Self-driving cars may be coming sooner than you think! Google has expanded their testing program to Phoenix! Rob Smith (@robsmithonline) fills you in on all the new developments. In this Monday, Dec. 21, 2015, photo, Lucy Mueller poses with her 2015 Fiat 500 in Los Angeles. SAN FRANCISCO -- Google's autonomous car execs have made no secret of their interest in finding a partner in the automotive manufacturing world for their technology. According to two reports, Google is in late stages of talks with Fiat Chrysler about a partnership that would transfer the tech company's self-driving car innovations to the group's expansive line-up, which ranges from Chrysler mini-vans to Ferrari supercars.

Alphabet founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are so enamored with the guy they put in charge of Google, CEO Sundar Pichai, that they turned him into an honorary founder and let him write their annual Founder's Letter this year. The Founder's Letter is traditionally when the founders spell out their vision for the company. But Page explained that he's so "pleased with Sundar's performance" and because "the majority of our big bets are in Google" that he decided to give Pichai "the bully-pulpit here" to talk about Google. A more cynical take would be that Page also wanted to sidestep talking about the controversies plaguing the other side of Alphabet, the so-called "Other Bets" division outside of the Google unit. As Business Insider's Jillian D'Onfro reports, although Alphabet makes 99% of its revenue from Google, mostly from its gargantuan ads businesses, it has been the "Other Bets" that have attracted the most media attention in recent months.

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Artificial Intelligence and the Agricultural Industry" report to their offering. The world population will grow from 7.3 billion people today to 8.2 billion by 2025, and 9.7 billion by 2050. As a society, we will need to produce 70% more food than is currently produced today. The agricultural Industry requires a revolution and artificial intelligence is that revolution. Artificial intelligence will drive five use cases that will enable the industry to balance the need to produce more food and the need to reduce environmental impact.

Inside Science Minds presents an ongoing series of guest columnists and personal perspectives presented by scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and others in the science community showcasing some of the most interesting ideas in science today. In fact, upon reflection, it was amazing how often the word "algorithm" came up in the course of our conversations with these accomplished scientists. The boom in software and computing has achieved powerful and profound results in our society. And, yes, the world is a better place, thanks to data analytics. But we need to slow down and regain our perspective, because Big Data and machine learning are absolutely not ends unto themselves, and they certainly aren't a replacement for basic scientific research and exploration.

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

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Speaking after the first day of the ICT meeting, Takaichi said she introduced eight basic principles Tokyo believes important when developing computer science that gives machines human-like intelligence, and that she was generally supported in calling for further discussion. The eight principles include making AI networks controllable by human beings and respect for human dignity and privacy. "The development of AI is expected to progress at a tremendous pace of speed, and it should be amazing technology that does not give anxiety to people," the minister of internal affairs and communications told reporters, noting the need to deepen international discussion about establishing a basic set of rules. The first G-7 ICT ministerial meeting in nearly two decades comes at a time when cyberattacks have become a global reality and the development of such potentially revolutionary technologies as artificial intelligence and the "Internet of Things" (IoT) -- the concept of connecting various products to the Internet -- continues apace. With cyberattacks having become a global reality, participants from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States discussed at the G-7 meeting ways to utilize advances in the field to drive economic growth while ensuring data security.

Why did I bother writing this? Well, here is one of the most trivial yet life-changing insights and worldly wisdoms from my former professor that has become my mantra ever since: "If you have to do this task more than 3 times just write a script and automate it." By now, you may have already started wondering about this blog. I haven't written anything for more than half a year! Okay, musings on social network platforms aside, that's not true: I have written something – about 400 pages to be precise. This has really been quite a journey for me lately. And regarding the frequently asked question "Why did you choose Python for Machine Learning?" I guess it is about time to write my script. In the following paragraphs, I really don't mean to tell you why you or anyone else should use Python. To be honest, I really hate those types of questions: "Which * is the best?" (* insert "programming language, text editor, IDE, operating system, computer manufacturer" here).

Phishing is one of the major challenges faced by the world of e-commerce today. Thanks to phishing attacks, billions of dollars have been lost by many companies and individuals. In 2012, an online report put the loss due to phishing attack at about 1.5 billion. This global impact of phishing attacks will continue to be on the increase and thus requires more efficient phishing detection techniques to curb the menace. This paper investigates and reports the use of random forest machine learning algorithm in classification of phishing attacks, with the major objective of developing an improved phishing email classifier with better prediction accuracy and fewer numbers of features. From a dataset consisting of 2000 phishing and ham emails, a set of prominent phishing email features (identified from the literature) were extracted and used by the machine learning algorithm with a resulting classification accuracy of 99.7% and low false negative (FN) and false positive (FP) rates.

Proponents of autonomous vehicles are in a sticky situation. Self-driving technology is expected to have a tremendous impact on public health and reduce the 1.25 million deaths every year on global roads. At the same time, this emerging technology is a threat to the employment of the millions who are paid to sit behind the wheel -- from truck drivers to cab drivers and delivery workers. Baidu chief scientist Andrew Ng, an expert in the world of artificial intelligence, acknowledges the unemployment concerns, but he sees a way forward that offers society the benefits of autonomous vehicles and blunts the negative impact of job losses. "I feel a strong moral responsibility or obligation to try to make self-driving cars a reality as quickly as possible," Ng said in a visit to The Washington Post.