Uranus's strange climate and unusual tilt could be explained by an impact with a huge object, according to new research. Scientists have long been puzzled over why the planet is shunted slightly over to its side. The new research could finally offer an answer, in a major collision with another object. As well as explaining the planet's jaunty angle, the vast collision might also be the reason why Uranus came to have such freezing temperatures. And it could help us understand the mysterious exoplanets that are dotted throughout the universe and give hope for finding alien life.

Gameplay from'Forza Motorsport 7' is unveiled during the Microsoft xBox E3 briefing at the Galen Center on June 11, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. The 2018 Special Olympics USA Games is being held this week in Seattle. More than 4,000 participants from across the country will compete in 14 events. Alongside, members of esports teams will be playing in a first-of-its-type video game tournament hosted by Special Olympics and Microsoft. The Xbox Gaming Tournament marks the first time that Special Olympics will feature a video game tournament at a Games.

In the last few years, there has been a growing presence of artificial intelligence technologies or AI in healthcare. Though AI will not displace human relationships in the delivery of care, it will provide for an unchartered transformation of the healthcare industry. As highlighted in Trend 5: The Uncharted from the Accenture 2017 Digital Health Tech Vision, such a potentially massive change will demand a dramatically different governance structure from what we see today. The recent announcement of the Software Pre-Certification Pilot Program by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is one step in that direction. The FDA's stated purpose of the program is to balance the reduced time and cost of market entry for digital health against patient safety and quality of care.

The Israeli military says it's uncovered a plot by Hamas to spy on soldiers by befriending them on social media and then luring them to download dating applications that give the militants access to their smartphones.

It led him to pause his statement on the fight against Islamic State as Speaker John Bercow remarked on the "very rum business".

How comfortable are we leaving life and death decisions up to robots? While machines can crunch all the data, they must be programmed by humans to use that data. That means we as humans need to grapple with these scenarios to instruct machines on how to make decisions regarding life and death matters. From autonomous cars to drones deciding what targets to hit to robotic doctors, we're at the point where many are contemplating the life and death decisions AI robots will have to make. At first, the decisions we imagine machines needing to make don't seem that troubling.

Towns facing another season of drought and wildfire are turning to drone shows as a less risky alternative to organized fireworks. This year's July 4th marks the 242nd year since the creation of the United States. SAN FRANCISCO -- Get in the car, kids. It's time to see the Fourth of July drone show. Towns in California, Colorado and Arizona -- facing another season of drought and wildfire -- are turning to drone shows as a less dangerous alternative to organized fireworks, encouraged by the development of jaw-dropping, choreographed shows like the one Intel prepared for the Winter Olympics broadcast.

Geordie was the founder (1999), CEO (1999 -2003) and then CTO (2004-2016) of D -Wave, and was the co-founder and CEO (2014-2018) of Kindred. Kindred is an AGI company whose mission is to build machines with human-like intelligence. D‐Wave designs and builds a number of complex technologies, and integrates them to create the world's first quantum computers. The company's customers include Google, NASA, Lockheed Martin, Los Alamos and US government agencies, and investors include DFJ (Steve Jurvetson has been on the Board since 2003), Goldman Sachs, Jeff Bezos and In Q Tel. In 2012 and 2016 IEEE Spectrum ranked the company #4 in the world in'patent power' for computer systems companies, behind only IBM, HP and Lenovo.

The UK government pledged in May to use artificial intelligence (AI) to prevent more than 20,000 cancer-related deaths a year by 2033, with the prime minister's plans being welcomed by health charities and industry alike. But with the world still reeling from social media data breaches, will the public be open to sharing the most private of information on the scale needed for Theresa May's vision to become a reality? And even if they are, will the information be in any fit state to be shared? On the face of it, the NHS is the perfect place for AI and big data to come together to revolutionise the way diseases are diagnosed and treated. Every day, the health service has access to reams of the 21st century's most precious commodity – data.

The Government Digital Service has created an "innovation map" to provide a comprehensive record of every inventive technology and digital project taking place across the civil service. The database, which GDS hopes to publish externally later this year, was initially created and maintained by human research. But a machine learning tool is now used to monitor sources such as government intranets and populate the map with examples of departments and agencies using technology including drones, biometrics, and artificial intelligence. In a presentation at this week's Public Sector Show in London, GDS director general Kevin Cunnington said: "We have a map of all the innovation going on across government and it is all automated. Every ALB (arm's-length body), innovation fund, or catapult has been captured using machine learning, studying [things like] intranets, and that map is automated internally." While it has been used thus far to allow GDS to keep abreast of technology and digital projects, the map will shortly be opened up to help Whitehall innovators find and connect with peers, the GDS boss said.