Your Fitbit (or whatever it is the activity-enlightened wear these days) can make a pretty good guess at how many calories you're burning through. And it can do it without any input from you. But if you want to keep track of how many you're putting in, you'll still need to do some work yourself, even if it's only choosing from a menu on an app. Inspired by that asymmetry, State University of New York at Buffalo computer scientist Wenyao Xu and colleagues at Northeastern University in China developed Autodietary, a necklace-like gadget that attempts to tell what you're eating. The device senses sounds from your neck to categorize your meal.

UPDATE Mar 12th 2016: AlphaGo has won the third game against Lee Sedol, and has thus won the five-game match. That was the score, as The Economist went to press, in the latest round of the battle between artificial intelligence (AI) and the naturally evolved sort. The field of honour is a Go board in Seoul, South Korea--a country that cedes to no one, least of all its neighbour Japan, the title of most Go-crazy place on the planet. To the chagrin of many Japanese, who think of Go as theirs in the same way that the English think of cricket, the game's best player is generally reckoned to be Lee Sedol, a South Korean. Mr Lee is in the middle of a five-game series with AlphaGo, a computer program written by researchers at DeepMind, an AI software house in London that was bought by Google in 2014.

In today's digital world, Machine Learning is changing our lives. From speech recognition for smartphones and self-driving cars, to facial recognition and real-time fraud detection, Machine Learning plays a crucial part in the groundbreaking AI powering today's technology. At AMAX, our award-winning Deep Learning Solutions are the key driver for today's most groundbreaking technologies. These solutions harness NVIDIA GPU technology to accelerate the development of complex neural nets, powering machine learning algorithms with unprecedented speed and accuracy. AMAX solutions include GPU workstations for Deep Learning development, and a powerful server featuring up to eight NVIDIA GPU cards for 56 TFlops of single precision performance.

"The fourth industrial revolution is unlike anything humankind has previously experienced. New technologies are merging the physical, digital and biological worlds in ways that create both huge promise and potential peril. The speed breadth and depth of this revolution is forcing us to rethink how countries develop, how organizations create value and even what it means to be human." We are living in an increasingly complex and uncertain world of constant change unlike anything in history. Advances in technology are outpacing implementation and these emerging technologies whilst presenting brilliant opportunities for a more positive world also present potentially detrimental threats.

Image Comics have a big June coming up. They are launching Midnight Of The Soul from Howard Chaykin, She Wolf from Rich Tommaso, an artist's roof edition of Injection, and the return of Frank Quitely to Mark Millar's Jupiter's Legacy for the second book…. The sequel to industry sales-beast JUPITER'S LEGACY is back and it boasts monthly FRANK QUITELY! Superhero offspring Hutch and Chloe have come out of hiding with son Jason to assemble a team of super-crooks from around the globe. It's 1950, and Joel Breakstone, former GI and liberator of Auschwitz, is seriously damaged goods.

Although the Google Photos app is only 10 months old, the service has already amassed more than 100 million monthly active users. The reason Google's cloud-based photo management software has gained so many users so quickly? It makes organizing photos dead easy. It automatically backs up all your images from all of your devices into one central location, plus it collects pictures of the same people or objects into groups, and helps you find images in your archive with text searches. No wonder it's already become an integral part of photo organization for so many people.

The Justice Department has charged three current or former members of the so-called Syrian Electronic Army for computer hacking-related conspiracies. The charges were unsealed Tuesday in the U.S. Eastern District Court of Virginia. Prosecutors allege that two Syrians, 22-year-old Ahmad Umar Agha and 27-year-old Firas Dardar, tricked email users to steal usernames and passwords to compromise government, media and private-sector computer systems. In April 2013 they allegedly tweeted from the Associated Press account on Twitter falsely claiming a bomb had exploded at the White House and injured the president. None of them are in custody.

Delivery drivers everywhere are set to be ousted by'ground drones' that can navigate city streets by themselves. Following trials in London, the US invasion is set to begin in Washington. Starship Technologies' delivery bots will begin trials this week, and claim they can deliver packages anywhere in the city in just half an hour. Unlike robots designed to resemble humans, the Starship's bot is purely functional with a large compartment to hold deliveries, the equivalent size of two grocery bags Unlike robots designed to resemble humans, the Starship's bot is purely functional with a large compartment to hold deliveries, the equivalent size of two grocery bags. Each six-wheeled'ground drone' is almost completely self-driving.

Each year a crazy thing happens. From around the country, and now increasingly around the world, a strange band of adventurers travels to Austin, Texas. It's hard to describe them, a mix of content creators, technologists, game designers, and consumer brands. They come to participate in South By South West (SXSW) Interactive. Don't be confused if you arrive and find yourself hanging out with filmmakers or musicians, as there are separate content tracks for film and music.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Nearly a decade after the iPhone broke the mould for mobile phones the question is now being asked whether the evolution of the smartphone has finally come to an end as even Apple now treats older, smaller 4-inch screens as something new. Industry experts believe innovation in smartphones is giving way to phone functions popping up as software or services in all manner of new devices from cars to fridges to watches and jewellery rather than remaining with handheld devices. And analysts and product designers said fresh breakthroughs are running up against the practical limits of what's possible in current smartphone hardware in terms of screen size, battery life and network capacity. "Everything in the phone industry now is incremental: slightly faster, slightly bigger, slightly more storage or better resolution," said Christian Lindholm, inventor of the easy text-messaging keyboards in old Nokia phones that made them the best-selling mobile devices of all time. The financial stakes are high as the futures of Apple, Google, and Microsoft, the world's three biggest listed companies at the end of last year, may turn on who gets the jump on making handsets redundant.