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Brain tests predict children's futures
Brain tests at the age of three appear to predict a child's future chance of success in life, say researchers. Low cognitive test scores for skills like language indicate less developed brains, possibly caused by too little stimulation in early life, they say. These youngsters are more likely to become criminals, dependent on welfare or chronically ill unless they are given support later on, they add. Their study in New Zealand appears in the journal, Nature Human Behaviour. The US researchers from Duke University say the findings highlight the importance of early life experiences and interventions to support vulnerable youngsters.
IBM to use AI to help banks with cybersecurity
IBM launched its IBM Watson for Cyber Security program in beta on Tuesday, and announced that it already has 40 clients signed up, including global leaders in the banking and insurance industries. Companies like Sun Financial and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation will test the ability of Watson -- IBM's artificial intelligence (AI) -- to identify and fight cyberattacks. Watson will help them more easily identify specific malware programs and provide background on known cybercrime campaigns, as well as more accurately pinpoint suspicious behavior. At the same time, Watson will better learn how to interpret cybersecurity data and improve its analytical capabilities. One problem the program aims to solve is a lack of accessible information on past cyberattacks.
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The robot with a human touch: Optical sensors allow a machine hand to sense subtle shapes and textures
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Basic income makes more sense than ever in the Trump era
By that time, economists predict robotics and artificial intelligence will have begun their unstoppable march into American factories. People will start losing their jobs en masse, and it'll be up to President Trump and his cabinet to devise an economic escape plan. A growing band of advocates argue it doesn't have to turn out this way if Trump embraces a radical form of wealth distribution known as basic income. Trump's preparations (or lack thereof) for a future of robotic automation will begin with how he addresses the current concerns of middle America, where manufacturing jobs are already dying and people are desperate for change. Plenty of people just want work that generates enough money to keep their family safe and healthy.
Hansard: Official transcript of speeches in Parliament
The official edited transcript of what goes on in Parliament is published daily and details both the momentous occasions and the quieter moments in the Commons. Daily Politics reporter Ellie Price met some of the Hansard team - Vivien Wilson, Helen Lowe and Jack Homer - who hear, and publish, every word that is said in Parliament.
Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, and the Modern Whistleblower
In the summer of 1967, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara commissioned a group of thirty-six scholars to write a secret history of the Vietnam War. The project took a year and a half, ran to seven thousand pages, and filled forty-seven volumes. Only a handful of copies were made, and most were kept under lock and key in and around the Beltway. One set, however, ended up at the RAND Corporation, in Santa Monica, where it was read, from start to finish, by a young analyst there named Daniel Ellsberg. Ellsberg was dismayed by what he learned. For a generation, the U.S. government had been lying to the American people about the Vietnam War. He put the first of the volumes in his briefcase, praying that the security guards at RAND would not stop him, and made his way to a small advertising agency in West Hollywood, where a friend told him there was a Xerox machine he could use. "It was a big one, advanced for its time, but very slow by today's standards," Ellsberg writes in his 2002 autobiography, "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers": It could do only one page at a time, and it took several seconds to do each page. I tried pressing the book down on the glass to do two pages at a time, but the middle section was faint and uneven. Fortunately the books were bound with metal tapes through holes so they could be taken apart. . . . The machine didn't collate, and the bar had to come back and travel just as slowly for each copy.
Our Automated Future
There are many accounts of the genesis of Watson. The most popular, which is not necessarily the most accurate--and this is the sort of problem that Watson himself often stumbled on--begins in 2004, at a steakhouse near Poughkeepsie. One evening, an I.B.M. executive named Charles Lickel was having dinner there when he noticed that the tables around him had suddenly emptied out. Instead of finishing their sirloins, his fellow-diners had rushed to the bar to watch "Jeopardy!" This was deep into Ken Jennings's seventy-four-game winning streak, and the crowd around the TV was rapt. Not long afterward, Lickel attended a brainstorming session in which participants were asked to come up with I.B.M.'s next "grand challenge." The firm, he suggested, should take on Jennings.
A Stronger, Faster Predator Drone Could Soon Prowl Europe's Airspace
Since entering service in 1995, the Predator drone has proven itself as the first remotely piloted aircraft to gather useful and consistent reconnaissance and surveillance intel in combat, and the first to remotely attack targets with its own weapons. A new version hopes to establish another first: Operate in civil airspace, starting with Europe. General Atomic's updated Predator made its maiden flight last month in Palmdale, California. The Certifiable Predator B is the latest in a lineage that include several models of the original MQ-1 Predator, and numerous incarnations of the beefier Predator B--renamed the MQ-9 Reaper--upon which the new model is based. It's slated to enter service in late 2018 with the UK's Royal Air Force, which has ordered 16, plus the ground stations that house the cockpits and communication hardware.