Governments need to take people's privacy into account as more and more countries consider using facial recognition technology to beef up security, said an expert at the World Economic Forum. Facial recognition software is powerful biometric technology that can identify individuals based on digital images or video frames. Artificial intelligence, high-definition surveillance cameras, and remote sensors have made the technology more powerful and expanded the ways it can be used. "The problem's really two-fold," Kay Firth-Butterfield, head of artificial intelligence at WEF, told CNBC at the India Economic Summit.

Cybersecurity faces an emerging threat generally known as deepfakes, Malicious uses of AI generated synthetic media, the most powerful cyber-weapon in history, is just around the corner. The cybersecurity industry has only a short time to get ahead of it before it challenges public trust in reality. In response to this scary thought, Hany Farid, the "father" of digital image forensics, told The Washington Post, "Increasingly accessible tools for creating convincing fake videos are a deadly virus. However, the number of people working on the video-synthesis side, as opposed to the detector side, is 100 to 1." Nation-states and Hollywood VFX artists have been able to manipulate media since the very beginning of media, but today anyone can download deepfake software and create convincing fake videos in their spare time because the cost of producing these new forms of synthetic media has decreased significantly. It will soon be as easy to create a fake video as it is to add an Instagram filter.

How often do you think you're touched by data science in some form or another? Finding your way to this article likely involved a whole bunch of data science (whooaa). To simplify things a bit, I'll explain what data science means to me. "Data Science is the art of applying scientific methods of analysis to any kind of data so that we can unlock important information." If we unpack that, all data science really means is to answer questions by using math and science to go through data that's too much for our brains to process.

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A paralyzed man was able to walk using a mind-controlled robotic suit, French researchers report. The 30-year-old man, identified only as Thibault, moved all four of his paralyzed limbs using an exoskeleton controlled by his brain. Thibault said walking in the suit was like being the "first man on the moon," according to the BBC. While his movements were far from perfect, researchers believe the suit could one day improve patients' quality of life. So far, Thibault has only only tested it in the lab at Clinatec and the University of Grenoble in France.

Scientists are currently building the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST, https://www.lsst.org), RIT recently joined the LSST Corporation (https://www.lsstcorporation.org), a group of nearly 40 U.S. and Chilean institutional members focused on preparing the scientific community to use the new facility. Beginning in 2022, LSST will conduct a 10-year survey of the sky that will deliver a 60-petabyte set of images and a 15-petabyte data catalog to study some of the most pressing questions about the structure and evolution of the universe and objects within it. The survey is designed to probe dark energy and dark matter, take an inventory of the solar system, explore the transient optical sky and map the Milky Way. "Between now and when the survey starts, a big push in the astronomical community is getting ready for the onslaught of data LSST will produce," said Jeyhan Kartaltepe, assistant professor of physics and astronomy.

The social internet has a bot problem. Fake accounts plague Twitter and Facebook, and content designed to misinform readers has become an issue that's drawn the attention of Congress. This difficult and growing problem hasn't stopped a team of researchers from creating an algorithm that can parse news stories, then bicker with real humans in the comments section. Engineers at Beihang University and Microsoft China developed a bot that reads and comments on online news articles. They call their model "DeepCom," short for "deep commenter."

Loneliness has become an epidemic, and among ways to cope, perhaps self-driving cars might be part of the cure. We are in the midst of a loneliness epidemic. And, unfortunately, it is predicted to worsen. According to stats by the U.S. Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA), one in five Americans indicates that they are lonely and feel socially isolated. Approximately 25% of Americans live alone.

When a fight broke out recently in the parking lot of Salt Lake Park, a few miles south of downtown Los Angeles, Cogo Guebara did what seemed the most practical thing at the time: she ran over to the park's police robot to push its emergency alert button. "I was pushing the button but it said, 'step out of the way,'" Guebara said. "It just kept ringing and ringing, and I kept pushing and pushing." She thought maybe the robot, which stands about 5 feet tall and has "POLICE" emblazoned on its egg-shaped body, wanted a visual of her face, so she crouched down for the camera. Without a response, Rudy Espericuta, who was with Guebara and her children at the time, dialed 911.