The United States appears poised to heighten scrutiny of Chinese investment in Silicon Valley to better shield sensitive technologies seen as vital to U.S. national security, current and former U.S. officials tell Reuters. Of particular concern is China's interest in fields such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, which have increasingly attracted Chinese capital in recent years. The worry is that cutting-edge technologies developed in the United States could be used by China to bolster its military capabilities and perhaps even push it ahead in strategic industries. Of particular concern is China's interest in fields such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, which have increasingly attracted Chinese capital in recent years. The U.S. government is now looking to strengthen the role of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the inter-agency committee that reviews foreign acquisitions of U.S. companies on national security grounds.

Any technology that only works in English neglects 75% of the world. That problem is especially severe for Facebook with its global userbase. Yet most languages are being left out by the advances in artificial intelligence centered around natural language processing led by researchers in the U.S. and China. But today marks a milestone for AI accessibility. Facebook Messenger's artificial intelligence assistant "M" can now make recommendations in Spanish of Messenger features to use if it detects that that's the language someone writes in.

There have been numerous rumors about Apple's plans to develop self-driving cars, however Company CEO Tim Cook clarified to Bloomberg his company is working on an autonomous car system. Apple has been secretive about its autonomous driving program, called Project Titan. On June 5, during Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, Cook admitted the company is working on self-driving technology. Read: Alexa, Siri, Apple TV: Are Amazon And Apple Putting Their Rivalry Aside? "We're focusing on autonomous systems," Cook told Bloomberg.

Google's latest effort to thaw relations with China involves an artificial intelligence pow-wow -- and a few games of Go. Google's latest effort to thaw relations with China involves an artificial intelligence pow-wow -- and a few games of Go. Years after Beijing locked out virtually every Alphabet Inc. service, executive chairman Eric Schmidt and a cadre of mid-level Chinese government officials kicked off a summit in the historic canal-laced town of Wuzhen Tuesday: a rare instance of the search leader working in tandem with the country's bureaucrats at a high-profile public event. Google experts and prominent local academics will exchange notes and host discussions but the centerpiece will be a contest between DeepMind's so-far undefeated AlphaGo system and Ke Jie, local champion of the 2,500-year-old strategy board game Go.

Apple has spoken about its plans for self-driving cars for the first time. The company won't be building its own vehicle, boss Tim Cook said. But it's doing something that might be even more important: building technology that can be put into a car to make it able to drive itself. He said that the company was excited about such developments, including electric cars. For the moment however it is focusing on "autonomous systems", something that Mr Cook said could be used to power self-driving vehicles in the future but a range of different products too.

The government could push through extreme internet regulation while people are distracted by the current political situation, according to activists. Theresa May might use her wide-ranging plans for technology – which includes weakening security and increasing censorship – as a way of restoring some of "image as a tough leader", the Open Rights Group has warned. The prime minister might look to automatically censor the internet, for instance, and weaken security in a way that "could put all of us at a great risk of crime", it said. Despite failing to win a majority at the recent election, Ms May has suggested that she will keep going with her extreme plans. And she might do so specifically because the government's majority is "fragile", he said.

The number of non-Japanese children at public schools who are lacking in Japanese language skills and who need remedial lessons hit a record 34,335 as of May last year, the latest survey by the education ministry showed Tuesday. The number, up 17.6 percent from the previous biennial survey conducted in 2014, accounted for 42.9 percent of the 80,119 non-Japanese children at public elementary schools, high schools and other public facilities across the country, according to the survey. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology conducted the survey covering about 35,000 public schools. The survey looks at children who cannot hold simple daily conversations in Japanese and/or those who have difficulty learning at school due to poor secondary language skills. "We have taken various measures, such as training teachers and allocating Japanese-language lecturers at schools.

HSBC's internet banking has stopped working for its customers. The bank has told people to try flushing out their browser – emptying their cache and cookies – if they want to get to their money. Customers are reporting that the fix does appear to work, and makes the internet banking services work like normal. But there's no obvious way that people would find out about the fix, since people can't load up the website properly. 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.

An employee of Indian IT security solutions company Innefu Labs works at its offices in New Delhi. Newer fields, including artificial intelligence, will require highly advanced skills, analysts say. An employee of Indian IT security solutions company Innefu Labs works at its offices in New Delhi. Newer fields, including artificial intelligence, will require highly advanced skills, analysts say. Madeshwaran Subramani is the human face of IT disruption in India.

North Korea has been accused of spying on South Korea after a suspected Pyongyang drone was spotted on the site of a U.S. missile interceptor system, Seoul's military officials said Tuesday. The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system, which is designed to intercept and destroy ballistic missiles, is being deployed in Seongju in order to protect South Korea from Pyongyang's growing threats. According to Yonhap News, the small unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with a Sony-made camera was found last week on a mountain near the inter-Korean border. The drone had apparently crashed close to the THAAD site. The South's military took the drone in custody and analysed the content of the 64-gigabyte memory chip.