A drone is flown during a property inspection following Hurricane Harvey in Houston. The mass destruction brought on by Harvey has been a seminal moment for drone operators, proving that they can effectively map flooding, locate people in need of rescue and verify damage to speed insurance claims. A drone is flown during a property inspection following Hurricane Harvey in Houston. The mass destruction brought on by Harvey has been a seminal moment for drone operators, proving that they can effectively map flooding, locate people in need of rescue and verify damage to speed insurance claims. Tropical Storm Harvey disrupted at least 17 emergency call centers and 320 cellular sites, and it caused outages for more than 148,000 Internet, TV, and phone customers, according to the Federal Communications Commission.

SoftBank Group Corp. is getting ready to return to the overseas debt market for the second time in two months, after issuing $4.5 billion in subordinated notes in July. The Tokyo-based company headed by billionaire founder Masayoshi Son is accelerating deal-making around the world, and has been in discussions to combine its U.S. wireless operator Sprint Corp. with a potential partner. The SoftBank Vision Fund has also kicked off investments, with deals ranging from ride-sharing, co-working and robotics to agriculture, cancer detection and autonomous driving. SoftBank will hold investor calls on Sept. 8 for potential U.S. dollar, euro note sales, according to a person familiar with this offering, who is not authorized to speak publicly and asked not to be identified. The Japanese internet giant has mandated Deutsche Bank AG, Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley for the deal.

As part of the Scyfer acquisition announcement, Qualcomm laid out its research focus for artificial intelligence and machine learning, which is expected to play a larger role in upcoming generations of gadgets. Qualcomm already delivers artificial intelligence features on its latest smartphone chips, including technologies that help smartphone cameras recognize objects and detect surroundings to aid in better photo composition. Prototypes for President Donald Trump's border wall may be completed by Halloween. Here are three things Snap must show in its next earnings report to satisfy investors:(August 11, 2017) (Sign up for our free video newsletter here http://bit.ly/2n6VKPR) Here are three things Snap must show in its next earnings report to satisfy investors:(August 11, 2017) (Sign up for our free video newsletter here http://bit.ly/2n6VKPR) Miko Branch was deep asleep when her sister Titi woke her up to celebrate.

Let's see how to build a Telegram Bot which checks the emotions in your text with a quantitative approach through sentiment analysis. As already said, the weapon of choice is a Telegram Bot for the APIs ease of use, but any other programmable messenger system will work. A lot of companies offer a good text analysis API (IBM Watson, Google, Api.ai), but this time I decided to use Indico for the ease of use, the nice dashboard and mostly for the node module we can easily integrate in our webtask. We have a running bot, a running webtask which is not getting any message so far () and our AI ready to analyse our emotions and sentiments ().

You might not have, but Alexa did. Voice assistants have been successfully hijacked using sounds above the range of human hearing. Once in, hackers were able to make phone calls, post on social media and disconnect wireless services, among other things. Assistants falling for the ploy included Amazon Alexa, Apple's Siri, Google Now, Samsung S Voice, Microsoft Cortana and Huawei HiVoice, as well as some voice control systems used in cars. The hack was created by Guoming Zhang, Chen Yan and their team at Zhejiang University in China.

When someone gives you a good news and you reply with "great" maybe you are not exactly transmitting the happiest of the feelings, but you are happy, really. Lucky us, we live in the age of Artificial Intelligence and writing some code has never been so easy! Let's see how to build a Telegram Bot which checks the emotions in your text with a quantitative approach through sentiment analysis. As already said, the weapon of choice is a Telegram Bot for the APIs ease of use, but any other programmable messenger system will work. What really makes all interesting is the chance to build all this in a serverless architecture: thanks to Webtask.io, which offers an amazing environment, security (powered by Auth0) and serverless endpoints, our server side core will receive the message, send it to the our Text Analysis engine and prettify the answer in order to reply eventually with a nicely formatted response.

The team has developed an app called PupilScreen that uses video and a smartphone's camera flash to record and calculate how the pupils respond to light. Assessing head trauma due to, for example, sports injuries or a car crash is typically done with either a pupilometer -- rarely found outside of hospitals -- or a mix of subjective evaluations like balancing, repeating a list of words or visually examining a pupil's response with a flashlight. To create PupilScreen and provide an objective assessment of potential head trauma, the researchers used deep learning tools to train a neural network how to find the pupil of the eye and track how it responds to a flash of light over the course of three seconds. A smartphone camera records the three second video and the light is provided by the camera's flash.

Smartphone makers are betting on camera features to help their flagship devices stand out. Samsung launched its first dual-cameras on the Note 8, Sony introduced super slow-mo video-recording on its XZ Premium and XZ1 series, while LG equipped the V30 with a glass lens that boasts a wide f/1.6 aperture. But Huawei has chosen a different route. In lieu of a new phone, the company showed off its Kirin 970 chip at IFA 2017, calling attention to the chipset's AI capabilities. The Kirin 970 will power Huawei's next flagship phone, the Mate 10, which is set to launch at a separate October event in Munich.

The robotics project is separate from the PIF's agreement last year to invest up to $45 billion over five years in the Softbank Vision Fund, a technology-focused private equity fund established with the Japanese company and other big investors.

Huawei is increasingly optimistic about the future of artificial intelligence. At CES Asia 2017, Chief Operating Officer Wan Biao spoke to Digital Trends about the technology's growth, describing three key stages in AI's evolution: "Enable me, Know me, Be me." We're already into the beginnings of the "know me" stage, Biao said. "Be me" is still some time away, but despite its potential, that may be a good thing. Machines are already surpassing human intelligence, Biao said, and we're edging even closer to the prospect of a smart society -- where people and machines are one. This, combined with previous statements made by Huawei about artificial intelligence and the integration of machine learning into its smartphones, gives us a tantalizing glimpse of the smart future.