Mind is looking for a high-level profile for the development of a software infrastructure for the intelligent management of a smart home environment. The software will have to interface with an existing framework able to provide both generic sensor data (temperature, CO, CO2, energy consumption, etc ...) and high-level information extracted from a vision system. The candidate will be asked to create a reasoning engine that, based on their findings, both deterministic and probabilistic (fuzzy), will implement in real time the best strategy in the management of the home, in comfort optics, safety and energy savings .

Kickstarter's Mine Kafon Drone campaign wants to use drones to wipe out landmines. A Netherlands-based Kicktstarter campaign wants to use drones to get rid of landmines in the next decade. The Mine Kafon Drone is an aerial vehicle that can map landmine-rich environments, do effective sweeping searches with metal detectors, and plant detonators before escaping to a safe distance--all without a single living foot touching the ground. It's a drone that could potentially save thousands of lives, with the body and chassis of something reminiscent of an Imperial Probe Droid. Still, the world would be a better place with a few hundred of these running around.

On Tuesday, DigitalGlobe, a satellite-imagery company, announced that it will provide high-resolution pictures of the planet's surface to Uber. DigitalGlobe is the primary provider of satellite imagery to Google, Apple, and the U.S. government. When you see a satellite image of your home on Google Maps that shows individual cars and trees, odds are that it was captured by one of DigitalGlobe's four satellites. Though some of this imagery may eventually appear in the app, DigitalGlobe representatives said that Uber seems much more interested in pulling information out of the pictures. "Urban landscapes are changing all the time," says Kevin Bullock, the director of product management for the satellite company.

Southern California recently experienced a 55-hour closure of the 91 Freeway, resulting in a 6-mile backup that intersected State Route 71 and Interstate 15. The closure was called the "Coronageddon" (it ran through the heart of Corona). Just a few years ago a big closure of Highway 405, dubbed "Carmageddon," resulted in a traffic jam that reached immense proportions and made national news. These are extreme instances of massive traffic congestion, but more commonly we all deal with daily traffic jams as people get to work and school, the lunch rush hour, and the all-too-familiar and stressful evening commute. Traffic patterns are studied by cities, but most use a low tech approach.

Video surveillance is one of the fastest growing segments in the physical security industry. In the prevailing security environment, the need for video surveillance is growing exponentially. From smart cities to stadiums, from retail mega-markets to homes, video surveillance has become a pervasive phenomenon. Several petabytes of video data are being generated globally every year from this growing number of video surveillance installations. However, a large amount of video which is captured is never analyzed for actionable intelligence and, in many cases, a large team of human operators is required to monitor the video feeds.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "LMS Market in the US 2016-2020" report to their offering. The analysts forecast the LMS market in the US to grow at a CAGR of 24.57% during the period 2016-2020. The report covers the present scenario and the growth prospects of the LMS market in the US for 2016-2020. To calculate the market size, the report considers the revenue generated through subscription, licenses, and maintenance fees charged for the tool. Apart from this, the overall revenue calculation includes the professional services that are offered to the customers.

Five others -- Short Hills, New Jersey; Buford, Georgia; Atlanta, Georgia; North Miami, Florida; and Garden City, New York -- will have a feature that lets customers summon a sales associate. The two Miami locations will have it available in Spanish as well. Customers can click on macys.com/storehelp on their mobile device, but Potter said the company is working on an app. She declined to say when the tool might be rolled out nationwide.

To predict and prevent fraud online even more quickly than cybercriminals adopt new tactics, Sift Science has raised 30 million in a Series C round of venture funding in a round led by Insight Venture Partners. According to the U.S. Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) 2015 annual report, reported internet crimes alone, ranging from personal and corporate data breaches to credit card fraud, phishing and identity, theft cost victims 1.07 billion. The financial losses to U.S. businesses as a result of such crimes go well beyond what is reported to IC3, of course. Certain types of sites and apps are under more frequent attacks than others, with digital gift card businesses, money transfer services and on-demand marketplaces rampant with fraud attempts. Sift Science uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to automatically surmise whether an attempted transaction or interaction with a business online is authentic or potentially problematic.

Chatbots will revolutionize how we experience computing, says Satya Nadella. According to the Microsoft CEO, they will fundamentally change the user experience we have come to know since computers became a ubiquitous part of everyday life. Presently, menus and toolbars define our user experience. They help us navigate our applications and make computing easier. The relative ease of use depends on the particular operating system or application.

Getting your hands on a Tirupati laddoo is not easy. To eat the famous holy sweet, given as an offering at one of India's holiest Hindu shrines, Tirumala Tirupati, you don't need to shell out a lot of money. The temple in southern Andhra Pradesh state provides two laddoos at a subsidised cost of 10 rupees ( 0.5; 0.1) each, and customers are allowed to buy another two at 25 rupees each. Actually getting your hands on the coveted sweet involves braving long queues, and procuring a high tech coupon complete with its own security code and biometric details like face recognition. Volunteers from various banks man counters where they check the validity of each ticket and money changes hands only after potential customers pass the facial recognition tests.