Bots are the future. Over the past few months we have seen many apps and major names like Facebook and Skype adapting bots. The latest name to set foot into the world of bots is Google. So far, the only Google Bot that was popular was that of the Google Assistant. Today, Google has introduced their latest innovation for the Google Allo app, in form of Lucky. It is Allo’s first bot other than the Google Assistant. Lucky is a Google Allo Bot that helps you find GIFs.

This Google Allo Bot can be accessed in a chat in the same way as you would invoke the Assistant. By tagging it at @Lucky, followed by a search phrase. Lucky derives its name from ‘I’m feeling Lucky’, a phrase that has been popularized by Google over the years.

The way Lucky, the Google Allo Bot functions is quite similar to how one would use a /GIPHY command on slack, or Google’s Keyboard GIF search. Lucky is fun to use, and allows the users to find the perfect GIFs for every occasion. This Google Allo bot, while being pretty basic, gives us a first glimpse at Google’s long term plan of introducing more such bots in the days to follow. Bots are being used in devices like Amazon Echo and Google Home, and are soon expected to become a mass-adapted technology.
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The ripples in space time is caused by the curvature celestial bodies confer. Unlike Newton's gravitational law, there had to be impact for gravity to take place Einstein proposed that the curvature in space time was proportional to matter and could cause impact on bodies close by.

In a recent tweet, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO teased that a brain-computer system that links human brains to a computer interface — a "neural lace" — may be announced early this year,reported TechCrunch. Musk first mentioned the neural lace concept (the addition of a digital layer of intelligence to the human brain) at Recode’s Code Conference last year. The brain-computer system would create a"symbiosis with machines," Musk said, according to TechCrunch.

"We’re already a cyborg — I mean, you have a digital or partial version of yourself in the form of your emails and your social media and all the things that you do, and you have basically superpowers with your computer and your phone and the applications that are there," Musk said at the conference. By building this connection to computers, Musk said that humans would be able to keep pace with advances in artificial intelligence. As complex computers develop virtual intelligences,Musk warned that humans could be rendered vastly inferior.

In comparison to computers, Musk said humans' fundamental limitation is input/output. The human output level is incredibly slow — such as using two thumbs to type on a phone — according to Musk, in comparison to the speed at which humans take in information.
Effectively merging in a symbiotic way with digital intelligence revolves around eliminating the I/O constraint, which would be some sort of direct cortical interface," Musk said.
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Virtual reality is still searching for a way to pull in the masses, with Facebook aiming to win big by prioritising social networking. The stage for this, of course, is Oculus Rooms — a virtual apartment which harbours dedicated areas for chats, gaming, TV and app launching. In order to reach this realm from the Oculus Home menu, it's as simple as connecting with a chum on Facebook and selecting the Party option. Despite the name, though, the unadulterated fun of Rooms is currently only available through Samsung's Gear VR, with the oculus Riftapp coming later in 2017.

Within the chat zone,you'll be interacting through your VR avatar and not text like you'll be used to on the Web while the social experience shouldn't differ too greatly between gear VRand Oculus, the use of the avatar will likely be more immersive when using the latter thanks to its touch controllers providing you with a pair of virtual hands. Samsung's equivalent, meanwhile, only shows off your bizarrely floating avatar head as in the Oculus Social beta which Rooms builds on.

Away from the customisable hairstyles and basic chat options, you can also team up with your squad and enjoy the games and TV area. While basic,the gaming section is likely to be hit up by users the most. It features just three games —Lights,words and pairs— but the nature of social VR gaming lends itself to simple fun rather than elaborate sandbox adventures. Of course, this is all part of a vision Facebook overlord Mark Zuckerberg has outlined for some time. Back in 2015,he said: "Ten years ago it was text. Now it's mostly visual and photos, then primarily video and we're seeing huge growth there, but that is not the end of the line. Immersive 3D content is the obvious next thing after video."Zuck hasn't stopped there, either,hinting just last week that his social network could invest a further $3 billion in the platform over the next five to ten years.
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Fast-changing technologies have, in recent years, shown their transformative impact on services, manufacturing, and knowledge industries. Taking a cue from these verticals, real estate too has gained an additional dimension – that of technological innovations -- to market their products in varied and better ways to customers.

Property portal Magicbricks.com has taken a lead over others by leveraging cutting edge IT and coming up with a first of its kind Real Estate Experience Center in Mumbai. The facility promises to ease the major pain points that customers face in their property buying journey.

