Omron's table tennis robot is getting smarter. At this week's Ceatec electronics show in Japan, the company has unveiled a new version that uses machine learning to assess the strength of an opponent and ramp up its game accordingly. The robot, named Forpheus, was first shown at the event in 2014 to impressive reviews. A series of robotic arms manipulate a table tennis bat, guided by cameras that watch the ball and predict where it's going to land. Omron developed the robot to promote the company's sensor technology and this latest version is showing off some of what can be done when sensing combines with machine learning and artificial intelligence.

For actress/singer/director Connie Stevens, it's always been about "me and the girls" -- her actress daughters Joely and Tricia Leigh Fisher from her short-lived marriage to singer Eddie Fisher. "They've always been the light in my eye," said Stevens, 78. "And I have found the older I get, that's really what counts anyway." And her daughters, who were just toddlers when she divorced Fisher in 1969, went with her when she performed in Las Vegas or made a movie -- Eddie Fisher, who battled substance abuse for years, wasn't part of their lives when they were growing up. And it wasn't too long before the Fisher girls would join their mom on stage.

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

By integrating scalable human judgment into your analytics solution, you can augment your lower-confidence machine learning predictions with accurate labels, and these labels can be used as additional training data to help improve your model. In this session, we'll demonstrate how to build a real-world text analytics workflow using machine learning with humans in the loop.

As machine learning - the ability of computers to learn without being explicitly programmed - gets more mainstream and involved in our lives, here is how machines learn.

A supercomputer whirs away in London, crunching complex drug chemistries into deep learning algorithms to discover new medications. A few miles away, a DeepMind neural network scans millions of images from Moorfields Eye Hospital, searching for signs of eye disease. The application casually asks if you still have that headache from yesterday and if you'd like to book a doctor's appointment for tomorrow. Of all the fields that artificial intelligence will disrupt in the coming years, healthcare may see the greatest paradigm shift. AI's influence in the industry will be deep and broad.

Windows has a feature it doesn't like to talk about. While the OS lets you scrawl notes with a stylus, log in with you face (or secure the Web) via Windows Hello, and even order Cortana to set a reminder, what it's not so eager for you to do, apparently, is use its speech recognition engine to issue commands or take voice dictation. The reason for its silence may go back 10 years, to when Microsoft product manager Shanen Boettcher demonstrated voice dictation inside Windows Vista--and flubbed it. The technology kept a low profile after that, and today, few users know you can dictate a document within Windows. If there were ever a time for Windows to try again, though, it would seem to be now, when advances in computers and artificial intelligence provide a much better foundation for the technology.

WASHINGTON – With modern technology, people can watch hurricanes churn in real time and forecasts are on-target up to seven days in advance -- but experts say some puzzling storm traits are harder to solve. Using hurricane hunter aircraft, converted military drones, weather balloons and satellites that examine cyclones under various angles, "our observations are really telling us what is happening now," said Frank Marks, director of the Hurricane Research Division at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "And also those observations are phenomenally useful to improving our ability to predict," he told AFP. All the collected data are immediately transmitted to meteorologists and entered into computer models that produce forecasts at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida. Marks describes forecasts as simply "what we think might happen," saying experts' ability to make them has "improved dramatically for the last 35 years." When he began his career in 1980, forecasts could look ahead about two days.

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