'The Five' panel react to an Amazon Alexa instructing a child to stick a penny in an electrical outlet. As modern-day technology develops into crime-solving artificial intelligence and virtual assistants with a mind of their own, "The Five" panel questions if it's all becoming a bit too much. After a recent incident where an Amazon Alexa instructed a 10-year-old girl to stick a penny in an electrical outlet, co-host Kat Timpf weighed who's responsible when technology begins to threaten lives. "The issue with technology and AI, in general, is when things go wrong, who is responsible?" "I mean, if I were to be running around telling kids to put pennies in sockets, I don't think it'd be good enough for me to say, 'oh, my bad. I won't do that anymore.' I'd go to prison or, at the very least, there'd be an investigation."

Surrounded by advanced achievements in medicine, space exploration, and robotics, people can be forgiven for thinking our time boasts the best technology. So I was startled last year to hear Sarah Stroup, a professor of classics at the University of Washington, Seattle, give a speech called "Robots, Space Exploration, Death Rays, Brain Surgery, and Nanotechnology: STEMM in the Ancient World." Stroup has created a college course integrating classics and science to show how 2,000 year-old Greek and Roman STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, medicine) underlie and illuminate the sciences today. The Greeks made self-acting machinery such as an automaton theater, a first step toward building a real robot, and they imagined a mythological one. Talos, a bronze being made by the god Hephaestus (later the Roman Vulcan) patrolled the island of Crete and threw rocks at threatening ships, anticipating today's development of intelligent battlefield weaponry that chooses its own targets.

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