Tech companies are trying to sell police real-time facial recognition systems, which can track and identify people as they walk down the street. As NPR reported two weeks ago, American police have generally held off, but there's new evidence that one police department -- Orlando, Fla. -- has decided to try it out. What's more, Orlando ordered its facial recognition system from Amazon. This information was uncovered by the ACLU, which noticed that law enforcement customers were mentioned in the marketing of Amazon's "Rekognition" service. Until now, American police have used facial recognition primarily to compare still photos from crime scenes with mug shots.

This space-optimized wrench was 3-D printed on the International Space Station. In the coming decades, humans will begin to colonize the "final frontier." Private rocket companies -- including Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin -- are already building vehicles to ferry settlers to outer space. But what happens once these early colonists step off their ships and onto the hostile surface of Mars or the Moon? When history's pilgrims and pioneers arrived in a new territory, they used the land's natural resources to build their settlements.

Terrorism, immigration and Brexit dominates today's headlines. The question of how to police Britain's borders is both politically charged and a matter of day-to-day concern for the Home Office, the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and related departments. International cargo and traveller volumes are growing at an unprecedented rate. At the same time, international air freight is also experiencing annual double-digit growth. While most of this traffic is legitimate and not a threat to public safety or state, border protection agencies and officers are under pressure to make accurate risk assessment judgements.

The British glove manufacturer Cornelia James is often in the public eye. Since 1979, it has provided gloves by royal appointment to the Queen of England, and more recently it has dressed megastars including Rihanna, Taylor Swift and Madonna. All those high-profile customers are great for publicity, but nobody drives sales quite like Kate Middleton, said Genevieve James, the company's creative director. "We get far more of a spike in sales when someone like Kate wears them. But when it's somebody like the Duchess of Cambridge, the public, particularly in the US, can relate to that," James told IBM. James first confirmed that fact in 2012 when, at a ceremony for Remembrance Sunday, Middleton wore a pair of Cornelia James' merino wool gloves.

Hanghang Tong wants to help people as they go about their daily lives, do their jobs, interact with infrastructure and conduct research. Yet most of the people Tong's work benefits may never know it. Tong applies his expertise -- large-scale data mining and machine learning -- to research networks, including those involved in online social interactions, electrical power grids, infrastructure and transportation. On a smaller-scale example of networks, Tong focuses on graphs, which are people or other nodes that are linked together in varied and complex ways. Hanghang Tong, an assistant professor of computer science in Arizona State University's Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, studies networks and how to improve them in a wide range of applications through the design of novel algorithms.

Hanghang Tong wants to help people as they go about their daily lives, do their jobs, interact with infrastructure and conduct research. Yet most of the people Tong's work benefits may never know it. Tong applies his expertise -- large-scale data mining and machine learning -- to research networks, including those involved in online social interactions, electrical power grids, infrastructure and transportation. On a smaller-scale example of networks, Tong focuses on graphs, which are people or other nodes that are linked together in varied and complex ways. Hanghang Tong, an assistant professor of computer science in Arizona State University's Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, studies networks and how to improve them in a wide range of applications through the design of novel algorithms.

A Spanish galleon laden with treasures worth £12.6 billion ($17 billion) that sank to the bottom of the Caribbean 300 years ago was found using an autonomous robot, researchers have revealed. The San Jose, sunk by the Royal Navy, gained a reputation as the'holy grail' of shipwrecks and was carrying one of the most valuable hauls of treasure ever lost at sea. The 62-gun, three-masted galleon, went down on June 8, 1708, with 600 people on board as well as a treasure of gold, silver and emeralds during a battle with British ships in the War of Spanish Succession. The San Jose was located by an underwater autonomous vehicle operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) back in 2015. The institution said it was keeping its involvement in the discovery quiet out of respect for the Colombian government.

Harish is a data officer and an expert in artificial intelligence (AI)-powered data analytics with 15 years of experience working in aerospace, telecommunication, automotive, security, geospatial and biomedical industries. He is the President and Chief Scientific Consultant of Zero One Infinity Consulting (ZOIC) Services Ltd., an Ontario-based Research and Development (R&D) company. Previously, he was a chief engineer at Samsung Electronics, India and an assistant professor/lead at the Visual Signal Analysis and Processing (VSAP) research center at Khalifa University, UAE. Harish has also worked as a researcher, managing the R&D of Ministry of Defense (MoD) UK and European Union (EU)-funded projects at Lancaster and Manchester universities, UK. Harish is a strong engineering professional with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and an M.Sc. in Autonomous Systems from Loughborough and Exeter universities, UK, respectively.

The British government has announced ambitious plans to prevent an estimated 22,000 cancer deaths by 2033, through the use of artificial intelligence to predict those individuals at greater risk of developing the disease. The platforms being developed under funding from the British government are targeted at prostate, lung and bowel cancer. The specific aim of the platform is to detect individuals at a greater risk from these types of cancers earlier by assessing the millions of data points held by the National Health Service (NHS), drawing upon information contained in patient records, such as genetic information, and lifestyle factors. With lifestyle factors, this could include social media profiles. This will help to determine which patients to screen and when to refer people for medical assessments.

New Delhi: In an ambitious defence project, the government has started work on incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the operational preparedness of the armed forces in a significant way that would include equipping them with unmanned tanks, vessels, aerial vehicles and robotic weaponry. The move is part of a broader policy initiative to prepare the Army, Navy and the Air Force for next generation warfare and comes amid rising Chinese investments in developing critical applications of AI for its military. Secretary-defence production Ajay Kumar said the government had decided to introduce AI in all the three forces as it would be a "big area" considering the requirements of future warfare. He said a high-powered task force headed by Tata Sons chairman N. Chandrasekaran was finalising the specifics and framework of the project, which would be implemented in a "partnership model" between the armed forces and the private sector. "It is India's preparation for next generation warfare. This (AI) is where the future is going to be. We need to prepare ourselves for the next generation warfare which will be more and more technology driven, more and more automated and robotised," he told PTI.