Amazon tried to sell its AI-powered facial recognition technology to the US government to help catch illegal immigrants. It pitched its product to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials this summer, leaked emails show. The emails were first reported by The Daily Beast as part of a Freedom of Information Act request from the advocacy group Project on Government Oversight. Emails revealed the intention of Amazon to use its controversial Rekognition face-scanning technology to help with the country's security. The facial recognition technology has attracted scrutiny since it was revealed Amazon had sold it to several US police departments.

Artificial intelligence promises considerable economic benefits, even as it disrupts the world of work. Three priorities will help achieve good outcomes. This new article is by James Manyika and Jacques Bughin of the McKinsey Global Institute. I hope you find it useful. The time may have finally come for artificial intelligence (AI) after periods of hype followed by several "AI winters" over the past 60 years. AI now powers so many real-world applications, ranging from facial recognition to language translators and assistants like Siri and Alexa, that we barely notice it. Along with these consumer applications, companies across sectors are increasingly harnessing AI's power in their operations. Embracing AI promises considerable benefits for businesses and economies through its contributions to productivity growth and innovation.

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No matter what industry you're in, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all the rage. In pop culture alone it's the central theme of HBO's Westworld, where humanoid AI robots pretend to be people, or even the most recent season of Silicon Valley where a major character was an AI-powered robot named Fiona. AI is also the central, recurring theme at every conference. Even at giant tradeshows like the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) where, this year, we saw autonomous vehicles, voice-enabled bot driving assistants within cars, L'Oreal's thumbnail-sized UV sensor patch, and hundreds of other AI-enabled "smart" products. At South by Southwest (SXSW), it seemed every other session was about AI.

The two memoranda of understandings come as part of the strategies of the federal government to achieve a high standard of living for all human beings and the provision of community services in an innovative, sustainable and high quality manner in implementation of the UAE digital transaction strategy to utilize the future technology 2021, facilitate the government services smoothly and activate the strategic partnership between all local and international organizations whether government, federal, local or private to raise the provided services for the customers. The First memorandum of understanding was signed by Excellency Sana Mohamed Suhail, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Community Development (MOCD) and Farid Aboul Fottouh, Director General of Services & Sales in Alpha Data. The memorandum of understanding between the Ministry of Community Development (MOCD) & Alpha Data highlighted the field of modern technologies and aimed for achieving the goals of the community development mentioned in the national agenda and strategic goals 2021, coordinate and integrate roles between both parties especially in the prioritized common programs in the areas of information technology (Block Chain, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Customers Relations Management Programs and Databases, internet of things, cloud computing, mobility and cyber security) in addition to the coordination between both parties in common tasks and technological consultations. The areas of cooperation between the Ministry of Community Development (MOCD) and Alpha Data, shall include the announcement of the company in the media with the approval of both parties, provide best technical experiences and technological consultations for the Ministry and organize awareness campaigns about the importance of modern information technology. Excellency Sana Mohamed Suhail, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Community Development (MOCD) said: "Upgrading the technological infrastructure of the Ministry is a very important and vital thing since it coincides with the modern trends in the field of care, development and empowerment.

The exercise, named Trident Juncture 18, is starts today in Norway and will last about a month. Around 50,000 people will participate, along with 10,000 land vehicles and more than 200 aircraft and marine vessels. But there'll also be a boat and land vehicle that can manoeuvre all on their own, robots that grab useful items out of storage for …

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he could not rule out that President Vladimir Putin would raise the alleged drone attack with U.S. President Donald Trump. The two leaders are expected to meet in Paris on Nov. 11.

The Trump administration has taken a hands-off approach to regulating self-driving cars, but on Friday, federal regulators decided that one self-driving car project had gone too far. In a sharply worded statement, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it has ordered the French transportation company Transdev to stop transporting schoolchildren in a self-driving vehicle in Florida. Transdev's pilot project in Babcock Ranch, a planned community, was quite modest. On Fridays, Transdev's electric shuttle would take a group of elementary-aged children to school, then take them home later in the day. The vehicle had a safety driver on board.

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Addressing the first of these fundamental requirements, consider the difficulty in protecting ballot boxes from outside manipulation. On the face of it, this has little to do with artificial intelligence, since ballot stuffing and other means of subverting the voting booth have always been ubiquitous. However, now that voting has increasingly gone digital, the threat of a hacked ballot box looms larger than ever. Even Facebook, with its gargantuan security budget, has proven vulnerable to hackers. How much more vulnerable, then, is the municipally-funded voting booth in rural west Texas staffed by volunteers? And increasingly, the ingenuity behind such hacking will be conceived of not by humans, but rather by artificial intelligence.