You may know Watson as IBM's Jeopardy-winning, cookbook-writing, dress-designing, weather-predicting supercomputer-of-all trades. Starting today, 40 organizations will rely upon the clever computers cognitive power to help spot cybercrime. The Watson for Cybersecurity beta program helps IBM too, because Watson's real-world experience will help it hone its skills and work within specific industries. After all, the threats that keep security experts at Sun Life Financial up at night differ from those that spook the cybersleuths at University of New Brunswick. IBM researchers started training Watson in the fundamentals of cybersecurity last spring so the computer could begin to analysize and prevent threats.

An Atlas V rocket launched with NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 7:05 p.m. NASA video. SpaceX launched JCSAT-16 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and landed the first stage on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. United Launch Alliance launched a Delta IV rocket at 12:52 a.m. from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Thursday, July 28, 2016 with a secret payload for the National Reconnaissance Office. SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral and landed it about eight minutes later.

Late last year, I took a road trip with my partner from our home in New Orleans, Louisiana to Orlando, Florida and as we drove by town after town, we got to talking about the potential effects self-driving vehicle technology would have not only on truckers themselves, but on all the local economies dependent on trucker salaries. Once one starts wondering about this kind of one-two punch to America's gut, one sees the prospects aren't pretty. We are facing the decimation of entire small town economies, a disruption the likes of which we haven't seen since the construction of the interstate highway system itself bypassed entire towns. It should be clear at a glance just how dependent the American economy is on truck drivers. According to the American Trucker Association, there are 3.5 million professional truck drivers in the US, and an additional 5.2 million people employed within the truck-driving industry who don't drive the trucks. We can't stop there though, because the incomes received by these 8.2 million people create the jobs of others.

Not sure what colour car to buy? Lexus'screen on wheels' has 41,999 programmable LEDs - and it'll even sync up with music and hand gestures If you're stumped about what colour Lexus to buy, then the custom LIT SI sedan may be the car for you.he Japanese car maker has wrapped the vehicle in 41,999 programmable LEDs, transforming it into a screen on wheels that is capable of broadcasting glittering graphics and multi-coloured animations. LIT SI was created by Lexus employees placing 41,999 LEDs on the body of the car by hand. There are three modes drivers can use to power the LEDs. Attract mode displays a loop of colourful graphics on the car.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the broad reach of insider trading laws, ruling that family and friends of corporate insiders can be prosecuted for profiting on secret stock tips even if they don't pay money or other compensation for the information. The unanimous decision affirmed the conviction of a Chicago man who made $1.5 million in stock profits by trading on confidential tips that originated from his brother-in-law, an investment banker in California. The justices rejected claims of defense lawyers who argued that there was no crime because no money exchanged hands between the insider and the stock trader. Instead, the court said exchanges within a family are like gifts and have value, even if no dollars are paid. The decision, the high court's first on insider trading in nearly two decades, is a major victory for federal prosecutors who have sought to bring insider-trading charges against a wider network of people who profit from confidential tips, including those who are not insiders themselves or have not paid to obtain the valuable information.

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Microsoft to turn millions of PCs and tablets into smart'home hubs' to take on Amazon's Echo and Google's Home Google's $130 Home speaker went on sale earlier this month Amazon's Alexa has been a huge hit with 5.1m sold Both can do everything from control lights to answer questions Microsoft plans to take them on with a new Home Hub app for Windows PCs Google's $130 Home speaker went on sale earlier this month Amazon's Alexa has been a huge hit with 5.1m sold The app will turn the millions of Windows PCs, laptops and tablets already in homes into a'home hub' that can do everything from control lights to answer questions. Has YOUR Google account been hacked? Researchers say... Apple goes Red for World AIDS day as firm is revealed to... Britain traded with the Middle East 1,300 years ago: Bitumen... The original human ancestor'Lucy' was a tree climbing... Has YOUR Google account been hacked? Researchers say... Apple goes Red for World AIDS day as firm is revealed to... Britain traded with the Middle East 1,300 years ago: Bitumen...

It's the home to North Korea's space program, and a cover for testing the technology that could one day send a nuclear-warhead-bearing missile hurtling towards the US mainland. Now thanks to some publicity photographs, modeling software, and the efforts of an enterprising video game developer, you can tour its command center without fear of arrest. The North Korea specialist website 38 North has released a 3-D model of the control room at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station, the building from which the North launches its satellites and test rocket engines. The model makes for a nifty virtual experience, showing viewers the heart of the facility in rich enough detail to spot the curvature of the rubber seals on the windows. You can see several of the renders in the gallery above.

First, the basics: Amazon has created a small Seattle grocery store that allows customers to just take what they want off the shelves and leave, without having to wait in line or check out with a cashier. In addition to traditional grocery items, Amazon Go will also feature meal kits with fresh ingredients to be prepared at home. For now, the 1,800 square foot Amazon Go store is only open to Amazon employees, but the company plans to open the doors to the public in early 2017. The company didn't announce further expansion plans, but based on the slick promotional video released yesterday, it seems evident this isn't a one-off idea. Earlier this year, Business Insider reported that Amazon was planning a grocery store pilot program, and may ultimately aim for 2,000 markets around the US in the next decade.

I don't normally post about politics (I'm not particularly savvy about polling, which is where data science has had the largest impact on politics). But this weekend I saw a hypothesis about Donald Trump's twitter account that simply begged to be investigated with data: Every non-hyperbolic tweet is from iPhone (his staff). Every hyperbolic tweet is from Android (from him). When Trump wishes the Olympic team good luck, he's tweeting from his iPhone. Is this an artifact showing which tweets are Trump's own and which are by some handler?