That fake news and misinformation on Facebook could have influenced the outcome of the US presidential election is worrying (Opinion, 15 November), but, in reality, this is only tinkering around the edges of a major problem. The first amendment of the US constitution was designed to protect freedom of the press. However, for the most part, the supreme court has failed to use it to rule on libel cases: hence tabloids such as the National Enquirer can get away with printing pretty much anything they like. It is possible to police the publishing and broadcasting industry – if nations are willing to do it. Sufficient staff (not robots) need to be employed to fact-check before publishing or broadcasting.

SALT LAKE CITY, UT--(Marketwired - Nov 14, 2016) - SC16 -- To help companies join the AI revolution, NVIDIA today announced a collaboration with Microsoft to accelerate AI in the enterprise. Using the first purpose-built enterprise AI framework optimized to run on NVIDIA Tesla GPUs in Microsoft Azure or on-premises, enterprises now have an AI platform that spans from their data center to Microsoft's cloud. "Every industry has awoken to the potential of AI," said Jen-Hsun Huang, founder and chief executive officer, NVIDIA. "We've worked with Microsoft to create a lightning-fast AI platform that is available from on-premises with our DGX-1 supercomputer to the Microsoft Azure cloud. With Microsoft's global reach, every company around the world can now tap the power of AI to transform their business."

SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 14, 2016) - NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today announced that it is teaming up with the National Cancer Institute, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and several national laboratories on an initiative to accelerate cancer research. The initiative -- known as the Cancer Moonshot, announced by President Barack Obama during his 2016 State of the Union Address, and led by Vice President Joseph Biden -- aims to deliver a decade of advances in cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment in just five years. The research efforts include a focus on building an AI framework called CANDLE (Cancer Distributed Learning Environment), which will provide a common discovery platform that brings the power of AI to the fight against cancer. CANDLE will be the first AI framework designed to change the way we understand cancer, providing data scientists around the world with a powerful tool against this disease. Teams collaborating on CANDLE include researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research and DOE, as well as at Argonne, Oak Ridge, Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories.

Boston -- November 15, 2016 -- Machine learning automation leader DataRobot today announced the integration of its enterprise machine learning platform with the Alteryx, Inc. self-service data analytics platform. The Alteryx connector for DataRobot allows users of both platforms to simplify and automate the end-to-end workflow for predictive analytics, from data preparation to modeling to deployment. The connector is now available to download from the Alteryx Analytics Gallery. Predictive analytics can be challenging and complex, often requiring disconnected tools and a variety of programming environments to blend data from disparate sources, build predictive models and then seamlessly deploy them so they can drive real business value. The integration of Alteryx and DataRobot brings together self-service data preparation, blending and advanced analytics from Alteryx with intuitive, automated machine learning from DataRobot.

Electronics giant Samsung on Monday said it will buy U.S. car and audio systems supplier Harman International for $8 billion. South Korean electronics giant Samsung looks to very quickly get up to speed in the highly-competitive smart car business with its $8 billion acquisition of U.S. car and audio systems supplier Harman International The all-cash deal will see Samsung buy the Stamford, Conn.-headquartered firm for $112.00 per share. It is the biggest acquisition in Samsung's history, the company said. Automotive electronics is expected to grow to more than $100 billion by 2025, estimates Samsung, which has made the segment a strategic priority. But the electronics titan -- hit in recent weeks by the recalls of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone and some washing machines with tops that could detach -- is playing catchup in smart cars to competitors such as Apple, which has a CarPlay feature available in a growing number of vehicles, and Google and its Android Auto in-car platform.

Wipro Cited as a Leader in Service Providers for Next-generation Oracle Application Projects by Leading Independent Research and Advisory Firm Business Wire India Wipro Ltd. (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company today announced that Wipro has been cited as a "Leader" by technology global research and advisory firm Forrester Research Inc. in its report, 'The Forrester Wave(TM): Services Providers for Next-Generation Oracle Application Projects, Q3 2016'. Forrester evaluated 13 service providers across three categories of current offering, strategy and market presence. Forrester wrote, "Wipro is a proven provider making big investments in the shift to cloud. It has a long track record of delivering Oracle services ... [Wipro] was recognized by Oracle with a co-innovation award at Oracle's Collaborate conference in 2016." According to the Forrester report: "Wipro wants to be the partner of choice for tomorrow's digital businesses; it has invested in its own artificial intelligence tool, [Wipro HOLMES Artificial Intelligence Platform(TM)], and in next-generation Oracle technologies. Wipro has recently started to invest in digital experience and customer journey mapping capabilities, including its acquisition of Designit and associated studios."

CAMBRIDGE, MA - 10 Nov 2016: IBM Watson Health (NYSE: IBM) and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard today announced a research initiative aimed at discovering the basis of cancer drug resistance. The five year, $50 million project will study thousands of drug resistant tumors and draw on Watson's computational and machine learning methods to help researchers understand how cancers become resistant to therapies. The anonymized data will be made available to the scientific community to catalyze research worldwide. To help understand how cancers become resistant to specific therapies, Broad Institute will generate tumor genome sequence data from patients who initially respond to treatment but who then become drug-resistant. Broad will use new genome-editing methods to conduct large-scale cancer drug resistance studies in the laboratory, to help identify tumors' specific vulnerabilities.

Global awareness of data privacy and its implications is improving, not least due to a spate of high profile image hacks. But this has been slow to translate directly into changed behaviour, as in many instances there has been no alternative to storing and archiving images other than on global online services, where data can be mined, hacked and shared. Pimloc, which intends to provide that alternative, was founded in March this year by serial entrepreneur Simon Randall. The founding team includes some of the world's foremost thinkers in deep learning visual technology and computer vision application development across a range of fields. The firm has already completed an oversubscribed seed funding round lead by staff and UK business angels.

Beleaguered action camera maker GoPro is recalling its new Karma drone just weeks after it launched, the company announced late Tuesday as many Americans were glued to coverage of the Presidential election. The recall affects all approximately 2,500 Karma units GoPro has sold thus far, representing a major blow as the holiday shopping season draws near. GoPro says it issued the recall after it was discovered that the Karma lost power during flight in "a very small number of cases." No injuries or property damage has been reported as a result of the malfunctions, the company says. Those who have purchased a Karma will receive a full refund.

Udacity, the education platform focused on helping workers gain skills they need for great careers in tech, has partnered with IBM Watson, Didi Chuxing and Amazon Alexa to offer a new nanodegree in artificial intelligence, the companies announced today at the IBM World of Watson conference. IBM Watson is co-developing the curriculum of the course with Udacity. Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing intends to hire students who successfully complete the nanodegree, as does IBM. And Amazon Alexa is serving as an advisor to Udacity in developing the new AI nanodegree. According to Udacity's founder Sebastian Thrun, who previously started Google's innovation shop Google X and its self-driving car initiative, the new AI nanodegree will be for students who already have a level of mastery in software development.