Microsoft is calling for government regulation on facial-recognition software, one of its key technologies, saying such artificial intelligence is too important and potentially dangerous for tech giants to police themselves. On Friday, company president Brad Smith urged lawmakers in a blog post to form a bipartisan and expert commission that could set standards and ward against abuses of face recognition, in which software can be used to identify a person from afar without their consent. "This technology can catalog your photos, help reunite families or potentially be misused and abused by private companies and public authorities alike," Smith wrote. "The only way to regulate this broad use is for the government to do so." Could that be used against immigrants?]

Microsoft is calling for government regulation on facial-recognition software, one of its key technologies, saying such artificial intelligence is too important and potentially dangerous for tech giants to police themselves. On Friday, company president Brad Smith urged lawmakers in a blog post to form a bipartisan and expert commission that could set standards and ward against abuses of face recognition, in which software can be used to identify a person from afar without their consent. "This technology can catalog your photos, help reunite families or potentially be misused and abused by private companies and public authorities alike," Smith wrote. "The only way to regulate this broad use is for the government to do so." Could that be used against immigrants?]

The company behind the photo-editing program Photoshop says it has developed a tool that can detect if an image has been tampered with. Vlad Morariu, an Adobe researcher, employed artificial intelligence to scan for signs of manipulation that are not usually visible to the naked eye. The AI could tell if an element had been added, moved or cut from a photo. But the company warned that no piece of technology could provide a foolproof verification system. Photoshop, which was created 28 years ago, is a powerful image editor, and its name has become a verb for image manipulation.

Russia and the United States are moving closer to opening their own centers for military-related research into artificial intelligence, as China did in the spring of last year. But the three governments have differing approaches. The U.S. Joint Artificial Intelligence Center aims to apply lessons from an Air Force pilot project to other military services, while the Chinese approach fuses civilian and military research and Russia's efforts are closely directed from the Kremlin. "What's interesting is the extent to which the Russian government and especially the Ministry of Defense is marshaling resources for the development of AI for its military," said Sam Bendett, an associate research analyst at CNA and a fellow in Russia studies at the American Foreign Policy Council. The new innovation technopolis, dubbed Era and slated to open in September with a bare-bones research staff, is planned to grow to a 50-acre city by 2020.

Over the past year, Silicon Valley has been grappling with the way it handles our data, our elections, and our speech. Now it's got a new concern: our faces. In just the past few weeks, critics assailed Amazon for selling facial recognition technology to local police departments, and Facebook for how it gained consent from Europeans to identify people in their photos. Microsoft has endured its own share of criticism lately around the ethical uses of its technology, as employees protested a contract under which US Immigration and Customs Enforcement uses Microsoft's cloud-computing service. Microsoft says that contract did not involve facial recognition. When it comes to facial analysis, a Microsoft service used by other companies has been shown to be far more accurate for white men than for women or people of color.

This means that instead of comparing whatever it sees in its front camera against still images of the user, the phone will make a sophisticated comparison that takes into account the shape of the user's face along with other features. The deep learning model powering Face ID can work under different lighting conditions and gradually becomes used to changes that the user's face undergoes over time, such as changing a hairstyle, growing a beard or wearing a scarf or hat. It will also be able to detect if a user is awake and aware and prevent unintended unlocking of the phone.

At the blockbuster plenary sessions, the chairs stretched so far back that even the most youthful Silicon Valley college dropouts-turned VC hoovers had to squint to see the action up in front. A handful of large projection screens hung between the ballroom's chandeliers, displaying loop-de-looping flow charts on vehicle safety systems, sensor alignments, liability law. But despite the best efforts of the downtown San Francisco Hilton's air conditioners, the air shared by the attendees of this year's Automated Vehicles Symposium was thick with secrets and doubt. Eight years after Google first showed its self-driving car to The New York Times, the autonomous vehicle industry is still trying to figure out how to talk about itself. Over the three-day conference, engineers, business buffs, urban planners, government officials, and transportation researchers grappled with how to tell the public that its wonder drug of a transportation solution will have its limitations.

Donald Trump's Twitter account has lost hundreds of thousands of followers after the company purged fake accounts. The site is getting rid of accounts that it says are fraudulent, and all of the biggest accounts are losing vast numbers from their follower counts. The president has lost at least 300,000 followers from his controversial Twitter account already. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

As the National Health Service reaches 70, it stands at a crossroads. For those who cherish the NHS, it is no longer possible to ignore the deep questions it faces. How will it be funded in a world of fiscal austerity? How will it be staffed in a world after Brexit? And how deep, really, is the Government's commitment to the principle of universal healthcare?

In the future, you could fly a plane piloted by robots. The US military invented a robot arm that can fly commercial airplanes using AI. The robot pilot was developed by engineers at DARPA, the Pentagon's research unit. Last year, the robot flew and landed a simulated 737 and has successfully flown an array of small planes. The combination of machine learning with the robotic arm means the robot can act much more like a human pilot than existing autopilot software.