Imagine the Internet without Google? Trying to find anything would be unbelieva-bly painful – not to mention time-consuming. Well, by 2020, Cisco forecasts that there will be 65 trillion im-ages and 6 trillion videos uploaded to the web. This will result in over 80% of all in-ternet traffic being image or video-based in two years. Search engines like Google rely on human-tagged meta-data to carry out their searches. These tags are written and added when text-based content is created.

Ever wonder how long, on average, it takes to build a house? According to the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Survey of Construction, it takes nearly seven months on average. More than half (52.4 percent) of all new housings are finished within five months (compared to just 46.7 percent 10 years ago), and 93 percent are completed within one year. Of course, these numbers don't come close to telling the whole story. Let's see what the primary factors are that influence the duration of construction.

The device, made by AliveCor, pairs the ability to take a personal 30 second electrocardiogram (EKG) with a feature that uses artificial intelligence to continuously evaluate the correlation between heart and physical activity. When the device, known as KardiaBand, detects that a user's heart rate and activity are out of sync, it prompts the user to capture an EKG by touching the band. The results display instantly on the watch face. The device is designed to capture information that can help doctors help manage atrial fibrillation, the most common heart arrhythmia that is a leading cause of stroke and affects more than 30 million people worldwide. The device costs $199 and requires a subscription to the company's premium service for $99 a year.

AliveCor's KardiaBand, a device that detect dangerous heart rhythms, has become the first Apple Watch accessory cleared for medical use by the FDA, the company announced. It can capture your EKG in 30 seconds, then detect problems like atrial fibrillation, a type of heart arrhythmia. In addition, the company launched a new version of the band today in the US with a feature called SmartRhythm. That uses Apple's built-in heart rate sensor and AI algorithms to warn you if your heart rate is elevated when you're not exercising or doing strenuous activities. FDA clearance means that AliveCor can sell and market it as a medical device, but users don't need doctor approval to use it.

Stunning VR footage that could be taken straight from the latest video game has revealed the United Arab Emirates' vision for its planned Martian colony where robots live alongside humans. An immersive 360 experience of the futuristic city was released by the Gulf state's government, giving the most detailed view yet of its city. The release is part of Dubai's Mars 2117 Strategy, which seeks to build the first settlement on Mars in the next 100 years. Stunning VR footage that could be taken straight from the latest video game has revealed the United Arab Emirates' vision for its planned Martian colony. There are some fairly major reasons why we haven't got anyone on Mars yet: The video begins with a greeting from a holographic representative of the United Government of Mars, welcoming you to your second home.

When Waymo, the autonomous car company once known as Google's self-driving car outfit, announced it was suing Uber for trade secret theft in February, the action seemed to center on a single person: Anthony Levandowski. According to Waymo, the former Google engineer downloaded 14,000 secret documents from its system and used the contents to launch his own self-driving truck startup, Otto, in January 2016. By August, Uber had acquired Otto for an alleged $680 million, and Waymo says the ridehailing giant was in on the theft from the start. Well forget Levandowski and say hello to the litigation's newest and most unlikely star: former Uber intelligence employee Richard Jacobs. Last weekend, the US Attorney's Office pulled the very unusual move of forwarding a piece of evidence to Judge William Alsup, who is overseeing the lawsuit in the Northern District Court of California.

Speaking at the launch of the IT security company's threats predictions report, launched at its MPower conference held in Amsterdam, McAfee chief scientist Raj Samani said in an interview that criminals will increasingly use machine learning to create attacks, experiment with combinations of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), and expand their efforts to discover and disrupt the machine learning models used by defender.

Kardia Band attaches to the Apple Watch like any other replaceable watch band. The user rests a finger on the sensor pad embedded in the band, allowing an EKG reading to be taken. The Kardia Band transmits its EKG reading to the Apple Watch (via a high-pitch audio signal) where it's displayed in real time as a moving waveform. When the 30-second EKG is finished, the user can view it on their phone or easily send the results as a PDF to their physician. Doctors can diagnose hundreds of diseases using EKG data, but AliveCor is cleared by the FDA only to record the EKG and to advise a user that the reading is normal, or possibly indicative of atrial fibrillation.

Future missions to Mars, like the one planned by Nasa for 2020, have a'high chance' of finding microbial life, according to Professor Brian Cox. The physicist, best known for presenting Stargazing Live and Wonders of the Universe, says that these organisms may be more common than we might think in our solar system. Civilisations are another matter, he believes, and it may still be the case that we are alone in the universe as its only advanced intelligence. Future missions to Mars, like the one planned by Nasa for 2020, have a'high chance' of finding microbial life, according to Professor Brian Cox. Finding evidence of life on Mars will almost certainly involve a rover, and scientists admit it will be tough.

Last month, Google-owned DeepMind introduced AlphaGo Zero, the latest evolution of AlphaGo, the first computer programme to defeat a world champion at the ancient Chinese game of Go. Speaking at Web Summit earlier this month, Kevin Bandy, chief digital officer at Cisco, told the audience that "there are more moves in this one game than there are atoms in the universe". A piece of software mastered it in 72 hours, with no human help. This is a narrow application of artificial intelligence (AI), whereby it's focused on perfecting a specific task. It's extraordinary, but things get interesting when we take the debate further.