“There are several other problem areas. Customers struggle with a flat two-dimensional layout plan of a flat trying to figure out how the flat would look like when it actually gets built. A survey conducted by Magicbricks suggests that approximately 60% of home buyers end up buying an apartment which does have adequate ventilation or does not have enough natural light,”Sudhir Pai, CEO, Magicbricks.com, said.“It is, therefore, a big challenge to enable buyers in getting first-hand experience of the property and at the same time providing them expert advice about it,” he said.

While technologies such as AR (Augmented Reality) and VR (virtual reality) were present for the past few years, none of the players married them with business problems. Even those who did so did it in a very limited way (for a specific project or a specific location).Magicbricks already had lots of information, listings, and rich content in the form of photographs and videos. The company decided to combine this with the latest in technology and come up with a solution that made search and discovery of property far more enjoyable and immersive for consumers. The end result was India’s first Real Estate Experience Center at Magicbricks Western Express Highway Metro station in Mumbai.

The Magicbricks Experience Center is a unique and beautiful amalgamation of the online and offline worlds thereby bridging an important gap that existed between a buyer and a seller. Using technologies like Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, on-demand Video-call and large format touch screens, the brand has created a compelling proposition to address the myriad questions that plague a buyer during his home buying journey.

With virtual reality solutions in the experience centre, a home buyer can move around in the apartment he wants to buy and firm up his opinion even when the flat is under construction. The augmented reality solutions help a home buyer to take an aerial view of the entire society. He can figure out where exactly his apartment is in the entire society, how far it is from the main entrance of the society, checkout the open spaces, take stock of the inter tower spaces, checkout the green areas etc.

“With the help of emerging technologies, we have changed the decades old property buying process which was complex and tedious into a simplified procedure for end user,” Pai added.
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Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented-reality headsets have been used to fight video-game aliens in space, but now they’ve been enlisted for war games on Earth as well. The HoloLens system was incorporated into a platform known as the Augmented Immersive Team Trainer that lets Marines plan missions and conduct “what-if” simulations while looking at a real-world terrain.

The wargaming software, which is called Interactive Tactical Decision Game, or I-TDG, can overlay a view of the environment with virtual objects ranging from ground vehicles and aircraft to explosions and other battlefield effects. The system was used in November during atraining exercise at Camp Lejeune, N.C., conducted by the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marlnes– 2/6, also known as “the Spartans.”

“For me, the best part of I-TDG was recreating simulated battles we conducted during past field exercises and using the system as a debrief on what we did wrong and how we could be better,” Lt. Andrew Veal said in a news release. “Like athletes watching game film, you really experienced that ‘aha’ moment.”Meanwhile, the Army Research Laboratory in Maryland has been showing off a HoloLens application that lets researchers explore simulated under-body blasts, such as the explosions caused by improvised explosive devices (a.k.a. IEDs) in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The augmented-reality application, developed in cooperation with Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Lab, helps researchers (and generals) get a better understanding of how blast injuries can affect soldiers, and how updated vehicle designs can minimize the damage. Microsoft is branching out beyond the U.S. military when it comes to wargaming applications: The Ukrainian armed forces are testing HoloLens-enhanced helmets designed to display real-time battlefield data, while theIsraeli armyand the royal Australian Air Force are studying how HoloLens can be used for planning and training.

Although NASA astronaut Scott Kelly had fun trying out the RoboRaid video game on HoloLens during his nearly yearlong stint on the International Space Station, the space agency is experimenting with augmented reality for far more serious purposes, ranging from guidance for on-orbit maintenance tasks to interplanetary rover design.
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The world’s first quantum computing platform delivered via the IBM Cloud at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown, NY. On Wednesday, May 4, for the first time ever, IBM is making quantum computing available via the cloud to anyone interested in hands-on access to an IBM quantum processor, making it easier for researchers and the scientific community to accelerate innovations, and help discover new applications for this technology. This is the beginning of the quantum age of computing and the latest advance from IBM towards building a universal quantum computer. A universal quantum computer, once built, will represent one of the greatest milestones in the history of information technology and has the potential to solve certain problems we couldn’t solve, and will never be able to solve, with today’s classical computers.

The quantum processor is composed of five superconducting qubits and is housed at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. The five-qubit processor represents the latest advancement in IBM’s quantum architecture that can scale to larger quantum systems. It is the leading approach towards building a universal quantum computer.

A universal quantum computer does not exist today, but IBM envisions medium-sized quantum processors of 50-100 qubits to be possible in the next decade. With a quantum computer built of just 50 qubits, none of today’s TOP500 supercomputers could successfully emulate it, reflecting the tremendous potential of this technology.

