We firstwroteabout the newHarry Potterthemed websitePottermorelast month, which is set to open its online doors to the public in October. And today, Google hasannounceda partnership with Pottermore to help fans make the most of their ebook purchases. Pottermore will be integrated with a number of Google products and APIs. When the series of Harry Potter ebooks and audio books launch on Pottermore.com later this year, you will be able to push them through to yourGoogle eBooksaccount....

Warner Brothers, the major USfilm studiothat recently launched avideo renting servicestraight from a movie’s Facebookfanpage, has just announced that it will add five more blockbuster movies to the roster. Initially offering Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster filmThe Dark Knight, Warner Bros. announced it will now offer five more movies — Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Inception, Life as We Know It and Yogi Bear — directly on Warner Bros....

Harvard researchers developed an AI to determine how medical treatments affect life spans The system has already been tested on mice Testing interventions The researchers then tracked the frailty of two groups of mice given life-extending treatment or diets. The team claims the AI accurately predicted whether the interventions improved their future health or life expectancy. The system also found that certain measures of frailty had a stronger link to future health....

A group of researchers has unveiled a new venture that will use AI to search for alien technology. TheGalileo Projectwill use a network of telescopes and astronomical surveys to hunt for evidence of “extraterrestrial technological civilizations” (ETCs). AI will play a key role in the program. The team plans to develop algorithms that scan data from telescopes foralienartifacts. The group will also use existing and future astronomical surveys “to discover and monitor the properties of interstellar visitors to the solar system....

Can we find alien technology? That is the ambitious goal of theGalileo Project, launched this week by Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb with substantial private financial backing. The project is far from the first attempt to detect signs of civilizations beyond Earth. Loeb has been criticized in the past for hisdismissive approachto previous efforts to find extraterrestrial life and hisargumentthat an alien artifact passed through our solar system in 2017. So why do Loeb and his collaborators think they have a chance of finding something where others have failed?...