Earlier this year, concerns over the development of autonomous military systems -- essentially AI-driven machinery capable of making battlefield decisions, including the selection of targets -- were once again the center of attention at a United Nations meeting in Geneva. "Where is the line going to be drawn between human and machine decision-making?" Paul Scharre, director of the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, D.C., told Time magazine. "Are we going to be willing to delegate lethal authority to the machine?" "Malicious computer programs that could be described as'intelligent autonomous agents' are what steal people's data."

In February 2018 Alibaba Cloud launched Cloud and AI Solutions in Europe to meet changing needs in digital transformation. The company rolled out an array of products at the Mobile World Congress to meet the surging demand for powerful and reliable cloud computing services as well as advanced AI solutions among European enterprises to support them to capture opportunities in this digital transformation era. Today, the Alibaba Group has announced the launch of their new retail experience powered by Alibaba FashionAI. Strategically partnering up with GUESS on the FashionAI project, Alibaba has come up with a way for customers to experience personalised mix-and-match recommendations from Alibaba's FashionAI. Scheduled to be open to the public on the 5th- 7th July 2018, the concept store will house garments and accessories by GUESS.

Moving stuff by air may be quick and convenient, but it's also horridly expensive, accounting for just 1 percent of global shipping by volume--and 35 percent of it by cost. So while autonomous drones dropping a few pounds of snacks or medical supplies are generating plenty of buzz, two Bulgarian brothers see an opening in the long-haul business. And they think they've got the tech to start flying hundreds of pounds of cargo over hundreds of miles, no pilot or 747 required. Svilen and Konstantin Rangelov are the CEO and chief technology officer, respectively, of Dronamics. They've spent the past four years developing an aircraft that can haul nearly 800 pounds of cargo up to 1,550 miles, a far cry from the 10 or 15 miles, or even just a few blocks, that most drone delivery services are targeting.

Better Life Lab is a partnership of Slate and New America. In an age where every day brings more doomsday forecasts of massive technologicallybdriven unemployment, from driverless cars to A.I. robots as caregivers, journalist Annie Lowrey set out to answer a question: Is it possible to live in a world where we get what she calls "wages for breathing"? This week her findings come out in Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World. We spoke about what the idea of giving every American cash--no strings attached--would mean for work, gender inequality, and American identity, and whether it's actually a policy that could pass in the U.S. given the current climate of tying even the most basic benefits to paid work. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.

Drones have a habit of crashing. If they are ever to be relied on for delivering packages in complex environments like cities, they're going to have to get smarter. A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and Intel has come up with a way for drones to do this – learn to dodge obstacles as they fly. Elia Kaufmann and colleagues wanted to develop drones that could autonomously pilot themselves through hoops or gates used in drone racing.

Apple's latest software brings new technology that could keep the most secret parts of your phone safe. That is intended to stop the use of high-tech devices that can plug into the bottom of the phone and then break through its security. The use of such technology has risen in recent years. Although everything on an iPhone is protected by a passcode, attacking the phones through their USB port can serve as a way around that protection – potentially exposing all of the hidden information on a phone. 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.

And it turns out to be just as crucial in social media marketing. But if you haven't learned that yet, don't worry; the machines you use are already learning it. It may sound like something out of a sci-fi movie, but machine learning has become a reality. Machine learning happens by way of algorithms. Merriam-Webster defines an algorithm as a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem or accomplishing some end, especially by a computer.

There is no universally agreed definition of AI. Broadly speaking, AI tends to refer to computing technologies that replicate or resemble processes and tasks associated with human intelligence, such as reasoning, sensory understanding, and interaction. AI technologies work in different ways, but most use large quantities of data to produce an output. For example, machine learning, a type of AI that has been particularly successful in recent years, works by learning and deriving its own rules from data and experience. At the moment, most health-related applications of AI are at the research or early trial stage and it is not yet clear how successful they will be in wider healthcare systems.

Have you put a bet on the FIFA World Cup? If yes, the chances are you've made a pretty educated guess, right? You know which team has the strongest players or most favourable odds. Or maybe you've put some cash on your country's team, (which normally I'd avoid England, but given their recent performance, I could be wrong to!) Either way, you might be best casting your bets in line with San Francisco based Unanimous AI. They use a technology called Swarm AI – algorithms modelled on swarms in nature that amplifies human intelligence.

The basis of GDPR is the privacy of data for citizens and consumers of EU countries and the methods needed to track and enforce GDPR will need to have intelligent methods to process the large amount of data that will need to be sorted to identify GDPR compliance or non-compliance. According to Dr. Shane Archiquette, CTO – Global Communications, Media & Entertainment, Global Markets and Technology Architecture, AI-assisted auditing will most likely be the method used to look for patterns across multiple disparate datasets that businesses will need to produce and process. In addition, AI will provide a composable method to machine-learn new areas that are identified by GDPR legal precedence as new cases are opened and closed. According to a recent report, European Union Institute researchers created AI-enabled software to scrutinize the privacy policies of 14 major technology companies for violations of the new GDPR. They found that 1/3 rd of the clauses contained "insufficient information," with 11% of the policies' sentences using "unclear language."