An Australian man was taken into custody Saturday for allegedly acting as an economic agent for North Korea and attempting to sell missile parts, military intelligence and coal on the black market. The Australian Federal Police arrested Chan Han Choi, 59, in Sydney and charged him with brokering sales of weapons of mass destruction, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It is the first time a charge of this kind has been leveled against anyone in Australia. The sales would violate Australian and United Nations sanctions. "We believe this man participated in discussions about the sale of missile componentry from North Korea to other entities abroad as another attempt to try and raise revenue for the government in North Korea, again in breach of the sanctions," said Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Gaughan in a statement.

Friday morning, a SpaceX rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida headed for outer space where it delivered the Dragon spacecraft filled with 4,800 pounds of cargo to orbit. Sunday morning that craft will approach the International Space Station and astronauts on board will use a 57.7 foot-long-robot arm to capture the Dragon and affix it to the station. The capsule will stay there on the station for roughly a month before astronauts fill it up with space science and send it back to Earth to crash-land in the Pacific. There three astronauts scheduled to be on the station who will be available to receive the resupply from SpaceX. The plan is to have NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba capture and install the capsule on the Harmony module, according to NASA.

But one telehealth company – Now Healthcare Group – believes it can apply AI to its existing apps to relieve some of that strain. Former founder of an advertising company Lee Dentith founded AI healthcare startup Now Healthcare in 2014. He came up with the idea when he wanted to get one of his children to see a GP but struggled to get through, something that many people will be familiar with. Now Healthcare provides Europe's largest remote digital GP consultation platform, NowGP, and a subscription service with the NHS, Now Patient. Founder Dentith also had a background in technology, something that COO of the company Tim Ng regards as vital for its success.

Some of the hottest fields in business call for exactly the skills that the accounting profession offers, according to IBM's Leon Katsnelson. In a keynote address on artificial intelligence at CPA.com's 2017 Digital CPA conference, held in San Francisco in early December, Katsnelson, who is director and chief technology officer for strategic partnership for data science at IBM, introduced the accountants in attendance to two of the newest professionals on the block: data scientists and data engineers. Both of those jobs are only about five years old, he said, but are already in the top ranks in terms of compensation. "To be a data scientist, you need three things," explained Katsnelson. First are programming skills – not necessarily full coding capabilities, but a familiarity with the field.

NASA has discovered a new exoplanet called Kepler 90i using Google's artificial intelligence(AI) tools. The exoplanet is located in the alien solar system now known to contain eight planets all revolving around the same star, Kepler 90. The new exoplanet, Kepler-90i, is described as being "sizzling hot" and having an orbit that lasts 14.4 days. The star itself, Kepler-90, is located 2,545 light-years from Earth. The other planets in the solar system are similarly named, including 90b, 90c, 90d, 90e, 90f, 90g, and 90h.

Hillary Clinton has warned that the US is "totally unprepared" for the economic and societal effects of artificial intelligence. Speaking to radio host Hugh Hewitt this week in an interview promoting her recent book, the former Secretary of State said the world was "racing headfirst into a new era of artificial intelligence" that would affect "how we live, how we think, [and] how we relate to each other." In a short segment near the end of the interview, Clinton told Hewitt: "A lot of really smart people, you know, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, a lot of really smart people are sounding an alarm that we're not hearing. And their alarm is artificial intelligence is not our friend." Clinton then mentioned two specific areas of impact: digital surveillance (when "everything we know and everything we say and everything we write is, you know, recorded somewhere") and job automation.

I read with interest recent reports about China wanting to bring artificial intelligence (AI) to its classrooms to boost its education system. This brings us to the debate over whether artificial intelligence, that is, robots, will replace human teachers in the future. I believe that is unlikely. Of course, AI could help lighten the workload of classroom teachers, in areas like analysing students' past performance and optimising lessons accordingly; marking their tests and quizzes, and correcting their homework and assignments. Robot teachers could also deliver preprogrammed lessons and provide answers to frequently asked questions.

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Alphabet's Google and NASA said on Thursday that advanced computer analysis identified two new planets around distant stars, including one that is part of the first star system with as many planets as Earth's solar system. The research by Google and the University of Texas at Austin that used data from NASA raised the prospects of new insights into the universe by feeding data into computer programs that can churn through information faster and more in-depth than humanly possibly, a technique known as machine learning. In this case, software learned differences between planets and other objects by analysing thousands of data points, achieving 96 percent accuracy, NASA said at a news conference. The data came from the Kepler telescope which NASA launched into space in 2009 as part of a planet-finding mission that is expected to end next year as the spacecraft runs out of fuel. The software's artificial "neural network" combed through data about 670 stars, which led to the discovery of planets Kepler 80g and Kepler 90i.

Now that the payola-swilling, bribery-swaddled, kneepad-wearing FCC Chairman -- the corporate shill also known as Ajit Pai -- his done his part in securing a well-paid no-show job at the media company of his choice once he leaves government, it's time to discuss how to pay him back for selling out the American people in the name of free markets. If Ajit Pai loves free markets so much, let him choke on them. I give you self-driving cars and traffic markets, the ultimate tool of non-violent protest and vengeance. Because, in our utopian future, suffering won't be defined by physical pain but by inconvenience. For those ignorant of the neutrality debate, it's basically this: should the internet be regulated like a public utility?