How do you plan to kick off your summer this year? How do you plan to kick off your summer this year? If you're like me, you will attend the Starmus Festival Of Science And Arts in gorgeous Trondheim, Norway, between 18 – 23 June. The Starmus -- "stars" and "music" -- Science and Arts Festival was the brain child of astrophysicist Brian May, lead guitarist for the rock band Queen, and his dissertation advisor, Garik Israelian, an astrophysicist who led the team that discovered the first observational evidence that supernova explosions are responsible for the formation of stellar mass black holes. This festival is designed to bring together the sciences -- astronomy, physics, and the biological sciences -- with art, film, music and other performing arts, specifically to communicate science to the public.

It's hard to believe the first personal computer was introduced only 40 years ago. Captivated by the implications of this intelligent machine, the world began to speculate on the next big thing for IT. And while the idea of self-driving cars or the "smart" home seemed like science fiction back then, the future is now and these innovations are real. Fast forward to 2017 – technology is directly shaping how people live, work, and even think. State-of-the-art technology allows visions to become printed realities.

You've probably been hearing a lot about Google Home lately. Yes, it's the all-knowing oracle that tells you what's coming up your day is and fill the room with the sounds of whales if you so desire. But there's another Google Home you need to know about. It's an app that bears the same name, although it does way more than just work with your living room answer box. The Google Home app is essential because it does so many things, such as connecting to your physical Google Home device, finding apps for Chromecast, and giving you customization for what you get from the Google Assistant.

In 1945, Vannevar Bush published "As We May Think." In it he proposed a Memex, a massive microfilm storage device where users could navigate between documents to concepts throughout the database. His concept directly inspired the invention of hypertext by Ted Nelson and Douglas Engelbart. The hyperlinking that enables so much of our online experience-- such as this link regarding hypertext-- owes much to Bush's vision. What new media might arise as a result of advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

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From the next article, we will pick each algorithm, will describe the algorithm in very easy words, and then develop a machine learning application using that application from the scratch.

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The upcoming science fiction film MindGamers has an intriguing hook: 1,000 audience members are going to wear cognitive headbands to monitor their brain activity during a screening. And when it's over, researchers will go over the results of the "mass mind state" they gathered. It's apparently the first time such a large-scale collection of mind activity has been attempted, and it could potentially lead to new insights around human cognition. If you're in Los Angeles or New York City on March 28th, you can sign up to wear a headband on the film's site. You can also grab a ticket to watch the experience live in other locations via Fathom Events.

Netflix has announced new software that it hopes could save you cash while improving your viewing experience. The firm has been working on an improved method of delivering its content, which it hopes will be released in the next few months. The Dynamic Optimiser compression system will improve overall video quality while also reducing the amount of data used to access it - potentially presenting substantial savings on mobile data bills. Netflix's Dynamic Optimiser should improve overall video quality while also reducing the amount of data used to access it. The Dynamic Optimiser uses artificial intelligence to work out the complexity of the image being presented.