Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

The artificial intelligence company originally launched the site in mid July focussing on the Republican Party's Donald Trump and the Democratic Party's Hillary Clinton. Aicial Co-Founder and CEO, Troy Kelly said with ongoing accusation of media bias from all participants in the presidential election, we wanted to road test our platform and provide easily accessible, unbiased monitoring and analysis of social media traffic at 2016tweets.live. "Aicial is bringing clarity to an environment often too confusing and noisy for the average person to make sense of. We cut through the confusion to give the public insights based on data alone; no marketing, no agenda. After surging interest in the platform, the company continued development of the engine to provide the public with expanded insights; subsequently opening the platform to all Presidential nominees of the 2016 election with the inclusion of Jill Stein for the Green Party and Gary Johnson for the Libertarian Party.

Coding will join this list in time, however, where it differs wildly from the afore mentioned examples is it is unlikely to be lovingly preserved for future generations to admire, fiddle with or better still, reactivate. Its essence will not be reified for one specific reason – it can't be touched and humans value tactility. We touch immediately, both inside and outside the womb. Today, we find ourselves at a pivotal moment in our existence and about to experience an exponential period of rapid technological growth the likes of which is quite probably beyond our comprehension and at a base level, will have serious implications for coding. We rather arrogantly think that because we have a good grasp of our own technological advancement so far, we can somehow predict the mass cultural and behavioural shift about to happen as we question our own skills in the world.

The government can support the development of artificial intelligence by helping educate the public on the technology's potential applications and establishing an ethics policy on its use, several experts told the White House in response to a recent call for public input on future of AI. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy submitted a request for information earlier this summer to help develop its stance on artificial intelligence, and several organizations responded to the call by outlining benefits and the challenges they believe researchers and policymakers will encounter as AI develops. The government needs to educate the public on artificial intelligence and dispel theories that it will lead to a robot apocalypse, Joshua New, policy analyst for the Center for Data Innovation, told FedScoop. "Destigmatizing it in the public sphere, saying, 'This is like a great technological benefit, we should be pursuing it aggressively,' I think that's the most important thing that the government can do," New said. The Center for Data Innovation responded to the RFI by noting that government should continue to talk about the benefits of AI and attempt to dispel fears of the technology.

Among those who do enter the criminal justice system, a disproportionately high number are people of color. In 2010, the BJS found that for every 100,000 Americans, 380 inmates are white, while 2.5 times that many (966) are Latino. A whopping 2,207 are black -- nearly six times as many black Americans are incarcerated as their Caucasian counterparts. Is it any wonder, then, that America's minority communities express such little faith in the fairness of US legal institutions? In a nation that incorporated structural racism into its social system for nearly a century -- after hundreds of years of slavery -- are you really surprised that people of color have historically distrusted the legal system?

U.S. stocks are trading lower Wednesday morning as losses for phone and utility companies continue to drag the market from its recent record highs. Retailers including Target and Lowe's are skidding after disappointing earnings. The Federal Reserve will release minutes from its July meeting in the afternoon. KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average fell 58 points, or 0.3%, to 18,493 as of 10:25 a.m. The Standard & Poor's 500 index gave up 6 points, or 0.3%, to 2,171.

Last year at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, NASA announced a new challenge for humanoid robots: the Space Robotics Challenge (SRC), which will "prepare robots for the journey to Mars." Just like the DRC, the first stage of the SRC will consist of a virtual challenge, run in the Gazebo simulator, followed up by a physical challenge using NASA's R5 Valkyrie robots. As of yesterday, NASA has opened registration for the SRC, and we'll take a look at the format of the competition, the challenges that teams will need to complete, and what they can take home for winning. The Space Robotics Challenge focuses on developing software to increase the autonomy of dexterous mobile robots--particularly those of humanoid format--so they can complete specific tasks during space travel or after landing on other planets (such as Mars), as well as on Earth. In the not too distant future, R5 has arrived on Mars along with supplies ahead of a human mission.

They'll have to find a way to make the virtual robot successfully align a communications dish, repair a solar array and fix a habitat leak. Thankfully, Valkyrie doesn't need food, so they won't need to make it plant potatoes in the simulation. What they do need to figure out, though, is how the robot can accomplish all those with the added trouble of a communication delay between Earth and the red planet. Hey, the dust storm was supposed to have knocked out the communications dish, after all. The agency has been planning this contest since 2015 and even sent two Valkyries to MIT and Northeastern University in Boston to get them ready for the competition.

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

A new astronaut will join the roster to help facilitate man's first trip to Mars. Nasa is recruiting teams to develop and display the ability of a Robonaut 5 (R5) robot with a series of tasks that could save astronauts' lives in space. Called Space Robotics Challenge, the million dollar contest will create an AI robot to act as an astronaut's assistant. Nasa has launched a competition encouraging teams to develop and display the ability of a Robonaut 5 robot (pictured) with a series of tasks in a virtual environment. Each team's R5 will be will be challenged with resolving the aftermath of a dust storm that has damaged a Martian habitat.