"Microsoft Monday" is a weekly column that focuses on all things Microsoft. This week "Microsoft Monday" features news about the dual-screen pocketable Surface rumor, new LinkedIn features, the USB-C dongle for Surface devices, the Sets feature getting postponed, the Halo TV series and much more! According to documents leaked to The Verge, Microsoft is working on a dual-screen Surface device that could fit in your pocket. The device is currently codenamed Andromeda and it has been in development for at least two years. "It's a new pocketable Surface device form factor that brings together innovative new hardware and software experiences to create a truly personal and versatile computing experience," says the leaked internal documents.

Walt Disney Studios is developing humanoid robots to serve as stunt doubles in some of its latest blockbusters, which include the likes of Star Wars, Marvel and Pixar. Known as'stuntbots', the robots could also be used in live theatre shows at Walt Disney owned theme parks and resorts. Stuntronics are autonomous, self-correcting aerial performers capable of making on-the-go corrections during high-flying stunts to ensure they also land safely. The latest robots are being developed by Walt Disney Imagineering Research and Development in Los Angeles, California. Walt Disney Studios creates cinematic wonders such as Star Wars, Marvel and Pixar and uses a mixture of human actors, stunt doubles and CGI to bring them to life.

Fortnite's Season 5 is just around the corner. There appears to be plenty of Season 4 left, to be sure: there's a giant crack in the sky, interdimensional rifts on the ground and a whole lot of question marks about what this game has in store for the next 10 days. But even as we've got our eyes on those things, the community and developers are getting ready for Season 5, which means endless speculation on the theme and, when possible, a little bit of datamining. The datamining scene has gotten much more sophisticated since Season 4 began, and now every single update that Epic puts out is pulled apart by multiple entities until it gives up its every secret. Epic appears to have been countering this by misnaming things or avoiding putting them in, but there's only so much that you can do.

AI has an important role to play in the education industry, which also happens to be a lucrative and still–growing space. The global private tutoring market alone will be worth more than $102 billion by the end of this year, and public education offers an equally fruitful opportunity. AI-powered music tutoring app Tonara today announced the launch of its Tonaro 360 music tutoring service, along with a new music store. Throughout beta testing, music teachers reported up to a 68 percent increase in practice hours among students using Tonara 360. So how does it work?

Indian banks, including state-owned SBI and Bank of Baroda, have started deploying artificial intelligence (AI) in a big way to improve efficiency, detect human behaviour and reduce operational costs. State Bank of India, the India's largest lender, has SBI Intelligent Assistant (SIA) -- a smart chat assistant, evolved from the "cutting edge technology of artificial intelligence, that efficiently resolves queries of NRI customers, similar to that of a bank representative. The bank is also in the process of instituting an'Innovation Centre' that will explore how emerging technologies such as AI and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) can help in making internal banking processes more efficient. Another state lender Bank of Baroda has evolved an innovative concept by setting up of hi-tech digital branch equipped with advanced gadgets like artificial intelligence robot named Baroda Brainy and Digital Lab with free Wi-Fi services. "The Indian banking industry is on a rapid digital journey and has been adopting technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning which will reshape the future.

Blockbusting video game Halo is to be adapted into a 10-part live-action series, which will aim to succeed where a doomed film project and a poorly received web series failed. In an announcement, David Nevins, the president and CEO of premium cable network Showtime, creators of the show, said that it would focus on "an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant". It has struggled, however, when film-makers and TV executives have tried to adapt it for the screen. A mooted film was to be directed by Peter Jackson, Guillermo del Toro and then Neil Blomkamp, with a script from Ex Machina's Alex Garland, but it failed to materialise. Halo 4 followed a "TV structure" with daily mission episodes free to download for players.

Half the year has flown by and that brings us to the June edition of our popular series – the top GitHub repositories and Reddit threads from last month. During the course of writing these articles, I have learned so much about machine learning from either open source codes or invaluable discussions among the top data science brains in the world. What makes GitHub special is not just it's code hosting and social collaboration features for data scientists. It has lowered the entry barrier into the open source world and has played a MASSIVE role in spreading knowledge and expanding the machine learning community. We saw some amazing open source code being released in June.

Literature abounds on the use of ultrasound. The technology is applied to everything from peering at a fetus inside a body to helping to diagnose shock. However, it demands a fair amount of expertise and concentration to obtain correct measurements from ultrasound images and to interpret those images. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) adds to ultrasound a powerful layer that lets users gain critically needed information – especially when time is of the essence. When a patient arrives in the ER with symptoms characteristic of shock, the attending physician needs to act quickly.

WASHINGTON – Hey, did my congressman really say that? Is that really President Donald Trump on that video, or am I being duped? New technology on the internet lets anyone make videos of real people appearing to say things they've never said. Republicans and Democrats predict this high-tech way of putting words in someone's mouth will become the latest weapon in disinformation wars against the United States and other Western democracies. This technology uses facial mapping and artificial intelligence to produce videos that appear so genuine it's hard to spot the phonies.

Hey, did my congressman really say that? Is that really President Donald Trump on that video, or am I being duped? New technology on the internet lets anyone make videos of real people appearing to say things they've never said. Republicans and Democrats predict this high-tech way of putting words in someone's mouth will become the latest weapon in disinformation wars against the United States and other Western democracies. This technology uses facial mapping and artificial intelligence to produce videos that appear so genuine it's hard to spot the phonies.