Global Market Report 2019" from its technology division of research reports. The legal software market was valued at about $0.23 billion in 2018, and is expected to grow to $0.68 billion at an annual growth rate of 30.9% through 2022. Increasing demand for intelligent business processes in law firms is driving the growth of the machine learning market. Intelligent business processes include adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning in the business processes. AI is the development of system that has the ability to perform tasks requiring human intelligence.

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Today's artificial intelligence systems, including the artificial neural networks broadly inspired by the neurons and connections of the nervous system, perform wonderfully at tasks with known constraints. They also tend to require a lot of computational power and vast quantities of training data. That all serves to make them great at playing chess or Go, at detecting if there's a car in an image, at differentiating between depictions of cats and dogs. "But they are rather pathetic at composing music or writing short stories," said Konrad Kording, a computational neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania. "They have great trouble reasoning meaningfully in the world."

Amazon recently announced that its voice assistant Alexa can now sign business agreements with health providers under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA. "Alexa, I want to make a political contribution." Starting in October, users of Amazon's voice-controlled home assistant, Alexa, will be able to verbally make a political contribution between $5 and $200 to a participating 2020 presidential candidate, the company announced Wednesday. In order to use the new Alexa Political Contributions feature, users must have voice purchasing enabled in their Alexa settings, as well as valid default payment method in their Amazon accounts. "Alexa, donate [amount] to [candidate name]" is another phrase users can say to support a preferred political hopeful.

We forget most of our dreams when we wake thanks to a group of neurons that work while we sleep to purge our minds of unnecessary memories, scientists found. The neurons -- which carry messages from cells that make a hormone involved in both sleep and appetite -- are active in the REM phase of sleep in which we dream. The finding adds to previous research that showed that sleep is the time that we store memories from the day for the long-term. Researchers studied the neurons and hormone-making cells in mice, which they found to be more forgetful when the cells were artificially activated. REM -- or'rapid eye movement' -- sleep is one of the several sleep cycles the body goes through each night.

Google is offering free Home Mini devices to a select group of consumers. Existing Google One subscribers in the United Kingdom can now claim the device using a specific coupon. Users add Home Mini to their cart and a promotional code takes care of the cost – the offer ends October 3. Existing Google One subscribers in the United Kingdom can now claim the device using a specific coupon. Google Home connects speakers, smart plugs, voice-controlled vacuums, smart displays and cameras throughout the house. Its digital ecosystem is designed to enable communication between rooms and family members - even if they are not at home.

The ERL Smart Cities Robotics Challenge (SciRoc Challenge) includes five different episodes around the topic of smart shopping. Ten teams from five different countries have travelled to Milton Keynes, UK, to participate in this unique biennial event that brings together the three European Robotics League (ERL) competitions: consumer, professional and emergency. SciRoc challenge adds the new concept of episodes to the ERL benchmarking methodology. An episode aims at targeting one or two functionalities (tested during a specific ERL Functionality Benchmark, FBM) within an operational context. In order to complete an episode, the robot might also be required to integrate other functionalities commonly used in a social environment, such as navigation or speech recognition.

Your neighborhood ATM has always been a tempting target. From a physical attack standpoint, enterprising fraudsters drill holes to get at the USB slot, hide skimmers in the card readers, hammer them with bull dozers and explode them with bombs. They also play on the vulnerabilities of the cash dispenser, and one variation of that is Transaction Reversal Fraud (TRF). In summary, a TRF is a sophisticated attack involving a sequence of events that generate multiple error codes and an unnecessary payment reversal. These attacks can be tricky to isolate and detect before financial losses occur, especially if changes to the ATM host applications are required.

For over 300 years, the Alamo City has been a dynamic platform for technological innovation and global commerce. Tech Port SA, offered by Port San Antonio, rounds-up the latest stories chronicling the region's movers and shakers in advanced industries.