SAN FRANCISCO -- The cloud may be the future, but the specter of the PC lingers. Microsoft is the latest tech giant to learn that first-hand. Microsoft on Thursday posted substantial drops in revenue and earnings as it continues to navigate from its legacy PC business into emerging technologies -- a day after chip maker Intel announced a 11% workforce reduction. The computing giant reported a 5% decline in fiscal third-quarter revenue to 20.5 billion. Earnings of 3.8 billion, or 47 cents per share, fell from 5 billion, or 61 cents a share, in the same quarter a year ago.

One of the intern we hired 6 months ago (she now work full time), submitted her CV with only 1 skills listed above (Monte-carlo simulation). She did a Physics' MSc at University College London and ended up doing a 3 month intern at CERN at the end of last year after she completed her study. She did analysis on data generated from the Higgs Boson experiment using monte carlo. We looked at her CV and I said to my CTO, bring her in for interview. Her CV would probably be put in the bin if she applied for job somewhere else because hers didn't show machine learning skills or statistic skills or majority of the skills from the above 22 skills, on her CV.

A new drone security startup claims it can disable or fly rogue drones that get too close to airports, military bases, stadiums or other other sensitive areas. SkySafe is one of several startups looking to stake a claim in the burgeoning drone enforcement industry. Headquartered in San Diego, SkySafe showed off its technology, but offered few details of how it was able to detect, hack into and control a drone in midair. It was speculated that SkySafe uses radio frequencies to take over the unmanned autonomous vehicles. "We fully take control of the drone from the operator, it sees us as the legitimate controller, and we can move it to a safe location and land it," said Grant Jordan, founder of SkySafe, in an interview with the Verge.

During Build 2016 this year, Microsoft pitched a world of connected devices and sensors all speaking through cloud-backed machine learning models to developers. Microsoft is betting on a future that involves developers utilizing sensors that link to a vast pool of intelligent data to return immediate real-world benefits. Practicing what the company preaches, Microsoft's Solution Architect and Technical Manager of Microsoft Research, Kenji Takeda talks about how Cortana Intelligence suite is being used to secure safe drinking water for thousands of villages in rural Africa and Asia. A team consisting of Dr. Robert Hope of the REACH initiative, and machine learning experts David Clifton, an associate professor, and graduate student Farah Colchester have come together to try and secure safe and healthy water sources for 5 million poor people in Asia and Africa. The REACH program utilizes a series of mobile sensors connected to cloud computing to monitor water wells to secure a safe supply of water in more rural areas.

See if your favorite'Game of Thrones' character will survive or die with this machine learning algorithm. You don't have to be a diehard Game of Thrones fan to know that characters are killed off left and right in the HBO series. What real fans don't know is the fate of their favorite characters in season 6, especially since war is coming. If you can't bear to wait one more second wondering what happened to Jon Snow out in the cold, you can check out this site that uses a machine learning algorithm to reveal which GoT characters will probably kick the bucket next. The algorithm was developed as part of a project called "A Song of Ice and Data" by students in a JavaScript Course at the Technical University of Munich.

IMAGE: Researchers collect information for the design of PAWS in a protected area for a trial patrol. A century ago, more than 60,000 tigers roamed the wild. Today, the worldwide estimate has dwindled to around 3,200. Poaching is one of the main drivers of this precipitous drop. Whether killed for skins, medicine or trophy hunting, humans have pushed tigers to near-extinction.

When we think of automation in the workplace, the first jobs that come to mind of being most at threat are low paying, low-skilled jobs. While this is definitely true, advances in technology are starting to threaten high paying, higher skilled jobs. Due to the advancements in robotics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, there seem to be very few jobs, if any, that will be completely immune to, if not replacement, then some sort of alteration. This market snapshot looks at how the progression of machine learning could impact on jobs we thought immune to automation. We look at the impact of automation on the middle class and what support would need to be available to people losing their jobs.

A program designed by MIT to battle hackers is example of effective artificial intelligence and human collaboration. South Korean professional Go player Lee Sedol puts the first stone against Google's artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo.

Tesla founder, Elon Musk, is working on a self-driving vehicle that could replace buses. The billionaire says the mystery vehicle will reduce traffic in cities, but declined to discuss any more details. 'We have an idea for something which is not exactly a bus but would solve the density problem for inner city situations,' Musk said at a transport conference in Norway. Tesla founder, Elon Musk, is working on a self-driving vehicle that could replace buses. 'We have an idea for something which is not exactly a bus but would solve the density problem for inner city situations,' Musk said at a transport conference in Norway'Autonomous vehicles are key,' he said of the project, declining to reveal more. 'I don't want to talk too much about it.

Like Beyoncé, we now know, Hillary Clinton has hot sauce in her bag. She said so on New York's Power 105.1, so it must be true. Still, Donald Trump doesn't believe her, nor do Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham nor many of Fox News' talking heads. Even Power 105.1 host Charlamagne Tha God kind of accused her of pandering. I think she just likes hot sauce -- and not just because she's on record as a chilehead in interviews going back at least to 2008.