Nvidia became famous for its graphics processing unit chips that power some of the hottest gaming personal computers. Today, Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang signaled that he's aiming even higher in a bid to reinvent the data center and cloud computing. The company announced a new chip and a new computers both focused on artificial intelligence, in particular the fast-rising branch called deep learning that attempts to mimic the activity on layers of neurons in the brain. The technology is the basis for recent breakthroughs in speech and image recognition, self-driving cars and other technology-driven products and services. "Our company has gone all-in on deep learning," Huang said at the Apr. 5 opening of its annual GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, where he made the announcements.

More than 2 million viewers tuned into a Go match series broadcast live from South Korea on YouTube in March. For the first time, global attention was focused on the ancient Chinese board game as Lee Se-dol, one of the world's top players, took on an artificial intelligence program named AlphaGo -- created by Deep Mind, Google's appropriately named AI research team. AlphaGo won 4-1, despite excited cheering from Lee's fans. Interest in AI has spiked in South Korea in recent months. The administration of President Park Geun-hye has announced that it will invest 1 trillion South Korean won ( 866 million) over the next five years to develop AI technologies through joint private-public projects.

A master player of the game Go has won his first match against a Google computer program, after losing three in a row in a best-of-five competition. Lee Se-dol, one of the world's top players, said his win against AlphaGo was "invaluable". The Chinese board game is considered to be a much more complex challenge for a computer than chess, and AlphaGo's wins were seen as a landmark moment for artificial intelligence. Go is a game of two players who take turns putting black or white stones on a 19-by-19 grid. Players win by taking control of the most territory on the board.

According to Chinese newspaper Workers' Daily, two restaurants in Guangzhou, China, that gained some amount of notoriety for their use of robotic waiters have now been forced to close down. One employee said, "the robots weren't able to carry soup or other food steady and they would frequently break down. The boss has decided never to use them again." Yeah, we can't say we're surprised. As far as I can tell, all of these waiter robots can do essentially one thing: travel along a set path while holding food.

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

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg shows how developers can bring Facebook Live to other products, like drones at F8 conference. SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook's Live initiative is now open to outside developers, a move that will bring outside products to your Facebook news feed with live mobile broadcasting. Appearing at the F8 conference for developers, Facebook co-founder Zuckerberg said live mobile streaming within the Facebook app has worked out very successfully for TV stars, in particular. "Many of them have bigger audiences on Facebook than they do on their TV shows," he said. By opening to developers, companies like Buzzfeed, Tastemade and drone maker DJI can live stream directly to Facebook news feeds.

Facebook's f8 developers conference marks the rise of the chatbots. The social networking giant unveiled its Messenger Platform on Tuesday, which will leverage "chatbots" that interact with users and perform several tasks while remaining in the app, including shopping. For a recap of the keynote, scroll down for our live updates. "So we set out to build the perfect 360-degree camera," he says. Facebook unveils the Facebook Surround 360 camera.

SAN FRANCISCO -- You already chat with friends on Facebook Messenger. Now Messenger wants you to chat with businesses and get updates from them, too. That's the future Facebook pitched Tuesday at f8, its annual conference for software developers in San Francisco. "We think you should message a business just the way you would message a friend," Mark Zuckerberg said on stage at f8. He laughed: "To order flowers on 1-800-Flowers,you never have to call 1-800-Flowers again."

In 1950, artificial intelligence pioneer Alan Turing famously proposed what came to be known as the Turing Test: the proposition that a machine had achieved intelligence if it could carry on a conversation that was indistinguishable from a human one. In 2016, Turing's ghost has come to haunt Silicon Valley in a big way. Companies are racing to build technology that can talk with you. Last month, Microsoft launched the Microsoft Bot Framework, a set of software tools that let companies create their own conversational bots. Customers of Domino's, for instance, can order products by chatting back and forth with a robot, as if they were sending a text message.

Machine Learning (ML) and related computational disciplines have received a lot of attention in recent years. ML enables companies to leverage the vast amount of data they are routinely collecting to personalize their offerings and to automate evidence-driven decision making. Amazon has been a pioneer in the application of ML in eCommerce, with innovations such as product recommendation engines, fraud detection, and large-scale optimization of fulfillment center operations. As Amazon continues to rapidly grow and diversify, there are numerous new opportunities for delivering steep improvements from the application of ML techniques to problems in user profiling, forecasting, natural language processing, computer vision, or robotics. I am responsible for senior hiring across Amazon globally for machine learning and applied sciences.