"Mayo Clinic is embracing cognitive computing because we realize this technology is transformational and necessary for the continued evolution of health care delivery," says Nicholas F. LaRusso, M.D. Ask people what they know about Watson, IBM's cognitive computing system, and many might answer, "Didn't it cream those all-star contestants on Jeopardy a few years ago?" The answer is yes, it most certainly dealt Jeopardy champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter an ego-bruising defeat in 2011. So how did Watson do it? And how can this technology improve health care? Watson is artificial intelligence in action.

Child care is a hard job, but somebody, or something, has got to do it. Japanese researchers have developed androids to meet that need, which includes happily reading that fairy tale again and again and again. The androids, which were created by a team of education and robotics specialists at a research facility in Abiko, Chiba Prefecture, are part of a larger system called RoHo Care. Short for Robotic Hoikujo (day care center), RoHo is being touted as a high-tech solution to the staffing crisis that forced the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry to announce emergency measures this week. "I never thought I'd see this day, but we're now confident that RoHo could blaze a trail for child care worldwide," said team leader Makoto Hara.

The same day that Microsoft painted a vision of a future infused with helpful chatbots, you can already start planning trips with one--though it has nothing to do with the company that created Windows. Instead, Facebook announced that Dutch airline KLM would integrate with Messenger to deliver your confirmation message, boarding pass, and check-in reminders inside a single conversation thread. Messenger's KLM integration can also help you rebook flights and communicate with a live customer service representative. "Goodbye forgetting the combination of your frequent flyer alphanumerical number and password to obtain your boarding pass, and holding for a long time on the phone to change flights. This is a new day for all of us global travelers, and KLM is paving the way," Facebook's messaging chief David Marcus said in a post on the social network.

New wireless technology developed by researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab promises to kill the Wi-Fi password at last. Dubbed Chronos, the new system enables a single Wi-Fi access point to locate users to within tens of centimeters without relying on any external sensors. What that means is that it could figure out where people are in a home or office and adjust heating and cooling accordingly. It could also enable a small cafe to better restrict its free Wi-Fi to paying customers. Existing Wi-Fi devices don't have wide enough bandwidth to measure the "time of flight" of a signal from transmitter to receiver, or router to device, so typically a person's position can be determined only by triangulating multiple angles relative to the person from multiple access points.

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

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Over the past several years, graphics processing units (GPUs) have become the de facto standard for implementing deep learning algorithms in computer vision and other applications. GPUs offer a large number of processing elements, a stable and expanding ecosystem, support for standards such as OpenCL, and a wide range of intellectual property to develop applications rapidly. However, as the industry matures, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are now starting to emerge as credible competition to GPUs for implementing deep learning algorithms. A recently published paper from Microsoft Research garnered quite a bit of attention in the industry when it contended that using FPGAs could be as much as 10 times more power efficient compared to GPUs. Although the performance of FPGAs was much lower than GPUs, the FPGA used for comparison was a mid-range device, which left the door open for further lowering the power on FPGAs.

Over the past few years, Microsoft was licensing its Bing application programming interfaces to developers so they can incorporate things like search, maps and speech into their full-fledged apps. But going forward, Microsoft is trying to make the idea of extending apps with Bing's intelligence easier. The company is packaging up some of its Bing intelligence and delivering it to developers in the form of bots and a bot development framework. Microsoft officials showed off the company's new bot framework and newly available bots at its Build 2016 developers conference in San Francisco this week. While Microsoft recently had its own social-chat bot experiment -- a teen bot called Tay.ai -- go awry -- the company is pushing ahead with more productivity-centric bots.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is being rebuilt under CEO Satya Nadella, and the changes are not limited to innovations in cloud computing alone. The firm has engaged in high-tech research in artificial intelligence, and in extension, computer vision. Microsoft wants the blind not only to see, but also be able to perform other tasks that are currently done by different apps that target blind people. Most computer vision-based apps are geared towards enabling users to see their targets or results only. Should Microsoft successfully commercialize its research project, dubbed Seeing AI, not only will the computers see, but the blind will also view their own images.