You may think your contacts and photos are safely locked away on your iPhone. But a new bug has been discovered that seemingly lets people unlock iPhone 6S and 6S Plus models without inputting a password or using the Touch ID fingerprint scanner. Bypassing the security measures is possible because the bug takes advantage of unauthenticated access to Siri, which can then be used to tap into a phone owner's contacts. A new bug has been reported that appears to let people access private data such as photos and contacts on iPhone 6S and 6S Plus models without inputting a password or using the Touch ID fingerprint scanner. Spanish tech expert, Jose Rodriguez, claims to have discovered the bug and demonstrated the exploit in a YouTube video punished under the name Videosdebarraquito.

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

Just in time for the start of baseball season, Apple has beefed up Siri's knowledge of baseball stats, scores, and trivia. Siri can now do things like tell you Babe Ruth's career batting average, the lineup of the 2008 World Series-winning Phillies, or even who won the World Series in 1934. Siri has also learned how to do league-level queries from 29 different baseball leagues, ranging from the Cape Cod League to Nippon Pro Baseball. While Siri won't support player-specific data from these leagues, she will return scores from all of them. While not necessarily an essential update, these new features are a fun way to get celebrate the return of baseball.

WITH the recent triumph of the Google AlphaGo program over Go master Lee Se-dol in Seoul, the doomsayers are in full chorus again over the spectre of Hollywood-style artificial intelligence (AI) taking over humanity. It was the same fear in the late 1990s when IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer beat then reigning chess world champion Garry Kasparov. There are a few differences however: Go is considered a much more intricate game than chess, and AI technology has improved quite a bit since then, and we're seeing breakthroughs such as Google's self-driving cars, virtual assistants like Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana, and even IBM Watson's win in popular trivia quiz Jeopardy!. Enough that even sober scientists are taking note. In a December 2014 interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), renowned physicist Stephen Hawking expressed his concerns, saying that AI poses a threat to humanity's existence, despite its usefulness. "It would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate," he said, echoing futurist Ray Kurzweil's warning of the technological'singularity,' the hypothetical point at which an AI can develop and build even smarter machines beyond human understanding.

Enabling the feature is easy, though you'll need an iPhone or iPad to use it right now. To use it, ask Siri to "turn on VoiceOver," a built-in iOS feature that describes out loud whatever is on your screen. You can also tap into Settings, then "General" and "Accessibility" to manually flip on VoiceOver. Representatives for Facebook say the feature will come to other platforms in the near future. While they didn't specify which, the demo shown to The Huffington Post ran on a laptop.

It was one of the strongest fields of development during 2015 and it will also be in 2016. It will certainly be one of the sectors generating most profits for years or decades to come. Imagine an area of hundreds of hectares of arable land, but few planted seeds. Companies like Google, Facebook or Microsoft take time to develop Artificial Intelligence products, generally linked to natural language processing and speech recognition. Some estimates state that the market for Artificial Intelligence-related applications alone will be worth 11.1 billion by 2024.

Horizon Robotics has a very new technology that will help foster the rise of appliances operated through artificial intelligence. Founded by Institute of Deep Learning, Mainland Chinese start up Horizon Robotics is now claiming it is on the verge of completing the most advanced technology in the market with chips having built-in artificial intelligence or AI for the consumers. "General processors are too slow for AI functions. A dedicated chip will dramatically increase the speed of these functions," Yu Kai, the founder and chief executive of Horizon Robotics according to a report by South China Morning Post. It was remembered that Horizon Robotics was founded in July in Beijing and is now already developing software and chips that mimics how human brains works and solves tasks such as image and voice recognition.

Ever since the launch of Siri in its fully-integrated form on the iPhone 4s in 2011, digital assistants have become standard features on most modern smartphones. With competition growing from Microsoft, Google, and Amazon with their Cortana, Google Now, and Echo respectively, Apple continues providing updates to Siri in an attempt to find a semblance of functional advantage. As Google recently added changes to its digital assistant – Google Now – with smart intonation and expression to its speech patterns to sound less robotic, Apple has followed with their own updates looking to target Siri towards specific audiences; in this case, sports fans. Leading up to the opening days of this year's Major League baseball season, Apple has dramatically increased Siri's knowledge of and access to in-depth baseball knowledge and statistics. Though Apple added sports scores to Siri's functionality back with iOS6, previously, when asked specific baseball-related questions, Siri would typically respond with a simple search or Google queries.

Feature extraction has gained increasing attention in the field of machine learning, as in order to detect patterns, extract information, or predict future observations from big data, the urge of informative features is crucial. The process of extracting features is highly linked to dimensionality reduction as it implies the transformation of the data from a sparse high-dimensional space, to higher level meaningful abstractions. This dissertation employs Neural Networks for distributed paragraph representations, and Latent Dirichlet Allocation to capture higher level features of paragraph vectors. Although Neural Networks for distributed paragraph representations are considered the state of the art for extracting paragraph vectors, we show that a quick topic analysis model such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation can provide meaningful features too. We evaluate the two methods on the CMU Movie Summary Corpus, a collection of 25,203 movie plot summaries extracted from Wikipedia. Finally, for both approaches, we use K-Nearest Neighbors to discover similar movies, and plot the projected representations using T-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding to depict the context similarities. These similarities, expressed as movie distances, can be used for movies recommendation. The recommended movies of this approach are compared with the recommended movies from IMDB, which use a collaborative filtering recommendation approach, to show that our two models could constitute either an alternative or a supplementary recommendation approach.

Elissa Strauss interviews Amy Tuteur, an OB who has taken a skeptical view of the natural childbirth movement. Tuteur discusses the origins of the movements for natural childbirth and attachment parenting ("It's so ironic that [they] are now considered feminist, because they were started by people who absolutely weren't feminist") and analyzes their psychological appeal ("Being a mother is really, really, really hard ... along came this system that told that you are automatically an awesome mother if you have an unmedicated birth and breast-feed and co-sleep. That's so seductive and can easily become a big part of one's identity.")