Computex has always been a PC show and with good reason--Taiwan designs most of the world's computers and manufactures many of the components that end up in them. But with the PC market still in the doldrums, this year there is a concerted effort to broaden the show to encompass buzzier themes such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and robotics, and virtual reality. That trend was reflected in Intel's opening keynote, which covered a wide range of technology from home gateways to drones to VR gaming to media processing to machine intelligence. That's not say the PC wasn't present. But Intel rushed though the PCs mentioning a handful of innovative PCs (HP Spectre 13, Lenovo Ideacentre 610s and Intel Skull Canyon NUC) and 2-in-1s (Acer Switch 12, Dell Inspiron 11 3000 and Huawei MateBook).

CAIRO – A French ship searching the Mediterranean has detected black box signals from a missing EgyptAir flight in the waters between the Greek island of Crete and the Egyptian coast, a development that could help solve the mystery of why the aircraft crashed into the sea last month, killing all 66 on board. The discovery, announced Wednesday, could help guide search teams to the wreckage and the flight's data and cockpit voice recorders, which if retrieved unharmed could reveal whether a mechanical fault or a hijacking or bomb caused the disaster. In the two weeks since Flight 804 disappeared from radar en route to Cairo from Paris, only small pieces of debris and human remains have been retrieved from the crash site. No terrorist group has claimed responsibility, though Egypt's civil aviation minister, Sherif Fathi, has said terrorism is a more likely cause than equipment failure or some other catastrophic event. The flight recorders will be critical to determining whether the disaster was caused by an accident or a deliberate act.

"If we can do it in the right and thoughtful way, we are always open to it," said Pichai at the Code conference here. "I care about serving consumers everywhere." Google pulled out of mainland China and moved its Chinese-language search engine to Hong Kong in 2010 after a series of cyber attacks on Google originated in the country. Google also said it would stop censoring search results in China. The controversial move cut Google off from the fast-growing Chinese market, one that's been courted by rival Facebook and constitutes the second-biggest market for Apple.

IBM's Watson, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system designed to answer questions posed in natural language. Few people know as much about travel search technology or the bookings process as WayBlazer's Terrell Jones. From his start as a travel agent to his role as CIO of SABRE and his involvement in the successful launch of Travelocity and Kayak, Jones has played a key role in shaping travel search. We met with him during SITA's Air Transport IT Summit (ATIS) in Barcelona last month to better understand how this technology is evolving. According to Jones, there's an opportunity for the airline industry to make stronger connections with its customers by applying intelligent technology.

Google's self-driving cars may become a more familiar sight in the Detroit area as it opens a new test center. SAN FRANCISCO - Google's self-driving cars are getting some attitude. Company engineers have been working on teaching their autonomous vehicles the subtle - and often obnoxious - art of honking, according to Google's May self-driving car report. After all, while Google's 24 self-driving Lexus SUV fleet are hybrid machines with a modicum of engine noise, Google's growing gaggle of 34 pod-like prototypes are all-electric machines that barely whisper their presence. Sometimes, a short stable of the horn is required to let folks know they're coming.

Facebook has long relied on human eyes to monitor the 350 million photos that are uploaded daily. Now, the social media giant is using artificial intelligence to shoulder some of the weight and says the technology has flagged more offensive photos than its human users. Photos deemed offensive include content that is hateful, pornographic or violent and the AI scans every image to determine if they violate Facebook guidelines prior to releasing them on the site. Facebookis using artificial intelligence to shoulder some of the weight and says it has flagged more offensive photos than its human users. Some 350 million photos are upload to Facebook every day.

Bill Gates has proclaimed the'AI dream is finally arriving' - despite admitting it could be a major concern for the future of humanity. 'The dream is finally arriving,' Gates said, speaking with wife Melinda Gates on Wednesday at the Code Conference in Southern California. 'The dream is finally arriving,' Gates said, speaking at the Code Conference in Southern California. 'This is what it was all leading up to.' Gates said enough progress has been made to ensure that in the next 10 years there will be robots to do tasks like driving and warehouse work as well as machines that can outpace humans in certain areas of knowledge, according to recode. He also suggested a pair of books that people should read, including Nick Bostrom's book on superintelligence and Pedro Domingos' 'The Master Algorithm.'

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."

We're headed toward the future, hands-free, in a supersmart car. At least, those are two of the more provocative takeaways from Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers partner Mary Meeker's "Internet Trends 2016" report, which was released Wednesday at the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Required reading for the technology, media and investment communities, Meeker's report touches on a number of topics in the digital media space, including the peculiarities of millennials, the rise of messaging applications and social media's embrace of photographs and video. But Meeker's reports are more interesting for what they forecast rather than for what they observe happening in the here and now, and two of the biggest predictions in the one this year are that the global smartphone explosion is beginning to moderate and that we are at the start of a torrid run of innovation around tech that we will be able to employ without using our hands. That run is beginning because internet users are starting to embrace the option of delivering commands to their phones orally, rather than via swipes and taps.

Boston Dynamics' robots are at their best on shaky ground. The wobbly BigDog, its larger LS3 sibling, and the humanoid Atlas all shamble forward and recover from falls. The company, for sale by its owner Google, is now looking for a buyer, and now it appears they may have finally found a firm place to land: Toyota. The Tokyo-based company has nursing care and medical robots in development, in addition to working on self-driving cars. Toyota could add up to 300 personnel to its robotics division with the acquisitions, the report said.