Knowing a cyberattack's going to occur before it actually happens is very useful--but it's tricky to achieve in practice. Now MIT's built an artificial intelligence system that can predict attacks 85 percent of the time. Cyberattack spotters work in two main ways. Some are AI that simply looks out for anomalies in internet traffic. They work, but often throw up false positives--warnings about a threat when actually nothing's wrong. Other software systems are built on rules developed by humans, but it's hard to create systems like that which catches every attack.

Which are the cancerous cells in this image? With a new technique that combines a microscope and deep learning software, it might be easier than ever to tell the difference. Identifying cancer based on blood samples can be surprisingly challenging. Often, doctors add chemicals to a sample that can make the cancerous cells visible, but that makes the sample impossible to use in other tests. Other techniques identify cancerous cells based on their abnormal structure, but those take more time (those cells are often rare in a given sample) and can misidentify healthy misshapen cells as cancerous.

Shares of Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) have been trading along the 100-day moving average after bouncing off the low in February, as analysts raised concerns about PC and notebook sales during the first-quarter 2016. Intel will report its first-quarter 2016 earnings after the market close on April 19. Investors will be closely watching the results from the Client Computing Group, or CCG, Intel's mobile and PC business, and the Data Center Group, or DCG, as about 88.9% of their revenues last year came from these two groups. Less than a week ahead of the earnings report, Pacific Crest warned it expects Intel to report first-quarter earnings below the midpoint of guidance, and to lower its guidance for the full-year as well. Wall Street opinions about Intel's data center outlook are mixed, according to Barron's.

Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) has led many to ask questions about what if these intelligent machines and robots start acting unethically? This has led many to go to the extreme demanding for an outright ban on robotics and AI research while others are calling for more research to understand how AI might be constrained. But how can robots learn ethical behavior if there is no "user manual" for being human? Researchers Mark Riedl and Brent Harrison from the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology believe the answer lies in "Quixote" -- to be unveiled at the AAAI-16 Conference in Phoenix, Ariz. Quixote teaches "value alignment" to robots by training them to read stories, learn acceptable sequences of events and understand successful ways to behave in human societies.

This blog was originally published on our Text Analysis blog, the blog post aimed to explain how Text Analysis and Natural Language Processing works from a non-technical point of view. For the first installment, we looked at how text is understood by machines, what methods are used in text analysis and why Entity and Concept extraction techniques are so important in the process. Text Analysis refers to the process of retrieving high-quality information from text. It involves Information Retrieval (IR) processes and lexical analysis techniques to study word frequency, distributions, patterns and utilizes information extraction and association analysis to attempt to understand text. The main goal of Text Analysis as a practice is to turn text into data for further analysis, whether that is from a business intelligence, research, data analytics or investigative perspective.

Apple harvested almost 40 million worth of gold from recycled gadgets last year, and is now deploying robots to take iPhones apart in a major environmental push. In its latest annual environmental responsibility report, which was published last week, Apple explained that it gathered 2,204 pounds of recycled gold during its fiscal year 2015. The gold, which weighs more than a ton, is worth 39.6 million. Apple recovered more than 63 million pounds of various materials via its "take-back" recycling initiatives in 2015, according to the company's environmental report. The tech giant gathered over 23 million pounds of steel, making it the most recycled material, and more than 13 million pounds of plastics.

Thanks to Siri, we have a date for Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference. The tech giant will host its developers event June 13-17 in San Francisco. Although Apple did not release a formal statement detailing the timing of WWDC, users could uncover details by asking digital voice assistant Siri "when is WWDC?" The event usually takes place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. As with previous years, Apple will likely reveal the first details on iOS 10, the latest version of its mobile operating system.

ORG XMIT: 131672750 NORTH LAS VEGAS, NV - NOVEMBER 07: GameStop employee Randi Taber stacks copies of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" during a launch event for the highly anticipated video game at a GameStop Corp. store November 7, 2011 in North Las Vegas, Nevada. Video game publisher Activision released the eighth installment in the '"Call of Duty" franchise at midnight on November 8. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) ORIG FILE ID: 131913279 (Photo: Ethan Miller Getty Images) Video game retailer GameStop is making a move into publishing. The company announced Monday a venture called GameTrust, which will publish video games for multiple platforms from independent studios. Studios Insomniac Games (Ratchet & Clank), Ready at Dawn (The Order: 1886) and Frozenbyte (Trine) are among the indie studios creating games that will be published through GameTrust. Mark Stanley, GameStop's vice president of internal development and diversification, says the venture will focus on games "largely ignored by big publishers" in favor of triple-A titles.

I'll be honest: Even though I'm supposed to be a technology expert, I've long resisted using Siri and my smartphone's voice commands. All the errors were frustrating and often seemed to eat up more time than just typing in commands and opening up apps manually. These days, though, I've found myself using Siri more often. Speech recognition has gotten a lot better, and Siri has gotten a lot smarter and more powerful. You can do virtually anything via your phone's voice commands, from posting to Twitter to finding the best pizza pie to figuring out just how deep 20,000 leagues really is.

The green tractor trundling across a Manitoba field with an empty cab looks like it's on a collision course with Matt Reimer's combine--until it neatly turns to pull alongside so he can pour freshly harvested wheat into its trailer. It's an eight-year-old John Deere that the 30-year-old Mr. Reimer modified with drone parts, open-source software and a Microsoft Corp. MSFT 1.52 % tablet. All told, those items cost him around 8,000. He said that's about how much he saved on wages for drivers helping with last year's harvest. Mr. Reimer's alterations, which he hopes to replicate for other farmers this year, are part of a technology revolution sweeping North America's breadbasket.