The community of quantum computer scientists and theorists is working to harness this power, and applications in optimization and chemistry will likely be the first to demonstrate quantum speed-up.
With Moore’s Law running out of steam, quantum computing will be among the technologies that could usher in a new era of innovation across industries. This leap forward in computing could lead to the discovery of new pharmaceutical drugs and completely safeguard cloud computing systems. It could also unlock new facets of artificial intelligence (which could lead to future, more powerful Watson technologies ), develop new materials science to transform industries, and search large volumes of big data.

Quantum computing works fundamentally differently from today’s computers. A classical computer makes use of bits to process information, where each bit represents either a one or a zero. In contrast, a qubit can represent a one, a zero, or both at once, which is known as superposition. This property along with other quantum effects enable quantum computers to perform certain calculations vastly faster than is possible with classical computers.
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Method is providing a precise way to modify crops in hopes of making them yield more food and resist drought and disease more effectively. Research in the past year has shown that the resulting plants have no traces of foreign DNA,making it possible that they will not fall under existing regulations governing genetically modified organisms and will sidestep many of the consumer concerns over these GMOs.

Already, a lab in China has used it to create a fungus--resistant wheat; several groups in China are using the technique on rice in efforts to boost yields; and a group in the U.K. has used it to tweak a gene in barley that helps govern seed germination, which could aid efforts to produce drought-resistant varieties. Indeed, because it’s so easy to do and the plants could avoid the lengthy and expensive regulatory process associated with GMOs, the method is increasingly being used by research labs, small companies, and public plant breeders unwilling to take on the expense and risks of conventional genetic engineering.

The gene-editing technique could be critical in helping scientists keep up with the constantly evolving microbes that attack crops, says Sophien Kamoun, who leads a research group at the Sainsbury Lab in Norwich, England, that is applying the technology to potatoes, tomatoes, and other crops to fight fungal diseases. “It takes millions of dollars and many years of work to go through the regulatory process,” Kamoun says. “But the pathogens don’t sit and wait for you; they keep evolving and changing.”

Big and small companies alike are jumping in. DuPont Pioneer has already invested in Caribou Biosciences, the CRISPR startup cofounded by Jennifer Doudna, one of the inventors of the technology, and is using it in experiments on corn, soybeans, wheat, and rice. It hopes to sell seeds bred with CRISPR technology in as little as five years. The big question is whether CRISPR crops will be governed by the same regulations as GMOs. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has already said some examples of gene-edited corn, potatoes, and soybeans (edited using a different method, known as TALENs) don’t fall under existing regulations. But both the United States and the more restrictive European Union are now conducting reviews of today’s regulations. And Chinese authorities have not said whether they will allow the crops to be planted.
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Standard electronic computers are extremely powerful at performing a high number of operations at very high speeds. But the most powerful supercomputer today takes up a lot of energy and space. Not only that but they are increasingly costly to make. Although the computer chip is made from the most abundant elements on earth, the materials have to first be refined through a process that is elaborate , expensive and polluting.

Moore's Law, proposed by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965, states that the number of transistors able to be fit on computer chips will double every 18 months, exponentially increasing their power. So far this has proven to be correct, with smaller and smaller chips being created. But now scientists predict that this law will break down at a certain point as chip producers are forced to cram more and more of these transistors into a single chip.

And now a team of international scientists from Canada, the UK, Germany,the Netherlands and Sweden have come up with radical a new model supercomputer that is made from organic, living material. Back in 2013, a team of bio engineers from Stanford University announced that they had created the biological equivalent of a transistor, completing the invention of the three components necessary to build a fully functional computer from living material: data storage, information transmission and a system of logic.

Like a quantum computer, the computer can work in parallel to perform multiple tasks simultaneously, vastly increasing its power and energy efficiency. In fact, a 'biocomputer' could fit into a chassis the size of a book, leaving room-sized elite supercomputers like China's Tianhe-2 in the dust, while using materials that already exist in nature and emit no excess heat.

The 'biocomputer' uses a similar strategy to that of quantum computers, using qubits – or the quantum computing equivalent to bits. But the qubits are replaced with short strings of living proteins, as well as molecular motors called myosin which are used in living things to carry out mechanical tasks in living cells, to move the protein filaments along artificial paths. One big advantage is that molecular motors are very energy efficient, with a biocomputer requiring less than 1% of the energy an electronic transistor needs to carry out one calculation step.

