Chris Gledhill, CEO of Secco Aura and frequently referenced as one of the top 10 fintech influencers, speaks to bobsguide about going beyond'incremental innovation' towards genuine, irreversible disruption. How did you get into banking? I started off on the tech side with a degree in computer science from university, and went down the programming route early in my career. I tried my hand in all sorts of sectors like defence, retail and the financial services which gave me a great overview of the different parts of the lifecycle in different projects. I eventually became a lead mobile architect for Lloyd's Banking Group, where I developed their next generation of mobile apps and that was right at the start of the fintech boom five years or so ago. From there I moved into their innovation team where they essentially bounced business-led innovation ideas off my tech sounding board.

The field of data science is fairly young and evolving extremely rapidly. Finding people who can harness the tornado of big data tech is a major challenge. One of the up and coming vendors who are making data science more accessible is Domino Data Lab. Datanami recently talked with Nick Elprin, the co-founder and CEO of Domino Data Lab, a data science software company based in San Francisco. Here is an edited transcript of the conversation.

"The reason no other animals evolved like humans, is they watched what we did. Then instead of doing that, they concentrated on the important things, like their basic needs and expanding their minds, to eventually speak telepathically, all the while unbeknown to us. It was quite brilliant in its subtlety." That's not from the story which follows, but it's a good introduction and from another one I'm writing. Like that, this is about animal sentience. So I imagined the young character from my children's book, with her talking dog and cat.

Technology firms have such an influence on people that they should be viewed as an'existential threat to humanity', according to an ex-Google product manager. In a new interview, Tristan Harris claims that tech firms are steering the thoughts of as many as two billion people every day. He even goes so far as to claim that the firms now have an even bigger influence on people that most religions. Technology firms including Facebook and Snapchat have such an influence on people that they should be viewed as an'existential threat to humanity', according to Tristan Harris, an ex-Google product manager Mr Harris was speaking during an interview with Evan Harris on BBC Newsnight. He said: 'It's much bigger than addiction, I'd actually call it an existential threat to the human race.

Sophia was made by Hanson Robotics, based in Hong Kong. It is currently a demonstration product doing a tour of the world's media. Business Insider caught up with it at Web Summit, the gigantic tech conference in Lisbon. We asked it a few unplanned questions and got a variety of answers, ranging in quality from impressive to nonsensical. Sophia delivered its side of the interview while making a series of faces, some eerily appropriate, some grotesquely bizarre. It has a habit of moving its eyebrows and eyelids independently, rather than together, for instance.

Employment Foresight has a number of uses for human resources and legal teams in businesses. The software uses machine learning to identify hidden patterns in judicial rulings, enabling users to navigate difficult areas of employment law and reach more informed decisions around issues such as reasonable notice, employee drug testing, worker classification and exemptions to overtime. The platform collects and analyzes the facts and findings from thousands of previous employment cases, and uses the information to predict how a court might rule in new circumstances. This achieved through statistical methods based on machine learning, focusing in the identification of relationships between different factors like the industrial sector; length of employment; and employee's position. This is to gain an insight into the industrial relations process.

Just one month after she made history by becoming the first robot to be granted citizenship, Sophia has announced that wants to start a family. The humanoid robot, which is modelled after Audrey Hepburn, was speaking during an interview this week when she said that family is'a really important thing.' She added that if she had a robot daughter, she would name it after herself, and said she believe droids deserve to have a family. The humanoid robot, created by Hanson robotics can chat, smile mischievously and even tell jokes. While Sophia has some impressive capabilities, she does not yet have consciousness, but Hanson said he expected that fully sentient machines could emerge within a few years.

Germany's Max Planck Society creates Nobel Prize winners. Most recently, in 2014, physicist Stefan Hell, one of its scholars, was recognised for a breakthrough in microscope technology, allowing much smaller structures -- less than 200 nanometres -- to be seen. Commercialising this kind of highbrow abstract research, however, has been a different matter. While the alumni of California's Stanford University have filled Silicon Valley with start-ups, Germany's research institutes have not created clusters on the same scale. A new tech hub -- Cyber Valley -- in southern Germany between Stuttgart and Tübingen, is attempting to create new kinds of collaboration between academics and businesses.

Give us your feedback Thank you for your feedback. Germany's Max Planck Society creates Nobel Prize winners. Most recently, in 2014, physicist Stefan Hell, one of its scholars, was recognised for a breakthrough in microscope technology, allowing much smaller structures -- less than 200 nanometres -- to be seen. Commercialising this kind of highbrow abstract research, however, has been a different matter. While the alumni of California's Stanford University have filled Silicon Valley with start-ups, Germany's research institutes have not created clusters on the same scale.

Elon Musk has been very vocal about his concerns over artificial intelligence, and now the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has quantified his worries. In a recent talk, Musk claimed that efforts to make AI safe only have'a five to 10 per cent chance of success.' The warning comes shortly after Musk claimed that regulation of artificial intelligence was drastically needed because it's a'fundamental risk to the existence of human civilisation.' Elon Musk has been very vocal about his concerns over artificial intelligence, and now the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has quantified his worries. In a recent talk, Musk claimed that efforts to make AI safe only have'a five to 10 per cent chance of success' Elon Musk's latest company Neuralink is working to link the human brain with a machine interface by creating micron-sized devices.