Google self-driving cars are shown outside the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., in May 2014. Google self-driving cars are shown outside the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., in May 2014. An accident last month in Tempe, Ariz., involving a self-driving Uber car highlighted some novel new issues regarding fault and liability that experts say will come up more often as autonomous vehicles hit the road. And that will having an increasing impact on an insurance industry that so far has no road map for how to deal with the new technologies. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett, whose company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns the insurance giant Geico, told CNBC in a February interview: "If the day comes when a significant portion of the cars on the road are autonomous, it will hurt Geico's business very significantly." That would seem to make sense.

Up to ten crimes involving drones are reported to police every day amid a surge in their popularity, an investigation has found. Drones are at the centre of thousands of incidents such as rows between neighbours, prison smuggling, 'scoping' before burglaries, mid-air near misses and snooping. Crimes logged by police rocketed between 2014 and 2016 – last year there were 3,456 incidents, equivalent to nearly ten a day. It is almost triple the 2015 figure of 1,237 and more than 12 times the 2014 tally of 283. The true total is likely to be higher as full data was not available for all UK forces.

U.S. education systems must prepare students to compete with robots in the future's job market, warns Jeb Bush. The former Florida governor told AM 970's John Catsimatidis: 'This is not something that's science fiction. This is happening as we speak. The failed 2016 Republican presidential candidate said: 'The looming challenge of automation and artificial intelligence and the rapid advancement of technology brings great benefits but also creates huge challenges.' Jeb Bush, pictured in September 2016, said that education in the U.S. needs an overhaul to help workers compete with robots in the future's job market The former Florida governor and failed 2016 Republican presidential candidate said: 'This is not something that's science fiction. This is happening as we speak.

Robots will not take everyone's job away. The male workforce with low level of instruction is the segment of the population that will pay the highest price of the technological unemployment, that Keynes predicted almost a century ago. At least, that is what the latest report from the English consulting firm PWC reveals. According to which, in the UK, 30% of existing professions will be automated by 2030. The three sectors that will be most affected are mechanics and routine laborers, in the areas of transportation (56%), manufacturing (46%) and wholesale (44%).

"Supergirl" stars Chyler Leigh and Floriana Lima revealed that they were pleasantly surprised by how significant Alex and Maggie's relationship has become to viewers who are struggling with their sexuality. "There was no way we would have known the impact that this would have had," Leigh told People at the 28th GLAAD Media Awards ceremony, where "Supergirl" was nominated for best dramatic TV show for its story featuring the lesbian relationship of Alex and Maggie. "We definitely wanted [Alex and Maggie's relationship] to be a strong representation, and that's why we've thought so hard about it and wanted it to be beautifully done," Leigh continued. "So I'm just really happy with the writers of'Supergirl,' who have really brought this to life." READ: Is there a James-centric "Supergirl" episode coming up? "We're just really humbled by it, very proud of it," added Lima who attended the awards night with Leigh.

Folk music is part of a rich cultural context that stretches back into the past, encompassing the real and the mythical, bound to the traditions of the culture in which it arises. Artificial intelligence, on the other hand, has no culture, no traditions. But it has shown great ability: beating grand masters at chess and Go, for example, or demonstrating uncanny wordplay skills when IBM Watson beat human competitors at Jeopardy. Could the power of AI be put to use to create music? This is not entirely unprecedented: an artificial intelligence co-wrote a piece of musical theatre, from the storyline to the music and lyrics.

"Does the world really need another wedding photographer?" That was the thought that ran through Saskia Nelson's mind when, having spontaneously resigned from her office job at a London Olympics legacy project, she was thinking of her next move. An amateur photographer, she decided four years ago, aged 43, that she was going to go professional. But she hadn't really worked out how, and so she used her three-month notice period to consider her options, one of which was to join the army of wedding snappers. "But I thought, 'I'm not married, it's not my bag, I don't really know anything about it,'" says Saskia.

Tech-savvy paedophiles are using a series of digital techniques known as "masking" and "breadcrumbing" to hide illegal materials from regular web users online, while allowing others to track down criminal images and film by following a series of covert clues. The trend was exposed by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) in its latest annual report, which covers new information on how child sex abuse images and videos are being hosted, distributed and identified online. Normally used by cyber-criminals, the tricks are used to hide illegal material in plain sight. "If you access the site directly, you just get legitimate content," Sarah Smith, a technical researcher at the IWF, told The Independent. "If you follow the pathway through links from other sites, then it unlocks the child sexual abuse imagery. "It's stored in the browser, and it drops a cookie into the browser so it can see the trail that you've come along to actually access the site.

Traditional Linear Genetic Programming (LGP) algorithms are based only on the selection mechanism to guide the search. Genetic operators combine or mutate random portions of the individuals, without knowing if the result will lead to a fitter individual. Probabilistic Model Building Genetic Programming (PMB-GP) methods were proposed to overcome this issue through a probability model that captures the structure of the fit individuals and use it to sample new individuals. This work proposes the use of LGP with a Stochastic Context-Free Grammar (SCFG), that has a probability distribution that is updated according to selected individuals. We proposed a method for adapting the grammar into the linear representation of LGP. Tests performed with the proposed probabilistic method, and with two hybrid approaches, on several symbolic regression benchmark problems show that the results are statistically better than the obtained by the traditional LGP.

To appear in the proceedings of LPAR 21. Solving complex problems can involve non-trivial combinations of distinct knowledge bases and problem solvers. The Algebra of Modular Systems is a knowledge representation framework that provides a method for formally specifying such systems in purely semantic terms. Formally, an expression of the algebra defines a class of structures. Many expressive formalism used in practice solve the model expansion task, where a structure is given on the input and an expansion of this structure in the defined class of structures is searched (this practice overcomes the common undecidability problem for expressive logics). In this paper, we construct a solver for the model expansion task for a complex modular systems from an expression in the algebra and black-box propagators or solvers for the primitive modules. To this end, we define a general notion of propagators equipped with an explanation mechanism, an extension of the alge- bra to propagators, and a lazy conflict-driven learning algorithm. The result is a framework for seamlessly combining solving technology from different domains to produce a solver for a combined system.