California recently enacted a strict gender-equality law, the Fair Pay Act, which puts the burden of proof on a company to show that it has not shortchanged an employee's salary based on gender. It's a powerful tool to address a wrong that has already happened. But can discrimination be prevented in the first place? Even managers who don't think they are biased may be--and just their word choices can send a signal. A new wave of artificial intelligence companies aims to spot nuanced biases in workplace language and behavior in order to root them out.

He was a key Apple employee, known as the'father of the iPod' - and now Tony Fadell, who also invested the Nest smart thermostat, has beaten his old employer to launch an electric vehicle. The 600 Arrow'smart-kart' includes includes GPS and WiFi to keep drivers safe, and is aimed at 5-9 year olds. Parents using a mobile app can geofence the kart's driving area, limit the top speed or even hit a stop button in an emergency. The 600 Arrow'smart-kart' includes includes GPS and WiFi to keep drivers safe, and is aimed at 5-9 year olds. There's also a proximity sensor to automatically prevent accidents.

Every year, the Taiwanese company takes to Taipei to unload a host of its wares and, in the process, steal the lion's share of the show's headlines. Well, 2016 is no different as ASUS has taken the wraps off a slew of devices including an ultraportable that's thinner than Apple's own MacBook, Surface-like 2-in-1 PCs, three new ZenFones, a charming robot assistant for the home and a me-too mobile VR headset. Don't fret if you whiled away the holiday weekend and need to get up to speed on day one of the show -- we've got you covered in the video above and the gallery below.

Just how worried should we be about killer robots? To go by the opinions of a highly regarded group of scholars, including Stephen Hawking, Max Tegmark, Franz Wilczek and Stuart Russell, we should be wary of the prospect of artificial intelligence rebelling against its makers. "One can imagine (AI) outsmarting financial markets, outinventing human researchers, outmanipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand," Hawking wrote in a 2014 article for The Independent. "Whereas the short-term impact of AI depends on who controls it, the long-term impact depends on whether it can be controlled at all." The fear that our irresponsible creations might bring about the end of humanity is a common one.

The idea that cognitive technology can transform the healthcare system in radical ways holds a special place in Matthew Howard's head. The UK Lead at IBM Watson Health has no doubts: "I consider it to be the most important development in healthcare analytics globally." And, using cognitive applications such IBM Watson to help augment the ability of the clinical scientific community, he says, is critical for meeting future life science demands. In fact, healthcare is a key strategic imperative to IBM. If you just look at some of the quotes by the company, they say very openly that Watson Health is their moon shot.

Almost 200 years after Mary Shelley made AI an object of fear and awe in Frankenstein, humanity is looking at a proliferation of super-smart creations: robots. Automated technology of all sorts – from industrial to humanoid to seemingly harmless conveyors of "artificial smartness" – will soon transform our lives. But need we fear it? Will AI take our jobs away? Or will robots, by handling all the mechanics and rote work necessary for economic productivity, liberate us to be more creative, caring and "humanly intelligent"? What, in the end, can humans do that machines cannot? I sat down with Kevin Kelly to get some answers, as he lays them out in his new book, The Inevitable: Understanding the Twelve Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future," out June 6th. Take a listen over at Ricochet, and read edited excerpts below. PETHOKOUKIS: The book obviously is about technology but it's not a book about gadgets. Thank you, that's a synopsis of the general drift of the book, which is to ...

Who says artificial intelligence doesn't involve humans? Try telling that to Silicon Valley startup Unanimous AI. After recently achieving the rare "superfecta" -- picking the top four finishers in the Kentucky Derby -- using UNU, a new form of human-based AI using algorithms, the company is ready to share its formula with the public. After more than a year of testing, the online platform is now available in open beta. UNU relies on an artificial "swarm" of human group intelligence that come together in real time to make predictions, said Louis Rosenberg, its creator.

Putting it all together, the following example shows the equity curve representing cumulative returns of the model strategy, with all values expressed in dollars. To increase the precision of forecasted values, instead of a standard probability of 0.5 (50 percent) we choose a higher threshold value, to be more confident that the model predicts an Up day. As we can see by the chart above, the equity curve is much better than before (Sharpe is 6.5 instead of 3.5), even with fewer round turns. From this point on, we will consider all next models with a threshold higher than a standard value. We can apply our research, as we did previously with the decision tree, into a Logistic Classifier model.

The architecture includes maths capabilities that could be used by other software as part of a heterogeneous system architecture. That could include neural network software but ARM executives stressed that Bifrost is first and foremost an architecture for raster, tile-based graphics processing units (GPUs). The previous architecture – Midgard – is the one that underlies ARM's T-series Mali GPUs and has up to 16 unified shader cores and SIMD [single-instruction multiple data] instruction set architecture. Bifrost supports up to 32 unified shader cores with a scalar ISA, full hardware cache coherency and something called clause execution. The primary goal, according to Sean Ellis, GPU architect with ARM, was to achieve more performance per square millimeter of silicon and per line of "real-world" shader code.

The assistant wars are in full swing, with Google Assistant and Viv entering the fray and existing players such as Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana, Hound and Google's Now all stepping up fight for consumers' hearts and minds. Apple's rumored Amazon Echo competitor, which VentureBeat believes is a next-gen Apple TV, could blow all the assistants out of the water when it comes to deciphering complex natural language queries. And powering it--VocalIQ, a sophisticate technology Apple acquired back in October 2015. Tech Insider provided an in-depth overview of how VocalIQ could make Siri a lot smarter than it is today. Tech Insider's piece, titled "Apple is working on an AI system that wipes the floor with Google and everyone else," notes that Apple had been testing VocalIQ technology against Siri, Google Now and Cortana. "Users asked each AI questions using normal language, not the robotic commands you're used to using with digital assistants," reads the article.