Amazon's facial recognition tool, Rekognition, wrongly identified 28 members of Congress as police suspects during a test conducted by the American Civil Liberties Union, the organization said Thursday. Amazon issued a statement saying the company objects to the level of accuracy settings used in its face ID tool during the test. ACLU officials maintain that the findings still highlight the risks that individuals could face if police use the technology in certain ways to catch criminals. Since May, the ACLU and other civil rights groups have pressured Amazon to stop selling governments access to the powerful image ID software, which was unveiled in 2016 by the company's cloud-computing division and has since been marketed to web developers. The groups cited use of Rekognition by law enforcement in Oregon and Florida and warned that the tool could be used to target immigrants and people of color unfairly.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen's Iranian-aligned Houthi movement said on Thursday it had attacked Abu Dhabi airport in the United Arab Emirates with a drone, though it was not immediately clear if there was any damage or casualties.

An app to fight fake medicine has helped a team of Indian students from Bengaluru win a special award at the annual Microsoft Imagine Cup world championship held at the tech giant's headquarters in Redmond, US. The awards announced on Wednesday saw Team DrugSafe from Bengaluru's RV College of Engineering win the award under Big Data category. Microsoft Imagine Cup is a technology competition where students from around the globe team up to solve some of the world's biggest problems. Team smartARM from Canada emerged as the world champion of Imagine Cup 2018 with their robotic prosthetic hand that calculates appropriate grip for objects utlilising Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and Computer Vision. As the top winner, Team smartARM got cash prize of $85,000 (roughly Rs.58 lakhs) and an Azure grant worth $50,000 (roughly Rs. 34 lakhs).

The gambling industry has adapted to the emerging trends of the consumer world, therefore it's no surprise that a trend as groundbreaking as artificial intelligence (AI) has impacted the online gambling ecosystem, online platform developer and games aggregator SoftGamings explores the situation further. Gambling has evolved immensely since its formation, from games of chance being played in China, to present times, where we can enjoy Slots, Roulette, Baccarat, Fortune Wheel, Poker, Dice and many other games. It's undeniable that we make public a considerable amount of data on our everyday lives. The information about the websites we visit, advertisements we react to, purchases we make, updates we post on social networks and many more things inform marketers a great deal about our consuming potential. This is why data collection and analysis have become crucial for optimising marketing performance. It's something that's illustrated by the fact that the worth of the big data market was $35 bln in 2017, a figure that's expected to triple by 2027.

Most of us approach healthcare with hesitation. There are often several deterrents to seeking medical care (let alone preventive care)--ease of access being a major one. According to the Indian Journal of Public Health (September 2017 edition), India had just 4.8 practising doctors per 10,000 population. While this is expected to grow to 6.9 doctors per 10,000 people by 2030, the minimum doctor-to-patient ratio recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) is 1:1000. Can we have more doctors?

Back in 1935, the American linguist George Zipf made a remarkable discovery. Zipf was curious about the relationship between common words and less common ones. So he counted how often words occur in ordinary language and then ordered them according to their frequency. This revealed a remarkable regularity. Zipf found that the frequency of a word is inversely proportional to its place in the rankings.

One hospital is now allowing artificial intelligence to take the reigns and diagnose its patients. The UI Health Care-Iowa River Landing in Coralville, Iowa has become the first hospital to adopt a new AI-powered machine to spot the early warning signs of diabetic retinopathy. If left undiagnosed, the condition, which arises as a complication for patients who suffer with either type one or type two diabetes, can cause blindness. The machine is capable of scanning and analysing the retinas of at-risk patients and will provide its own diagnosis without any human assistance. Dubbed IDx-DR, the technology has an 87 per cent sensitivity for the disease.

The star, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, tweeted an image that joked about reports that Lovato had suffered a heroin overdose. 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 giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The ...

The BBC website has stopped working for users across the country. Many parts of the site – including News, Sport and other sections, though not iPlayer – went offline, according to users. Instead, users only saw a remarkably traditional 500 error, which plays on the error message that shows when BBC TV stops working. "We're aware that some people are having problems accessing some parts of our website," the BBC press office tweeted. "We're trying to fix this as soon as possible."

One of the oldest video calling apps is still one of the best, but both people need to be using Skype for calls to be free. Otherwise, you need to pay to call a landline or mobile number. Some people still use their phones to talk, not just text and surf. If you're one, you can also cut costs when dialing. So long as you're on Wi-Fi -- whether it's your existing wireless network at home or a free Wi-Fi hotspot -- you can take advantage of apps that let you make free "VoIP" calls (Voice over Internet Protocol) on your smartphone or tablet.