I've said before that Computex is ASUS' show -- and what better demonstration than having the recently-elected President of Taiwan "talk" to your newly announced home robot? Crowd noise necessitated several repeated commands to ASUS' Zenbo play some music, but if it was apparently a live demonstration (ASUS' PR affirmed to our Engadget Chinese colleagues that it was), then it's pretty impressive. Unfortunately, the Zenbo's SOS "lifesaving" feature failed in the midst of the trade show chaos. Check out the successful part of the interaction between world leader and... 600 house robot, right after the break.

Officials of Bangladesh Bank may have been involved in the calculated theft of 81 million from its account with the New York Federal Reserve Bank, the head of a government-appointed panel investigating the cyber heist has told reporters. After learning how the organisation worked, the group of cyber attackers broke into the computer systems of the Bangladesh central bank in February and issued instructions through the SWIFT network to transfer 951 million of its deposits held at the New York Federal Reserve Bank to accounts in the Philippines and Sri Lanka. The group had installed malware in systems at the bank's Dhaka headquarters, which allowed them to spend several weeks spying upon the bank's systems and processes. Most of the transactions were blocked but four went through, amounting to 81 million, sparking allegations by Bangladeshi officials that both the Fed and SWIFT had failed to detect the fraud. The breach was uncovered by accident, with an alert only raised as a result of a small spelling error on one of the transactions that blocked other queries that had not yet been processed.

FiveThirtyEight founder, political prognosticator, and wunderkind -- is giving Donald Trump just a 25 percent chance of defeating Hillary Clinton in November. He was wrong months ago when he gave Trump just a 5 percent chance to get the nomination. A lot of people followed Silver's prediction. One man did not - and he was right. Conservative radio host John Ziegler penned a remarkably prophetic piece for Mediaite in November rebutting Silver's prediction.

Stephen Hawking has said that he fails to understand the popularity of Donald Trump, the presumptive US Republican presidential candidate. ITV's Good Morning Britain asked the man who has widened the world's understanding of time, space, stars, galaxies and black holes if he could explain the popular appeal of the billionaire tycoon. Hawking, perhaps the world's most famous living scientist and the author of one of the world's best-selling books, replied: "I can't. He's a demagogue who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator." He also ventured once again into political issues, appealing to British voters to back the remain campaign in the EU referendum on 23 June – not just for economic and security reasons, but for the sake of science as well.

Technicians of Tianjin Deepfar Ocean Technology Co., Ltd., tests a new developed Underwater Unmanned Vehicle which is named'White Shark Max' in water on March 28, 2016 in Tianjin, China. For the next three years, China will be ramping up the development of its artificial intelligence (AI) sector as it aims to establish a lucrative market that could be more than 100 billion yuan ( 15.26 billion). This, according to a statement released by the National Development and Reform Commission through its website last Monday. Based on the Central Government's three-year implementation plan for its "Internet Plus" artificial intelligence program, China will create platforms for fundamental AI resources and innovation, and work towards achieving breakthroughs on basic core technology, The plan is a collaborative effort of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Cyberspace Administration of China. Through these efforts, China's artificial intelligence sector seeks to be at par with its global competitors by 2018.

Just how worried should we be about killer robots? To go by the opinions of a highly regarded group of scholars, including Stephen Hawking, Max Tegmark, Franz Wilczek and Stuart Russell, we should be wary of the prospect of artificial intelligence rebelling against its makers. "One can imagine (AI) outsmarting financial markets, outinventing human researchers, outmanipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand," Hawking wrote in a 2014 article for The Independent. "Whereas the short-term impact of AI depends on who controls it, the long-term impact depends on whether it can be controlled at all." The fear that our irresponsible creations might bring about the end of humanity is a common one.

Who says artificial intelligence doesn't involve humans? Try telling that to Silicon Valley startup Unanimous AI. After recently achieving the rare "superfecta" -- picking the top four finishers in the Kentucky Derby -- using UNU, a new form of human-based AI using algorithms, the company is ready to share its formula with the public. After more than a year of testing, the online platform is now available in open beta. UNU relies on an artificial "swarm" of human group intelligence that come together in real time to make predictions, said Louis Rosenberg, its creator.

Researchers disagree on when artificial intelligence that displays something like human understanding might arrive. But the Obama administration isn't waiting to find out. The White House says the government needs to start thinking about how to regulate and use the powerful technology while it is still dependent on humans. "The public should have an accurate mental model of what we mean when we say artificial intelligence," says Ryan Calo, who teaches law at University of Washington. Calo spoke last week at the first of four workshops the White House hosts this summer to examine how to address an increasingly AI-powered world. Although scholars and policymakers agree that Washington has a role to play here, it isn't clear what the path to that policy looks like--even as pressing questions accumulate.

Whistleblower Edward Snowden has taken aim at Australia's metadata retention laws, which he claims violate the personal freedoms of all Australians. On Saturday, Snowden addressed an audience in Sydney, Australia via a teleconferencing robot at a Think Inc. event, An Evening With Edward Snowden. Snowden is the former National Security Agency contractor who was responsible for the massive leak of classified government documents in 2013, which showed the U.S. government was spying on ordinary American citizens without their knowledge. He has since become a vocal spokesperson for the undeniable need for government transparency and his live discussion in Australia was no exception. SEE ALSO: Truth is scarier than fiction in the first'Snowden' trailer Discussing the controversial Australian metadata laws, which were passed in March 2015 and allow the Australian government to access two years worth of your metadata, Snowden said the Orwellian surveillance of Australians is a violation of liberty and we all deserve privacy as a basic right.

Historians discovered a code machine used by Adolf Hitler to swap top secret messages with his generals when they saw it advertised on eBay for 9.50. Volunteers from the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park tracked down the extremely rare Lorenz keyboard after seeing it on the online bidding site. It was being advertised as a telegram machine and the historians found that it had been left in a shed in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, with'rubbish all over it'. Historians discovered a code machine used by Adolf Hitler to swap top secret messages with his generals when they noticed it was being sold on eBay. John Wetter, a volunteer at the museum, said: 'My colleague was scanning eBay and he saw a photograph of what seemed to be the teleprinter.