Nintendo's Wii U followup games console, still known only by its mysterious codename NX, will be available in March 2017, the company just confirmed in its quarterly earnings report. Nintendo said last year that it would say more about NX in 2016. In a separate Twitter dispatch, Nintendo designated June's L.A.-based E3 as a showcase for its upcoming The Legend of Zelda rethink, though confirming the game–originally exclusive to the Wii U–has now been delayed until 2017. Nintendo now says the new Zelda will launch for both Wii U and NX simultaneously. The new Legend of #Zelda will be the focus of #E3 2016.

Tinder, the dating app notorious for translating physical attraction into the swipe of a single fingertip, has launched a group dating feature. Tinder Social has been rolled out on a trial basis in Australia, but has been met with alarm after users realised the new feature exposes Facebook friends that also use the app. In a blog post announcing the launch of Tinder Social, the company presents the function as a means to meet people on a platonic basis, promising to take "an average night out with your friends to the next level". Users included in the trial are now able to join public groups consisting of Facebook contacts, and others can add them to these groups without permission. Crucially, these features are opt-out rather than opt-in; Tinder might out a person as a user of its app before an individual has a chance to turn the feature off.

The trucking industry has a driver problem. The job pays well and doesn't require a college degree, but the long hours and lonely stretches on the road make it a tough way of life. That's why the long haul trucking market sees an annual labor turnover rate of more than 90 percent, according to Bob Costello, chief economist at the American Trucking Association. The industry estimates it will need to hire a total of 890,000 new truck drivers over the next decade. The driver shortage is a problem for everyone, because trucking's crucial to the American economy.

Banking giant UBS recently gathered clients, staffers and tech experts who have a passion for helping those diagnosed with autism. SAN FRANCISCO – Some autism advocates are hopeful technology, from robots to custom-programmed Google Glass, can help individuals with the complex brain condition. "Technology can lead an autistic person to contribute to society when doing so face to face is difficult," said Scott Badesch, CEO of the Autism Society, addressing 50 invited guests who were brought together by banking giant UBS' philanthropic wing here last week. Badesch and others at the gathering -- lab researchers and autism advocacy group leaders, many of whom are parents of autistic children -- have high hopes emerging technology can help those afflicted with autism spectrum disorder interact with others and more fully participate in the world. As evidence of the power of tech to help, Badesch another others pointed to a recent YouTube video called "Dillan's Voice," in which an autistic teen speaks via a text-to-voice app on a tablet.

You have ten seconds to comply, or you're in for a shock. Rolling straight out of a dystopian future where robots keep humans in check, a Chinese university has developed a riot control machine to keep the peace. The robot, which resembles one of Dr Who's infamous Daleks, can keep rioters in check with a nifty electric shock and could enable people to call for help or press an SOS button to call for police. Robotics experts from Beijing's National Defense University unveiled their crime fighting creation at the Chongqing Hi-Tech Fair (pictured). The team claims the robot is is a breakthrough and could play a key role in the future of China's attempts to crush terrorism and public dissent Its makers said the AnBot is a breakthrough in low cost robotics and surveillance and could play a key role in the future of China's attempts to crush terrorism and public dissent.

OSAKA – Nintendo Co. said Wednesday its group net profit fell 60.6 percent in the 2015 business year ended last month to 16.51 billion ( 139.5 million), bruised by the yen's appreciation against major currencies and languid portable game sales. With nearly three-quarters of the video game maker's sales coming from overseas markets, the strong yen saw the company take an 18.36 billion hit in foreign exchange losses, denting its net profit figure. The video game maker's operating profit grew 32.7 percent to 32.88 billion on sales of 504.46 billion, down 8.2 percent. In addition to the currency woes, sales of software for the Nintendo 3DS portable console shrank as the company failed to follow up on fiscal 2014's major hit games. In the year ended March 31, hardware sales of the 3DS totaled 6.79 million units, down from 8.73 million units the previous year, while sales of the Wii U console came to 3.26 million units, down from 3.38 million units.

Machine translation (MT) systems such as Google Translate have become part of our daily life. But how do they work? In this talk, I'll explain how these systems are built. In the first part of my talk, I'll present a general overview of the field and the key ideas driving modern MT systems. In the second part, I'll dig deeper into the statistical techniques used to estimate translation models from data, and discuss some of the current hot topics in the field."

Bay Labs Inc. launched out of stealth mode today to use deep learning to help medical professionals in developing countries interpret ultrasounds so they can better treat heart disease. The company also announced a seed round of 2.5 million led by Khosla Ventures. Deep learning experts Yann LeCun, who serves as the director of AI Research at Facebook, and Nicolas Pinto and Jack Culpepper also invested. Bay Labs founder Charles Cadieu said ultrasound imaging presented the perfect problem to be solved with deep learning because it takes years of training to learn how to read ultrasound imaging. As ultrasound devices become cheaper and cheaper, they are increasingly available but especially in developing or rural areas, there may not be people trained to properly use the device or read the images.

Now, who on earth is Jia Jia? Does she sound like a Chinese? But not human, though she is human-like. She is a realistic-looking robot, or the robot goddess, who took three years to get created. She is part of the amazing robot industry that is continuously working on robotic products.