A massive school of fish in the ocean forms a fascinating natural sight. But for sharks, they become breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A vacationer with a drone camera captured a scene fit for a horror movie: a group of sharks, also known as a shiver, feasting on a school of menhaden fish off the coast of New York's Hamptons, one of the most famous vacation spots in the United States. Gregory Skomal, a senior scientist with Massachusetts Marine Fisheries, says sharks often feed on large schools like this, even off popular vacation spots like the Hamptons. "Sharks' travel patterns in the area are well documented, and include regularly feeding on large schools of fish," he said.

This Is My Jam: Data Dump Andreas Jansson, Colin Raffel, and Tillman Weyde 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference Late Breaking and Demo Papers, 2015.

Last month at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference, Google showed off an algorithm capable removing watermarks from photos. Using neural networks, researchers in the company's artificial intelligence lab could train an algorithm to identify recurring visual patterns in a watermark (the sans-serif type in Shutterstock's logo, or the dense logomark of Adobe Stock, for instance) and automatically strip them from an image. To anyone who produces or sells stock photography, this was troubling news--watermarks have since the early 1990s provided the first line of defense against the theft of unlicensed photos. Granted, anyone with serious Photoshop skills can eliminate a watermark in about an hour. Google didn't set out to undermine stock photo companies.

Baidu, the dominant Chinese internet search operator that's trying to recast itself as a leader in artificial intelligence, will provide its technology to …

Imagine a time in the not-too-distant past, when our consumption of media was entirely dictated for us – when we were forced to stay-in, so as not to miss our favourite show, or sit through hours of misguided programming waiting for that long-awaited movie to be broadcast. Today, this kind of scenario seems almost incomprehensible, thanks to the rapid emergence of new technology that has totally shifted the way we engage with entertainment. Now, we consume media when we want, where we want and how we want, essentially creating our own programming schedules in line with increasing time poverty. The downside of this of course is the extreme abundance of choice on offer – with approximately 120,000 movies alone to choose from, picking that perfect Friday night film has become a much more challenging undertaking. And so technology has once again had to adapt to fend off indecision. Artificial intelligence or machine learning is rapidly driving the evolution of a new era of media consumption, one in which choice is once again reduced, but this time in line with viewer demands and preferences.

While you might think that having sex behind your partner's back would count as cheating, it seems that many people don't think this is the case if the other'person' is a robot. A shocking new study has revealed that 40 per cent of Britons don't see sex with a robot as cheating. Despite this, one in three Britons said they would be'horrified' if one of their friends started a relationship with a robot, with 16 per cent saying they would try to convince them to abandon it. While you might think that having sex behind your partner's back would count as cheating, it seems that many people don't think this is the case if the other'person' is a robot. A shocking new study has revealed that 40 per cent of Britons don't see sex with a robot as cheating The new sex robot survey was commissioned by UK online streaming service, Now TV.

Juliette Belmonte is a Costa Rican-born American artist whose unusual portraits are festooned with with flowers and colourful shapes, giving her subjects a surrealist air. She works from a mobile studio in a Westfalia camper van while she travels up and down the Californian coastline. For the past 15 years, Belmonte has managed to make a living by doing art fairs and exhibiting in various art galleries. Since June 2013 her sales have doubled thanks to an online art marketplace called Artfinder. "They also go more quickly and reliably," she tells the Independent from the van on the way to the Sierra Nevada mountains with her dog, Hugo.

When Amazon first coined the strapline "Ask Alexa" for its virtual assistant, it couldn't have predicted the X-rated nature of some of the requests. "She" may boast an encyclopaedic knowledge, but research by consumer behaviour analysts Canvas8 reveals that some users are more interested in a virtual hook-up than fact finding. And she's not the only target: the equally smooth voice of Microsoft's Cortana is getting customers just as hot under the collar apparently. From perma-smiling avatars in traditionally female support roles, to hyper-sexualised "fembots" pandering to male fantasies, the female form is everywhere in techno-world - attractive, servile and at your command. A little more conservative, but just as eager to please, is virtual personal assistant Amy Ingram, the brainchild of New York start-up X.ai.

This originally appeared on x.ai by Josh Catone. In the classic 1980s dystopian sci-fi movie RoboCop, mortally wounded Detroit police officer Alex Murphy is reborn as a cyborg when his brain is implanted in a fully mechanical body. He comes back better and stronger than ever, so good at his job that later in the film, his fellow human officers go on strike to protest robots taking their jobs. RoboCop presents that classic image of a cyborg as a machine-augmented human. Being part man and part machine, Murphy melds the street smarts and instincts of a human officer with the strength, stamina, and durability of a machine to become a more effective cop.