EdTech runs four or five years behind TechCrunch headlines. Accordingly, hot topics in tech this year–AI, robotics, VR, wearables–will become widespread in education in a few years. Makerspaces and online learning are both expected to be widely adopted by schools in one year's time or less to encourage students to take ownership of their education by creating and provide them with ubiquitous access to digital tools, discussion forums, rich media and more. The time to adopt for robotics and virtual reality are estimated within two to three years, while artificial intelligence and wearable technology are expected to be mainstream in schools within four to five years. Horizon Report is published by CoSN, the association of district EdTech professionals, and the New Media Consortium.

Humans have been interested in building intelligent computer systems since the beginning of computing technology. There's something both interesting and strange about mimicking the function of a human brain that we feel the need to explore -- how crazy is it to build a machine that can beat out the human brain in a game of chess? Of course, as applied to today's chatbots, artificial intelligence is still in its infancy. But don't take that the wrong way: Today's bots can still offer a great deal of utility for businesses and consumers. Messaging platforms like Facebook Messenger, WeChat, and Kik are making it easier than ever for brands and businesses to have a presence where millions of users are already spending time.

We'll tell you how to make the most of your money but also why money is not an end in itself and connecting financial goals to your life goals is really what you should be doing. Of course we will also still continue to provide tips for investors, business ideas for businessmen and comments on the economy, markets, companies, financial products, and trends. Have you heard of chatbots? It's an artificial intelligence computer programme that can engage you in a voice or text conversation. Chatbots can answer your questions, book a flight for you and even search for a property you like.

We've all enjoyed the simple benefits of Google's artificial intelligence photo recognition. Google Photos employs a very stripped down version of the algorithm to identify pictures as containing cats, dogs, food, or specific people. However, the search giant has been working on much more advanced photo recognition capabilities, and today they've released their progress to developers. The Google Research Blog reports that the Google Brain team's AI image captioning system has achieved a 93.9 percent accuracy rating. Their results in 2014 used the Inception V1 image classification model and achieved 89.6 percent accuracy.

Simply hit the Internet for business domain and within a few minutes, you are sure to find yourself submerged in a pool of articles and blogs talking about how AI (Artificial Intelligence) is set to reshape the business world. Yes, AI has been grabbing a lot of attention these days. In fact, a lot of HR centric write-ups and blogs talk about Artificial Intelligence and people management. AI that we all know is a technology capable to perform a plethora of intellectual tasks that humans can perform. Though the optimal application of this technology is light years away, there have been some extraordinary advancements in recent AI research and developments.

Scientists at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris have released Daddy's Car, a song written by Artificial Intelligence in the style of The Beatles. To our ears it sounds more like a power pop band influenced by The Beatles than The Beatles themselves, but it's certainly very melodic, with key changes and harmony vocals that conjure up the sprit of Abbey Road if not the precise sound. The scientists started by creating a database of 13,000 leadsheets (a form of musical notation that lists the basic elements of popular songs). Then they created a new leadsheet in the style of The Beatles using a tool called Flow Composer, a piece of software that allows users to create new tunes based on previously logged melodies.

From the David Lynch-esque pastiche of Virginia to Nintendo's first Mario iOS game Super Mario Run, these are some of the biggest and most interesting games for consoles, computers and mobile devices due this fall--in order of release. The fourth entry in word-wizarding studio inkle's magnificent fantasy is also its last, though you needn't have played the prior three to ease in comfortably here. Boasting "tens of thousands of choices" and a tale that "rewrites itself around your actions," now's as good a time as any to introduce yourself to this superlative narrative romp from the developer of 80 Days (TIME's game of the year 2014). If you love David Lynch, you have to play newcomer Variable State's Virginia--it's really that simple (read TIME's review here). It's a "walking simulator," sure, but unlike any yet drafted, framing its mysteries in strictly visual terms, without audio logs or text dumps or even the grounding cadences of spoken dialogue.

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

Microsoft has revealed that Altera FPGAs have been installed across every Azure cloud server, creating what the company is calling "the world's first AI supercomputer." The deployment spans 15 countries and represents an aggregate performance of more than one exa-op. The announcement was made by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and engineer Doug Burger during the opening keynote at the Ignite Conference in Atlanta. The FPGA build-out was the culmination of more than five years of work at Microsoft to find a way to accelerate machine learning and other throughput-demanding applications and services in its Azure cloud. The effort began in earnest in 2011, when the company launched Project Catapult, the R&D initiative to design an acceleration fabric for AI services and applications. The rationale was that CPU evolution, a la Moore's Law, was woefully inadequate in keeping up with the demands of these new hyperscale applications.

Humanity has a major food problem. The world's population is expected to increase significantly over the next three decades, but our capacity for food production will struggle to keep pace. Although global fertility rates are actually falling, a general increase in life expectancy will mean a steady increase in headcount during our lifetimes. One 2015 UN DESA report claims the world's population will hit 9.7 billion by 2050 – an increase of some 2.3 billion over today. Of course, a general rise in life expectancy reflects a higher standard of living for more of the world, which is cause for celebration.