IBM is about to deliver the foundation of a brain-inspired supercomputer to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the federal government's top research institutions. The delivery is one small "blade" within a server rack with 16 chips, dubbed TrueNorth, and is modeled after the way the human brain functions. Silicon Valley is awash in optimism about artificial intelligence, largely based on the progress that deep learning neural networks are making in solving big problems. Companies from Google to Nvidia are hoping they'll provide the AI smarts for self-driving cars and other tough problems. It is within this environment that IBM has been pursuing solutions in brain-inspired supercomputers.

What shore knows not our maps? Most of them, it turns out. While satellites map much of the globe on a daily basis, there are parts of the planet so small and changing that they're tricky to pin down exactly. NOAA, America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, makes maps that anyone who navigates the sea can use, and to get the fine details on little inlets right, they turn to… "Autonomous Surface Vehicles," also known as sea drones and (at least at Popular Science) as Roboats. While much of NOAA's sea plotting is done by ships, the smaller robots can swim to shallow inlets and areas, capturing parts of the ocean otherwise unknown.

The robots were supposedly coming for our jobs. Not just the blue collar jobs, but also the highly trained and exceptionally well-paid jobs of anesthesiologists. These doctors help patients walk the dangerously thin line between pain-free unconsciousness and death, and for that their services can cost 2,000 per procedure. A robot named Sedasys could do the same job for more like 200 … except that nobody wants to buy it. Several outlets are reporting that Johnson & Johnson will stop selling Sedasys because of poor sales.

The ancient ruins of Palmyra, one of Syria's oldest cities, have stood for 3,000 years, but, since last May, the Unesco World Heritage site has been facing some of the most brutal threats to its existence. Located in an oasis northeast of the Syrian capital of Damascus, Palmyra has become a significant symbolic and military position in the now 5-year-old Syrian conflict. After seizing the city of roughly 50,000 residents last May, the Islamic State group was forced out of Palmyra over the weekend by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad. On a strategic level, retaking Palmyra gives the Syrian regime a strong military base for future operations against the militants' other strongholds as well as renewed control over some of Syria's most important oil and gas fields. But regaining Palmyra is also a highly symbolic win for the Syrian regime -- now trying to salvage whatever is left of the ancient ruins -- in its quest to position itself as a key partner in the fight against the terrorist group, also known as ISIS. An aerial view of the historic city of Palmyra, in Homs Goveronorate, Syria, is seen in this still image taken from a drone video, March 28, 2016.

As the Primary season has progressed, there's been no end of political pundits backpedaling and mea-culpa-ing over their previous inability to predict the rise of Donald Trump to become the frontrunner in the GOP. From Charles Krauthammer admitting that it was wrong to laugh at The Donald to innumerable others, both liberal and conservative, wishing they'd take Trump seriously, it seems like just about everyone in the Predictive Class will be dining on roast crow this Easter. But why did they get things so wrong? Was it because they assumed that he'd "crash and burn" like John Podhoretz? Was it because they assumed that he couldn't win because Republican voters hated him, as implied by Patrick Murray of Monmouth University when releasing early poll results in June of 2015?

So he and his business partner, Dan Roth, decided to create a program that would help lawyers manage electronic documents for litigation. Their idea led them to purchase an e-discovery application. By 2000, Leib and his partner launched their own creation, Discovery Cracker. "We saw a gap in the marketplace," Leib says. Lawyers need tools to keep up with it." Instead of wading through piles of paper, lawyers now deal with terabytes of data and hundreds of thousands of documents. E-discovery, legal research and document review are more sophisticated due to the abundance of data. So while working as chief strategy officer at kCura in Chicago, Leib saw a need again in the market. "For years, lawyers have been stuck with antiquated tools that focus primarily … on Boolean search. Better tools are needed to truly understand data." "What is the future of the industry?

The radio spectrum is a mess: It's congested, expensive, and there's no room for expansion. But DARPA has a plan to change that, by building a system where radio waves can work together using artificial intelligence, rathe than fighting for space. DARPA launched its latest Grand Challenge last week, and it plans to encourage researchers around the world to develop "smart systems that collaboratively, rather than competitively, adapt in real time to today's fast-changing, congested spectrum environment... to maximize the flow of radio frequency." That sounds exciting, because making radio frequency flow more easily means--theoretically, at least--faster data rates, fewer dropped signals, and cheaper connections. How does DARPA plan to do it?

The radio spectrum is a mess: It's congested, expensive and there's no room for expansion. But DARPA has a plan to change that, by building a system where radio waves can work together using artificial intelligence, rathe than fighting for space. DARPA launched its latest Grand Challenge last week, and it plans to encourage researchers around the world to develop "smart systems that collaboratively, rather than competitively, adapt in real time to today's fast-changing, congested spectrum environment... to maximize the flow of radio frequency." That sounds exciting, because making radio frequency flow more easily means--theoretically, at least --faster data rates, fewer dropped signals, and cheaper connections. How does it plan to do it?

Banking group Standard Chartered, Liverpool FC's shirt sponsor, is aiming to use robots or artificial intelligence to offer bespoke wealth advice or handle customer enquiries. The Asia-facing bank has hired thousands of extra compliance officers in a bid to stick to regulations. In 2013 the bank was fined 650m by US authorities for breaching sanctions on trading with Iran. Last year it announced its regulatory costs had risen 44% to 447m due to an increase in investment in its financial crime risk compliance capability. Now, chief executive Bill Winters wants to tap into technology to avoid further regulatory problems.

Microsoft's A.I. project known as "Tay" adopted a penchant for Nazi talking points shortly after her online debut (Photo: Twitter, TayTweets) It took less than 24 hours for Microsoft's Artificial Intelligence project known as "Tay" to turn from an eager-to-learn robot into something resembling a neo-Nazi teenager. Engineers at Microsoft billed Tay as AI with "zero chill!" and the ability to learn with increased human interaction, but they appear to have underestimated how quickly robots may take to totalitarian ideologies. Tay was shut down because she was "tired" after spewing racist and inflammatory tweets on Thursday. Are there really little-known prophetic signs happening today that can shed light on the world's situation? See the answers in the stunning new "End Times Eyewitness." "Bush did 9/11 and Hitler would have done a better job than the monkey we have got now," Tay tweeted, the Telegraph reported.