Economic experts are trying to figure out a question that just two decades ago seemed ridiculous: If 90 percent of human jobs are replaced by robots in the next 50 years -- something now considered plausible -- is capitalism still the ideal economic system to champion? No one is certain about the answer, but the question is making everyone nervous -- and forcing people to dig deep inside themselves to discover the kind of future they want. After America beat Russia in the Cold War, most of the world generally considered capitalism to be the hands-down best system on which to base economies and democracies. For decades, few doubted capitalism's merit, which was made stronger by thriving globalization and a skyrocketing world net worth. In 1989 -- when the Berlin Wall fell -- the world had only 198 billionaires.

Microsoft launched an artificial intelligence chat "bot" last week, thinking this would be a way to show off its AI programming skills. Unfortunately, within 24 hours Tay had turned from a naive young AI into a rude, anti-Semitic pro-Nazi jerk. Also: Taliban kills 76 Christians in Pakistan on Easter; LGBTQ activists upset at North Carolina; Disney, Marvel and the NFL bully Georgia; CIA-armed Syrian rebels shooting at Pentagon-armed rebels; more evidence for Planet 9; and Mexicans celebrate Easter by burning Donald Trump in effigy.

The platform will be the integral part of Image Search Engine for Image Referral Network and Image Ad Network, to automate generation and placement of highly-relevant targeted ads based on images in a large scale for the first time in the industry. ZAC's AI Discovery platform can also be used for other types of images, data, or objects, e.g., clothing, purse, accessories, medical images, satellite images, and biometrics. ZAC has an impressive team of scientists and developers. The software development is headed by Saied Tadayon, a veteran software developer and scientist, who got PhD from Cornell at age 23. One of ZAC's inventors is Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh ("The Father of Fuzzy Logic"), a pioneer computer scientist at U.C. Berkeley.

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?