A 30ft (9m) model of the Loch Ness Monster built for a Sherlock Holmes movie has been found almost 50 years after it sank in the loch. The beast was created for the Billy Wilder-directed The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, starring Sir Robert Stephens and Sir Christopher Lee. It has been seen for the first time in images captured by an underwater robot. Loch Ness expert Adrian Shine said the shape, measurements and location pointed to the object being the prop. The robot, operated by Norwegian company Kongsberg Maritime, is being used to investigate what lies in the depths of Loch Ness. VisitScotland and Mr Shine's The Loch Ness Project, which gathers scientific information on the loch's ecology and the potential for a monster, is supporting the survey.

As robotics and 3-D printing technologies become more accessible to home tinkerers, men are (of course) building robots of beautiful women. Anyone who's turned on a TV in the past decade shouldn't be surprised to learn that one of the first--and creepiest--examples of this development involves movie star Scarlett Johansson. News broke on Friday about a Hong Kong designer who made a robot that looks just like the award-winning actress--although Ricky Ma, the robot's creator, wouldn't name the actress he modeled the bot on, choosing instead to call it Mark 1. It took Ma eighteen months and over 50,000 to complete the project, which he constructed on his patio with a 3-D printer and software that he taught himself how to use. The question, however, is one of precedent.

You don't have to be a Go champion to have artificial intelligence change your game. You get in your car, and your Apple iPhone tells you what traffic looks like where you're going--before you ask. We're all on the road with Tesla's self-driving cars, which are redefining what driving means. The artificial intelligence calendar assistant Amy emails three of your friends to figure out a meeting time that works for everyone--and nails it. Thankfully, chatting with Amazon's Alexa is a lot more entertaining than, say, would be Hal, the fictional artificial intelligence from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

What if the computer algorithms could tell more compelling stories than journalists, writers or business analysts? Well, this is increasingly becoming a reality. A new generation of Big Data tools are being put to automate story telling. The ideas behind this application of analytics were first put to use generating automated news reports, covering sports and financial stories. Take the recent Wimbledon tennis championships as an example.

Chris Noonan's zesty, loveable story of a lonely piglet's path to acceptance and then glory at a bucolic farm remains a genuine example of that rare beast: the great family movie. In that sense, along with a gruff sheep dog (voiced by Hugo Weaving) and maddening sheep, it is a particularly Australian experience, even if the farming milieu has British overtones for an American audience. James Cromwell is the stoic farmer, with Magda Szubanski as a comic matriarch, but it's the old-fashioned filmmaking skills that make the wide circle of animals into engaging characters that supplies the standout performances. A brittle, telling invocation of masculinity told through the lens of near future science-fiction, Ex Machina thrusts humble programmer Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) into the physically and mentally isolated world of Nathan (Oscar Isaac), his code savant boss who has retreated into the lab to create an artificial intelligence. The result is Ava (Alicia Vikander), a mix of moulded polymers and glowing cable shaped into a female form but rightly possessed of otherworldly instincts.

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The initial collection on Megapixl.com is curated based on editor's feedback and customer behaviors that rate images and place them within certain ranks in the collection. Once the site is launched, the machine learning platform will take gathered user data into account and offer refinements to the Dreamstime.com Content on the site includes photos, vector art, and video content representing several categories including abstract, business, people, editorial, 2D & 3D Animation, Video Production Elements, Technology, and Travel. "By launching MegaPixl we give users access to an incredible collection that is curated by humans and then further improved and customized by machine learning tools that learn past behaviors to make dynamic recommendations," said Serban Enache, CEO and co-founder, Dreamstime. "The initial collection on Megapixl is already curated because we've accounted for user's actions so we know how images will be rated and placed within the collection. Megapixl is designed as a first stop for designers because we are effectively using the designer community to help itself by basing the collection on designer behaviors. Users will come to the site to find the right image quickly – giving them more time to focus on their designs."

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg shows how developers can bring Facebook Live to other products, like drones at F8 conference. SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook's Live initiative is now open to outside developers, a move that will bring outside products to your Facebook news feed with live mobile broadcasting. Appearing at the F8 conference for developers, Facebook co-founder Zuckerberg said live mobile streaming within the Facebook app has worked out very successfully for TV stars, in particular. "Many of them have bigger audiences on Facebook than they do on their TV shows," he said. By opening to developers, companies like Buzzfeed, Tastemade and drone maker DJI can live stream directly to Facebook news feeds.

For nearly 60 episodes, one question has persisted through What's Tech: what is happening in the ending of Steven Spielberg's 2001 sci-fi film A.I. Artificial Intelligence? To settle the question once and for all, I invited my friend and artificial intelligence expert, Sam Byford, to appear on the show. Sadly, as you will hear me learn, Sam Byford is in expert in actual artificial intelligence, not the film Artificial Intelligence. Truth is, he's never even seen the film. This is still one of my favorite episodes of What's Tech, as Byford shares what it was like to attend the recent match-up of human Go champion Lee Se-dol and artificial intelligence AlphaGo.

You don't have to be a Go champion to have artificial intelligence change your game. You get in your car, and your Apple iPhone tells what traffic looks like where you're going--before you ask. We're all on the road with Tesla's self-driving cars, which are redefining what "driving" means. The artificial intelligence calendar assistant Amy emails three of your friends to figure out a meeting time that works for everyone--and nails it. Thankfully, chatting with Amazon's Alexa is a lot more entertaining than, say, with Hal, the fictional artificial intelligence from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.