Now that this model exists as a way of successfully dealing with a single problem, the team say are going to be many others who will follow up and try to push it further, using different biological agents such as DNA and enzymes, or other biologically-derived molecules. So can we expect our laptops to be powered like an organic life form anytime soon? As the scientists explain, it’s hard to say how soon it will be before we see a full scale bio-supercomputer. A beginning step could be to combine the device they have created with a conventional electronic computers to form a 'hybrid' device.

But for now it's exciting enough to think that we could potentially beat Moore's Law not by manufacturing new silicon, but by harnessing the tools evolution has already given us.
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Rafael Ilishayev and Yakir Gola know the exact moment that they had a business model that resonated. The pair of now 23-year-olds met on the first day of business school in 2011 at Philadelphia's Drexel University and quickly became friends. The following year they were living together with four other roommates, and Gola, the only one with a car, found himself always offering to run errands, especially since none of the on-demand platforms had what they wanted when it came to speed and price.

They decided they could do better, and the following year launched goPuff, an on-demand delivery service that seeks to make the convenience store obsolete. The founders set up the beta version of the app, bought a 1999 Plymouth Voyager, and no sooner had they affixed the goPuff logo to the vehicle did they get their first order -- a good month before they were officially ready to be up and running.

They officially launched on Dec. 25, 2013. During the first six months, Ilishayev and Gola worked alone for 17 to 18 hours a day, seven days a week in their Philadelphia warehouse taking orders and making deliveries in between classes.

Maintaining their sanity was a challenge, but the duo say that their friendship is more than intact -- it's stronger because of the experience. Today, they have a staff of 80 and a presence in 12 cities, including New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Seattle and Chicago. And while 85 percent of goPuff's customers were 18 to 24 when the company began, that cohort now makes up only 50 percent, they said.

Going into 2017, they have plans to expand to a new location every three weeks, with their eyes on cities such as Columbus, Ohio, Nashville, Tenn., and Minneapolis. Gola says that a number of factors come into play when choosing a new location. They have to buy a new warehouse, hire contract drivers and develop relationships with suppliers in the area. If one piece isn’t there, the launch falls apart.

All those elements are necessary to make good on the company's promise that when you place an order with goPuff, which features a selection of more than 3,000 items, your delivery will be there in 30 minutes or less. If your order is $49 or more, the delivery is free. Otherwise, there is always a $1.95 flat fee. The pair's main goal is to get the delivery time down to 10 minutes. Ilishayev says that goPuff doesn't view companies such as Postmates, Instacart or DoorDash as goPuff's chief competition, because the company is dealing in different markets. While those businesses focus on grocery and restaurant delivery, goPuff's stock and trade are convenience store items. The concept of the convenience store is the company's chief competitor, Gola says

"Last year we had a state of emergency in Philadelphia, and we stayed open until we couldn't operate anymore. We were open even after Uber closed." Ilishayev says. "It doesn't matter how much money you make that day -- revenue isn't relevant, it's about being there for your customer. They know that everything else is unavailable, the convenience store is closed, but goPuff is your lifeline."
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Instead of extending your arm or using a selfie stick to snap shots of you and your crew, you could use a new pocket-size drone — dubbed the "AirSelfie" — to help you remotely capture aerial photos and videos.The AirSelfie is the brainchild of Italian entrepreneur Edoardo Stroppiana, who came up with the idea in 2014. "AirSelfie is specifically designed and produced for people who used to think drone cameras are extremely complicated to use — too expensive and bulky,"

The AirSelfie is equipped with a 5-megapixel camera that can shoot full high-definition (HD) 1080p video, as well as a 4GB microSD card. Using the AirSelfie, people, groups and companies can take pictures of themselves, their backgrounds and their projects from distances, heights and angles that they never could using their arms or a stick

The AirSelfie is controlled via a free iOS or Android app. The app can make the drone take off; adjust its height and direction; let it hover autonomously; and help users take an HD aerial shot or video with just a push of a button. Users can also activate a 10-second timer, giving people enough time to hide their phones so they don't appear in the picture or video. The drone can take up to eight consecutive shots, the company said.

The AirSelfie uses Wi-Fi to send photos and videos wirelessly to smart phones. The app also allows users to post photos and videos taken with the drone immediately on social media.

A rechargeable lithium polymer battery gives the AirSelfie a flight time of 3 minutes, according to the company. An accessory known as the Power Bank slips over the AirSelfie like a smartphone case, and can recharge the drone in 30 minutes. The Power Bank can hold 20 such charges before it needs to be recharged, the company said. Users can also recharge the AirSelfie directly with a micro-USB cable.

The first preordered drones are scheduled for delivery in March. The drone is expected to hit the market in 2017 for a retail price of $300.

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