Artificial intelligence (AI), a subset of machine learning, has the potential to drastically impact a nation's national security in various ways. Coined as the next space race, the race for AI dominance is both intense and necessary for nations to remain primary in an evolving global environment. As technology develops so does the amount of virtual information and the ability to operate at optimal levels when taking advantage of this data. Furthermore, the proper use and implementation of AI can facilitate a nation in the achievement of information, economic, and military superiority – all ingredients to maintaining a prominent place on the global stage. According to Paul Scharre, "AI today is a very powerful technology. Many people compare it to a new industrial revolution in its capacity to change things. It is poised to change not only the way we think about productivity but also elements of national power."AI is not only the future for economic and commercial power, but also has various military applications with regard to national security for each and every aspiring global power.

Initially developed by Facebook, Presto is an open source, distributed ANSI SQL query engine that delivers fast analytic queries against various data sources ranging in size from gigabytes to petabytes. For data scientists, this is ideal for returning Big Data query results in seconds, accelerating the iterative nature of data science discoveries by powering dashboards, reporting and ad-hoc analysis. Presto was designed and built from scratch to be a fast SQL query engine. It follows the classic MPP SQL engine design in which query processing is parallelized over a cluster of machines. As a result, highly concurrent queries execute at interactive speeds.

Nintendo Labo – the new, strange, cardboard accessory for the Switch – is finally about to arrive. The accessory allows you to make a car, a piano, a robot or a motorbike. And it does all that with just the use of some very well put together cardboard. US and Japan will get hold of Labo this week, on 20 April. In Europe and the UK, they will come out a week later, on 27 April.

Oracle which currently employs around 40,000 people in India, has beefed up its cloud and security services to cater to the growing demands from the enterprise market. Amid a range of new services, the company is highly betting on autonomous services which are rendered along with its PaaS that includes software's self-patching, autonomous database, autonomous warehouses. The company soon plans to launch its real-times online transaction. Using AI and ML, autonomous servers will likely lower cost, reduce risk and get predictive insights. On its SaaS front, the company is now embedding AI and ML capabilities which understands user behaviour and optimises the access for feature functionalities.

Japan plans to hold owners responsible for accidents involving self-driving cars, like regular vehicles, easing liability concerns among automakers and likely accelerating commercialization efforts. The policy is part of the guidelines governing autonomous cars unveiled by the government's Council on Investments for the Future Friday. The plan is to submit related legislation to the Diet as early as 2019. "By taking concrete steps toward a legal framework, I would like Japan to take the lead in creating international rules," said Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a council meeting. The guidelines are meant to set regulatory and legal direction before self-driving cars become widespread -- likely in the first half of the next decade.

A healthcare provider in Israel has begun to use what its vendor claims is the first-ever artificial intelligence-driven (AI) pathology diagnostic tool to go live in a clinical setting, according to an announcement. Maccabi Healthcare Services, which runs a pathology institute responsible for 160,000 histology accessions every year, recently started leveraging Ibex Medical Analytics' Second Read system, the tech developer said yesterday. The launch came after a pilot period in which the AI tool "identified isolated major errors" regarding prostate core needle biopsies, which were incorrectly diagnosed benign, according to Ibex. Although this is not the first clinical application of AI, Ibex said it is the first in this particular space, helping patients with prostate cancer and adding to a growing portfolio of the technology's diagnostic capabilities. READ: Leo Celi and the'Holy Grail of Personalized Medicine' "We are excited to be the first company to ever deploy an AI-based system in a clinically active pathology lab, leveraging the enormous potential of [AI] to make a real impact on human lives," said Joseph Mossel, MS, co-founder and CEO of Ibex Medical Analytics.

Global Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Security Market is expected to reach $18.2 billion by 2023. As per the findings of the research, network security accounted for the largest market during the historical period, and is expected to grow at a CAGR 34.5% during the forecast period in the artificial intelligence in cyber security market. Growth of network security market is predominantly driven by the upsurge in the adoption of wireless networks and their susceptibilities, as establishments nowadays are increasingly depending on wireless networks for data transfer. On the basis of technology, machine learning is gaining traction in the artificial intelligence in cyber security market, and is projected to cross $6 billion by 2023. The larger revenue share of machine learning is mainly attributed to better threat learning algorithm using voluminous data to protect businesses.

Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies, public policy, and society. When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg went before Congress last week, the nominal focus was on the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Diamond and Silk came up a lot. At one point, Sen. John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, asked Zuckerberg about the company's content screening policies--and specifically, how it draws "the line between what is and what is not hate speech." Zuckerberg's answer focused on a speculative future in which artificial intelligence will keep Facebook civil.

It is the task that tests many of the most skilled, patient humans. But the robots appear to be catching up. A new robot has been taught to successfully put together a piece of Ikea furniture. It could one day leave the tough job of finding the right screws and putting them in the right place to the past – leaving humans never to have to struggle to put together their new chair again. Doing so takes even longer than the time required to put together flat-pack furniture: the scientists spent three years programming the robot to make sure that its arms, grippers, sensors and 3D cameras could put together the chair.

Finance ministers of the world's seven most industrialized countries (G7) said separately on Wednesday that, despite international sanctions, North Korea still had access to the global financial system through "a network of agents, front and shell companies, and complex ownership structures".