Sylvester Kaczmarek is an award-winning entrepreneur and product leader with more than a decade of international, quality-driven IT industry experience. One of the most popular shows on television 30 years ago was "The A-Team" -- the story of five rogue military commandos who teamed together to form an elite fighting unit. Now, a generation later, DARPA and the U.S. military are in search of a new "A-Team" -- only this team won't be comprised of just humans, it will include a few machines, as well. A-team refers to "agile team," which DARPA refers to as hybrid teams of humans teamed with intelligent machines. What DARPA recognizes is that intelligent machines are not just "agents" carrying out the simple commands of humans, but rather are part of an "intelligent fabric" that dynamically evolves over time. The obvious use case for these A-teams, of course, is in the military sphere.

A U.S. military service member was killed Sunday during a raid against al-Qaida militants in central Yemen that also left nearly 30 others dead, including women and children. The loss of the service member is the first-known combat death of a member of the U.S. military under President Donald Trump. The U.S. has been striking al-Qaida in Yemen from the air for more than 15 years, mostly using drones, and Sunday's surprise pre-dawn raid could signal a new escalation against extremist groups in the Arab world's poorest but strategically located country. An al-Qaida official and an online news service linked to the terror group said the raid left about 30 people dead. Among the children killed was Anwar, the 8-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Yemeni-American cleric killed in a U.S. airstrike in Yemen in 2011, according to the girl's grandfather.

Now that self-driving cars have moved beyond mere speculation and are roaming the streets of Pittsburgh, among other places, federal and local officials are busily trying to figure out how to regulate them. During a recent conference in Washington, D.C., Paul Lewis, vice-president of policy and finance at the Eno Center for Transportation, talked about how local and regional governments can lead the way in this mobility revolution. What's needed, he said, are policies "that both protect public safety and bring some accountability to this rapidly changing environment while still enabling the technology to bring the benefits." But, as December's spat between San Francisco authorities and Uber's self-driving fleet indicates, the regulatory road ahead could be a rocky one. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has published a 15-point safety assessment that laid out some early autonomous vehicle (AV) guidelines.

When the government provides a basic income to all citizens of the country without any conditions attached, it is termed as universal basic income. It is a form of social security. There is increasing debate in the developed countries about the introduction of Universal Basic Income. The combination of four factors, globalization, outsourcing, automaton, and the increasing adaptation and use of artificial intelligence is taking a growing toll on the low-income and middle-class sections of the society in developed countries, which is prompting the debate for the introduction of universal basic income. In Canada, manufacturing employment has decreased.

They say the Sunday attack at dawn in Bayda province killed Abdul-Raouf al-Dhahab, Sultan al-Dhahab, and Seif al-Nims. The al-Dhahab family is considered an ally of al-Qaida, which security forces say is concentrated in Bayda province. A third family member, Tarek al-Dhahab, was killed in a previous U.S. drone strike years ago.

SANAA, Yemen – U.S. forces launched a raid in central Yemen on Sunday, security and tribal officials said, landing troops off of aircraft and killing three alleged senior Al Qaeda leaders in a battle that was the third such U.S. ground engagement against the extremist group in Yemen. The surprise dawn attack in Bayda province killed Abdul-Raouf al-Dhahab, Sultan al-Dhahab, and Seif al-Nims, they said. The al-Dhahab family is considered an ally of Al Qaeda, which security forces say is concentrated in Bayda province. A third family member, Tarek al-Dhahab, was killed in a previous U.S. drone strike years ago. It was not immediately clear whether the family members were actual members of Al Qaeda.

The European Union is currently considering the need to redefine the legal status of robots, with a draft report last week suggesting that autonomous bots might, in the future, be granted the status of "electronic persons" -- a legal definition that confers certain "rights and obligations." It sounds like science fiction and that's because it is: any engineer will tell you we're a long way from seeing robot marches for civil rights. For a start, this is only a draft report. It's not actual legislation, and is only a series of recommendations for the EU's law-making body -- they could always ignore it completely. And although parts of the report are a bit odd (Frankenstein's monster, the Greek myth of Pygmalion, and the Golem of Prague are all referenced in the first paragraph alone), at its core it's interested in the rights of people, not the rights of robots.

As more of our lives move into the digital sphere, data has become incredibly valuable. There's so much digital information floating around that commentators have hailed the beginning of an era of'big data'. This basically refers to huge datasets that are much larger than traditional collections of information. This info has been generated by growing digitisation, especially from online financial transactions and social media. It's a never-ending paradox – the more digital society becomes, the more data there is. . .

President Donald Trump's tweets have caused headaches for everyone from Mexico's currency traders to the world's most valuable companies. Now there's a robot out to profit from the pain. Meet the Trump and Dump bot, a computer program that automatically shorts stocks based on Trump's tweets. Created by the advertising agency T3, the software extracts companies named in the president's tweets and analyzes their sentiment. If the tweet is deemed negative, the bot will short the stock within seconds and then send an alert to T3. "What do you do when Trump is tweeting about these companies and their stocks are going down?" said Ben Gaddis, president of T3.

A week into the Trump administration, and it seems that many of the president's actions are courting disaster -- at least if you're a fan of open government or the environment. Meanwhile, Samsung appears to have recovered from its self-created catastrophe known as the Note 7. Chris Velazco recounted the sequence of events that led to the company's apology for its flaming devices and -- given this week's glowing quarterly earnings report -- painted a surprisingly rosy picture for the firm moving forward. It seems that Sony could take some notes from Samsung's focus on making amends to consumers. So, this week he gave Sony some very pointed advice on how it should better serve its customers. And finally, while Samsung's future was looking good for the first time in months, Christopher Trout went to the Adult Entertainment Expo to see an X-rated hologram and discover what's next for porn. What he found was an industry in the midst of a comeback, powered by VR and mobile livestreaming.