UK police forces are increasingly experimenting with controversial new facial recognition (FR) technology for crowd control and locating suspects. Critics, however, have labeled the trials a shambles, pointing to the high error rate and even higher cost of the program. Documents released under Freedom of Information Act requests have shown that collectively South Wales Police and London's Metropolitan Police have spent millions of pounds on trials of the technology, despite the fact that both systems have been shown to have an error rate over 90 per cent. Similar trials around the world have raised concerns around the technology, including in San Francisco where privacy advocates are calling for a ban on the use of FR by law enforcement. It's not just the police who are interested in the potential use of FR.

The way we work is changing every day, and this is likely going to be the biggest revolution that mankind has seen in centuries. Why? Because, work is something that defines us. Any change in that is going to have a huge impact on us. Have you ever been to Vietnam, Thailand, or Indonesia? If you have, you'll find a bunch of young folks working out of cafes.

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This coming June, British author George Orwell's dystopian novel, "Nineteen Eighty-Four," marks the 70th anniversary of its publication. In the United States, Penguin has announced plans for a special 75,000-copy reprint. According to The New York Times, the publisher noted that, sales of the novel have increased by 9,500 percent since the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump. Demonstrating remarkable foresight, Orwell envisaged a terrifying future in which a "Big Brother" government would harness tools to watch each and every one of us. When Winston Smith, the book's protagonist, wanted to meet his illicit lover, he was forced to take extreme measures to avoid a two-way device called a "telescreen," described as follows: "The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard."

"And of course there was nothing more repellent than the synthesizer," said Morrissey, front man for the Smiths, in a 1983 interview, reflecting the arguments of the day that raged around whether the new electronic instruments of the 1970s qualified as "proper" music. In 1982, a branch of the U.K.'s Musician's Union even tried to ban the use of synths, on the grounds that they were taking work away from musicians who played stringed instruments. Those kinds of arguments may have a parallel today, in 2019, with the emergence of music created with artificial intelligence. Some of the questions (Is this "real" music? Can it compete with human-made melodies? If so, will it put those humans out of a job?) are eerily similar.

As happens infrequently--but definitely not never--Apple wrestled with an embarrassing and problematic security bug this week in its iOS FaceTime group calling feature. The flaw was bad enough that Apple took the drastic step of pulling group FaceTime functionality altogether. A full fix will come next week. Meanwhile, Facebook faced criticism for paying users as young as 13 to download a mobile research app that gave the company invasive access to all sorts of user data and activity, including web browsing. The app didn't meet Apple's privacy standards for iOS, and Facebook was distributing it through a loophole in the platform. Google was soon found to be doing roughly the same thing; Apple revoked both of their enterprise certificates.

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India's efforts to set up a national centre on artificial intelligence (AI) reflect the country's ambition to accelerate its tech prowess akin to how China shaped the AI dialogue on the global stage. Finance minister Piyush Goyal's push for embracing AI fits into the government's vision to democratise newer technologies, which could be game-changers for creating societal impact. "India has become the second largest hub of startups. A national programme on AI has been envisaged by the government. This should be catalysed by the national centre for artificial intelligence as a hub, along with other centres of excellence," Goyal said on Friday.

The U.S. and China are ahead of the competition in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), which has witnessed an "upsurge" in patent applications in recent years, according to a United Nations mandated report published late Thursday. The report, prepared by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), said the "biggest untapped opportunities" lie outside the software industry in agriculture, healthcare and manufacturing. WIPO noted that in the last five years, there has been a sharp increase in patent applications for devices and machines powered by AI – defined as the replication of human intelligence by machines. It "suggests that it could soon revolutionize all areas of daily life far beyond the tech world," WIPO Director General Francis Gurry told reporters in Geneva. While research in AI began in the 1950s, the boom in AI scientific publications did not begin until 2001.