In August, DJI announced that it would be introducing Local Data Mode to its line of drones, a setting that would cut drones off from internet activity and stop information like flight location from being uploaded to the company's servers. Well that privacy mode is now available through a DJI Pilot app update for DJI CrystalSky monitors and some Android tablets. "We are creating Local Data Mode to address the needs of our enterprise customers, including public and private organizations that are using DJI technology to perform sensitive operations around the world," Brendan Schulman, DJI's VP of policy and legal affairs, said in a statement. While the announcement of the new setting noted that it had been in the works for some time, it did come after the US Army stopped using DJI drones due to "increased awareness of cyber vulnerabilities." The Australian Defense Force also ceased use of DJI drones temporarily, but began using them again following a two week security assessment.

Futuristic hybrid drones with both a helicopter and airplane mode are set to revolutionise warfare, experts claim. Engineers have unveiled an ambitious new concept for adaptable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) which are so agile they can take off and land like a helicopter and still fly like plane. Experts believe the drones of the future, which will alternate between fixed-wing flight and rotary-wing flight, could be deployed by soldiers in the next few decades. The new technology concept – named Adaptable UAVs – can alternate between the two different flight modes in the same mission. When in rotary wing mode the UAVs can be launched and recovered from battlefields and can also hover and achieve vertical take-off and landing.

Welcome to California Inc., the weekly newsletter of the L.A. Times Business Section. Data breaches remain a dark cloud over the business world. On Friday, Whole Foods became the latest company to report getting hacked. Days earlier, the burger chain Sonic said it too had been hit. And Equifax continues making news with its mega-breach involving 143 million consumers.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - An air strike carried out by an unidentified warplane killed seven Hezbollah fighters in eastern Syria, three sources familiar with the incident told Reuters on Monday. The identity of the warplane was not confirmed, but the sources did not rule out the possibility that it was Russian "friendly fire". The sources did not say when the air strike happened. The air strike struck a Hezbollah position in eastern Homs province, where the Iran-backed Lebanese group is fighting Islamic State alongside the Syrian and Russian militaries. Asked about a report that a U.S. drone carried out the strike, the spokesman of the U.S.-led Coalition said the location was outside its area of operations.

As the government faces a difficult choice in keeping up with the rest of the world in AI development while making sure it does not add to unemployment, it has set up a task force to draw up a policy for the accelerated deployment of AI. A government task force is seeking public opinion on deploying artificial intelligence in manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture and the Aadhaar programme. The task force, set up in August, has been asked to draw up a policy for the accelerated deployment of AI and a five-year road map for its use in government and industry research programmes. "The job of the task force is to look at how we can use AI and the topic is so big we thought the public should also participate in it," said V Kamakoti, professor of IIT Madras, who is chairing the task force. The task force includes Gautam Shroff, vice-president and chief scientist at TCS Research; Ashwini Asokan, co-founder and chief executive officer of AI startup Mad Street Den; GH Rao, head of engineering and R&D services at HCL Technologies; and representative from various ministries.

European Union Regulations on Algorithmic Decision-Making and a “Right to Explanation”

Report on the Thirtieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-30)

Artificial intelligence (AI) research in Singapore is focused on accelerating the country's development into a smart nation. Specifically, AI has been employed extensively in either augmenting the intelligence of humans or in developing automated methods and systems to improve quality of life in Singapore. In this column we summarize Singapore's Our focus in this column is primarily limited to the efforts of Singapore to become a smart nation. The key areas of AI research summarized here include mobility, security, manufacturing, and health care. In addition, there are also translational domain has taken a number of interesting directions.

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