JERUSALEM – The Israeli Air Force struck in Syria to prevent an Iranian force from launching an attack on the Jewish state with drones armed with explosives, the army said Sunday. While Israel operates regularly in Syria, it rarely acknowledges its actions so swiftly, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning archfoe Iran it had no immunity from his state's military. In a briefing to reporters, military spokesman Jonathan Conricus said that late Saturday the air force "was able to thwart an Iranian attempt led by the Quds force from Syria to conduct an attack on Israeli targets in northern Israel using killer drones." According to Conricus, the Israeli attack took place in Aqraba, southeast of Damascus, and targeted "a number of terror targets and military facilities belonging to the Quds force as well as Shiite militias." The army had on Thursday prevented an earlier attempt to launch the drone attack, Conricus said, without providing further details.

A video appearing to show a Tesla driver asleep while his vehicle drove on auto-pilot has prompted criticism online. The footage, posted on Twitter by US journalist Clint Olivier and filmed by his wife Alisha, was filmed on Los Angeles' busy interstate 5 last Saturday morning. As Mr Olivier drives past the car, which is travelling steadily along the middle lane, Ms Olivier can be heard saying: "He's totally asleep. We'll tell you what's true. You can form your own view.

A video appearing to show a Tesla driver asleep while his vehicle drove on auto-pilot has prompted criticism online. The footage, posted on Twitter by US journalist Clint Olivier and filmed by his wife Alisha, was filmed on Los Angeles' busy interstate 5 last Saturday morning. As Mr Olivier drives past the car, which is travelling steadily along the middle lane, Ms Olivier can be heard saying: "He's totally asleep. We'll tell you what's true. You can form your own view.

Huawei released a new white paper earlier this month, detailing its tech predictions for the upcoming years. Notably, the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is believed by the firm to undergo several advancements in the next five years, with a massive increase in the usage of AI, particularly in the enterprise sector. The Shenzhen giant has introduced AI-based products in the past as well, conforming to its vision for the future. Today, the Chinese firm reached a major milestone in its AI roadmap, announcing Ascend 910, the "world's most powerful AI processor", and MindSpore, an AI computing framework. With this launch, the firm has unveiled all the key components of its full-stack, all-scenario AI portfolio.

Waymo, the Alphabet subsidiary that hopes to someday pepper roads with self-driving taxis, today pulled back the curtains on a portion of the data used to train the algorithms underpinning its cars: The Waymo Open Dataset. Waymo principal scientist Dragomir Anguelov claims it's the largest multimodal sensor sample corpus for autonomous driving released to date. "[W]e are inviting the research community to join us with the [debut] of the Waymo Open Dataset, [which is composed] of high-resolution sensor data collected by Waymo self-driving vehicles," wrote Anguelov in a blog post published this morning. "Data is a critical ingredient for machine learning … [and] this rich and diverse set of real-world experiences has helped our engineers and researchers develop Waymo's self-driving technology and innovative models and algorithms." The Waymo Open Dataset contains data collected over the course of the millions of miles Waymo's cars have driven in Phoenix, Kirkland, Mountain View, and San Francisco, and it covers a wide variety of urban and suburban environments during day and night, dawn and dusk, and sunshine and rain.

"With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the devil." So said Tesla chief and all-round tech titan Elon Musk back in 2014. When someone of his standing makes a statement like that, it should give pause for thought. But according to Daniel Pitchford, co-founder of AI Business, this view, while pretty common, is over-egging the situation slightly. We'll tell you what's true.

Facial mapping example used to construct a deepfake video. As society increasingly wrestles with the impact of "deep fakes" it is important to acknowledge that much of the current hype is overstated. While it is true that deep fakes constitute an important future issue, today's tools are far less developed or user-friendly than the breathless media hype and public fears might suggest. Most importantly, in many ways the rise of deep fakes mirrors the rise of Photoshop nearly 30 years ago, with a rise in falsified images met with increasing scrutiny of image-based evidence. While deep learning approaches promise higher-quality falsifications with greater ease, if Photoshop did not lead us to abandon our trust in images, do deep fakes really represent the threat we believe they do?

Waymo is opening up its significant stores of autonomous driving data with a new Open Data Set it's making available for the purposes of research. The data set isn't for commercial use, but its definition of "research" is fairly broad, and includes researchers at other companies as well as academics. The data set is "one of the largest, riches and most diverse self-driving data sets ever released for research," according to Waymo principal scientist and head of Research, Drago Anguelov, who was at both Zoox and Google prior to joining Waymo last year. Anguelov said in a briefing that the reason he initiated the push to make this data available is that Waymo and several other companies working in the field are "currently hampered by the lack of suitable data sets." "We decided to contribute our part to make, ultimately, researchers in academia ask the right questions -- and for that, they need the right data," Anguelov said.

Nuance has a long history in India as the enterprise division has worked extensively over the years with telecom and financial services companies. In an exclusive interaction with CRN India, Derek Austin, Sales Director, Dragon Professional & Consumer – Asia Pacific & Japan, Nuance Communications, Inc shares the company's roadmap for Dragon's speech recognition solution in India Please share with us Nuance's journey in India so far? I have been working with Nuance since 2004 and the company has evolved rapidly over time – from our beginning as a document imaging company, to our transformation into a leader in speech technologies, and now a focus on AI and conversational experiences. Nuance has a long history in India. We have always had strong partners here and our enterprise division has worked extensively over the years with telecom and financial services companies.