Pokémon Go has quickly become one of the most used apps beating the previous record held by Candy Crush Saga. The Pokémon Go game, using augmented reality and GPS, allows players to capture, battle, and train virtual creatures, called Pokémon, who appear on device screens as though in the real world. As the game has taken over, so have the range of ways in which players can out think Pokémon. This weekend saw Michael Hsu, a front and back-end developer and part-time university lecturer in California, win the Best Use of Watson challenge at the AT&T Shape Tech Expo Hackathon in San Francisco. "I saw the Watson Visual Recognition API and wondered, what if I could get Watson to play Pokémon Go for me?"

Robots are going to play an integral role in hospital care soon. At least that's what Julie Shah -- an MIT professor who leads the Interactive Robotics Group at the university's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory -- is working on. Shah recently programmed a Nao robot to watch how medical assistants perform tasks so it could help assign patients to the appropriate doctor and move patients to operating rooms and beds. That may seem like a simple task, but can actually be quite complex to handle. At Mount Sinai Beth Israel, the head nurse of the labor ward coordinates 10 nurses, 20 patients, and 20 rooms at the same time.

There's a reason why you don't see rotary motors or joints in nature: at anything above the molecular scale, too much stuff has to be permanently attached to too much other stuff for any of it to be freely rotating in the way a mechanical wheel or axle is. The more bioinspiration you want to work into a robot, the more of an issue this becomes, which is why it's particularly impressive that researchers at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., have managed to put four silicone-based wheels with air-powered motors inside of them on a robot that's as soft as a Crocs shoe. Most squishy robots with pneumatic muscles exert force on the environment through bending: a pneumatic chamber that's constrained on one side will curve when inflated, which generates enough motion that robots can walk around on legs and pick things up with grippers. Directional motion like this is very common in nature: most of your muscles work this way, exerting force one way over a finite distance, in cooperative opposition to another muscle that exerts force the other way. You also have muscles that work together in peristalsis, in which synchronized contractions and relaxations generates a propagating wave.

With that, Boris Sofman pulled a diminutive white toy out of a soft lunchbox, and began showing it off. After a brief introduction, Sofman set the little robot into its charging cradle, at which point it came to life in the way that all living beings recharge: It slept. I could tell Cozmo was sleeping because of the audio that was emanating from the speaker on his head: the sound of snoring. In between the purrs of his breaths, I heard a few seconds of music on what sounded like clarinet and strings. It was an expectant melody, a signal that Cozmo was ready to greet the day.

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Like humans, robots often need to learn things the hard way. For super complex automatons, like Boston Dynamics' Atlas, that can mean understanding the complexities of human bullying. But in the case of this bumbling bot named MARLO, it's just something as simple as trying--and failing--to walk across a hilly field. MARLO is being designed by an engineering team at the University of Michigan. Although its walking capabilities look like MARLO is on the rough end of a day-long bender, MARLO's ability to traverse such uneven terrain would be a big step forward for robotics.

Slack's outstanding UX propelled the startup to unicorn status amidst a flurry of competitors, responsive design flourished and gave birth to a new era of mobile friendliness and device agnosticism, and the web as a whole experienced a shift in consciousness as sites became easier to use, apps became more intuitive to navigate, and services became all the more delightful and engaging to interact with. I am proud to say that the field has finally come of age and found itself. At long last, UX Evangelists, Digital Empaths, and Interaction Designers have risen to the highest echelons of the creative class to further the bleeding edge of technology, design, and user delight. With UX Evangelists like Tobias van Schneider, Jennifer Aldrich and Chase Buckley behind the wheel, we are steering towards a brighter future. A future where little big details bring about user delight at every corner, where device agnostic pixel perfection is the norm, and where simple day-to-day experiences engage, excite, and stimulate users in new and innovative ways. So where do you fit into all of this?

International Business Machines is easily the most historical of all US IT computer behemoths. The question of what is IBM is today more apposite than ever. Any company that is 100 years old has faced challenges and met them but today's challenges are very different. It was founded in 1911 and is headquartered in Armonk, New York. IBM is being digitally disrupted. The company is transitioning from being an infrastructure player to being a data driven company.

Some designers might say their collections contain a little piece of each artist who has influenced them in their work. But none can mean this as literally as Tina Gorjanc, a fashion student from Central Saint Martins college in London. Ms Gorjanc has designed a collection of handbags and jackets, which she wants to make using leather cultivated from Alexander McQueen's own DNA. Tina Gorjanc, a fashion student from Central Saint Martins college in London, has designed a collection of handbags and jackets, which she wants to make using leather cultivated from Alexander McQueen's own DNA The'Pure Human' project envisions using DNA from McQueen's graduation collection from the same college, called'Jack the Ripper Stalks His Victims'. The cells would be taken from the hair and placed in a culture.

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display