Microsoft Band 2 gets Cortana support for Android users and other top stories.

• Microsoft Band 2 gets Cortana support for Android users

  

  After updating your Health app, you'll be able bark voice commands on the Band's mic without having to touch your phone and get instant notifications. ​According to The Digital Lifestyle, though, you have to be in the US (due to the app's limited availability) and have Cortana for Android installed on your phone to be able to use the feature. You can read the application's change log on Google Play, which also lists the ability to create challenges for everyone in your friends' circle who has t..

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• Google Does Not Want A Robot Apocalypse To Happen, So It's Building A Button To Turn Off AI

  

  Google, one of the companies at the forefront of artificial intelligence development, was involved in a study that looks to build an off button for the technology. The switch would allow humans to take control over misbehaving robots.  ( Jack Taylor | Getty Images ) For a generation that has been exposed to the Terminator movies, visions of a robot uprising come to mind whenever news about advancements in artificial intelligence surface. Great minds such as Tesla Motors and Space..

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• Navy Develops Futuristic DAVD HUD For Augmented Reality Underwater

  

  The U.S. Navy announced its latest research program involving a Divers Augmented Vision Display that can use augmented reality on a head-up display. The Iron Man-inspired gadget will help professionals streamline their underwater activity.  ( U.S. Navy ) U.S. Navy researchers have developed a high-tech, in-helmet display that will assist underwater personnel by using augmented reality. The device not only shows design inspiration from the world of sci-fi but is said to increase t..

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• RNA gene editing could stop viruses in their tracks

  

  This isn't a cure-all right now. Researchers have to refine their approach before it works in humans, and it's hard to say whether or not this RNA editing will be as effective in practice. As you might surmise, though, the potential is huge. If this works as well as it suggests, you could fight a wider array of illnesses with gene editing, even those that are notoriously difficult to treat using conventional methods.

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