According to the Korean Times, a lawsuit has been filed by PUGB Corp, a subsidiary of the publisher Bluehole. It alleges that Fortnite bears many similarities to its own title, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, which was launched several months earlier. PUBG claims an injunction was filed on Friday with the Seoul central district court against Epic Games Korea, the local office of Epic Games, a game publisher and developer based in Cary, North Carolina. Fortnite was originally released last July as a co-operative zombie-shooting game. However, after the success of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, in which 100 players fight each other across a shrinking environment to be the last person standing, Epic Games released a new version of its game entitled Fortnite: Battle Royale, which features the same premise.

According to data published by Grand View Research, the global artificial intelligence market size is projected to reach $35.87 billion by 2025, while growing at a CAGR of 57.2 percent. The report indicates that rapid improvements in fast information storage capacity, high computing power, and parallelization are some of the factors that are contributing to the rapid innovations of robotics and artificial intelligence technology. AI becomes prominent in end-use industries such as automotive and healthcare. In addition, there is strong demand for understanding and analyzing visual contents and gaining meaningful insights, which is also expected to provide strength to the market over the forecast period. A report by the McKinsey Global Institute surveyed companies about their use of AI.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer science fiction; it is already stealing our jobs and depressing the wage growth. The dreaded "technological singularity", when machine "intelligence" overtakes human capability, is already upon us. In the words of Jack Ma, founder of the global tech giant Alibaba Group, there will be massive unemployment across the globe in the future leading to wars, and "the next 30 years is (sic) going to be painful". In fact, the loss of jobs to automation has already started. Foxconn, the largest producer of consumer electronics in the world replaced 60,000 workers with robots in 2016. As global shipping and warehousing operations around the world are fast dumping human workers for robots, airborne commercial drones are being increasingly used for surveillance purposes as well as for delivering pizza, while robot chefs are on sale and have over 2,000 meals on their menu.

In the future, our cities could be controlled by artificial intelligence. At least, this is what Chinese retail giant Alibaba is hoping. Getting around is becoming easier, thanks to the hordes of data produced by each of us every day. When you share your location with Google Maps, for example, the application uses that data in real-time to monitor the traffic flow, which it then feeds back to its users about the best route to take. It may be difficult to imagine a future where every city is smart, where all of the infrastructure is linked to some kind of software, but it's happening.

BEIJING – It can crack your smartphone password in seconds, rip personal data from call and messaging apps, and peruse your contact book. The Chinese-made XDH-CF-5600 scanner -- or "mobile phone sleuth," as sales staff described it when touting its claimed features -- was one of hundreds of surveillance gadgets on display at a recent police equipment fair in Beijing. The China International Exhibition on Police Equipment is something of a one-stop shop for China's police forces looking to arm up with the latest in "black tech" -- a term widely used to refer to cutting-edge surveillance gadgets. The fair underscores the extent to which China's security forces are using technology to monitor and punish behavior that runs counter to the ruling Communist Party. That sort of monitoring -- both offline and online -- is stoking concerns from human rights groups about the development of a nationwide surveillance system to quell dissent.

The Pepper robot looks up at a delegate at the VivaTech conference in Paris on Thursday 24 May, 2018. Billionaire Masayoshi Son is facing a tough challenge in growing his robotics business in Europe. His conglomerate Softbank bought French robot maker Aldebaran in 2013 for $100 million. Two years later it released a waist-high robot named Pepper. With a high-pitched voice and doe-eyed, friendly gaze that follow's your own as you move around it, Pepper exudes cuteness, building off Aldebaran's expertise in building machines that can pick up on human emotions.

Nintendo Co. is bringing together the magnetic appeal of Pokemon, smartphones and the Switch console to create an interlinked gaming experience. "Pokemon: Let's Go Pikachu" and "Pokemon: Let's Go Eevee" were unveiled by the Kyoto-based video-game maker on Wednesday. They're designed to capitalize on the blockbuster success of the smartphone game "Pokemon Go" and a solid year of sales for the Switch tablet-hybrid gaming machine. The two new games go on sale Nov. 16 at ¥5,980 ($55) apiece. Along with a new Switch controller in the shape of a Poke Ball, the variety of gaming scenarios involving the various gadgets and games might risk befuddling many adults, but will make perfect sense to kids and Pokemon-generation gamers.

So what are the "megatrends" in this evolving job market? Tim Baxter, president and COO of Samsung Electronics America, speaks during a press event for CES 2017 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center on January 4, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Most of the jobs created in advanced economies don't offer permanent contracts, but involve self-employed or freelance consultants. This means that these people have no social "safety nets" like insurance, medical coverage, social security, or paid vacation. In the U.S., 94% of the new jobs created from 2005 to 2015 fell into this category, giving these workers no protection at all.

It sounds like a script from the Netflix futuristic dystopia Black Mirror. Chatbots now ask: "How can I help you?" The reply typed in return: "Are you human?" "Of course I am human," comes the response. "But how do I know you're human?" The so-called Turing Test where people question a machine's ability to imitate human intelligence is happening right now.