New Delhi: What is the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on our lives? How can we combat increasing cyberattacks? Is the threat to digital privacy real? Co-written by Carlon Ann Browne, director of communications at Microsoft, the book will hit stands on September 10, publishing house Hachette has recently announced. The book claims not to be a self-glorifying "Microsoft memoir", but a "candid and eye-opening investigation into the most divisive issues facing tech companies and governments today -- cyberwar, privacy, mass surveillance, undermining of democracy, AI, diversity".

Google entering verticals and competing directly against publishers, advancements in machine learning and AI and zero-click searches are the trends most likely to affect SEO in the next three years, according to a SparkToro survey of over 1,500 SEOs. Trends that are here to stay? Respondents were presented with a list of choices and asked, "How much of an impact do you believe the following trends will have on SEO in the next 3 years?" Options were ranked on a zero-to-four scale; zero meaning "no impact" and four meaning "huge impact." The trend that professionals responded were least likely to affect SEO included outcomes from US Congressional and Department of Justice investigations, visual search advances and "content-nudging" products such as Google Discover.

The design of Tesla's Autopilot feature contributed to a January 2018 accident in which a Model S sedan smashed into the back of a fire truck in Southern California, according to federal safety investigators. It is the second time the National Transportation Safety Board has found Tesla partially responsible for a crash involving the semiautomated feature. The federal board says it's also investigating two other Autopilot-involved crashes. No one was hurt in the 2018 crash, but investigators found that the driver had flipped on Autopilot about 14 minutes before the crash and had not actively steered for the final 13 minutes. Investigators said the driver's inattention and overreliance on Autopilot were probable causes of the crash.

The list of existential threats to mankind on which wealthy philanthropists have focused their attention -- catastrophic climate change, pandemics and the like -- has a new addition: artificially intelligent machines that turn against their human creators. Artificial intelligence (AI) could pose a threat "greater than the danger of nuclear warheads, by a lot", according to Elon Musk, the entrepreneur behind electric car maker Tesla. As the author James Barrat put it, a superhuman intelligence, equipped with the ability to learn but without the ability to empathise, might well be Our Final Invention. Even if the machines are not going to kill us, there are plenty of reasons to worry AI will be used for ill as well as for good, and that advances in the field are coming faster than our ability to think through the consequences. Between facial recognition and autonomous drones, AI's potential impact on warfare is already obvious, stirring employee concern at Google and other pioneers in the field.

There could also be a number of challenges that tax authorities in India may face when using artificial intelligence. These can include the need to balance centralisation of tax assessment with on-ground experience, uncertainties around being able to develop models which deliver a positive impact on performance, the varying range of choices in AI solutions, and the need for skills to leverage those advanced solutions. India may soon become the first country to use artificial intelligence and machine learning in the tax assessment process. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced that the government will deploy a faceless assessment system based on AI and ML, starting October 2019. The overall process will increase the accuracy and transparency of India's tax assessment process, thereby improving the tax base and compliance.

We learn to lie as children, between the ages of two and five. By adulthood, we are prolific. We lie to our employers, our partners and, most of all, one study has found, to our mothers. The average person hears up to 200 lies a day, according to research by Jerry Jellison, a psychologist at the University of Southern California. The majority of the lies we tell are "white", the inconsequential niceties – "I love your dress!" – that grease the wheels of human interaction. But most people tell one or two "big" lies a day, says Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire. We lie to promote ourselves, protect ourselves and to hurt or avoid hurting others. The mystery is how we keep getting away with it. Our bodies expose us in every way. We stutter, stall and make Freudian slips. "No mortal can keep a secret," wrote the psychoanalyst in 1905.

Anthony Levandowski makes an unlikely prophet. Dressed Silicon Valley-casual in jeans and flanked by a PR rep rather than cloaked acolytes, the engineer known for self-driving cars--and triggering a notorious lawsuit--could be unveiling his latest startup instead of laying the foundations for a new religion. But he is doing just that. Artificial intelligence has already inspired billion-dollar companies, far-reaching research programs, and scenarios of both transcendence and doom. Now Levandowski is creating its first church.

Fox News Flash top headlines for Sept. 4 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com A New Jersey man posed as a member of the United States military on dating websites to bilk more than 30 women out of $2 million, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced. Rubbin Sarpong, 35, of Millville, was arrested Wednesday and charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Sarpong and his alleged conspirators "met and wooed the victims" on online dating sites, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said.

Jack Ma, the co-founder and executive chairman of Alibaba, calls it Alibaba Intelligence and doesn't consider AI or artificial intelligence to be a threat. Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, thinks that that comment may just be Ma's legacy - his famous last words. Musk maintains that AI won't just be as smart as humans, but will be much smarter than smartest humans. Now these two gentlemen are the leaders of some of the world's most innovative companies and have a plethora of tools at their disposal to give them a glimpse into what the future might hold. If they can't seem to agree on how AI will impact our futures, imagine the plight of millions of mortals.

Emerging technology, like blockchain technology, Artificial Intelligence, virtual reality, drones, cloud computing -- are all on the table of the Narendra Modi government as it pushes ahead to realise the goal of better e-governance for citizens. As part of its vision of providing a One Government experience to citizens, the Modi government is moving forward rapidly to implement the India Enterprise Architecture (IndEA) -- a single window digitisation solution for cashless, paperless and faceless services. At an e-Governance conference held in Shillong, Meghalaya, earlier this month, representatives of all the state governments and Union Territories, as well as business houses, brainstormed on the way ahead to provide better e-governance, and exchanged success stories of various states that could be adopted at the national level. A Shillong Declaration was adopted as a roadmap of the way forward, at the conclusion of the two-day 22nd National Conference on e-Governance (NCeG) 2019, with special focus on the Northeast, held on August 8-9, in Shillong. The conference, that saw over 500 delegates attending, with representation from states at the level of Additional Secretary and Principal Secretary, and top representatives of business houses like Wipro, HP and KPMG, was organised by the Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DARPG), in association with the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), and the Meghalaya government.