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Meet Atlas, designed by Boston Dynamics, funded by DARPA. You buy your kid a new toy, and a few weeks later, you find it tossed into a corner, forgotten and unloved. Well, something similar just happened at Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) -- although it took years, rather than weeks, to happen. Three years after buying itself probably the coolest robot company on Earth, Google has gotten bored -- and is selling Boston Dynamics. History is awesome Struck by the potential for building robots, and outfitting them with artificial intelligence, Google spent much of 2013 running around, frantically buying up robotics companies.

Volume of studies The amount of captured and stored medical images is increasing. As the quantity of images has gone up, so too has the amount of time it takes radiologists to review the data. Artificial intelligence in healthcare can take some of this work away from radiologists by processing images and scanning medical studies to quickly detect patterns or abnormalities that could be missed by the naked eye. The artificial intelligence system could then pass the results of its review to a radiologist for confirmation. Reporting and classification Natural language processing is another technology radiologists can use to assist them with documentation and reporting.

Artificial Intelligence continues to surprise and shock us. Last week, we saw that AI can be better than us at playing Go. This week, Microsoft's chatbot TayTweets showed us that machine learning can even produce AI's that are better at hate speech than we are. Microsoft promptly hit the killswitch on that one. This year's edition of TNW Conference in Amsterdam includes some of the biggest names in tech.

The six astronauts at the International Space Station got an early Easter treat this weekend with the arrival of a supply ship full of fresh food and experiments. Instead of the usual bunny, Saturday's delivery came via a swan -- Orbital ATK's Cygnus capsule, named after the swan constellation. The cargo carrier rocketed away from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday night. NASA astronaut Timothy Kopra used the station's big robot arm to grab the capsule, as the two craft soared 250 miles above the Indian Ocean. Four hours later, the capsule was bolted firmly to the complex.

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (APL) have successfully integrated control of their Modular Prosthetic Limb with a commercially available wearable. Using two Myo armbands - muscle-sensing wearables that are already capable of controlling PCs and drones - the wearer is able to perform muscle actions with their upper arm, which are detected by the armbands and wirelessly transmitted to a nearby computer. The computer then determines the movement that is being attempted and sends a signal to the prosthetic arm to complete the task. Using this system, the test subject was able to demonstrate individual finger control, simultaneous finger control, two degrees of freedom at the wrist, multiple grasps and complete simulated activities of daily living. The success of this system is due in large part to the attachment method of the prosthesis, known as osseointegration.

The first teaser trailer for the Netflix animated series "Voltron: Legendary Defender." Lauren Montgomery and Joaquim Dos Santos are the creative team behind Netflix's "Voltron: Legendary Defender." The mechanized lions of Voltron are roaring back to life. The popular 1980s cartoon fantasy franchise with one really cool giant robot is being introduced to a new generation with the Netflix's animated series Voltron: Legendary Defender. Produced by DreamWorks Animation, the first 13 22-minute episodes will drop on June 10.

This solution presents an example of using machine learning with financial time series on Google Cloud Platform. Time series are an essential part of financial analysis. Today, you have more data at your disposal than ever, more sources of data, and more frequent delivery of that data. New sources include new exchanges, social media outlets, and news sources. The frequency of delivery has increased from tens of messages per second 10 years ago, to hundreds of thousands of messages per second today.

Nearby in the lobby, a big-screen TV is flashing the words: Welcome back AlphaGo Team! But that is about as far as one can tell that the London company has just come home triumphant after making history last week by trouncing Go world champion Lee Se Dol with its supercomputer, AlphaGo. "Lee Se Dol is one of the greatest players of all time. IBM's Deep Blue took on world chess champion Garry Kasparov nearly 20 years ago and won, through sheer computational power.

Computer that beat Go champion has many applications, says its maker. A little chalkboard sits on the reception desk of DeepMind's office in London's gentrified King's Cross. On it is scrawled: AlphaGo - 4, Lee Sedol - 1. Nearby in the lobby, a big-screen TV is flashing the words: Welcome back AlphaGo Team! But that is about as far as one can tell that the London company has just come home triumphant after making history last week by trouncing Go world champion Lee Se Dol with its supercomputer, AlphaGo. Perhaps the team already knew they were going to win the best-of- five epic showdown between man and machine in Seoul.