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DeepMind is opening a huge new London headquarters in 2020

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DeepMind, the Alphabet-owned artificial intelligence company, will be moving into a new flagship building in 2020. While a precise date is yet to be determined, the company hopes that the new headquarters โ€“ which will feature a double helix staircase descending through a library, a roof garden, lecture theatre and lobby artwork by creatives working with data and artificial intelligence โ€“ will be operational in the first half of next year. DeepMind is currently located near to the new site in London's Kings Cross, where it has two floors in the Google building. It also has smaller, satellite offices in Paris, Edmonton, Alberta and Mountain View, California. The new, 11-storey DeepMind headquarters will cement the reputation of the Kings Cross area as London's so-called'knowledge quarter': as well as Google, Facebook has taken office space nearby, as has Samsung.


How to Clean Your Computer and Speed it up United States Cybersecurity Magazine

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It is important to regularly clean your computer. Every computer has two forms of storage, RAM and Hard Drive space. This dictates how many programs you can simultaneously run on your computer. If your RAM runs out, your computer will use the hard drive space to store the temporary memory. This will fill up your hard drive faster, and cause your computer to slow down.


Trump's Secret Wars

Slate

President Trump's executive order this week removing a requirement that the government disclose estimates of civilians killed by U.S. airstrikes outside of war zones won't change very much--in practice. But that doesn't mean it's nothing to worry about. Trump's order rescinds a requirement created in one issued by Barack Obama in 2016 that the director of national intelligence to disclose civilian casualty estimates from all strikes by U.S. government agencies. The White House says the requirement was superfluous since the Pentagon has its own congressionally mandated reporting requirements. But as Luke Hartig, who helped draft Obama's order, explains for Just Security, that law doesn't cover strikes carried out by the CIA.


With Britain Leaving the EU, the Bloc Could Lose its Optimism on AI

U.S. News

According to a European Parliament report, the U.K. has also been among the first countries in the EU to define its AI plans, with political and business leaders starting a national conversation even before the White House announced a summit on artificial intelligence in May 2018. London is in many ways Europe's AI capital, with numbers showing the city has more AI suppliers than New York, Paris and Berlin, lagging behind only Silicon Valley. Investments in AI startups in the U.K. totalled $1.3 billion in 2018 and overall, when talking about AI, the United Kingdom had an optimistic proactive attitude, worried about ethics, but not enough to stall innovation and progress, experts say.


Cybersecurity companies look to artificial intelligence as they struggle to find human workers

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If you're going to the play the "AI" drinking game at RSA Conference 2019, you may not make it out alive. Ahead of the industry's largest trade show in San Francisco, vendors are already touting AI-based solutions meant to address one of the industry's most pressing issues: a scarcity of workers qualified to defend against cyberattacks. Over the past week, both Palo Alto Networks Inc. PANW, -0.08% and Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -0.29% announced new AI-branded services to address an often-cited lack of cybersecurity workers qualified to keep on top of an exponentially growing number of cyberattacks. In a report released Thursday, however, Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO, -0.90% said that the industry may actually be cooling to AI-powered cybersecurity.


10 Women in Science and Tech Who Should Be Household Names

WIRED

It's International Women's Day, a day to celebrate the achievements of women around the world and throughout history. But the day is also about recognizing the hardships women face, and the continued urgency of the fight for gender equality. That is true of WIRED's world, too--the world of technology and science, of media and innovation. Though this magazine was co-founded by a woman, and women have been key figures in every part of scientific and technological progress, men's narratives still dominate. Men still hold more STEM jobs.


Artificial Intelligence and Disinformation: Examining challenges and solutions

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An array of experts has contributed deep insight into how artificial intelligence is impacting on the way information is being produced, disseminated and consumed, thus reshaping the communications landscape. They joined a panel on 5 March, in the framework of Mobile Learning Week at UNESCO HQ in Paris, for a dedicated workshop on the subject. Guy Berger, Director for Freedom of Expression and Media Development at UNESCO, opened the discussion by describing the problem of disinformation by drawing on definitions of the Council of Europe and the European Union. This perspective sees disinformation as content that is deliberately and intentionally fabricated, not true nor verifiable, and which is produced with the intention of making a profit, and/or pushing a certain ideological or political agenda. Through social media algorithms, micro-targeting and persuasion, the dissemination of'deep fakes', AI-generated content and automated trolling, artificial intelligence evidently plays a crucial role in the rapid spread of disinformation.


AI as a Human Right - InformationWeek

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Might this be the updated list of basic unalienable rights as we march into the AI-powered world of tomorrow? Theoretical neuroscientist, technologist, entrepreneur and AI specialist Vivienne Ming said last December we need to be thinking of AI as a human right. More recently, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff made a similar statement at the World Economic Forum in Davos, saying that AI is becoming a new human right and that everyone will need access to it. "Those who have the artificial intelligence will be smarter, will be healthier, will be richer, and of course, you've seen their warfare will be significantly more advanced," he said. This begs the question of what exactly constitutes a human right.


5G will change your business faster than you think

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Not that I'm a big fan of such titles, but when I look at what 5G will bring, it's clear most businesses will feel the impact. Most technologies have a slow adoption curve. This change of speed is going to catch most companies unaware. The technological improvements of better connectivity are apparent, but their consequences aren't. There are two big groups of problems that 5G's lower latency and high bandwidth will impact. On one side, we have those problems that we can solve with low computation and real-time responses. Think of any remote controller. There is minor computation needs on the controller side but needs fast reactions on the remoter actuator.


Look out: Here comes the next wave of smarter, nimbler and more collaborative AI - Digirupt IO

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When many think about the progress of AI and its impact on work, they envision a world where the robots and software thinking machines do all of the work and there's little room left for the work humans used to do. It's certainly not the future for the AI and human workforce that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sees. DARPA is the agency that helped usher in the Internet, as well as the original expert systems of the 1960s through 1980s, as well as the big data analysis and machine learning systems that lay the foundation for natural language processing, self-driving cars, personal assistant bots. Now DARPA is leading the efforts to make AI and humans even more collaborative co-workers. AI has proven some of its value in the form of very targeted and specialized systems.