UK police could soon have the power to remotely disable mobile phones, even before the user actually commits a crime. The Digital Economy Act, which has just passed into law, contains a section stating that officers will be able to place restrictions on handsets that they believe are being used by drug dealers. The Home Office has told The Independent that UK police haven't gained the powers yet, as "the introduction of powers included within Acts are often staggered and further details will be developed by the next Government". The next Secretary of State needs to make regulations, which then have to be approved by both Houses of Parliament, before officers can start targeting phones. 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.

A new generation of prosthetic limbs which allow the wearer to reach for objects automatically, without thinking – just like a real hand – are to be trialed for the first time. The cutting-edge research was lead by a team at Newcastle University who claim to have developed a prosthetic hand that is able to "see" objects in front of it using a simple Logitech webcam, and respond via software to assess and grasp them. The prosthetic hand is able to see and grasp objects automatically without the need to "think"; just like a real hand, says the University The next-gen prosthetic hand works via a fitted camera which instantaneously takes a picture of the object in front of it, assesses its shape and size and triggers a series of movements in the hand. Bypassing the usual processes which require the user to see the object, physically stimulate the muscles in the arm and trigger a movement in the prosthetic limb, the hand'sees' and reacts in one fluid movement. The Newcastle University research team said it is working with experts at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to offer the'hands with eyes' to patients at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital.

OpenML is an online machine learning platform where researchers can easily share data, machine learning tasks and experiments as well as organize them online to work and collaborate more efficiently. In this paper, we present an R package to interface with the OpenML platform and illustrate its usage in combination with the machine learning R package mlr. We show how the OpenML package allows R users to easily search, download and upload data sets and machine learning tasks. Furthermore, we also show how to upload results of experiments, share them with others and download results from other users. Beyond ensuring reproducibility of results, the OpenML platform automates much of the drudge work, speeds up research, facilitates collaboration and increases the users' visibility online.

Prince Harry will look just like his dad in twenty years time, if this app is anything to go by. FaceApp offers a glimpse of things to come with filters that show how celebrities might age - and even what they could look like as a different sex. The filters can be applied to the image in seconds - sometimes with dramatic results. Saint-Petersburg-based face-scanning app, FaceApp, reveals what people might look like if they were a different age or gender. The filters can be applied to the image in seconds with dramatic results.

Amazon is set to give its Echo speaker a radical overhaul - and a screen. According to CNET, Amazon will reveal the new Echo device, codenamed'Knight' next month. Earlier this week it introduced Echo Look, a'style assistant' smart camera priced at $200. According to CNET, Amazon will reveal the new Echo device, codenamed'Knight' next month. Earlier this week it introduced Echo Look, a'style assistant' smart camera priced at $200.

A revolutionary bionic hand that'sees' objects and instantly decides what kind of grip to adopt has been developed by scientists. For the first time, the hand can self-select one of four grips depending on whether it is picking up an apple or holding a pen between thumb and forefinger. All the person in charge of it must do is glance at the object they want to pick up and picture clenching their fist. The breakthrough, which uses a 99p ($1.30) webcam to work out the grasp needed, does away with hours of exhausting training for amputees using clumsy traditional prosthetics. The team programmed the hand to perform four'grasps' suitable for picking up a cup, holding a TV remote, and gripping objects with a thumb and two fingers or a pinched thumb and first finger A camera fitted to the hand rapidly takes a picture of the object in front of it and feeds the information to an electronic'brain'.

We are delighted to announce that AiSolve will be speaking at the eHealth Week conference in Malta on the 11th of May. The event, held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Malta from 10-12 of May, is an international conference with the theme "Data for Health". During eHealth Week speakers and delegates will explore the changing ways in which personal health data is created, stored, shared and used. Overall it is a unique experience that gives people the opportunity to see new technologies. Our CEO Devi Kolli will be presenting case studies of Artificial Intelligence driven VR training simulations in Healthcare and the best use of Oculus Rift and its touch controllers.

This is the second'I, Lawyer' podcast Artificial Lawyer/TromansConsulting has done with Sweden's leading legal tech writer, Fredrik Svärd, who runs the super-informative, Legaltech.se In this approximately 30 minutes chat we knock around a few subjects, such as where legal AI as an industry has got to; how the use of algorithms does not always mean there is any AI involved; why AI may be the answer to removing bias rather than the cause of it, and much, much more. We also give a special shout out to Lexpo, which is now just around the corner and will take place in Amsterdam 8 9 May 2017. Many thanks to Fred for organising and producing the podcast, which is below on Soundcloud.

When the cybersecurity industry warns of digital threats to the "internet of things," the targets that come to mind are ill-conceived, insecure consumer products like hackable lightbulbs and refrigerators. But one group of researchers has shown how hackers can perform far more serious physical sabotage: tweaking an industrial robotic arm to cost millions of dollars worth of product defects, and possibly to damage the machinery itself or its human operator. Researchers at the security firm Trend Micro and Italy's Politecnico Milano have spent the last year and a half exploring that risk of a networked and internet-connected industrial robot. At the IEEE Security & Privacy conference later this month, they plan to present a case study of attack techniques they developed to subtly sabotage and even fully hijack a 220-pound industrial robotic arm capable of wielding gripping claws, welding tools, or even lasers. The ABB IRB140 they compromised has applications in everything from automotive manufacturing to food processing and packaging to pharmaceuticals.

Software robots can perform human tasks, such as reading screens, saving email attachments, and importing info into a company's database. The $30m raised last week by UiPath, which builds apps to automate repetitive office work, is the largest investment a Romanian startup has ever received. Its tools are used by leading companies working in financial services, insurance, and healthcare, and each software robot license can replace up to five low-skilled full-time human employees, UiPath says. New robotic process automation tools can take over mundane data entry and other process tasks for your IT team. The firm's software robots mimic human users.