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

The Television Critics Assn. is a media organization consisting of 200 professional TV critics and journalists from the United States and Canada. The awards will be held Aug. VidCon, the annual video star convention, has gotten so big it's expanding globally

FILE - In this June 13, 2016 file photo, members of the media attend a briefing at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles where Microsoft unveiled a new, slimmer version of the video game console coming later this year and a more powerful one that's due in 2017. At last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo, the video game industry teased a future where Xboxes and PlayStations are updated almost as frequently as smartphones. The move to release more consoles with varying features may mark the end of the traditional console cycle era, the decades-old tradition of brand-new systems coming out every seven or so years.(AP

IHS Technology has announced that AI in new vehicles is projected to increase over 1700 percent by 2025. Car manufacturers shipped seven million AI systems in new cars throughout 2015, and that number is expected to be 122 million in 2025. AI systems are expected to be varied and perform multiple functions. "An artificial-intelligence system continuously learns from experience and by its ability to discern and recognize its surroundings," said Luca De Ambroggi, principal analyst at IHS Technology. "It learns, as human beings do, from real sounds, images, and other sensory inputs. The system recognizes the car's environment and evaluates the contextual implications for the moving car." Areas of development include eye-tracking, driver monitoring, natural language interfaces, and speech and gesture recognition.

Back in December, when Slack integrations launched, I wrote Clippy's Revenge about the potential of "smart messaging" to become a new platform. Since then, big players have done much to nurture that possibility -- as if on some secret, jointly agreed-upon master schedule. This looks like the battleground of the next tech war, and all eyes are on Apple this week. But how much of the bot craze is hype, and what's worth paying attention to? The frenetic energy around this emerging ecosystem is well-placed, but often confusing. After meeting 50 founders in this space, I'd like to offer a structured explanation of the emerging Conversational Economy, and propose some opportunities (for both big companies and startups).

For most people, housework is the absolute worst, and it's kinda weird how in 2016, we still don't have anything remotely like Rosie the robot maid, who vacuumed the hell out of the Jetsons' house. Well, it might finally be our time, because multitasking entrepreneur Elon Musk just announced that his new robotics firm, Open AI, will be developing'domestic robots' that can perform basic household chores. To accelerate the process, Open AI will be developing the robots based on technology that already exists - basically, it's going to be taking off-the-shelf robots and customising them to do housework. "There are existing techniques for specific tasks, but we believe that learning algorithms can eventually be made reliable enough to create a general-purpose robot," Open AI says in a blog post. Open AI launched back in December 2015, and is headed up by Musk and Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator - a US company that provides seed funding for startups.

I think that Wayne Eckerson was the first to define the "purple person" in a 2010 blog post--someone with the mix of business and technology skills that is present in many successful business intelligence and analytics people.1 The same idea also came up--independently, I believe--at insurance company XL Catlin. Jim Wilson, a lead data engineer at the company, was chatting with his boss, Kimberly Holmes, about the people issues the company's "strategic analytics" group faced every day. As Holmes describes the situation, Wilson used the "purple people" analogy to describe a particular problem: "The business people, the actuaries, know what data they need and can define requirements, but typically don't have the skill set to design a data architecture that gives them the data they need. Technology people typically don't understand the business requirements, but they can design the data architectures. It's like the people in IT speak blue, the people in business speak red, but we need people who speak purple in order to create an appropriate solution."

Investment in intelligent business systems and automation is well underway across the globe, findings of an independent global study, carried out by analyst firm Freeform Dynamics. Top current application deployment areas cited by respondents include digital customer engagement systems (55 percent), process automation and workflow systems (52 percent), and automated risk monitoring and management solutions (50 percent). Commissioned by Ipswitch, the research further reveals that 45 percent have adopted intelligent IoT (Internet of Things) platforms and services, with 34 percent saying these technologies are on the agenda. Forty-two percent are utilising autonomous apps and bots, and 32 percent say they plan to do so. Forty-five percent are using cognitive computing and inference engines and a further 30 percent are looking to deploy in the near future.

The full information about Work Awesome is on the dedicated site. WORK AWESOME is here to connect you with the most inspiring people and thought-provoking insights into what work will be like tomorrow. And what are the learnings of self-organizing, hierarchy-abandoning firms? Charlene Johnson-Hadley, Executive Chef, Samuelsson's American Table Café and Bar Dan Charnas, Journalist, "Work Clean - The life-changing power of mise-en-place to organize your life, work, and mind" Moderator: Sam Sifton, Food Editor, The New York Times Dennis R. Mortensen, CEO, x.ai Chris Wiggins, Chief Data Scientist, The New York Times How do we make the best out of it. Jeff Wald, Co-founder, Work Market John Vars, CPO, Taskrabbit Devin Fidler, Director, Institute for the Future; Co-founder, Rethinkery Labs Steven Hill, "Raw Deal: How the "Uber Economy" and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers" Moderator: Neil Irwin, Senior Economics Correspondent, The New York Times And can we do without it?

The first spark of the idea that would go on to become Tech City, surfaced on the last night of a UK trade mission to India in July 2010. At a British Government-hosted reception in Delhi, Matt Webb, then CEO and cofounder of design consultancy BERG, struck up a conversation with Rohan Silva, then a senior special advisor to the prime minister. Their chat soon turned to London and the best way to get the small cluster of startups that were scattered around Old Street to take off, and ultimately become a viable ecosystem. "Matt said there [wasn't] a Silicon Valley-type ethos in Old Street, where you can all come together," Silva told Wired magazine at the time. "So he asked for our help." A few months later, the Prime Minister delivered a speech in which he declared that "something [was] stirring in east London", which could one day "be one of the world's great technology centres".