Decadence, not Donald Trump, is defeating the Republican establishment in the primaries. The dominant wings of the national party -- neo-conservatives, as represented by Jeb Bush, John Kasich and several others, and the Tea Party, as represented by Ted Cruz -- are simply clueless to the economic and cultural forces transforming America. Globalization and technology -- fair and unfair trade, legal and illegal immigration and automation and artificial intelligence are destroying jobs, lowering wages and rendering obsolete the skills of millions of prime working age Americans. Coupled with lower birth rates among whites and the absolute failure of educational institutions to keep up with the times, these are creating a poorer, more unequal and radically more ethnically and religiously diverse electorate. Ivy League and elite state university graduates jump to six figure jobs in engineering, law, finance and the like, while the much larger army of diplomates from non-descript private and state colleges are often not decently prepared for entry-level professional and managerial positions still available in our slow growing economy.

And I immediately think they will die irrelevant.

Chinese-based drone manufacturer DJI said Wednesday it complies with government requests to hand over data collected by unmanned aerial vehicles, the New York Times reported. This is a standard requirement for any business working in the country, but DJI stated it could provide data from drones flown in Hong Kong if requested to do so by the Chinese government. If the Chinese government requests data from a particular drone, DJI will notify the user, company spokesman Zhang Fanxi said in a press briefing held in Shenzhen, the mainland industrial city near Hong Kong. "We are constantly having communications with our government and related departments. We have made suggestions to regulators and given them our advice, and said that we're willing to share our data," Zhang said.

A robot developed by the National Institute of Informatics is now smart enough to be accepted into most Japanese universities - but not the notoriously selective University of Tokyo. This artificial intelligence is called the Todai Robot Project, and aims to pass the entrance exam for the University of Tokyo in 2021. For the first time in its development, the AI program achieved an above-average score on a college entrance exam, which covered maths, physics, and english among other subjects. University of Tokyo, also called'Todai,' requires prospective students to take the general admissions test, the National Center Test for University Admissions, along with its own infamously difficult test The University of Tokyo, also referred to as'Todai,' is notorious for its extremely difficult entrance exam. Prospective students must take a general college entrance exam, the National Center Test for Admissions, along with the Todai test.

The glossy video on the website of Atieva, a Silicon Valley startup developing a self-driving electric vehicle, is a hard sell for the California dream. Applying the California state of mind to shape a new vision of what a car can be." Related: Inside Faraday Future: is it really a big player in the future of electric cars? But a Guardian investigation can reveal significant problems inside the troubled startup including concerns among staff after a major investor was revealed to be Chinese billionaire Jia Yueting – the owner of rival Californian EV startup Faraday Future. Sources inside Atieva fear that Jia's ultimate aim is to merge Atieva's battery expertise – and perhaps the whole company – into Faraday Future, a mysterious but well-funded startup that has yet to reveal much about its own plans. Atieva's problems started in late 2015 when its founder and CEO, Bernard Tse, left the company following friction with its largest shareholder, Beijing Automotive Industry Holding (BAIC), one of China's leading state-owned carmakers. The company has yet to publicly acknowledge this or announce a replacement. Related: Inside Faraday Future: is it really a big player in the future of electric cars? Then in early April 2016, BAIC sold its entire 25% stake in Atieva, according to sources close to the company, who say that Jia is the most likely purchaser.With Faraday Future breaking ground last week on a new 1bn assembly plant in Nevada, several Atieva staff now expect the company to be absorbed into Faraday Future before its own product even sees the light of day. The Guardian approached Atieva and LeEco, which has close links with Atieva, for comment but they did not respond. A spokesman for Faraday Future said that it operates independently. Previously a vice-president at Tesla, Tse founded Atieva in 2007 alongside former Oracle executive Sam Weng. "The car business is seeing a sea change," Tse told the Guardian. "This is the opportunity that Silicon Valley has been waiting for since 1945.

Tech companies are betting big on conversational bots as the next big thing. But you might want to be nice to those bots. CBC Radio technology columnist Dan Misener says the way we treat them reveals a lot about who we are as humans. Because the chatbots are coming, and we're just starting to see the first wave. Facebook recently unveiled its plans for chatbots that live inside its Messenger app.

PETALING JAYA: Malaysian Integrated Medical Professional Association (Mimpa) president Dr Dhesi Baha Raja has won the Pistoia Alliance Life Science Award for developing a mobile app that predicts dengue outbreaks. Dr Dhesi developed an AIME (Artificial Intelligence in Medical Epidemiology), which is a disease-prediction mobile platform that employs technology and data to give people prior warning of when disease outbreaks might occur. Dr Dhesi, who led the team of six people, which developed the app, said that winning the award, organised by the Pistoia Alliance of King's College London, proves and validates the technology used as a tool for dengue prevention. He told The Star Online on Wednesday that he is looking to bring the app to Malaysia within the next three months and believes that the technology would be useful to combat Malaysia's dengue problem. Dr Dhesi said that he would be working with mobile digital service provider Webe and the Health Ministry soon.

As an investor of China's car-hailing app Yidao Yongche, LeEco envisions its future LeSEE cars to form a fleet of autonomous taxis, with their front lights indicating their availability using various colors. In the official video, the car has conventional front doors and rear suicide doors, and somehow, the back seats can apparently adapt to the shape of the passengers' bodies -- yep, smells like a concept. There are, however, touchscreens behind the front seats which can obviously take advantage of LeEco's rich video entertainment. Jia added that the car will also do face recognition and self-learning, but we'll have to wait for a future demo on those. The first LeSEE electric car will make its proper debut at the Beijing Auto Show on April 24th, and there's any new info to share then, we'll keep y'all posted.

Your closet is overflowing, spilling shoes, shirts, and underwear onto the floor. You think, "It's time to get organized." Now you have two problems. Specifically, you first need to decide what to keep, and second, how to arrange it. Fortunately, there is a small industry of people who think about these twin problems for a living, and they are more than happy to offer their advice. On what to keep, Martha Stewart says to ask yourself a few questions: "How long have I had it? Is it a duplicate of something I already own? When was the last time I wore it or used it?"

When I'm usually speaking about Artificial Intelligence, I'm involved in ethical conversations ranging from self-driving cars programmed to kill you in a crash for the bigger benefit of others – like school kids running front of your vehicle – to a robot world domination and human slavery. But today I wanted to write about chat bots. Yes, those little bots that will be appearing on your messenger apps in no time. Chat bot is an artificially intelligent bot, which allows you to have a pre-programmed conversation with a company or a media in your messenger app. It works just like you'd have a chat with your friends – except that you're speaking with a machine. Quite handy if you want to order for example a burger or a taxi via messenger app instead of browsing through different apps and sites.