Amper is one of several AI music services Southern is working with on the album, which will debut later this year. Southern has only basic piano skills, so she turned to the program to deliver the instrumental part of the song. "In a funny way, I have a new song-writing partner who doesn't get tired and has this endless knowledge of music making," Southern told CNN Tech. Southern still worked with a producer on her vocals, but the rest of the song relied on Amper's software.

The rise in average sea level is predicted to double by 2100, putting hundreds of cities and millions of people at ever greater risk from the devastating effects of flooding. In 2016, flood damage in the Paris region cost an estimated €1 billion, so for this and many other cities, finding new and better ways to protect the property, infrastructure, and lives of their citizens is a race against time. Supported by the AXA Research Fund, Dr. Vazken Andréassian is working to improve the forecasting of floods in order to build more resilient cities. His research is using a wide range of data to better calibrate flood models to more accurately simulate the impact a flood wave will have on a city. This provides the basis of an early warning system for when and where flooding will happen, providing people with the most valuable defence against flood damage – time to act.

Do you hear the clunking sounds? Those are robots marching to take your job and put you on the brink of grim unemployment survival. Before you start frantically examining your job description, let's figure out what's going on. Even if you are the one who bothers to read the copy that follows the headlines, succumbing to alarmist stories is not hard to do, even for Huffington Post readers. Reporters often fail to explain exactly what stands behind the numbers. The most quoted study that estimates jobs susceptible to automation is the work by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne (so-called FO) The Future of Employment published in 2013 by Oxford University. This scientific research conducted four years ago still serves as the foundation of many predictions to render them more academically credible. And yes, it's them who estimated 47 percent.

Publishers are running into a wall with so-called native ads. Once seen as the panacea for declining digital ad rates, these ads that are designed to mimic editorial content have turned out to be costly to make and distribute and hard to scale, which makes them a tough sell with advertisers and also eats into publishers' profit margins. Meanwhile, marketers are also getting more comfortable sidestepping publishers, creating branded content on their own and distributing it themselves. The Washington Post is trying to solve the problem with artificial intelligence. It built an ad product called Own that lets brands use their own content but promises to improve its chances of being seen and read (or watched) with the aid of Heliograf, a news-writing bot the Post built for the editorial side.

The Internet of Things is changing so many aspects of our daily lives that's it's almost hard to keep up. While many of these changes seem small, when you take them all together, it becomes clear that we are on the verge of a monumental shift in how we work, play, and manage simple, everyday tasks. In fact, thanks to technology and the IoT, it won't be long before many of the items that we use on a regular basis will become obsolete. Consider these items that are not too far away from going the way of the dinosaur. In fact, according to a Gallup poll, only about 24 percent of Americans use cash to make most or all of their purchases.

With just one week to go before Apple finally unveils its highly anticipated iPhone 8, a video has emerged on Reddit that claims to show the device. It comes after months of rumours about Apple's next smartphone, ranging from an all-screen display to a 3D facial recognition sensor. The short clip appears to confirm several rumours, including a near-edgeless display and virtual home button. The video of the alleged device was posted on Reddit this week by a user called horryshiet, along with the caption'Alleged working iPhone 8.' It shows small bezels and a cutout space at the top that will feature the front-facing camera and speaker. Techradar notes the cutout at the top of the display doesn't look to be symmetrical suggesting it may be a fake Several people in the Reddit thread have also questioned the video.

Pro image editing tools like Adobe Photoshop are vital in the creative world, but let's face it: not everyone can justify paying $10 or more per month, every month, just to get more than rudimentary tools. You may not have to in the near future, though. The Pixelmator team is previewing Pixelmator Pro, an upgraded version of its long-serving (and historically more affordable) Mac app geared toward serious creatives. The editor promises many of the features you'd expect in a high-end app, and a little bit beyond -- there's even a dash of AI-like technology involved. The software is non-destructive (that is, you can always reverse changes), with a heavily revamped interface that merges everything into a single pane.

Tribune Publishing, a storied icon of American journalism, recently renamed itself Tronc and released a video to show off a new "content optimization platform," that Malcolm CasSelle, Tronc's chief technology officer, claims will be "the key to making our content really valuable to the broadest possible audience" through the use of machine learning. As a marketing ploy the move clearly failed. Instead of debuting a new, tech-savvy firm that would, in the words of chief digital officer Anne Vasquez, be like "having a tech startup culture meet a legacy corporate culture," it came off as buzzword-laden and naive. The internet positively erupted with derision. Yet what I find even more disturbing than the style is the substance.

The Tesla founder spoke about his fears after Vladimir Putin claimed that the nation which controls artificial intelligence will come to rule the world. On Twitter, Musk wrote: "China, Russia -- soon all countries with strong computer science. The development of killer computers would give any nation a clear edge over its competitors. Artificial intelligence could be used to command fleets of drones or battalions of killer robots, while responding to threats at speeds much faster than any human could manage, The Sun reports. The race to develop artificial intelligence could spark World War Three, according to Elon Musk. But there's a risk that a super-smart AI could go rogue and launch genocidal attacks without being constrained by human conscience and empathy. Musk said that it may actually be the AI itself that launches the next World War. He added: "[WW3] May be initiated not by the country leaders, but one of the AI's, if it decides that a pre-emptive strike is most probable path to victory." Nick Bostrom, head of the University of Oxford's Future Of Humanity Institute, recently claimed that we may have just 50 years to save ourselves from artificial intelligence. Competition to build a machine that's as clever as humans will be fierce in the coming decades, with considerable rewards on offer for the nation which manages to pull off the historical feat of achieving "machine intelligence". But the scrabble to create this silicon-powered mind could lead to mistakes with disastrous consequences, according to The Sun. "There is a control problem," Bostrom said. Killer robots, or lethal autonomous weapons, should be banned because of the potential scale of destruction and ability to be hacked, industry leaders say. "If you have a very tight tech race to get there first, whoever invests in safety could lose the race.

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