A recently discovered vulnerability baked inside Intel hardware allows hackers to intercept important data inside one's computer, say security experts. The flaw, discovered by the security firm, Positive Technologies, was revealed late last month at a Black Hat conference in Singapore and shows how bad actors can exploit a feature called the The Visualization of Internal Signals Architecture (VISA) to scrape a computer's memory for sensitive data. By gaining access to VISA, which is used to test chips before they're released to the public, hackers can leverage the system to monitor information happening inside a machine's controller hub -- a set of computer chips that controls aspects of the CPU and more -- say analysts at Positive Technologies. According to security experts, an Intel chipset flaw allows hackers to scrape your computers most important information. 'We found out that it is possible to access Intel VISA on ordinary motherboards, with no specific equipment needed,' said Positive Technologies expert, Maxim Goryachy, in a statement.

Google's taking a more'natural' approach to it's April Fool's Day this year, adding a plant-to-human interface called Google Tulips and a'Snakes' game for Maps in the latest installment of phony and fun products. According to the company, Google Tulips, available only on April 1, allows users to communicate with one of world's most beloved flowers -- the tulip -- to ascertain just what exactly is on their minds. 'Decoding the language of plants and flowers has been a decades-long challenge. But that changes today,' reads the company's statement on its farcical new service. In a video for the April Fool's gag, plants are shown beckoning for more water, sunlight, and even providing a source of conversation for an elderly woman.

If you've had a window seat next to the wing of an airplane, you've probably watched as flaps on the wing engage and disengage as a plane takes off and lands. That's because in each phase of flight -- take off, landing, cruising and maneuvering -- the ideal wing parameters vary. Until now, we've made do by modifying rigid wings with hinged surfaces. But imagine if the entire wing could change shape -- that's what researchers led by NASA and MIT are working towards. In a paper in the journal Smart Materials and Structures, the research team explains how it has radically redesigned the airplane wing.

PewDiePie has conceded his hard-fought battle with T-Series with a music video of his own. The YouTube star whose real name is Felix Kjellberg has finally stopped being the site's biggest channel – a slot he held for years – after a challenge from T-Series, which hosts Indian music videos and has grown quickly. Over recent months, the two channels have fought to get control of the top spot, with PewDiePie's fans using a whole host of publicity techniques in an attempt to keep him as its most popular channel. We'll tell you what's true. You can form your own view. But T-Series kept outpacing its growth and has now settled as YouTube's biggest channel.

Potential driverless cars will be making their way around London as part of a test of a service for autonomous vehicles. The cars – with safety drivers ready to take over, for now – will make their way around two London boroughs to see how the scheme run by a British artificial intelligence company could work. Autonomous technology firm FiveAI has started testing five self-driving cars in Bromley and Croydon as the latest step in its plans to eventually roll out an autonomous, car-sharing service in London. We'll tell you what's true. You can form your own view.

The history of AI is often told as the story of machines getting smarter over time. What's lost is the human element in the narrative, how intelligent machines are designed, trained, and powered by human minds and bodies. In this six-part series, we explore that human history of AI--how innovators, thinkers, workers, and sometimes hucksters have created algorithms that can replicate human thought and behavior (or at least appear to). While it can be exciting to be swept up by the idea of super-intelligent computers that have no need for human input, the true history of smart machines shows that our AI is only as good as we are. In 1950, at the dawn of the digital age, Alan Turing published what was to be become his most well-known article, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," in which he poses the question, "Can machines think?"

Businesses and nonprofits are finding novel ways to employ artificial intelligence in the developing world, using the tools to improve agriculture yields, infant health care, and entrepreneur earnings, according to speakers at MIT Technology Review's EmTech Digital conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. Solomon Assefa, who oversees IBM's research labs in Kenya and South Africa, said the company has been using AI to more accurately predict crop yields in specific regions, based on shifting weather patterns, soil moisture, and other conditions. This insight into growing conditions has helped local farmers raise financing to expand their operations, or make better decisions about the right seeds, appropriate fertilizer, and ideal times to plant and harvest. Separately, the tech giant's research lab has partnered with a startup, Hello Tractor, that links farmers in need of tractors with owners looking to lease equipment. By forecasting demand for the vehicles, IBM has also helped owners raise money to expand their fleet, boosting their profits, Assefa said.

This is the pilot of a series of EdTech articles with the focus on AR and AI. This article covers AR and AI from a birds-eye view. We will dive deeper into the specific application areas in the upcoming articles. Welcome to 21st century learning! Gone are the days when you missed a class in your school, it was difficult to catch up with the current lessons.

In one of Aesop's fables, a thirsty crow finds a pitcher with a small amount of water beyond the reach of its beak. After failing to push the pitcher over, the crow drops pebbles in one by one until the water level rises, allowing the bird to have a drink. For Aesop, the fable showed the superiority of intelligence over brute strength. Two and a half millennia later, we might get to see whether AI could pass Aesop's ancient intelligence test. In June, researchers will train algorithms to master a suite of tasks that have traditionally been used to test animal cognition.

Southwest Airlines was among the airlines affected by a contractor's computer outage Monday, forcing hundreds of flights to be delayed. Southwest Airlines was among the airlines affected by a contractor's computer outage Monday, forcing hundreds of flights to be delayed. Thousands of travelers on some of the largest U.S. airlines endured long waits Monday morning, as their flights were delayed owing to a contractor's computer outage. The technical problem forced Southwest Airlines, which had some of the biggest issues, to shut down all U.S. flights for about 40 minutes Monday. Eastern Time, more than 600 Southwest flights today had been delayed," NPR's David Schaper reports.