A huge data dump includes the personal information of tens of millions of people and where they have met – and its origin is a mystery. The breach includes almost 90GB of people's personal data, including details of where they have been and met people. But there is no clue where the information has actually come from in the first place. Though the information has been hosted publicly, and available to anyone, there is no hint about where it was first collected from. The dump includes listings of individual people, including information on their social media sites, phone numbers and addresses.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted that "Facebook sucks" after an argument over AI on Twitter. Mr Musk made the comments to the company's head of artificial intelligence Jerome Pesenti after Pesenti criticised Musk's knowledge of artificial intelligence. The comments came after a CNBC report that said multiple anonymous AI researchers said they saw Musk's views on the technology as inappropriate. Musk has previously warned that AI will become as intelligent as humans and could threaten humanity's very existence, saying that "there's a five to 10 percent chance of success [of making AI safe]". An AI executive speaking to CNBC, who asked to remain anonymous because their company may work for one of Musk's businesses, said that "A large proportion of the community think he's a negative distraction."

When California issued a stay-at-home order back in March to curb the spread of the coronavirus, Dana Angelo, a 33-year-old copywriter at an ad agency in Los Angeles, found herself with more free time. So, out of boredom, she turned to a social activity she could still do from home: She got back on the dating app, Bumble. Angelo said she's been rotating through online dating apps -- she's also tried Tinder and Hinge -- with minimal luck since getting out of a long-term relationship about a year ago, and had recently been taking a break. "You just see the same people on all of them and then it gets kind of depressing," Angelo said. But something surprising happened this time around: She actually met someone she genuinely likes.

Jessica Hodgins is a professor of computer science and robotics in the School of Computer Science and also directs the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research laboratory in Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on computer graphics, animation and robotics with an emphasis on generating and analyzing human motion. She is the former vice president for research at Disney Research. Hodkins received her Ph.D. in computer science at CMU in 1989 and served as an associate professor and assistant dean in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology before joining the CMU faculty in 2000. She served as associate director of faculty in the Robotics Institute from 2005 to 2015.

The COVID-19 pandemic is increasing global demand for robots that can assist in surgery and healthcare. This symposium focuses on recent advances and open problems in robot-assisted tele-surgery and tele-medicine and needs for new research and development. The online format will encourage active dialogue among faculty, students, professionals, and entrepreneurs.

The kings of Angkor Wat may have inadvertently caused the downfall of their own vast empire by seizing land from local farmers, a new study claims. Researchers studying the ancient Khmer civilisation, which thrived in modern-day Cambodia for 600 years, wanted to discover the reason for its 15th-century decline. The abandonment of Angkor has long puzzled historians, with many attributing it to the 1431 AD invasion by Thai forces, though this is hotly debated. Angkor was the capital city of this now-extinct culture, and the iconic Angkor Wat temple was built in the early 12th century by King Suryavarman II. But later, in the 1400s, kings sitting on the throne once occupied by the great Suryavarman II saw their empire crumble and eventually disappear.

Coronavirus-driven lockdown has been a boon for at least one industry. According to a quarterly analysis from market research group NPD, video game spending in the US, which includes sales on games and merchandise, hit historic highs in the first quarter of 2020, reaching $10.86 billion - an almost 10 percent increase over last year. Of that total about $9.5 billion was directly related to the purchasing of video game content, NPD reports. As noted by TechCrunch, the research firm says that lockdown measures are no doubt behind the significant uptick in sales. Nintendo's Switch console has been among the major beneficiaries of an increased demand for playing and buying video games'Video games have brought comfort and connection to millions during this challenging time,' NPD analyst Mat Piscatella told TechCrunch.

UK's estimated coronavirus infection rate is now between 0.7 and 1 The UK's coronavirus R value – the estimated number of people each person infects – is now between 0.7 and 1, according to the government's scientific advisory group for emergencies (SAGE). Five days ago, UK prime minister Boris Johnson said R was between 0.5 and 0.9. The government's science advisors say the increase is not a reflection of coronavirus restrictions being eased in England this week, but rather due to a lag in the data that is used to model the R value. We won't know how easing restrictions has impacted the current R value for another three weeks. Only 1500 of a total of 18,000 coronavirus contact tracers – just over 8 per cent – have been recruited by the UK government by its mid-May deadline, a cabinet minister said today. The government had previously refused to say exactly how many contact tracers it had employed. Up to 8 million people could be on waiting lists for National Health Service (NHS) ...

Artificial intelligence has become an integral part of everything from medical diagnostics technology to systems that analyze electoral candidates and provide accurate information to voters. However, there are still many AI skeptics, and especially those who question the role of AI in the justice system. Many legal leaders and institutions are curious about the efficiency benefits AI brings to the field. But the big question is: can AI help make the judicial system fairer? Many claim that the United States' judicial system is one of the most robust in the world.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, federal agencies are broadening and expediting robotic process automation efforts to deal with disruptions and drive productivity. During a virtual ATARC panel Tuesday, officials from three agencies offered a glimpse into automaton use cases that are boosting operations, detailed how they're gaining buy-in from personnel along the way and considered how the present pandemic-induced reality could transform the future of work. The officials were joined by experts with insights into industry and state governments. "None of our job descriptions said'you will cut and paste, cut and paste, cut and paste.' So that's what RPA is letting us give up," Stacy Dawn, senior adviser for cybersecurity and privacy at the Housing and Urban Development Department, said.