Apart from its Russian engines, the J-20 is completely made and designed in China. And even then, future J-20s will be flying with a more powerful domestic engine, the WS-15, by 2021. In line with its increasingly sophisticated domestic arsenal, China's arms exports have become much more technically competitive in the last ten years; the 2015 U.S. Defense Department's Annual Report on the PLA even stated that China's ground systems in particular are globally competitive or nearly globally competitive. With selling points of low cost and affordable service, lack of geopolitical strings and upgrade packages, China has become the world's third largest arms exporter behind the US and Russia. With a series of recent contracting wins against Russian firms, it looks to expand its market share.

A vial of blood is small, fragile, and vital. In the days and weeks following an earthquake, or in the early stages of an epidemic, a sample of blood, properly tested, can save lives. That of the patient and, if a disease is noticed and handled before it spreads, that of many others. Drones, from ship to shore and then shore back to ship, may be the answer. Later this month, drone delivery service Flirtey, in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine pathologist Dr. Timothy Amukele, plans to test ship-to-shore drone delivery in Cape May, New Jersey, on June 23rd.

Where else but the Code Conference can you expect to hear from the Tech industry's biggest players like Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Google CEO Sundar Pichai? Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version gave the wrong year Amazon won Emmys for Transparent. Speaking to the Code conference here, Bezos, whose company has a hit on its hand with the Echo connected speaker, said, "it's hard to overstate how big of an impact this will have on society over the next 20 years. It doesn't mean phones are going to go away or that voice actions will replace screens. As long as people have eyes, they have screens."

Amsterdam's quarterly AI summit for applied artificial intelligence calls for all AI enthused product, business and tech people to its first edition at the Zoku Amsterdam on June 15th at 6pm. Focused, hands-on talks on the impact of AI and related technologies on product development, design and the business aspects, also providing an outlook on related industry technology trends. We're proud to announce our selected speakers at Amsterdam.AI's first edition on June 15th: The event aims to build a community, share expertise and support the application of machine learning and related technologies around web app developers, product designers, founders entrepreneurs, project team leaders, and anyone who is related to the aspect of developing products. As we're all on a tight schedule, the summit is going to start and end on time. All participants will be invited to a Slack Channel to further exchange and stay in touch.

Three years ago, Silicon Valley developed a fleeting infatuation with a startup called Zee.Aero. The company had set up shop right next to Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., which was curious, because Google tightly controls most of the land in the area. Then a reporter spotted patent filings showing Zee.Aero was working on a small, all-electric plane that could take off and land vertically--a flying car. In the handful of news articles that ensued, all the startup would say was that it wasn't affiliated with Google or any other technology company. Then it stopped answering media inquiries altogether. Employees say they were even given wallet-size cards with instructions on how to deflect questions from reporters. After that, the only information that trickled out came from amateur pilots, who occasionally posted pictures of a strange-looking plane taking off from a nearby airport. Trump Says'No Reason' to Raise 1 Billion for Campaign Turns out, Zee.Aero doesn't belong to Google or its holding company, Alphabet.

In the past two decades, we've seen chess grandmasters and the best Jeopardy players in the world alike fall in competition to computers. Heads-up No-limit Texas Hold'em poker may be next. But the future of artificial intelligence (AI) is about way more than games. Last April and May, Carnegie Mellon University's AI, Claudico (developed by Professor Tuomas Sandholm and his team), played an 80,000-hand tournament against four poker pros. When the game ended, three of the four players had bigger hands than Claudico.

Queuing to check-in luggage is often one of the most stressful parts of travelling. But new advancements in robotics, currently being trialled at Geneva Airport, could mean these lengthy waits are a thing of the past. With the help of a robot named Leo, passengers at the Switzerland airport have had their bags checked-in for them. Swiss air transport specialists SITA teamed up with robotics firm BlueBotics to create the robot, which is programmed to dodge obstacles in its path, namely passengers in busy airports. It also has the ability to weigh bags, print baggage tags and carry two suitcases weighing up to 32kg. Read more: 'Robot doctor' helps solve health problems at click of a button with latest artificial intelligence invention The autonomous check-in assistant greets passengers at the airport's terminal, who can use its touch screen to scan their boarding passes and drop off their luggage.

Or so says Neil Jacobstein, an AI expert who has consulted on projects for the U.S. military, GM, and Ford, at Exponential Finance - a two-day conference on AI and robotics sponsored by CNBC and Silicon Valley think-tank Singularity University. "We are going to eventually understand how our brain works - we are going to reverse engineer the brain," Jacobstein, who is also co-chair of the AI and robotics track at Singularity University, said at the event. Jacobstein said we are already making enough progress in our lifetime that we will be able to artifically replicate the neocortex - the part of mammal's brains that controls sensory perception, motor commands, spatial reasoning, conscious thought, and language in humans, according to Science Daily. And Jacobstein said he doesn't think it will stop there. "And we'll even be able to replicate and accelerate other parts of the brain as well, like the hippocampus," Jacobstein told Tech Insider after his presentation.

"If you can't beat them, join them" may not sound like the most encouraging pitch for a cybersecurity company, but a startup called Cylance has created an artificial intelligence-powered brain that essentially does just that, and it has taken off -- raising 100 million in a Series D round of funding and catapulting itself into the so-called'unicorn' club of companies with 1 billion valuations. The Series D round of funding was led by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities and Insight Venture Partners, along with existing investors (unnamed which but previous backers include strategics like Capital One, Dell Ventures, DFJ, Fairhaven, Khosla, KKR and Ten Eleven). It takes the total raised to over 177 million. Cylance is not disclosing its valuation but a reliable source close to the company says it's in the neighborhood of 1 billion -- a figure also reported by the FT. Founded and led by Stuart McClure, a serial entrepreneur and former CTO of Intel's McAfee, Cylance's system is part of the rising wave of companies -- including biggies like IBM's Watson and Google's Brain -- that use machine learning and AI to build services that replicate or enhance human thinking to solve more complex problems that might be too challenging or cost prohibitive for a person (or even an army of people) to solve.

The website kickoff.ai was launched on June 7 by three PhD students at the Lausanne Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and is targeted at football lovers. "All three of us are football fans and we wanted to apply machine learning to a new data set," Victor Kristof, one of the brains behind kickoff.ai, While several other football results prediction models exist, kickoff.ai The first one is modelling individual players' performances, which ensures more variables are incorporated when predicting an outcome of a match. Most traditional models only take into account the performance of the entire team and not that of its constituent team members separately.