A drone has successfully delivered a package to a residential location in a small Nevada town in what its maker and the governor of the state said Friday was the first fully autonomous urban drone delivery in the U.S. Flirtey CEO Matt Sweeney said the six-rotor drone flew about a half-mile along a pre-programmed delivery route on March 10 and lowered the package outside a vacant residence in an uninhabited area of Hawthorne, southeast of Reno. The route was established using GPS. A pilot and visual observers were on standby during the flight but weren't needed, Sweeney said. He said the package included bottled water, food and a first-aid kit. "Conducting the first drone delivery in an urban setting is a major achievement, taking us closer to the day that drones make regular deliveries to your front doorstep," Sweeney said.

The bot was designed to learn by talking with real people on Twitter and the messaging apps Kik and GroupMe. But the well-intentioned experiment quickly descended into chaos, racial epithets, and Nazi rhetoric. Tay started out by asserting that "humans are super cool." But the humans it encountered really weren't so cool. And, after less than a day on Twitter, the bot had itself started spouting racist, sexist, anti-Semitic comments.

Google has announced that it will embed machine learning into its cloud to help developers build smarter applications with their data. Cloud Machine Learning will take the technology currently used for Google Now, Google Photos and voice recognition in Google Search, allowing scientists and developers to build machine learning models using the company's open-source TensorFlow software library. Fausto Ibarra, director of product manager for Google Cloud Platform, said: "Hundreds of different big data and analytics products and services fight for your attention as it's one of the most fertile areas of innovation in our industry. "This is an area where Google Cloud Platform has invested almost two decades of engineering, and today we're announcing some of the latest results of that work." The tool will be compatible with multiple data formats, and will be fully integrated with Cloud Platform products including Google Cloud Dataflow, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Dataproc, Google Cloud Storage, and Google Cloud Datalab. Music streaming service Spotify recently moved its infrastructure to Google's Cloud Platform, having previously relied on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Google plans to open 12 new datacentres in a push to catch up with rivals such as AWS and Microsoft Azure. "The Cloud Platform team is super excited about 2016.

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Alphabet's (GOOGL) executive chairman Eric Schmidt today made his pitch for how cloud computing will move forward, predicting that "the next great IPOs in five years from now" will be built on machine learning, technology that lets a computer algorithm analyze patterns to come up with new approaches to information. Schmidt, speaking at the company's cloud developer conference, "GCP: Next," was welcomed onstage by the company's cloud executive, Diane Greene. Schmidt said today's infrastructure software, things such as virtual machines and "containers," would become passé in years to come, just like the choke in cars from the 1960s. Instead, he said, companies would build businesses as big as Uber by combining machine learning with "crowd-sourced" data gathered from people. "This will be as big a platform as the app revolution was," said Schmidt.

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For any cloud to be taken seriously, it has to meet an ever rising bar of features. Machine learning seems to be on that list, as all the major cloud providers now feature it. But how they go about doing it is another story. Aside from the "curated API vs. open-ended algorithm marketplace" models, there are the "everything and then some vs. just enough" variants. Here's how the four big cloud providers -- IBM, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon -- stack up next to each other in machine learning. When IBM first announced it would turn its Watson AI system into a consumable service, the questions piled up.

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A man walks at the Samsung Electronics' headquarters in Seoul January 7, 2015. Samsung wants to use some of its US 61 billion (RM246 billion) in cash and equivalents to help it morph into more of a software-driven company, executive vice president Rhee In Jong said in an interview. The South Korean consumer-electronics giant also is spending more to develop its own services because the global market for gadgets is saturated and can't be counted on for significant revenue growth, he said. "We are actively looking for M&A targets of all sorts in the software area," said Rhee, who runs the mobile division's research-and-development business. "We are open to all possibilities, including artificial intelligence. Intelligence is no longer an option -- it is a must."

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