"Alexa, tell Deebot to clean." If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue. However, our picks and opinions are independent from USA Today's newsroom and any business incentives. Vacuuming might be the worst chore out there. It's tedious and time-consuming, but if you want clean floors you have to do it every single day.

A new California law will ban the creation and distribution of deepfake pornography produced without the consent of the person it depicts. Statutory damages range between $1,500 and $30,000, while cases in which malice can be demonstrated, damages rise to $150,000. The bill is part of a larger deepfake package that will also make it illegal to create and distribute deepfake videos of political figures within 60 days of an election. Katy Perry's face (pictured above) was swapped onto an adult film actress' body for a short video, something that the new California law will make illegal. Almost all deepfake videos are circulated online are pornographic, with one study suggesting the figure is 96 percent.

US: Telecommunication infrastructure owners have some of the most widely distributed and remote assets to build, maintain, and repair. With approximately 27,000 distributed sites and 6,000 communication towers under management, Telstra is Australia's leading telecommunication service provider. Traditional inspection methods of towers involve manually taking photographs and measurements. This requires workers climbing on the towers, usually in remote areas, making the process dangerous, inefficient, costly, and time-consuming. In 2017, Telstra engaged SiteSee to perform automated as-built and condition assessment reports by applying machine learning and object recognition technology to 3D reality meshes.

Team "say NOOOOO to overfittttting" did just that and took first place in the Microsoft Malware Classification Challenge. Sponsored by the WWW 2015 / BIG 2015 conferences, competitors were given nearly half a terabyte of data (when uncompressed!) and tasked with classifying variants of malware into their respective families. This blog outlines their winning approach and includes key visuals from their analysis. Little Boat: I was learning Python by doing the Harvard CS109 online, and was trying to find some practical projects to do. Then Google suggested Kaggle (not surprised!).

A study co-written by a Southwest Research Institute scientist describes a new algorithm that combines the capabilities of two spacecraft instruments, which could result in lower cost and higher efficiency space missions. The virtual "super instrument," is a computer algorithm that utilizes deep learning to analyze ultraviolet images of the Sun, taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, and measure the energy that the Sun emits as ultraviolet light. "Deep learning is an emerging capability that is revolutionizing the way we interact with data," said Dr. Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo, senior research scientist at SwRI. Muñoz-Jaramillo co-authored the study, published this month in Science Advances, alongside collaborators from nine other institutions as part of NASA's Frontier Development Laboratory. The laboratory is an applied artificial intelligence research accelerator that applies deep learning and machine learning techniques to challenges in space science and exploration.

Driven by growing interest in artificial intelligence (AI), the global artificial neural network market is projected to grow from $117 million in 2019 to $296 million by 2024, for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.5%, according to a study Artificial Neural Network Market by MarketsandMarkets. The study said the major factors fueling the market growth include the increasing demand to train large volume of data sets with low supervision to drive the market, and growing need for enhanced processing power, learning ability and speed of neural networks to drive the growth of the market. According to the study, the artificial neural network market is segmented into two categories, managed services and professional services. The professional services category includes the consulting services segment. This sector is expected to grow at a rapid pace during the forecast period as consulting services help organizations to utilize ANN tools capabilities that uses graph structures for semantic queries with nodes, edges, and properties to represent and store connected data.

IT and data leaders are constantly challenged to keep up with new trends in emerging and disruptive technologies, and to determine how each can best aid the organization. In the midst of all the changes going on in 2019, it gets increasingly hard to know where to invest in all this new technology. To help add clarity, here are my thoughts on some of the most important trends that will shape data management and software development for the next couple of years. The business multi-verse expands through multi-cloud as data inefficiencies are solved: Multi-cloud promises tremendous reward if it can be used properly, but data inefficiencies and complicated compliance policies hinder progress for many. Expect to see some of those data inefficiencies fade away as effective data strategies are implemented and new technologies unleash true multi-cloud functionality to the masses.

Waymo might just expand its self-driving car service to southern California... eventually. The Alphabet company's cars will start mapping some Los Angeles streets this week to explore the possibility of fitting autonomous vehicles into the city's "dynamic transportation environment." The firm told Engadget that its initial effort will be limited to three cars in the downtown area and the Miracle Mile, but that still raise the possibility of seeing a modified Pacifica cruising down the boulevard. The company stressed that this isn't a definitive sign that Waymo One or similar driverless services are coming to LA. Rather, this is to gauge the viability of introducing services "one day." While LA has been open to self-driving initiatives, it's not really a hub for them -- you have to travel to the San Francisco Bay Area if you want that in California.

Deep Genomics, the Toronto-based AI therapeutics startup, has made the first-ever discovery of a diseases treatment and drug candidate using artificial intelligence. The startup announced on Wednesday that its propriety AI-based drug discovery platform has identified a novel treatment target and corresponding drug candidate for Wilson disease, a rare and potentially life-threatening genetic disorder. "Our AI systems can figure out how diseases are caused and how to fix those diseases much more rapidly than humans ever could." "This is the amazing accomplishment for the team," Brendan Frey, founder and CEO of Deep Genomics, told BetaKit. He noted that part of Deep Genomic's goal is to "help everyone in the world" use the discovery and technology its developing in Canada to support discovery and development more broadly.

If you're like the majority of humans on the planet, going to the dentist isn't on the top of your list of things to do for fun. But with artificial intelligence (AI) and new tech and innovative design, it might start to be a bit more intriguing. AI might not be able to do the actual brushing and flossing for you (yet), but it will certainly change your experience the next time you're sitting in the dentist's chair. From analysing X-rays to documenting the results of your visit, artificial intelligence will be relied upon to make your dental appointment more efficient and to enhance your care. Dentem created a platform that integrates machine learning APIs, including the ability to auto-populate tooth charting.