There's a specific kind of frustration associated with crappy game-streaming services. It's all about the buildup: You find a game, whether it's something brand new or a long-lost childhood favorite, and boot it up. It takes forever to load. The title screen stutters and your heart drops, but it's easy to convince yourself it was just a bout of preliminary jitters. And then the game begins.

Tiny dandelion seeds have been known to waft up to 500 miles (800km) just using the power of the wind. Now scientists have found out their secret and say their super efficient mini parachutes could revolutionise designs for remote-controlled stealth drones. Never-before-seen air bubbles that surround the seeds on the yellow-flowered weed are believed to be the secret to one of'nature's best flyers'. Dandelion seeds are said to be four times more efficient than what is currently possible with man-made parachute designs. Tiny dandelion seeds have been known to waft up to 500 miles (800km) just using the power of the wind.

Robots are coming for our jobs, and the work left over for humans is getting worse and paying less. Changes in technology and culture over the past decade have created jobs your high school guidance counselor could never imagine in their wildest dreams. Meanwhile, the safe, traditional jobs like lawyering and doctoring come with ever-increasing price tags and fewer career prospects. Unless the post-work utopia theorists are raving about comes around soon, picking your career is one of the most important choices of your life. You might as well make it one that's fulfilling and cuts a decent paycheck.

What finally broke me was the recipes. On July 1, I abandoned Google search and committed myself instead to Bing. I made it the default search mode in Chrome. Since then, for the most part, any time I've asked the internet a question, Bing has answered. But also an earnest attempt to figure out how the other half--or the other 6 percent overall, or 24 percent on desktop, or 33 percent in the US, depending on whose numbers you believe--finds their information online. The second-largest search engine by market share in the US, and one of the 50 most visited sites on the internet, according to Alexa rankings. I wanted to know how those people experienced the web, how much of a difference it makes when a different set of algorithms decides what knowledge you should see.

WHEN SOPHIA THE ROBOT first switched on, the world couldn't get enough. It had a cheery personality, it joked with late-night hosts, it had facial expressions that echoed our own. Here it was, finally -- a robot plucked straight out of science fiction, the closest thing to true artificial intelligence that we had ever seen. There's no doubt that Sophia is an impressive piece of engineering. It didn't take much to convince people of Sophia's apparent humanity -- many of Futurism's own articles refer to the robot as "her."

In India over 50,000 jobs in the Data Science and Machine Learning space are vacant, for want of skilled professionals, finds a state of the industry report by ed-tech platform, Great Learning. This is despite the rapidly growing demand for Data Science professionals in India; with the number of job postings and job seeker interest for'Data Scientist' reaching an all-time high in 2017. The job market in this space is heavily tilted towards job seekers, with twice the number of jobs, than available talent. The report is based on a study of 28000 participants across 3000 organizations in India. According to Gartner, out of 10 lakh registered companies in India, 75% have invested or are going to invest in Machine Learning and Data Science.

In an excerpt published in the Times of London over the weekend, he's funny and optimistic, even as he warns us that artificial intelligence is likely to …

Artificial intelligence has been the hot topic in the information technology arena since quite some years.

Our company's focus clearly is on digital and improving cost services with the help of artificial intelligence and automation," Parekh told reporters here.