Mac OS X has been around so long that Nickelback had the number one single the year it launched. OS X is officially dead, and has been renamed macOS. The first version of macOS, codenamed Sierra, launches this fall as a free update for most Macs. But there's a public beta version out now, and I've been testing it for the last week or so. There are tons of changes in Sierra, and they all add up to a big, significant update for the Mac.

The Year Without a Summer is why Robert Walton is important to Frankenstein: Like the newspapers, he's concerned about surviving climate chaos. He says that in the Arctic "the sun is for ever visible; its broad disk just skirting the horizon, and diffusing a perpetual splendour. Frankenstein begins with the search for new, more habitable lands because of environmental anxieties. People did not know that the cooling trend was a temporary result of volcanic activity. Rather, they thought the summer of 1816, with its famine, social unrest, and winter eternal, was the new normal.

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

Last week, at the annual news extravaganza/coding demo/Beats 1 jam sesh that is WWDC, Apple launched a new version of its desktop operating system. There was a funny slide about naming conventions, another California-centric name (Sierra) and a bunch of new features. And Craigy With The Good Hair announced a small but long overdue change: Mac OS X is now called macOS. One day after the event, not two minutes after booting up a MacBook Pro that Apple pre-loaded with a preview build of macOS Sierra, I asked Siri some existential questions. Then I asked which version of OS X she was running, expecting a gentle chiding about macOS and silly questions.

RELAX: the AI apocalypse has been cancelled. A rash of recent headlines blared that Google was developing a "kill switch to stop a robot uprising against humans", as The Telegraph put it, with a picture of a menacing metal army. It may come as little surprise to learn that the technical paper on which the stories were based described a prosaic engineering problem, not ways to stop the Terminator in its tracks. But the excitable coverage reveals how deeply the challenges posed by artificial intelligence have seeped into public consciousness. We have had machines that can out-calculate us for decades. Now a new wave is outperforming us on tasks ranging from image recognition to video-gaming.

From Siri to photo memories, here are five new features of the MacOS Sierra, coming to the public as a beta in July. NEW YORK--Siri evaded my question for what took Apple's voice assistant so long to get onto the Mac. "Who, me?" responds the voice familiar to anyone who uses an iPhone. However tardy Siri's arrival, the debut of Apple's loquacious personal helper on the company's computers is arguably the most welcome new feature coming to Macs that will be running macOS Sierra. Sierra is the latest iteration of Apple's operating system for its PCs and is the first version in years without the OS X moniker.

In financial services, access to big data and analytics is creating a huge opportunity to improve everything from efficiency, accuracy and speed to fraud prevention. Specialising in analytics, business intelligence and data management, SAS aims to help its customers make important decisions faster, better and with more confidence. Here Vincent Kilcoyne, Fintech Innovation Lead at SAS UK & Ireland, talks about the firm's new Fintech Incubator and what's next for financial services. Where is biggest opportunity for analytics in finance? I see a huge amount of it within the Fintech space.

I am working on skills and leadership models for the IT industry and we are already considering a programme for IT recruiters that goes half-way to what you call the singularity. I think we are some years off yet, and the smarter recruiters will use the shift towards AI in career planning and talent management to market advantage. Big data will make today's enterprise HR systems look like chalk and slates.

We've all heard the buzz about terms such as A.I. (Artificial intelligence), machine learning, bots, the Internet of things. Hollywood, large corporations and the media have begun to slyly prepare us for the advent of a new age of smart, anthropomorphic robots, cute servants with suave manners who will do, think, learn, analyze and.. make decisions for us. Slowly, blue and white collar jobs are being replaced by automation and that trend will accelerate to make the industrial revolution appear like childplay. UX and design will not be spared. Read on and be prepared.

Google's artificial intelligence projects have created a lot of headlines in recent months. From their DeepMind project beating champions of Alpha Go at their own game, to recent announcements Magneta and Springboard, not to mention driverless cars, its clear that AI and Machine Learning are central to Google's strategy across its vast portfolio. This week the company also announced the opening of a new Machine Learning R&D Centre in Europe. In a recent interview with Hollywood Reporter, Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt played down the fears that surround advancements in AI: 'To be clear, we're not talking about consciousness, we're not talking about souls, we're not talking about independent creativity." However, being acutely aware of the concerns around intelligent technology, the company's AI research division Google Brain recently published an AI Precision Safety whitepaper.