Scott Shackford, introduces panel members during the Get A Warrant: The 4th Amendment and Digital Data panel during SXSW. Stars and innovators from music, movies and technology have descended on Austin for the SXSW Conference and Festivals, which kicked off Friday and runs through March 19. This weekend, the event played host to the car of the future, a big rally and a speech from the former vice president of the United States. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, yet he is just as worried about the rise of fake news and massive hacks as the rest of us. Although he did not attend this year, Berners-Lee's concerns were the topic of several panels at SXSW that zeroed in on the future of the Internet.

As artificial intelligence becomes more powerful, people need to make sure it's not used by authoritarian regimes to centralize power and target certain populations, Microsoft Research's Kate Crawford warned on Sunday. In her SXSW session, titled Dark Days: AI and the Rise of Fascism, Crawford, who studies the social impact of machine learning and large-scale data systems, explained ways that automated systems and their encoded biases can be misused, particularly when they fall into the wrong hands. "Just as we are seeing a step function increase in the spread of AI, something else is happening: the rise of ultra-nationalism, rightwing authoritarianism and fascism," she said. All of these movements have shared characteristics, including the desire to centralize power, track populations, demonize outsiders and claim authority and neutrality without being accountable. Machine intelligence can be a powerful part of the power playbook, she said.

Once fully deployed in South Korea, a THAAD battery could theoretically use its radar to see and monitor activity beyond North Korea, deep into Chinese territory. Russia also worries the deployment could compromise its security, and said it would lead to a stalemate on the Korean peninsula.

In order to counter the growing nuclear threat from North Korea in the Korean Peninsula, the U.S. is expected to deploy an unmanned aircraft system to South Korea, Yonhap News Agency reported Monday, citing a Seoul military official. The attack drone will be deployed to strengthen strike capabilities against ground targets in the North, the official told the South Korean news agency. The Gray Eagle aircraft will be deployed to a U.S. military base in the southwestern town of Gunsan -- about 111 miles south of Seoul, the report said. However, it is still unclear when the system will be installed. The Gray Eagle is capable of striking military facilities in the north of the Military Demarcation Line separating the two Koreas, the official told Yonhap.

The ex-bomber plant and home of Rosie the Riveter will transform this year into an autonomous vehicle technology test site. It once housed one of the largest factories in the world, pumping out B24 bombers to help America and her allies win World War II, and later transmissions when it was owned by General Motors. It once housed one of the largest factories in the world, pumping out B24 bombers to help America and her allies win World War II, and later transmissions when it was owned by General Motors. The former Willow Run bomber plant in Ypsilanti Township is mostly a memory now, demolished following GM's 2009 bankruptcy, except for a piece that houses the Yankee Air Museum. Land at the former 335-acre Willow Run site in Ypsilanti Township where the American Center for Mobility is located on in January 2017 that will be used for testing autonomous vehicles.

On a November, 2015 morning in Bentonville, Arkansas, first responders discovered a corpse floating in a hot tub. The home's resident, James Andrew Bates, told authorities he'd found the body of Victor Collins dead that morning. He'd gone to bed at 1 AM, while Collins and another friend stayed up drinking. This past December, The Information reported that authorities had subpoenaed Amazon over the case. The police were considering Bates a suspect in what they suspected was a murder after signs of a struggle were found at the scene.

One of the big breakout manga hits of the past five years or so is definitely Yasuo Ohtagaki's grittier take on the original Mobile Suit Gundam. Set as a sidestory to the main conflict, Gundam Thunderbolt is a fascinating and very different approach to the saga. I was lucky enough to catch up with its author and find out how the manga came about. Considering the huge success of Gundam Thunderbolt, I was curious as to how Ohtagaki had gotten into making manga in the first place. Thankfully, he was more than happy to explain, "I am from Osaka originally and I've really enjoyed manga since I was a child. My father used to buy two volumes of the latest release, although at that time there were already 30 volumes on the market. He would buy the volumes like souvenirs and I would look forward to them. This is how I got into Dokaben and the first thing I copied was the art of Dokaben. I liked manga for a long time but when I was in high school, the romantic comedy boom arrived. I started to look at Akira Oze sensei's work, as he was at the time drawing romantic comedy manga. I realized then that I wanted to create manga like Oze sensei. "At the time when I was drawing manga, there was the romantic comedy boom and I liked this type of manga, the kind where a boy and girl flirt.

Artificial intelligence could enhance the decision-making capacities of human beings and make us much better than we are. Or, it could destroy the human race entirely. We could soon find out. In an engrossing lecture Friday morning, political scientist and software developer Clifton van der Linden said the world may be on the brink of a super machine intelligence that has the full range of human intelligence, as well as autonomous decision-making. And that emerging reality has many of the great human minds worried about our future.

Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. The chatbot that made a splash last summer by overturning 160,000 parking tickets is back again, but now it is helping provide free legal aid to refugees. Through a simple-to-use chat interface on Facebook Messenger, "DoNotPay" can "help refugees fill in an immigration application in the US and Canada." First, this is a pretty good service to use in your business if you employ immigrants that need inexpensive help with immigration paperwork. Secondly, here's another example of artificial intelligence technology that's automating process and creating new opportunities – which may have an impact on your future business.

I only got a "smart" television set 18 months ago, so I have already avoided years of covert surveillance by the CIA, the FBI, MI5, CI5 and NWA. No one is safe from Samsung's all-seeing Eye of Sauron. Apparently, a deeply embedded program currently enables the intelligence agencies to note and monitor anyone who is watching ITV's The Nightly Show, in the belief that they must be a weird loner-misfit, inexplicably fascinated by human suffering, a ticking social time bomb just waiting to explode. I am a late adopter of new technology. If I had played the ape at the opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey, I would have thrown the bone up in the air, and then Stanley Kubrick would have cut, not to a similarly shaped satellite swooping through the cosmos in the far future, but to me, some years later, still throwing the bone up in the air, and obstinately refusing banana-based inducements to upgrade to a more aerodynamic bone.