Uber-owned Otto partners with Anheuser-Busch to successfully test self-driving truck technology in Colorado. SAN FRANCISCO -- If you're sipping a Budweiser somewhere in Colorado Springs, you just might have a robot to thank for that thirst-quenching brew. Last week, self-driving truck start-up Otto teamed with Anheuser-Busch to successfully deliver a semi-tractor full of beer from Fort Collins, through Denver and on to the southern Colorado city in the shadow of Pikes Peak. For the majority of that 120-mile trip, the truck's driver left his seat and observed the road from the comfort of the sleeper berth. An Otto video of the drive shows the slightly disconcerting image of a massive 53-foot trailer filled with 2,000 cases of Bud rumbling down I-25 with no human in the cab.

Uber-owned Otto partners with Anheuser-Busch to successfully test self-driving truck technology in Colorado. SAN FRANCISCO -- If you're sipping a Budweiser somewhere in Colorado Springs, Colo., you just might have a robot to thank for that thirst-quenching brew. Last week, self-driving truck start-up Otto teamed with Anheuser-Busch to successfully deliver a semi-tractor full of beer from Fort Collins, through Denver and on to the southern Colorado city in the shadow of Pikes Peak. For the majority of that 120-mile trip, the truck's driver left his seat and observed the road from the comfort of the sleeper berth. An Otto video of the drive shows the slightly disconcerting image of a massive 53-foot trailer filled with 2,000 cases of Bud rumbling down I-25 with no human in the cab.

AliveCor, the leader in FDA-cleared mobile electrocardiogram (ECG) technology for mobile devices, announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to utilize AliveCor's unique measurement technology to unlock previously hidden health indicators in ECG readings. These indicators have the potential to not only improve heart health but also overall health care for a variety of conditions. AliveCor provides the first consumer-ready, clinically validated and FDA-cleared ECG to give patients a more complete view of their heart health, improve proactive monitoring and create a new standard of cardiac care. By using AliveCor's deep machine learning capabilities applied to 10 million of its user ECG recordings, Mayo Clinic and AliveCor will work together to uncover hidden physiological signals to improve heart and overall human health. "Mayo Clinic has pioneered new approaches that may uncover significant measures of physiology that have been hidden in individuals' ECGs," said Vic Gundotra, CEO, AliveCor.

On the morning of September 1, just before a routine pre-flight ignition test, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded. In an instant, the 277 foot-tall space vehicle and its 200 million satellite cargo disappeared into a ball of flames. SpaceX has been fairly mum with details on what went wrong last month on Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral. But, considering it is SpaceX's second launch failure in 15 months, the explosion is a more tangible measure of the company's future than its highly-publicized (and hypothetical) plan to settle Mars. On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the problem may have been operational--rather than a manufacturing or design flaw of the rocket itself.

Uber-owned Otto partners with Anheuser-Busch to successfully test self-driving truck technology in Colorado. Otto, the self-driving truck startup bought by Uber, recently teamed with Anheuser-Busch to successfully deliver a truck-load of beer to Colorado Springs without involvement from a driver for the highway stretches of the 120-mile trip. SAN FRANCISCO -- If you're sipping a Budweiser somewhere in Colorado Springs, Colo., you just might have a robot to thank for that thirst-quenching brew. Last week, self-driving truck start-up Otto teamed with Anheuser-Busch to successfully deliver a semi-tractor full of beer from Fort Collins, through Denver and on to the southern Colorado city in the shadow of Pikes Peak. For the majority of that 120-mile trip, the truck's driver left his seat and observed the road from the comfort of the sleeper berth.

Today's IT leaders are facing a world of unknowns and underlying fears on a daily basis - from the ransomware that could take down their organizations, to the emergence of new digital disruptors that could render their business obsolete, to the absence of quality IT talent they need to stay ahead of these and other threats. Although scary, it is comforting to know that you are not alone. We asked 13 IT leaders to share their stories of unexpected or frightening events in their career, or the threats on the horizon making them nervous for the future of IT. "A Fortune 500 company had an estimated 500,000 boxes of business records stored with both physical records management vendors and at the company's locations throughout the United States. They pay 2 million per year in box storage alone, but they have no idea what is in the hardcopy business records; the boxes are the'unindexed unknowns.' There is likely a significant risk for PII and PCI given the industry the organization is in. Presently, the company does not have the internal bandwidth nor financial appetite to locate, index, and digitize all of the paper records, thus leaving them extremely vulnerable to a breach."

Further, we are happy to see the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) involved in all three White House documents. Creating the NIST cybersecurity framework, the great scientists at NIST clearly have their eye on the power and future of AI and Machine Learning platforms. Indeed, and in the nick of time, the NIST published Statement 800-160 entitled "Systems Security Engineering: Considerations for a Multidisciplinary Approach in the Engineering of Trustworthy Secure Systems," which will require manufacturers of IoT devices to consider building them to be "cyber secure by design" first before rushing them to market. We feel that by and between the NIST and the Big 5 mentioned above, considerate, ethical, and secure AI and Machine Learning platforms will be reasonably assured.

Bank of America announces an AI-powered bot to help customers make smarter decisions Monday at the Money 20/20 conference in Las Vegas, Bank of America's president of retail banking, Thong Nguyen, announced an artificially intelligent bot to help customers make smarter decisions, according to CNBC. Named Erica, the bot uses artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to learn your personal spending habits and offer helpful advice. For example, Erica might send someone a predictive text: "Michelle, I found a great opportunity for you to reduce your debt and save you 300." Erica is designed to not just be a virtual assistant, but each customer's "personal advocate," said Bank of America head of digital banking Michelle Moore. It can tell you about your spending habits, if you spend more than usual on a certain product or category of products, some opportunities to reduce debt or save money, and if your credit score took a dip. Links and videos are also provided to users so they can better understand terms like FICO score.

Nissan Motor Co Ltd ( Nissan Motor Co Ltd) and Renault SA ( Renault) are open to partnerships with other companies to equip their vehicles with sophisticated technology as automakers race to develop the cars of the future, the pair's connected vehicles chief said. Global automakers are competing with industry rivals and technology firms to develop self-driving cars and mobility services such as car sharing as the growing use of technology and artificial intelligence may eventually diminish the role of drivers, threatening the traditional model of car ownership. As software used in cars becomes more sophisticated and costly, there will be benefits of partnerships - including with rivals - to develop standardised technology such as mapping services, said Ogi Redzic, who heads the Nissan-Renault alliances' Connected Vehicles and Mobility Services division. "We are in the spirit of collaboration," Redzic, who joined the alliance earlier this year after working for companies including Nokia and Motorola, told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday. "There are some other companies which would like to build everything in-house, but ... we are willing to partner when it makes sense."

Imagine receiving a phone call from your aging mother seeking your help because she has forgotten her banking password. The voice on the other end of the phone call just sounds deceptively like her. It is actually a computer-synthesized voice, a tour-de-force of artificial intelligence technology that has been crafted to make it possible for someone to masquerade via the telephone. Such a situation is still science fiction -- but just barely. It is also the future of crime.