The first video game to depict Germany's 1933-45 Nazi era uncensored, showing the swastika and image of Adolf Hitler, was revealed at a tradeshow this week. 'Through the Darkest of Times' was presented this week at Gamescom, Europe's biggest trade fair for interactive games and entertainment. The new title will allow players to enrol as members of the'Red Orchestra', a network of groups who fought the Nazis before and during World War II. The video game's use of the Swastika has sparked debate over whether it is an advance for artistic freedom or whether it poses a danger of radicalisation. A 1998 court ruling blocked video games from using Nazi symbols, with judges fearing at the time that children'will grow up with these symbols and insignia and grow accustomed to them'.

The move to adopt commercial, enterprise cloud capabilities has dominated discussion in 2018 around the Department of Defense's modernization efforts. But according to new CIO Dana Deasy, cloud services are just a piece of the foundation for DOD's plans to make artificial intelligence "the agent of transformation." Deasy said the Pentagon is embarking on the third wave of AI, when "computers will no longer be seen as tools but instead as a partner." "As artificial intelligence matures, we must redefine the role of computers in warfighting. So how exactly will computers be seen as our partner? Casual reasoning, performance robustness, and ever brain control or prosthetic limbs, just to name a few examples," he said, speaking extensively about DOD's AI initiatives at the DoDIIS Worldwide conference in Omaha, Nebraska earlier this month.

KUBINKA (Sputnik) - Russia's fifth-generation Su-57 fighter jets will have enhanced artificial intellect capabilities, bringing it a step closer to the next-generation unmanned fighters, a source in aviation industry told Sputnik.

For a growing number of fashion companies artificial Intelligence is already transforming the methods used to predict trends create products and interact with suppliers and customers.

Earlier this month, the Intercept broke the news that Google was building a secret program called Dragonfly, a censored search engine the company was potentially hoping to bring to China. Unlike the Google search that's used in the rest of the world, this search engine would block websites that are banned by the Chinese government and would not answer certain questions that the Chinese government has blacklisted. To learn more about Dragonfly, I recently spoke with Ryan Gallagher, a U.K.-based investigative journalist who reports on digital security and state surveillance issues for the Intercept. In our conversation, part of this week's episode of Slate's technology podcast If Then, we discussed why Google wants so desperately to enter China, why many of its employees oppose the plan, and how even a co-founder of the company may have been kept in the dark as Dragonfly was developed. Gallagher detailed how Google CEO Sundar Pichai has had several highly secretive meetings with the Chinese government about bringing Google to China over the past year--and the timeline of Google's plans to deploy the project once Beijing gave the green light.

It took me four tries to beat the first major enemy in our Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice ($60 preorder on Steam) demo. Just a slightly more powerful soldier than the mobs around him, a named Samurai General commanding nameless hordes. Time and time again I marched towards him though, having dispatched his troops, and was killed by the sweeping swings of his sword. As much as it's tempting to lump all of From Software's games into a "Souls-like" umbrella, the studio's proven skilled at reinventing what that term means--from Demon's Souls to Dark Souls, Dark Souls to Dark Souls III, and to the faster-paced fan favorite Bloodborne. Sekiro has plenty in common with its brethren, to say nothing of Team Ninja's Nioh, and yet it's also uniquely Sekiro, and that means going through the entire Souls learning process once again.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is not just a new technology that requires regulation. It is a powerful force that is reshaping daily practices, personal and professional interactions, and environments. For the well-being of humanity it is crucial that this power is used as a force of good. Ethics plays a key role in this process by ensuring that regulations of AI harness its potential while mitigating its risks. AI may be defined in many ways.

Very rare drone footage from Amazonas, Brazil shows members of a tribe walking through their jungle camp. Remarkable drone footage offers a rare glimpse of an isolated tribe in the Brazilian Amazon. In the 51-second clip released by FUNAI, the Brazilian government's Indian Affairs department, tribespeople are shown moving through a deforested area in the jungle and one tribe member appears to be carrying a bow and arrow. The agency said it captured the drone shots during an expedition last year to monitor isolated communities, but only released them on Tuesday to protect their study. FUNAI also released still images showing the tribespeople's existence in the remote region.

Attorney involvement has been steadily driving up workers' compensation claims costs over the past decade, and research reveals the problem has never been worse. For example, in 2014, the California Workers' Compensation Institute (CWCI) published results of a five-year study that showed when a single injured party brought in a lawyer, the associated costs per claim went up by an average of $40,000 for permanent disability payments and $25,000 for temporary total disability benefits -- even if the case never went to court. In Florida from 2016-2017, legal fees related to workers' comp claims totaled nearly $440 million -- approximately $254 million of that came from employers defending claims while injured workers themselves were responsible for $186 million (an increase of 36 percent in just one year). And then there is the national scale. In a newly released study from CLARA analytics, data collected from a single national payer from injury years 2007-2017 was focused on closed indemnity claims across multiple states.

For those looking to take advantage of emerging technologies coming down the pipeline, figuring out what artificial intelligence means for your business might be a good place to start. In its latest look at technologies that could drive competitive advantage, Gartner predicts about 80% of emerging tech will incorporate AI within the next two years. CIO Journal's Sara Castellanos has more. AI is becoming easier for enterprises to access via the cloud and integrate with other technologies such as edge computing, Gartner says. The use of virtual assistants and deep neural networks, which roughly try to mimic the operations of the human brain, are predicted to become mainstream within two to five years.