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Apple launches CareKit, a tool for letting iPhones keep their owners healthy

The Independent - Tech

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


SpaceX founder Elon Musk announces company plans to send capsule to Mars in 2018

The Independent - Tech

SpaceX founder Elon Musk plans to send a capsule to Mars in 2018. The company is going to send one of its Dragon capsules - in this case known as the Red Dragon - to the planet. It won't carry any astronauts with it, but represents Mr Musk's first step towards his ultimate plan of colonising Mars. For now, the Dragon is too small to carry astronauts further than the Moon, he said, since it is about the size of a large family car. "Wouldn't be fun for longer journeys," Mr Musk explained in a tweet.


Humans and Robots are Invited to Participate in Beauty.AI 2.0 Contest

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Second beauty contest, where humans are judged by Artificial Intelligence Beauty.AI 2.0 launches. Robot judgement day is set for 01.08.2016. People are encouraged to download the free Beauty.AI 2.0 mobile app in either the Google Play market or Apple App Store and algorithm developers should reach out to the organizers through a form on the http://beauty.ai/ Beauty.AI 1.0 was covered by the leading reporters and journalists at New Scientist, Techcrunch, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Yahoo! Beauty.AI 2.0 will provide valuable prizes for both human competitors and robot jury members.


Traveling Made Easy - SMASHD - Tech Culture Hustle

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Whether you're headed to Italy, Jamaica, or traveling to the beach, GoHero.ai GoHero.ai is an online website that uses artificial and human intelligence to make planning trips easier. GoHero.aI is a chat based service. On the website, you can let the "mobile travel assistant" know what your travel needs are. For example, you can type in: I want to go to London for two weeks, or I want to travel from LA to New Orleans.


ICYMI: Deaf translation gloves, mind-controlled UAVs & more

Engadget

Today on In Case You Missed It: Two college students from the University of Washington won an invention prize at a MIT competition for their SignAloud gloves, which translate the words deaf or mute people sign into spoken words. University of Florida held a drone race with mind-control headsets as the controllers. And China's National University of Defense Technology made a robot that can tase people. If you too know about (and marvel at) the all-girl, pop metal band BabyMetal, check out the Super Mario Maker version. As always, please share any great tech or science videos you find by using the #ICYMI hashtag on Twitter for @mskerryd.


A virtual reality game that's good for you and scientist approved

Engadget

Guided by a circular reticle that expanded and contracted along with the movements of my diaphragm, I floated gracefully through a Tron-like underwater world shaded by cool blues, cheerful pinks and relaxing purples as low-poly models of marine life swam about. It took only about 10 seconds or so for the game's breathing-based control scheme to become intuitive, at which point I'd become so engrossed in gliding through the environment and surrendering my mental state to the fuzzy murmur of binaural beats soundtracking it, that I'd forgotten about Tribeca and the media frenzy around me. In truth, I only took off the headset because I knew I had to make way for other journalists, not because I was ready to end my play session. When I did, Owen Harris, the video game designer who originated the concept for Deep VR, was delighted: According to Harris and his Dutch co-creator Niki Smit, I'd officially stayed in the experience longer than any other viewer who'd demoed it. "We want to help teach people these breathing techniques so that they can then manage these conditions outside of the game," says Harris of Deep VR's intended stress- and anxiety-reducing goal.


New Infosys AI tool could transform the way companies maintain complex systems

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Like so many organizations today, Infosys, the Indian consulting giant, is a company in transition. For years it has made a good living helping customers manage legacy tools, but CEO Vishal Sikka, who took over 21 months ago saw a shifting landscape and he began implementing new systems immediately. One of those changes involved developing a new artificial intelligence system they have called Mana, which is designed to help customers automate repetitive system maintenance tasks and build knowledge about the underlying systems using artificial intelligence and machine learning. Sikka announced the system this morning at the Infosys Confluence conference in San Francisco. Mana involves three main tools: Infosys Information Platform for analytics, Infosys Automation Platform for automating and continuously building knowledge about system maintenance and workflow tasks and Infosys Knowledge Platform, a formal platform for capturing and storing knowledge.


Artificial Intelligence in Business: 10 Important Statistics

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In this Mastery webinar, Ernan Roman of ERDM will reveal transformational Voice of Customer research findings regarding the personalized communications that buyers expect, and how this can drive double-digit improvements in response rates and customer engagement. Over 50% of attendees are repeated customers or referrals. The 52nd, 53rd and 54th will be held in Hong Kong, Dubai and Madrid. Book early to enjoy USD300 discount. One Size Does Not Fit All.


China's robot revolution - FT.com

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The Ying Ao sink foundry in southern China's Guangdong province does not look like a factory of the future. The sign over the entrance is faded; inside, the floor is greasy with patches of mud, and a thick metal dust -- the by-product of the stainless-steel polishing process -- clogs the air. Guangdong is the growth engine of China's manufacturing industry, generating 615bn in exports last year -- more than a quarter of the country's total. In this part of the province, the standard wage for workers is about Rmb4,000 ( 600) per month. Ying Ao, which manufactures sinks destined for the kitchens of Europe and the US, has to pay double that, according to deputy manager Chen Conghan, because conditions in the factory are so unpleasant. So, four years ago, the company started buying machines to replace the ever more costly humans. Nine robots now do the job of 140 full-time workers.


The rise of the machines

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Last month a computer program called AlphaGo took on one of the greatest players of the complex board game, Go, and beat him four games to one. Lee Sedol, the South Korean Go master, lost 1 million, offered as prize money by Google, the challenger's proprietor. But, more momentously, his humbling has taken the battle of wits between machines and humans to yet another level. To be sure, this isn't the first time software has got the better of an exceptionally clever human. In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue had checkmated Garry Kasparov, the erstwhile world chess champion.