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Today SogetiLabs launches its first report on a new wave of automation: Machine Intelligence. As part of a series of four, SogetiLabs Research Institute VINT, explores this Next Big Thing in IT. The idea that an artificial brain could compete with that of humans lives for many years. In 2016, it's exactly sixty years ago computer scientist John McCarthy suggested to work on Artificial Intelligence (AI) with ten men for two summer months on the campus of Dartmouth College. And now there's this excitement in the market: after decades of working on concepts, the tools finally are ready to realize that vision.

Here's a quick one for review in case you guys weren't aware of the many brilliant options the market has provided to help your clients sell stuff. This depressing message comes to us via a PR agency that obviously can't tell the difference between "advertising" and "ad tech" but works with clients offering a "sharing economy" solution to those companies' most pressing needs. Here's the pitch in full except for the "do you want to schedule an interview?" Take Uber and Airbnb for example, which own no cars or real estate. The shared economy is growing.

Computers generated a great deal of excitement in the 1950s when they began to beat humans at checkers and to prove math theorems. In the 1960s the hope grew that scientists might soon be able to replicate the human brain in hardware and software and that "artificial intelligence" would soon match human performance on any task. In 1967 Marvin Minsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who died earlier this year, proclaimed that the challenge of AI would be solved within a generation.

An app being made by DeepMind, the Google-owned AI company, working in collaboration with the NHS Royal Free Trust in London and being used to help identify hospital patients who might be at risk of acute kidney disease (AKI) is not currently in use, TechCrunch has learned. The collaboration between the tech giant and a portion of the UK's publicly funded health service has drawn criticism for the breadth of patient data being used to power an app which targets a single medical condition. DeepMind and the Royal Free have also been criticized for not approaching the UK's medicines and healthcare devices regulator, the MHRA, prior to using the Streams app in hospitals. The MHRA is responsible for standards of safety, quality and efficacy for healthcare products, which can include software apps. It has emerged that DeepMind and the Royal Free Trust are now in discussions with the MHRA over whether the Streams app needs to be registered as a medical device.

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

Every year, Google shows off its latest efforts at Google I/O. The annual developer's conference is the place where the public first hears about the next version of Android, new features of Google's platform and services, new VR stuff, new artificial intelligence products… actually, you can expect just about anything, given the company's penchant for the weird and the surprising. Years past, I/O has been held in San Francisco's Moscone Center, a typical indoor conference space--the same room where Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone. This year, Google has moved its big show to Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California. Situated about 40 minutes south of San Francisco (and right in Google's own backyard), Shoreline is a 19,000-ish capacity live music venue.

From robotics to virtual reality technologies to 3-D printers, advanced, cutting-edge technology was on display at this year's Educational IT Solutions Expo, which kicked off Wednesday in Tokyo's Koto Ward. The seventh such expo, this year's event featured a special section to showcase "the learning of the future" for the first time. Some 50 companies are using the opportunity to display what they believe the future of education will look like with advancements in new information technologies. The highlight of the expo is programming education, as the education ministry is working to incorporate computer programming into the curriculum of all public elementary schools by 2020. Lego Japan Ltd., which has been involved in programming education for 15 years, showcased the WeDo 2.0 robotics kit for elementary school students.

Queen Elizabeth II donned an ermine-trimmed robe and diamond-studded crown Wednesday to announce government promises to put Britain at the cutting edge of technology and social progress in the 21st century. Plans for prison reform, a sugar tax and commercial spaceports were among 21 bills announced in the Queen's Speech, an annual tradition that mixes lavish pomp and modern politics. Prime Minister David Cameron called it a "progressive, one-nation" program, but some measures are sure to meet resistance -- and next month's referendum on European Union membership is casting a shadow over the government's plans. The annual State Opening of Parliament is steeped in centuries-old symbolism of the power struggle between Parliament and the British monarchy. In a display of regal wealth and finery, the queen traveled from Buckingham Palace in the horse-drawn Diamond Jubilee State Coach, and delivered the speech -- written for her by the government -- wearing the Imperial State Crown, studded with 3,000 diamonds.

THE best manufacturers used to be the firms that made the best widgets. As the "internet of things" spreads to the factory floor, products are being packed with ever more sensors and connected to the internet. That is transforming manufacturing--and the mindset that firms need to succeed. The first shift is from products to services. By one estimate the number of wirelessly connected products in existence (excluding smartphones or computers) will rise from 5 billion today to 21 billion by 2020.