On a spring afternoon in 2014, Brisha Borden was running late to pick up her god-sister from school when she spotted an unlocked kid's blue Huffy bicycle and a silver Razor scooter. Borden and a friend grabbed the bike and scooter and tried to ride them down the street in the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs. Just as the 18-year-old girls were realizing they were too big for the tiny conveyances -- which belonged to a 6-year-old boy -- a woman came running after them saying, "That's my kid's stuff." Borden and her friend immediately dropped the bike and scooter and walked away. But it was too late -- a neighbor who witnessed the heist had already called the police. Borden and her friend were arrested and charged with burglary and petty theft for the items, which were valued at a total of 80. Compare their crime with a similar one: The previous summer, 41-year-old Vernon Prater was picked up for shoplifting 86.35 worth of tools from a nearby Home Depot store. Prater was the more seasoned criminal. He had already been convicted of armed robbery and attempted armed robbery, for which he served five years in prison, in addition to another armed robbery charge. Borden had a record, too, but it was for misdemeanors committed when she was a juvenile.

'The difference between men and boys will be the brains of their toys'. Developer conference season is well underway and the central theme that is emerging is a focus on making Digital Life services smarter and more intuitive. This has implications for both services to consumers created by the ecosystem itself but also the possibility to make it much easier for businesses to communicate and service their clients. This article was first published on Radio Free Mobile.

The supercomputer originally designed to win a game show is now learning how to fight crime. IBM announced on Tuesday that Watson, its artificial intelligence system, will be training to enhance cybersecurity. Watson already has some impressive accomplishments (for a supercomputer). Despite being a cookbook author,"Jeopardy!" winner, and health-care pioneer, it's still facing a steep learning curve when it comes to cybercrime, said IBM. "Even if the industry was able to fill the estimated 1.5 million open cyber security jobs by 2020, we'd still have a skills crisis in security," Marc van Zadelhoff, general manager at IBM Security, said in a press release. "The volume and velocity of data in security is one of our greatest challenges in dealing with cybercrime."

It's been a busy few weeks for us here at Sentient. We were lucky enough to spend our afternoon chatting about the future of AI in retail at ShopTalk, then spent our evening talking about the AI with some of the brightest minds in the industry at WIRED. We'll have videos of both for everyone in the coming weeks, but wanted to share our co-founder Babak Hodjat's appearance at Collision earlier this month to give you a taste of the way we see AI at Sentient: At any rate, we've been racking up the frequent flier miles lately. And the next month and change is no different. Here are some of our upcoming speaking gigs.

To address this problem, Cogitai is committed to developing systems that learn continually from their experience. "Our continual-learning technology will allow computer systems to build knowledge and skills simply through interacting with the world around them," said Dr. Mark Ring, CEO of Cogitai. "Simple knowledge and skills gained through early experience will allow development of more complex knowledge and skills in a powerful cycle of never-ending self-improvement. Though this ambition has always been one of the major goals of AI, it has never been considered feasible in the near term by those knowledgeable in the field, but our team believes it sees a path toward this dream." "Our company will build upon decades of research in the fields of Reinforcement Learning and Deep Learning, harnessing recent progress, but going well beyond current technology to create systems that learn for themselves how the world works in ways reminiscent of how human children do," said Dr. Satinder Singh, Chief Scientist of Cogitai.

More and more, financial firms are turning to machines to do the job humans have done for decades. Last spring, wealth management firm Charles Schwab launched a new service called Schwab Intelligent Portfolios. The service is unique in that it's not a person who decides where to invest your money, it's an algorithm - lines of code programmed into a computer. "It's lower cost for the investor," says Tobin McDaniel, who leads the Schwab Intelligent Portfolios team. "As opposed to working with a traditional advisor where you might pay up to 1%, here you get portfolio management at essentially no management fee."

If the global professional services company has its way, digital workers may be just around the corner. Accenture has partnered with IT and business process automation company IPsoft to create artificially intelligent technology to perform a variety of tasks at enterprises worldwide. This new AI arm of Accenture is based on IPsoft's cognitive agent, Amelia, which IPsoft bills as "your first digital employee." Amelia, which uses natural language to communicate with customers "just like a human," can perform a host of service desk duties. This can include helping customers open new bank accounts, processing insurance claims and checking in patients at hospitals.

I really found interesting this bit from a recent Andreessen Horowitz a16z podcast that looked at Google I/O, Google's annual developer conference. Kyle: So Steven, yesterday Google announced quite a few different products and services, several cynical commenters on twitter came out with the idea that, "You know, hey, we've seen a lot of these things before, oh a computer you control with your voice in the home, a bot that you interact with to, you know, interact with different services. We've seen this before why is google showing all of this off now? None of this feels new." But you pushed back against that.

Three weeks ago, New Scientist revealed that Google's artificial intelligence company DeepMind has access to the identifiable personal medical information of millions of UK patients through a data-sharing agreement with the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. Now, a New Scientist investigation has found that Google DeepMind deployed a medical app called Streams for monitoring kidney conditions without first contacting the relevant regulatory authority. Our investigation also asks whether an ethical approval process that covers this kind of data transfer should have been obtained, and raises questions about the basis under which Royal Free is sharing data with Google DeepMind. DeepMind's partnership with the Royal Free provides it with fully identifiable information – including names, addresses and details of medical conditions – for the 1.6 million patients treated at Barnet, Chase Farm and the Royal Free each year. It also includes complete data on all patients treated by the trust in the past five years.

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