A new facial recognition technology caught a man trying to enter the US using a passport belonging to someone else, US officials say. Officials with the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Office of Field Operations (OFO) intercepted a 26-year-old man, the agencies referred to as an "imposter", who reportedly attempted to use a French passport belonging to someone else, at Washington's Dulles International Airport. The man was travelling to the US from Brazil. "The officer utilised CBP's new facial comparison biometric technology which confirmed the man was not a match to the passport he presented," the CBP press release read. It added: "A search revealed the man's authentic Republic of Congo identification card concealed in his shoe."

Yuval Noah Harari was catapulted into the international literary spotlight in 2014 following the English translation of his book Sapiens. The book, which covers the history of humanity from the discovery of fire to modern robotics, became a non-fiction publishing phenomenon, feted by then-US President Barack Obama and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and went on to sell more than eight million copies worldwide. In his next book, Homo Deus, the Israeli historian and author explored how the growth of big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and biotechnology could radically alter and divide human society, perhaps ending the species altogether. The same themes crop up again in his latest work, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, which collects essays, talks and responses to his readers in a series of observations on everything from meditation to climate change. In an interview with the Talk to Al Jazeera programme, Harari discussed technology, immigration and politics with Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett in Tel Aviv. Editor's note: This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.

KUBINKA (Sputnik) - Russia's fifth-generation Su-57 fighter jets will have enhanced artificial intellect capabilities, bringing it a step closer to the next-generation unmanned fighters, a source in aviation industry told Sputnik.

Earlier this month, the Intercept broke the news that Google was building a secret program called Dragonfly, a censored search engine the company was potentially hoping to bring to China. Unlike the Google search that's used in the rest of the world, this search engine would block websites that are banned by the Chinese government and would not answer certain questions that the Chinese government has blacklisted. To learn more about Dragonfly, I recently spoke with Ryan Gallagher, a U.K.-based investigative journalist who reports on digital security and state surveillance issues for the Intercept. In our conversation, part of this week's episode of Slate's technology podcast If Then, we discussed why Google wants so desperately to enter China, why many of its employees oppose the plan, and how even a co-founder of the company may have been kept in the dark as Dragonfly was developed. Gallagher detailed how Google CEO Sundar Pichai has had several highly secretive meetings with the Chinese government about bringing Google to China over the past year--and the timeline of Google's plans to deploy the project once Beijing gave the green light.

Waymo is beefing up its presence in China. Alphabet Inc's self-driving unit has set up a subsidiary in Shanghai, according to a business registration filing, the latest sign that the U.S. internet giant is attempting to make new inroads into China. Waymo established a wholly-owned company called Huimo Business Consulting Co on May 22 in Shanghai's free trade zone with registered capital of 3.5 million yuan ($509,165), according to China's National Enterprise Information Publicity System. Waymo's move comes as China makes a major push into autonomous smart vehicles to keep pace with the United States in a global race to develop self-driving vehicles Its scope includes business and logistics consultancy as well as services related to the design and testing of self-driving car parts, said the document, which also listed the firm's legal representative as Kevin Bradley Vosen. Waymo did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Alphabet Inc's Google, which quit China's search engine market in 2010, has been actively seeking ways to re-enter the sector in the country where many of its products are blocked by regulators.

As machine learning technology matures and moves into the mainstream, analysts are attempting to figure out who within organizations is building machine learning models used in production and what tools and methodologies they are using. It turns out that those furthest down the learning curve have well established data science teams building machine learning models for production. Meanwhile, much ballyhooed AutoML services from Google and other cloud vendors are so far gaining little traction among enterprises, according to a recent survey of the state of machine learning adoption by O'Reilly Media. About half of survey respondents said their data science teams build machine learning models, indicating that those companies were further along in development and have adopted processes used for software development to build machine learning models. About three-quarters characterized their models as "sophisticated" while two-thirds described their data science teams as "early adopters" of machine learning technology.

On Friday afternoon, YouTube superstars KSI and Logan Paul weighed in ahead of what will be the biggest white collar boxing match in history. The pair, who have a combined subscriber count of 27million people (not counting their other channels), have been feuding for a number of months after KSI called out his American rival when he was high on life having defeated Joe Weller in February of this year. There was no noticeable size difference between the two YouTubers, with KSI - wearing a face mask of Logan's girlfriend and actor Chloe Bennett - weighing 84.9kg, while Logan came in only slightly heavier at 86kg flat, not giving him the clear size and weight advantage that most expected prior - something that could prove key during the fight (meaning they actually need to show that all of the work they've been putting in over the past three or so months has actually paid off. If the last YouTube fight is anything to go off, probably not). The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph.

The next generation farmhand in Japan's aging rural heartland may be a drone. For several months, developers and farmers in northeast Japan have been testing a new drone that can hover above paddy fields and perform backbreaking tasks in a fraction of the time it takes for elderly farmers. "This is unprecedented high technology," said Isamu Sakakibara, a 69-year-old rice farmer in the Tome area, a region that has supplied rice to Tokyo since the 17th century. Developers of the new agricultural drone say it offers high-tech relief for rural communities facing a shortage of labor as young people leave for the cities. "As we face a shortage of next-generation farmers, it's our mission to come up with new ideas to raise productivity and farmers' income through the introduction of cutting-edge technologies such as drones," said Mr. Sakakibara, who is also the head of JA Miyagi Tome, the local agricultural cooperative. The drone can apply pesticides and fertilizer to a rice field in about 15 minutes – a job that takes more than an hour by hand and requires farmers to lug around heavy tanks.

For those looking to take advantage of emerging technologies coming down the pipeline, figuring out what artificial intelligence means for your business might be a good place to start. In its latest look at technologies that could drive competitive advantage, Gartner predicts about 80% of emerging tech will incorporate AI within the next two years. CIO Journal's Sara Castellanos has more. AI is becoming easier for enterprises to access via the cloud and integrate with other technologies such as edge computing, Gartner says. The use of virtual assistants and deep neural networks, which roughly try to mimic the operations of the human brain, are predicted to become mainstream within two to five years.

Even as STEM toys become more popular, Lego's construction sets remain the gold standard, with more recent products like Mindstorms and Boost expanding into the fields of robotics and coding. Now bread-and-butter sets like Lego city and licensed products like DC Superheroes get nifty additions like motorized parts and app connectivity, starting with Batman's iconic vehicle. This is the Batmobile from the current slate of DCEU films, complete with tiny cannons and a scowling Batman minifig. For the most part it's a pretty normal Lego set where you follow the instructions and snap it together with your hands. But maybe it was a little too normal: I still had to rely on a paper manual for help, as there are no instructions in the app. Maybe I'm a little spoiled at this point by products like Kamigami and Labo, but one of the advantages of making something app connected is the ability to have interactive diagrams that animate where to place each piece and even allow you to rotate the image for a better look.