The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said it's "unhappy" that Tesla made public information about a deadly crash involving a Model X vehicle. In this Friday March 23, 2018 photo provided by KTVU, emergency personnel work a the scene where a Tesla electric SUV crashed into a barrier on U.S. Highway 101 in Mountain View, Calif. The National Transportation Safety Board has sent two investigators to look into a fatal crash and fire Friday in California that involved a Tesla electric SUV. The agency says on Twitter that it's not clear whether the Tesla Model X was operating on its semi-autonomous control system called Autopilot at the time. Investigators will study the fire that broke out after the crash.

Senator John N. Kennedy of Louisiana criticized Facebook's user agreement during Mark Zuckerberg's Senate hearing. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., listens to testimony during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Dec. 6, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Drew Angerer, Getty Images) WASHINGTON – Senators introduced a bipartisan bill Thursday that would give Americans greater power to protect their online privacy. The day before, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified to Congress about the misuse of user data on the social media site. "The data breach at Facebook showed the world that the digital promised land is not all milk and honey," said Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., who co-sponsored the bill with Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. "I don't want to regulate Facebook half to death, but there are things that need to be changed."

The big story in mortgages today is the rise in mortgage loan rates. For the first time in years, we're seeing 30-year fixed mortgage rates consistently above 4%, and a 5% rate is in sight. Higher rates make sense if you look at it one way: the economy is strong, inflation is climbing, and it's safe to expect Federal Reserve hikes in 2018 and 2019. Industry veterans might be sighing with relief. In the 10 years since the burst of the housing bubble, we've seen a slow economic recovery, a federal funds rate stuck at 0, and 30-year mortgage rates in the high 3% range for fixed-rate loans and lower for floating-rate loans.

The Air Force is hoping advances in artificial intelligence mean the abundance of data from its aircraft, weapons and satellites will be easier to access and analyze. "There's certainly a data aspect piece" of artificial intelligence, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Stephen "Seve" Wilson said Monday. "I think we all would agree, maybe, that data is the'renewable oil' of the 21st century," Wilson said during the Future of War conference hosted by New America and Arizona State University. "With that data, we have to be able to have the right algorithms that connect the data, and understand the data, to a network. I think the cloud's a part of this, and I think'compute on the edge' is a part of this," he said, referencing a streamlined approach to avoid stovepiping information flow needed at the speed of war.

There are several established healthcare companies and startups in the Femtech space, which use disruptive technology including artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, and the Internet of Things to develop interactive digital health applications for women's health. The majority of spending on other diseases has a male-specific research focus and this is separate from the research spending on male-specific conditions such as prostate cancer, which accounts for 2% of overall funding. Yet women today make up 49.6% of the total population and the economic burden for women's diseases is currently more than $500 billion. Additionally, with healthcare increasingly becoming personalized and patient-centric, now is the time to address the fundamental question of whether care delivery and management should be gender neutral. For several decades, healthcare products and solutions were designed, developed, and delivered without much attention to the fact that healthcare needs are different for men and women, considering their physiological differences.

The U.S. Department of Defense, which is trying to improve the military's artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, is considering setting up an entity to focus on AI, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said April 12."We're looking at a joint office where we would… You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this page. Please log in below to access the content. If you are already a Defense Daily subscriber or registered user, login here.

Last March, the government of Quebec floated the idea of instituting a Montreal-based international organization responsible for developing the necessary frameworks for artificial intelligence (AI). Montreal seems tailor-made for this role, considering its global leadership in AI and the sustained diplomatic activity within our city. It also stands to reason that this proposed agency's mandate should extend to the development of ethical and legal frameworks for data. This week, I had the honour of addressing the Metropolitan Montreal Chamber of Commerce to outline the significant impact that the next generation of wireless communications would have on Montreal and on Canada. Called 5G, this infrastructure will be 200 times faster than the average wireless connection speeds available today.

Tesla loves a good fight. CEO Elon Musk has battled car dealers, President Trump, and more than a few reporters. Now he has found a new opponent, in the National Transportation Safety Board. The agency is investigating the crash of a Model X that was running with Autopilot engaged when it slammed into a highway divider in Northern California last month, killing the driver. Today, the NTSB announced it kicked Tesla off the team looking into what happened, and how to stop it recurring.

For more than half a century, U.S. government officials have considered disaster scenarios, such as the consequences of a nuclear bomb going off in Washington, D.C. Only now, instead of following fixed story lines and predictions assembled ahead of time, they are using computers to play what-if with an entire artificial society: an advanced type of computer simulation called an agent-based model. Today's version of the nuclear attack model includes a digital simulation of every building in the area affected by the bomb, as well as every road, power line, hospital, and even cell tower. The model includes weather data to simulate the fallout plume. And the scenario is peopled with some 730,000 agents.

Tesla has been in an uncomfortable spotlight recently following the fatal crash of a Model X on March 23rd. Tesla's Autopilot system was on in the car, and it steered the vehicle straight into a highway barrier, killing the driver. Now, according to The Wall Street Journal, Tesla has withdrawn from a formal cooperation agreement with the National Transportation Safety Board over the company's public release of crash details. The company has been on the defensive since the accident. A week after the crash, Tesla issued an update confirming that its semiautonomous driving system was engaged in the vehicle at the time of the accident.