Google Assistant wants to tell you some good news. A new skill aims to give users a reprieve from the oft-depressing daily news cycle by making it easier for them to find more uplifting headlines. Now, users can ask Google Assistant to'Tell me something good,' and it will trigger a'daily dose of good news,' according to the search giant. Google says the skill is launching as an'experimental feature' that's now available on any devices that are equipped with Assistant, such as phones, smart displays and the Google Home, the firm's voice-activated smart speaker. Assistant will serve up stories that are primarily focused around people who are doing things to help their communities and the world, Google explained.

How certain one is in the belief that artificial intelligence is set to take over the world may depend on how close their career is positioned vis-à-vis the technology. In Brooklyn on Tuesday at a conference hosted by Ai4 Media., machine learning experts from Goldman Sachs Group and Morgan Stanley shared their perspective. CIO Journal's Sara Castellanos was there to take the view from the AI front lines. Great for detecting anomalies, but… Today, snippets of code do much of the job of a trader, as WSJ has previously reported, but when it comes to answering questions that need contextual understanding and financial acumen, AI algorithms are easily fooled, said Ambika Sukla, executive director of machine learning and AI at Morgan Stanley. "It's not clear that these models are learning or just memorizing the data," he said.

Donald Trump has a lot more to worry about than just Robert Mueller. That much has been clear since April, when details began to emerge from public court filings regarding the FBI raid on Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a number of criminal charges, including some stemming from his work for Trump. Instead, it was carried out by FBI agents acting in coordination with Robert S. Khuzami, a deputy U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York. Mueller had referred the Cohen case to Khuzami's office, but that was as far as his involvement apparently went. As I wrote at the time, the distribution of the investigation to a second office served to "potentially inoculate [it] from Trump's attacks against Mueller and potential meddling in the broader Russia investigation." Samuel W. Buell, the former lead Enron prosecutor, told me that would make it much more difficult to kill the investigation with a Saturday Night Massacre–style firing spree.

A Russian weapons company unveiled a massive gold robot this week. A well-known Russian weapons manufacturing company has unveiled a 13-foot golden walking killer robot that looks like something out of "RoboCop." Kalashnikov Concern presented a large, strange-looking bulletproof robot that's in development at the Army 2018 fair near Moscow and posted a video of the machine on its website. The gold robot, which the company calls a "controlled bipedal walker," reportedly weighs 4.5 tons and can hold objects with its claws, potentially including weapons. A cabin can be seen behind the robot's glass panels where people could sit and operate it from inside.

'The chief economist of the Bank of England has warned that the UK will need a skills revolution to avoid "large swathes" of people becoming "technologically unemployed" as artificial intelligence makes many jobs obsolete. Andy Haldane said the possible disruption of what is known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution could be "on a much greater scale" than anything felt during the First Industrial Revolution of the Victorian era. He said that he had seen a widespread "hollowing out" of the jobs market, rising inequality, social tension and many people struggling to make a living. It was important to learn the "lessons of history", he argued, and ensure that people were given the training to take advantage of the new jobs that would become available. He added that in the past a safety net such as new welfare benefits had also been provided.

Artificial intelligence is being used to develop robots and drones that can operate more autonomously, allowing them to explore dangerous places beyond the reach of humans and animals. The Swiss government is now testing this technology to see how it could be used in disaster situations. Specialists from the Robotics and Perception Groupexternal link at the University of Zurich have developed a small drone that can fly through a collapsed building and find people – without a remote control. They've been testing it at a military test site in Wangen an der Aare near Bern. At the same time, developers at the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systemsexternal link at the Swiss federal technology institute ETH Zurich are working on a four-legged robot called ANYmal. Equipped with laser sensors and cameras, it's designed to do work that is too dangerous for humans and animals.

The Department of Veterans Affairs diagnosed him with a traumatic brain injury, which Leeper believes he sustained during daily mortar attacks on the Army base. He believes the injury makes it difficult for him to concentrate, causes him to "space out" during conversations and contributes to his long-term memory issues. The attacks also probably contributed to his PTSD, which he says "pretty much rules my life." It makes him anxious, and leads him to interpret situations as threatening, even when they are not.

Technology experts have uncovered a vast misinformation campaign attempting to spread stories on a hugescale. Facebook, and Twitter have found and removed hundreds of accounts that were apparently set up to target users in the US, UK, Latin America and the Middle East. But it is not clear what the campaign was being used for. The accounts appear to have been tied to Iranian actors and cybersecurity firms said they had appeared to be promoting Iran's geopolitical agenda around the world. But whether the campaign was being set up to launch any more specific or targeted attack remains unclear.

Driverless cars could make our roads safer and reduce congestion. But the algorithms driving them will also have to make life-or-death decisions. At some stage in the future, a fully autonomous car may determine who lives and who dies on our roads. These machines are being tested right now and Australian politicians are looking overseas for leadership, emboldened by the promise of fewer fatalities and less congestion. At the moment, there must be a human behind the wheel of these cars at all times, but government agencies are already working on a legal framework for when machines are totally in control.

It was 2011; a year that may be considered the beginning of IT/OT convergence. LTE was the new technology on the block; touting fast ethernet speeds from almost anywhere. Machine to Machine (M2M) communications between industrial control system (ICS) devices was becoming a cost effective way to improve the reliability, redundancy, and operational timeliness of the nations' critical infrastructure. To pave the way for this radical change, the way devices responsible for controlling electric, gas, and water commodities communicate, an even more radical change of the status quo was required; the merging of the traditionally separate information technology and operational technology paradigms. Traditionally, operational technology was physically air gapped from the internet.