Sportswear giant reveals new technique – invented by a Nasa scientist – for 3D printing training shoes tailored to customers' individual specifications Reebok has unveiled something it calls "Liquid Factory", which the company says will bring back sports shoe manufacturing back to the US. Reebok calls its new factory idea a ground-breaking manufacturing innovation that could fundamentally change the process and speed of footwear creation. Developed by the Reebok Future team, the Liquid Factory process uses state-of-the-art software and robotics to literally draw shoes in three dimensions. The new technique uses 3D drawing, where a proprietary liquid material, created especially for Reebok by BASF, is used to draw shoe componentry cleanly, precisely and in three-dimensional layers. This proprietary layering technique is used to create totally unique footwear, without the use of traditional molds.

JOINING "Hamilton", a Broadway show, and concerts by Adele, a British soul diva, on the list of tickets-to-kill-for in New York is a screening in an ugly new office building that recently popped-up in the East Village, a place best known for offbeat culture. There is a ten-week-long queue to see simulations by Watson, IBM's cognitive artificial-intelligence platform. Initially known for stunts such as beating human contestants on "Jeopardy!", a quiz show, Watson has been seeking a wider audience. It has found a vast potential one in the world of financial regulation. Rules have become so sprawling and mysterious that even regulators have begun asking for a map.

The Afghan Taliban has uploaded a drone footage showing a suicide bomber driving into a police base and blowing it up in the southern Helmand province. The fighters say the footage proves that they can now deploy drones as an "addition to their sophisticated possessions of advanced technologies". The 23-minute-long video, which begins with a self-proclaimed suicide bomber speaking in front of an explosives-rigged Humvee, was released on Saturday appears to be authentic, according to the Afghan defence ministry. "The remote-controlled drones to capture footage of their [Taliban] fighters conducting attacks is nothing but to instill fear among people and to indicate how far they can get in defeating us, but in fact, using a drone is not something they can call an achievement," Dawlat Waziri, spokesman for the defence ministry, told Al Jazeera by telephone. "You can get a drone anywhere, in any shop. They found or bought one, and used it."

Donald Trump's newest challenger is a twitterbot that was trained by Trump himself. DeepDrumpf, a chatbot trained on Trump's own words, recently announced its run for president and launched a GoFundMe for campaign donations, all of which will go toward supporting girls in STEM studies. DeepDrumpf was created in March by Brad Hayes, an MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) postdoc with a penchant for politics and neural networks. Back then, the Republican primaries were in full swing and Trump had established himself as a contender. "Trump's style of speech lends itself extremely well to these types of generative machine learning models."

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming very real--and at an exponentially faster rate. Moreover, those organizations that leverage AI in sync with those Hard Trends and Soft Trends that are shaping the future stand to make the most of its extraordinary potential. On one level, artificial intelligence is poised to help anticipate and address such critical issues as cybersecurity, civil unrest and even outright acts of terrorism. For example, using technology such as automated smart detection, officials at the recent Olympics in Rio were successful in maintaining security in a wide array of venues and locations. Closer to home, the Central Intelligence Agency's deputy director for digital innovation Andrew Hallman recently addressed the issue of anticipatory intelligence at an event hosted by the government and technology website NextGov.

Robots aren't taking our jobs, but artificial intelligence is making it easier than ever to do them. "Amy" saves entrepreneur Gillian Morris about 43 productive hours a year. Morris, the founder of Hitlist, a travel app that alerts users to cheap flights, has been using Amy, a virtual assistant from x.ai for about two years, to schedule meetings. To ask for Amy's help, Morris sends an email to the person or people she wants to meet with and copies Amy. From there, Amy takes Morris out of the email chain and handles the back and forth about dates and times.

LAS VEGAS--On a raised floor in a ballroom at the Paris Hotel, seven competitors stood silently. These combatants had fought since 9:00am, and nearly 4 million in prize money loomed over all the proceedings. Now some 10 hours later, their final rounds were being accompanied by all the play-by-play and color commentary you'd expect from an episode of American Ninja Warrior. Yet, no one in the competition showed signs of nerves. To observers, this all likely came across as odd--especially because the competitors weren't hackers, they were identical racks of high-performance computing and network gear.

Just over 65 years ago, Alan Turing famously posed the following question: Can machines think? In Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Turing investigates the concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the idea that machine-based life may indeed meet or surpass the boundaries of human intellect. Since Turing's essay and over the course of the last several years, leaders in the technology industry, public intellectuals and mathematicians and philosophers alike have begun to sound the alarm on advances in AI computing, warning of the potential unforeseen end results of placing such super-intelligence "online". Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, shocked many in 2014 when he postulated that the world's greatest existential threat was likely not nuclear war or climate change but rather the unboxing of an ill-considered AI, an act he would refer to as "summoning the demon". In subsequent interviews, Musk has carefully elaborated on his view, still cautioning against a foolish act on the part of those at the forefront of AI development. The concern here is not the advent of super-human intelligence per se- as the benefits of this development for humanity could be enormous- but rather a consequential mistake in the game of expectations, allowing a machine-based intelligence, capable of recursive self-improvement, to essentially roam free.

KARLA MURTHY: Hyundai means "modernity," and it's is a big name in the South Korean economic landscape – and not only for cars. Headquartered in the industrialized port city of Ulsan, Hyundai Heavy Industries, or HHI, is the world's largest shipbuilder. It produces engines and construction equipment. This is where they test robots used to assemble cars. KARLA MURTHY: That shake when the robot stops slowed down productivity and accuracy.

Natural disasters are out of the reach and influence of human beings. However, a lot can be done to minimize loss of lives. Artificial intelligence is one viable option that can potentially prevent massive loss of lives while at the same time make rescue efforts easy and efficient. To learn more, checkout the infographic below created by Eastern Kentucky University's Online Masters in Safety degree program. In the period between 2005 and 2015, a total of 242 natural disasters occurred in the United States of America.