Tesla CEO Elon Musk has doubled down on his support of a universal basic income as a possible solution for unemployment caused by the rise of machines equipped with artificial intelligence taking over the workforce. A universal basic income would give a standard amount of money to every citizen to cover basic expenses like food and living costs each month. At the World Government Summit in Dubai on Monday, Musk told a crowd that universal basic income is'going to be necessary' in the future. Tesla CEO Elon Musk told a crowd at the World Government Summit in Dubai on Monday (pictured) that universal basic income is'going to be necessary' in the future Musk first joined the growing list of tech executives supporting the payment system in November when he spoke about the concept in an interview with CNBC. Former President Barack Obama warned Congress in March that by 2030, as many as 50 per cent of jobs could be replaced by robots, leaving millions of people without work.

NASA has launched a new website that will allow anyone to join the search for alien worlds. The site, called Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, contains footage from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission, which produced the most comprehensive survey of the entire sky at mid-infrared wavelengths to date. This means members of the public can participate in the potential discovery of planets and other objects at the edge of our solar system and in neighbouring interstellar space. NASA has launched a new website that will allow anyone to join the search for alien worlds. To search for undiscovered worlds, visit the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 website.

Vendors at this week's RSA cybersecurity show in San Francisco are pushing artificial intelligence and machine learning as the new way to detect the latest threats, but RSA CTO Zulfikar Ramzan is giving visitors a reality check. "I think it (the technology) moves the needle," he said on Wednesday. "The real open question to me is how much has that needle actually moved in practice?" It's not as much as vendors claim, Ramzan warned, but for customers it won't be easy cutting through the hype and marketing. The reality is that a lot of the technology now being pushed isn't necessarily new.

Phillip Hatch, who is 81 and testified before the panel via video, told lawmakers how he received a phone call one day at his home in Portland, Maine. The caller told him there was a mistake on his tax returns and federal marshals were coming to arrest him unless he paid the money. Worried, Hatch did as instructed and went to the local CVS to purchase iTunes cards. He then read the numbers on the backs of the cards to the caller. After four hours on the phone with the caller, Hatch was out $8,000.

It appears Mars is giving the universe the thumbs up. While investigating images of the Red Planet, astronomers spotted a dune field that resembles the shape of an approving hand gesture. The image was snapped by the Mars Odyssey orbiter, which was originally sent to search for evidence of water and volcanic activity on the Martian planet. While investigating images of the Red Planet, astronomers spotted a dune field that resembles the shape of a thumbs up. The name of the orbiter pays tribute to the science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, who is known for his 2001 book'Space Odyssey'.

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Last year, on October 21, your digital video recorder -- or at least a DVR like yours -- knocked Twitter off the internet. Someone used your DVR, along with millions of insecure webcams, routers, and other connected devices, to launch an attack that started a chain reaction, resulting in Twitter, Reddit, Netflix, and many sites going off the internet. You probably didn't realize that your DVR had that kind of power. This has as much to do with the computer market as it does with the technologies. We prefer our software full of features and inexpensive, at the expense of security and reliability. That your computer can affect the security of Twitter is a market failure. The industry is filled with market failures that, until now, have been largely ignorable. As computers continue to permeate our homes, cars, businesses, these market failures will no longer be tolerable. Our only solution will be regulation, and that regulation will be foisted on us by a government desperate to "do something" in the face of disaster. In this article I want to outline the problems, both technical and political, and point to some regulatory solutions. Regulation might be a dirty word in today's political climate, but security is the exception to our small-government bias. And as the threats posed by computers become greater and more catastrophic, regulation will be inevitable. So now's the time to start thinking about it. We also need to reverse the trend to connect everything to the internet. And if we risk harm and even death, we need to think twice about what we connect and what we deliberately leave uncomputerized. If we get this wrong, the computer industry will look like the pharmaceutical industry, or the aircraft industry.

Amazon receives a patent from the U.S. government for drones that would parachute drop an item right to your door. Amazon may have a new option for how it plans to deliver your packages by drone. CNN reports the retailing giant was granted a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that could allow packages to drop by parachute. The drone would stay nearby to make sure it arrives in the right spot. The report says, for example, Amazon's drone could deploy a parachute or landing flap on the package to prevent it from hitting a balcony or tree.

Artillery is no longer the King of War. Information technology has transformed the modern battlefield at sea, in the air and on land, and it is arguably the new King of War. In April the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) will help to demonstrate this as part of the Royal Navy led Information Warrior exercise. Information Warrior builds on the impressive success of last year's Unmanned Warrior exercise. It focuses is on how information can be used offensively and defensively to give the UK's armed forces a battle winning advantage.

In the hope of preventing a catastrophic asteroid from colliding with Earth, a respected astrophysicist has advised that governments should be spending'hundreds of millions' each year on defence systems. Speaking at a press conference this week, Lord Martin Rees, UK Astronomer Royal, said that humans are'vulnerable to impacts from outside.' He suggested that a two-pronged approach would be needed to ensure Earth could survive an asteroid collision – a better detection system, and a deflection system. Experts have warned that humans are not prepared for an asteroid impact, and should one head for Earth, there's not much we can do about it (stock image) Nasa is planning an ambitious mission that will see a robotic spaceship visit an asteroid to create an orbiting base for astronauts. The robot shipwill pluck a large boulder off the space rock and sling it aroundthe moon, becoming a destination to prepare for futurehuman missions to Mars.