Humanity is on the verge of being replaced by a race of superhuman hybrids with powers only dreamt about in movies. Herbert Sim, a millionaire tech investor and futurist in London, has begun pouring his wealth into the study of transhumanism - the enhancement of humans through science and technology. At that point, Sim claims that the human race will essentially be obsolete as these real life'X-Men' make it impossible for regular people to match their abilities. The brainwaves are projected onto a computer which then reads and turns them into actions. Sim said it's one of the first steps in'upgrading' humanity, allowing this new race of mutants to live longer and defeat diseases.

With the publication of his final book, Professor Stephen Hawking has revealed his answers to 10 'fundamental questions' he was constantly being asked. Now, his last'profound realisation' has been revealed- and he says that there is no afterlife or supreme being. Shortly before his death, Professor Stephen Hawking began compiling the answers to 10 'fundamental questions' he was constantly being asked. 'We are each free to believe what we want, and it's my view that the simplest explanation is that there is no God,' he said, according to The Telegraph. 'No one created the universe and no one directors out fate.

Technological advances in artificial intelligence are fuelling a new race between hackers and those toiling to protect cybersecurity networks. Cybersecurity is always a race between offence and defence but new tools are giving companies that employ them a leg up on those trying to steal their data. Whereas past responses to cybercrimes often looked for known hacking methods long after they occurred, AI techniques using machine learning scan huge volumes of data to detect patterns of abnormal behaviour that are imperceptible to humans. Experts expect machines will become so sophisticated that they'll develop answers to questions that humans won't clearly understand. David Decary-Hetu, assistant professor of criminology at the University of Montreal, says defenders have an edge right now in using artificial intelligence.