What would you do if you had completed the weekly supermarket shop, only to find the store had opened early and there were no staff to scan your groceries through the checkouts? That was the dilema faced by shoppers at the Pak’n Save supermarket in Hamilton, New Zealand on Friday – a computer glitch inadvertently opened the doors of the store at 8am, allowing shoppers to enter the store despite a complete lack of staff....

We recentlywroteabout how TechHub was helping to support London’s burgeoning startup scene. Well, one of the companies that calls TechHub home has just announced a major milestone, in that it has signed-up its one-millionth customer. 360Amigowas launched in May 2010, by a group of friends who had grown increasingly frustrated by sluggish PCs. The company has since built a significant user-base for its system speedup utility, software designed to improve the performance of computer systems....

This article is part of ourreviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial intelligence. The last decade’s growing interest indeep learningwas triggered by the proven capacity of neural networks in computer vision tasks. If you train a neural network with enough labeled photos of cats and dogs, it will be able to find recurring patterns in each category and classify unseen images with decent accuracy....

Imagine you’re having friends over for lunch and plan to order a pepperoni pizza. You recall Amy mentioning that Susie had stopped eating meat. You try calling Susie, but when she doesn’t pick up, you decide to play it safe and just order a margherita pizza instead. People take for granted the ability to deal with situations like these on a regular basis. In reality, in accomplishing these feats, humans are relying on not one but a powerful set of universal abilities known as common sense....

A new reportfrom digital research specialists ComScore has revealed that in the last quarter, Google’s Android platform overtook Apple’s iOS software to become the second most popular smartphone operating system in the EU as both platforms continued to eat away at Symbian’s share, despite the fact it still powered one in every three smartphones bought during that period. Nokia’s Symbian now hold a 37.8% share of the market, down 16.1 points from a year previous....