The Vermont countryside provides a beautiful backdrop to the headquarters of the Terasem Movement Foundation, where Bruce Duncan is busy working on changing the future as we know it. Seeker Stories correspondent, Laura Ling, visited Terasem and Duncan to get a sense of what could be around the corner in artificial intelligence. There, Ling met Bina48, a social robot considered to be one of the most advanced of her kind in the world. She runs on a type of software called a character engine, which allows her to interact with humans at an unprecedented level. It may even allow her to evolve.

According to a World Health Organization (WHO) report released in 2011, about 820,000 women and men aged 15-24 were newly infected with HIV in developing countries. Over 60% of these were women. Among so many other challenges, developing countries are plagued with serious reproductive health illnesses such as sexually transmitted infections (STIs), unintended pregnancies, and complications from childbirth. A key priority for policymakers, researchers, and health care providers working in developing nations is to emphasize prevention and distribution of information about STIs and other reproductive tract infections (RTIs). This report on Improving Reproductive Health in Developing Countries from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences contains additional information on the topic.

The classifiers can be represented as discrimination maps, where a red color indicates that the intensity at that location contributes to the likelihood of the images belonging to the more advanced stage, and a blue color to the likelihood of belonging to the less advanced stage. Weights are shown inside the mask that resulted in the highest accuracies for each classification: A: Alzheimer's disease (AD) vs. subjective cognitive decline (SCD); B: AD vs. mild cognitive impairment (MCI); C: MCI vs. SCD. At the VU University Medical Center Amsterdam researchers are harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to be able to detect early signs of Alzheimer's on MRI scans. The parenchyma exhibits small incremental changes on the scan as the disease develops, but these are difficult to spot in new patients. Only once the disease is at a later stage clinicians are able to identify the disease from the scans, but by then it's usually already exhibiting well known symptoms.

Eye in the Sky Superbly acted, this nail-biter starring Helen Mirren, the late Alan Rickman and Aaron Paul is a fully involving war drama about the new rules of engagement. Hunt for the Wilderpeople This wonderful New Zealand film has a gently absurdist quality, a simultaneously sweet and subversive sensibility all its own, mixing warmth, adventure and comedy in ways that consistently surprise. The Innocents Anne Fontaine's post-World War II drama involving a Polish convent and a French female doctor proves yet again that though moral and spiritual questions may not sound spellbinding, they often provide the most absorbing movie experiences. The Jungle Book By turns sweetly amusing and scarily unnerving, crammed with story, song and computer-generated visual splendors, this revisiting of the old Rudyard Kipling tales aims to be a model of modern crowd-pleasing entertainment. Life, Animated A remarkable documentary about how Disney animated features changed the life of a young autistic boy in a deep and profound way.

The DURUS robot can walk more than a mile in man's shoes. A pair of size 13, Adidas sneakers, to be specific. Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have tackled what they describe as a deceptively difficult challenge: develop a battery-powered robot that mimics the subtle complexity of the human footstep. Aaron Ames, an associate professor of automation and mechatronics, said their feat represents a stride in robotic efficiency and mobility and could allow for robots to function more seamlessly in environments meant for humans. "What drives me a lot is the cool factor, to be honest, but that's my professor hat," Ames said.

Narrative sci-fi exploration title Event[0] will be launching on PC for Windows 7 or later in September. In Event[0], you'll need to build a relationship with a ship's computer in order to get home. In Event[0], its just you and your starship's artificial intelligence, called Kaizen. Using natural language, you can communicate with Kaizen through computer terminals throughout the ship. Kaizen can respond to your messages using over two million lines of procedurally-generated dialog.

Even though we are social animals, managing relationships is not an easy task. Everyday interactions with people around us can become tricky as stress, anger, exhaustion, and other emotions start affecting the way we and others react to different situations. The inability to correctly "read" other people and understand how we should treat them causes disagreements and even fights. All these struggles have led to numerous investigations about humans' interactions, resulting in the creation of a term researchers Peter Salavoy and John Mayer coined Emotional Intelligence (EQ or EI). Recently, conversations about the relationship between EI and artificial intelligence have developed.

Internet of Things (IoT) bot maker Mosaic announced today that it has been selected for the Y Combinator summer program and has released a new beta version of its assistant on Amazon Alexa, Slack, SMS, and Facebook Messenger. Mosaic connects a single chatbot to more than a dozen wearables and IoT devices, ranging from lightbulbs to Tesla cars. Essentially, the chatbot takes all the data we compile in our personal lives and helps us make sense of it. Mosaic wants to give people advice based on all the data accumulated by wearables and internet-connected devices and can also explain things like water usage and how to get energy. In the future, Mosaic wants your fitness wearable to talk to you about personal fitness challenges, make sure you're getting enough sleep, and tell you when you need to exercise "This is definitely on our roadmap and one of the most interesting things we're going to do," said cofounder Sumang Liu.

By Alissa Quart, author of "The Republic of Outsiders" and "Branded", is the editor for the nonprofit Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Precariousness is not just a working-class thing. In recent interviews, dozens of academics and schoolteachers, administrators, librarians, journalists and even coders have told me they too are falling prey to an unstable new America. I've started to think of this just-scraping-by group as the Middle Precariat. The word Precariat was popularized five or so years ago to describe a rapidly expanding working class with unstable, low-paid jobs.

Augmented reality is going to change the way people relate to sex and dating. It has to--most new technologies find some useful application in those arenas. But no matter how AR ends up altering people's love lives, surely no one expected the shift to be heralded by a rogue Charizard. Less than a week ago, it would've been easy to assume a young person determinedly flicking at their smartphone screen in a bar or coffee shop was swiping through potential dates on Tinder. This week, it's far more likely they're playing Pokémon Go, the mobile game that is currently taking over the US and is already ensconced on more Americans' Android phones than Tinder managed to find its way on to in four years.