New Relic has unveiled a suite of AI-powered services under the brand New Relic Applied Intelligence (NRAI), aimed at helping enterprise customers quickly discover and resolve crucial operations issues. NRAI analyses web application data to automatically identify any abnormalities and then provides engineering and operations recommendations on how to resolve them before they impact customers. The intelligent tool can also predict potential problems and prevent them from developing into major issues. "We're in the business of developing applied intelligence, and we're baking it into our entire platform," New Relic CEO and founder Lew Cirne announced at the company's FutureStack conference in New York. "This isn't one feature, this is going to be everywhere throughout everything New Relic does."

With an estimated 4.2 million CCTV cameras in the UK alone, it will come as no surprise that you're caught on camera on a regular basis. But a shocking new report has revealed that the images of you from CCTV might also be scanned by facial recognition technology – regardless of whether you're doing anything wrong. The report suggests that the UK police have amassed a collection of 19 million photos – equating to around 30 per cent of the British population. A shocking new report has revealed that the images of you from CCTV might also be scanned by facial recognition technology – regardless of whether you're doing anything wrong The findings come from the annual report, Commissioner for the Retention and Use of Biometric Material, written by Paul Wiles, the biometrics commissioner. He says that the database of faces collected from CCTV footage is designed to weed out criminals, but contains images of many people with no criminal dealings.

This little drone captures and defeats rogue drones'Spiderman'-style. Just like how Spidey slings a web to capture bad guys, this little drone shoots a net to stop dangerous flying drones. Revealed this week at the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) event, the world's largest defense and security show held biennially in London, this smart drone is already drawing a lot of buzz. Made by Dutch company Delft Dynamics, the DroneCatcher project is supported by the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee (Military Police), the Dutch National Police and the Dutch Ministry of Safety and Justice. The DroneCatcher is a multicopter – it has multiple blades and can shoot up vertically in the air, kind of like a tiny helicopter.

India has started building a super-fast bullet train that will fire people across the country. When it is finished in 2022, a journey will drop from eight hours to three hours. Japan is helping to construct the high-speed train that will fire people the 310 miles between Ahmadabad, the main commercial city in Indian prime minister Narendra Modi's native state, to India's financial capital of Mumbai. As well as offering help and expertise, Japan has helped finance the project by lending money at a cheap rate to India. That collaboration was reflected by the laying of a foundation stone by Mr Modi and and Japanese leader Shinzo Abe, commemorating an institute that will train about 4,000 people to actually make the high-speed train.

Computers could start diagnosing patients' illnesses within the next few years as artificial intelligence increasingly ousts doctors from their traditional roles, NHS leaders believe. Machines may soon be able to read X-rays and analyse samples of diseased tissue, such as lumps that can indicate the presence of breast cancer, the NHS's top doctor said. NHS England plans to invest more of its £120bn budget in AI to speed up its application to medicine and the health service, especially the task of analysing "huge swaths" of the information collected from patients about their symptoms. "We know from a number of studies that have been done that in, certain circumstances, AI is better than doctors at diagnosing certain conditions," said Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, the organisation's national medical director. "It's possible that certain types – and there are many different types of AI – will be able to read X-rays. I've been told by people who are developing this sort of stuff that's ...

The brand new iPhone X has been heralded as the most groundbreaking and technologically advanced since the first iPhone was unveiled in 2007. But one of the key new features, the Face ID recognition software which allows users to open their phone by scanning their face, has sparked privacy fears. Experts warned that the new technology has the potential be abused by thieves, forcing iPhone X owners to unlock their phones to steal information and wipe them to sell, or even an abusive partner wanting to look through their spouses' messages. It could also potentially allow police to unlock phones of suspects to find incriminating evidence, without having to get a court to try and force them to hand over their passcode. Even if you dye your hair, put on a hat, wear glasses, or change your appearance in other drastic ways, the device will still recognize your face. Apple even worked with Hollywood filmmakers to be sure it can't be fooled by photographs or masks'Exacerbating this is the question of whether we have any expectation of privacy to our face,' Georgetown University Law Center on Privacy & Technology Associate Clare Garvie, who specializes in facial recognition technology, told Privacy Tech.

Deep sea explorers sent a drone to the ocean floor to beam back stunning images of the USS Indianapolis, a naval gunship that lies three miles beneath the surface of the Philippine Sea 72 years ago, in a dramatic live broadcast on Wednesday. Findings from the footage enabled experts to piece together the final moments of the WWII ship, which was discovered by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen last month. The ship was sunk by a Japanese torpedo in the final days of World War Two, more than 18,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, the Navy said. From the new drone footage, researchers have concluded that two Japanese torpedoes hit the ship, one of them striking an area near a chamber with crew members that likely would have died immediately upon impact. Researchers also discovered guns, torpedo remnants and parts of aircraft that were preserved thanks to the extremely cold temperatures at the bottom of the sea.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, along with 115 other artificial intelligence and robotics specialists, has signed an open letter to urge the United Nations to recognize the dangers of lethal autonomous weapons and to ban their use internationally. There are already numerous weapons, like automatic anti-aircraft guns and drones, that can operate with minimal human oversight; advanced tech will eventually help them to carry out military functions entirely autonomously. To illustrate why this is a problem, consider the UK government's argument in which it opposed a ban on lethal autonomous weapons in 2015: it said that "international humanitarian law already provides sufficient regulation for this area," and that all weapons employed by UK armed forces would be "under human oversight and control." I signed the open letter because the use of AI in autonomous weapons hurts my sense of ethics, would be likely to lead to a very dangerous escalation, because it would hurt the further development of AI's good applications, and because it is a matter that needs to be handled by the international community, similarly to what has been done in the past for some other morally wrong weapons (biological, chemical, nuclear).

How can artificial intelligence fit into human life and society in India? That will be the primary focus of a high-powered team tasked by the Indian government to understand and recommend how best AI can be shoehorned into India, the largest contributor to the global workforce in the next 10 years. The 18-member task force, set up by the central government on August 25, has been asked to make recommendations to leverage AI, widely acknowledged as an altering force in the world economy in the next few decades, for the country's economic benefit. Other mission objectives include a policy and legal framework to accelerate deployment of AI technology and five-year recommendations for specific government, industry, and research programmes. The task force has identified over a dozen domains of focus.

JUDY WOODRUFF: In the day's other news: President Trump said that he will reach across the political aisle again, this time to help pass a tax reform plan. To that end, he invited Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, the House and Senate Democratic leaders, to dinner tonight. He also called in Republican and Democratic lawmakers this afternoon to talk about cutting business and personal income tax rates. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: If we can do things in a bipartisan manner, that will be great. Now, it might not work out, in which case, we will try and do them without.