Almost three years after Facebook was first alerted to a potential data breach committed by Cambridge Analytica, it is unclear how many people still have access to the data stolen by the company. The findings come in a report released Tuesday by the Information Commissioner's Office, a government agency in the UK that reports to Parliament. The investigation, which launched in May 2017, analyzed over 50 million pages of data seized from the now-defunct Cambridge Analytica. According to interviews with Cambridge Analytica employees, multiple attempts were made to delete the Facebook data misused by the company, but there still might be ad targeting tools that are based on data harvested by Facebook that have not been deleted. Facebook first learned of data leaks in 2015 when The Guardian reported Cambridge Analytica's involvement with Ted Cruz's presidential campaign.

Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool: 'gait recognition' software that uses people's body shapes and how they walk to identify them, even when their faces are hidden from cameras. Already used by police on the streets of Beijing and Shanghai, 'gait recognition' is part of a push across China to develop artificial-intelligence and data-driven surveillance. However, it's raised concerns among critics about how far the technology will go. China is deploying a new surveillance tool: 'gait recognition' software that uses people's body shapes and how they walk to identify them, even when their faces are hidden. Chinese startup Watrix's software extracts a person's silhouette from video and analyzes the silhouette's movement to create a model of the way the person walks.

Apple unveiled a new Macbook Air today at an event in Brooklyn, N.Y. Think a major update to the MacBook Air was long overdue? The last time Apple bestowed this much attention on the notebook the company claims as its "most loved Mac," Barack Obama was in his first term in the White House. Sure, we've seen some specs bumps along the way, and my own lightweight MacBook Air – circa mid-2013 – has been a reliable workhorse. But the No. 1 feature fans of the Air have had on our wish lists for years is the kind of beautiful high-resolution Retina display that Apple previously reserved for the most expensive computers in its mobile lineup, notably the priciest MacBook Pros, but also the most recent MacBook.

BEIJING – Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool: "gait recognition" software that uses people's body shapes and how they walk to identify them, even when their faces are hidden from cameras. Already used by police on the streets of Beijing and Shanghai, "gait recognition" is part of a push across China to develop artificial-intelligence and data-driven surveillance that is raising concern about how far the technology will go. Huang Yongzhen, the CEO of Watrix, said that its system can identify people from up to 50 meters (165 feet) away, even with their back turned or their face covered. Such a capability can fill a gap in what is offered by facial recognition, which needs close-up, high-resolution images of a person's face in order to work. "You don't need people's cooperation for us to be able to recognize their identity," Huang said in an interview in his Beijing office.

We also acknowledge L. Trani for performing manual review and for valuable discussion on the project. The authors also thank the patients and their families for their selfless contribution to the advancement of science. Part of this work was performed as part of the Washington University School of Medicine Genomics Tumor Board, which was funded with private research support from the Division of Oncology and the McDonnell Genome Institute. E.K.B. was supported by the National Cancer Institute (T32GM007200 and U01CA209936). T.E.R. received support from the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute (NIH/NCI) (R01CA142942) and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Two men walk into a bar, the first one says: "robots will conquer our civilisation and make us their servants within ten years", the second one responds: "No, the principle of artificial intelligence (AI) is a far-fetched goal that will never see light". The bartender smiles, analyses their facial expressions, assigns a sentiment score to their sentences, evaluates their historical drinking trends, and decides to pour the first one a glass of gin and tonic, and the second one a glass of Scotch. Here is the spoiler: both men are lying; and the bartender is a robot. Not a funny joke, but a reality that is shadowing all conventional discussions about the future prospects of AI. In order to avoid such binary discussions about the goodness and possibilities of machine intelligence, and to eliminate the'hype' surrounding the topic, this article aims to unveil the slowly cooking, quietly simmering, unspoken truths of the inevitable global arms race of AI.

WASHINGTON – Dante Bucci is a 22-year-old marketing student who lives in one of Washington's most hip neighborhoods. The New Jersey native is clean cut, well dressed and well spoken. But as a Republican in one of the most liberal cities in America, his political views are kryptonite in the U.S. capital's dating world -- where he frequently finds himself attracted to Democrats. Not a lot of second dates," Bucci says of his love life these days. "I think Donald Trump has a lot to do with that." In the 2016 presidential election, Trump earned … 4 percent of the vote in the District of Columbia. It's not exactly great math for a young, single conservative man who backed the real estate mogul. And with the key midterm vote having stoked political tensions, Republicans like Bucci have found that romance is all but dead. "They want to date someone that they can agree with on some issues," laments Bucci, who supports abortion rights and gay marriage and calls himself a moderate Republican. "'I'm a Republican but …' -- I've started so many sentences that way." "Make America Date Again," of course. "I felt a real need for this app," said Emily Moreno, a 25-year-old Republican who founded the site after speaking to many of her friends. Moreno said that many people in Washington say if they mention working for Trump or Republican causes to potential love matches, "the date is shut down -- it's a deal-breaker." Four days after launching the site in mid-October, Moreno said the app had been downloaded 20,000 times. One senior adviser for a Republican member of Congress tried the app because he has found dating as a gay Trump supporter a particular challenge. "The gay guys in DC are really close-minded," said the 31-year-old who wished to remain anonymous, calling himself "a minority within a minority within the minority." He noted that the dislike goes both ways. "If someone was super into Hillary Clinton, I would be turned off by that," he explained. On other widely used dating apps like Tinder or Bumble, Bucci said he found nothing but land mines. According to a sample of several dozen Tinder profiles, many women urged Republicans guys to swipe left -- meaning to pass them by. Kendall, 23, is one of those women. "Allergic to bees and Republicans" reads the bio on her Tinder profile. They voted for a person who openly bragged about sexually assaulting women so no," she said when asked why she was ruling out the men of the GOP.

China's first artificial intelligence (AI) theme park opened to public in early November, after 10 months renovation of a municipal park in northern Beijing. Driverless shuttle buses, smart lamp posts that can record exercise data, and intelligent speakers that can respond to human instructions have been installed in Haidian Park, which covers about 34 hectares near the 4th Ring Road. The district government of Haidian and Internet company Baidu signed an agreement in January to jointly explore "smart city" building. Haidian Park, which received about 1.2 million tourists last year, was chosen to run the pilot program. A total of 10 government departments and companies participated in the renovation of the park over the past 10 months, said Che Jianguo from the district's park administration office.

New centres announced today will bring together doctors, businesses and academics to develop products using these advances in digital technology to improve early diagnosis of disease, including cancer by detecting abnormalities. The products developed at the new centres will offer more personalised treatment for patients while freeing up doctors to spend more time caring for patients. The investment in large-scale genomics and image analysis will drive new understanding of how complex diseases develop, in a proactive step to ensure people get the right treatment at the right time. AI has the potential to revolutionise healthcare and improve lives for the better. That's why our modern Industrial Strategy puts pioneering technologies at the heart of our plans to build a Britain fit for the future.

Tweets featuring "MAGA" and "QAnon" are largely driven by automated behavior.Omar Marques/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire When President Donald Trump tweeted about a caravan of immigrants heading to the US border in late October, it set off a wildfire of misinformation on social media. Posts on Facebook and Twitter spread conspiracy theories that Democratic donor George Soros was funding the migrants and the false allegation that the group included terrorists and gang members. It turns out it wasn't just Republicans latching on the story--it was also Twitter bots. Mother Jones partnered with RoBhat Labs, a non-partisan social media firm that reports bot activity, to show the scope of disinformation circulating on Twitter before the election. In order to detect automated, bot-like behavior, RoBhat collects sample tweets from Twitter's application programming interface and runs them through a machine learning model.