The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing to see if Uber Technologies Inc had used software to illegally interfere with its competitors, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The investigation is focusing on an Uber program, internally known as'Hell,' that could track drivers working for rival service Lyft Inc, the WSJ said, citing people familiar with the investigation. Under the program, which was discontinued last year, Uber created fake Lyft customer accounts to seek rides, allowing it to track nearby Lyft drivers and ride prices, the Journal said. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing to see if Uber Technologies Inc had used software to illegally interfere with its competitors, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Uber used top secret software called'Hell' to track drivers working for its biggest US competitor Lyft.

An abysmal government response to Hurricane Harvey exposed inadequate planning, lack of resources and confusing attempts at invoking incident command that iced potential responders such as commercial drone operators. Rescue efforts defaulted to heroic, overwhelmed local crews bolstered by the truly remarkable "Cajun Navy". In substantial form, social media played a key role for those attempting to contact responders. This show describes the nuances of the Hurricane Harvey landfall and offers precise protocols to improve future responses to natural disasters. The decision to not evacuate Houston was correct and will be the standard decision moving forward for sentinel events.

Artificial Intelligence has been the talk of the town ever since Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla's Elon Musk exchanged a war of words over its potential. Other than that several world leaders have expressed their concern over the capabilities of an AI system in the near future. Meanwhile, on September 4, Musk tweeted that countries which grow their superiority in Artificial Intelligence will rule the world and the competition might lead to World War III. He said that Russia, China and more countries are the biggest contenders. This statement came after Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking to school children, said, "Whoever becomes the leader in this area will rule the world." As a response, Musk tweeted, "It Begins…" Not only then, there have been other famous personalities who have expressed their opinions and concerns on the subject.

As the integration of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Big Data in the workplace is becoming the new norm, concerns are increasing over how the technology could affect employee performance, job security and the adaptation and reliance of technology in the legal industry. Raj Goyle, former Kansas State Representative, Harvard Law graduate and Co-Founder/CEO of LawTech platform Bodhala, sat down with Inside Counsel to discuss why AI, Machine Learning and Big Data are not costing jobs when correctly implemented, how technology eliminating inefficiencies within the workplace, and why is legal one of the last spaces to embrace tech integration.

One of the modern computer's first killer apps was predicting the weather. John von Neumann, who built the initial ENIAC computer, became fascinated with predicting weather in the 1930s. He called it "the most complex, interactive, and highly nonlinear problem that had ever been conceived of." In 1948, he assembled a team of meteorologists to create a mathematical model that would describe what weather would occur based on conditions in the atmosphere. These first weather predictions took more than 24 hours to compute, but proved the idea was possible--and that we needed faster computers.

Mary "Missy" Cummings, Director of the Humans and Autonomy Lab (HAL) at Duke University, and co-chair of the Global Future Council on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, says the technology will work best in collaboration with humans. While cab drivers may fear for their jobs, she envisages a worldwide shortage of roboticists in 2030. Artificial intelligence and robotics are showing up in every part of life, anywhere from driving, to the cellphones we use, how our data is managed in the world, how our homes are going to be built in the future. So given its ubiquity, it really is important to start addressing the strengths and limitations of artificial intelligence. Tell me about the technological breakthroughs we have already seen, and what you expect to see in the coming years?

We are living in an era where artificial intelligence (A.I.) will play a significant role in our path forward. Entrepreneur Elon Musk warns that A.I. robots should not be turned into war machines. While Russian president Vladimir Putin recently said the nation that leads in A.I. will be "the ruler of the world." So where does that leave us when it comes to working with robots in the business world? As it turns out A.I. and bots and machine learning are the buzz words of the industry and it would be safe to say pretty much every startup going forward will leverage A.I. or machine learning to build their products of the future.

Last spring, Katie Rivera's daughter came home from the St. Francis Parish School in Bakersfield with some unusual paperwork. The school was pushing parents to sign their children up for a "unique pilot program" taught entirely online and run by a public school district in Los Angeles County. Each student who enrolled in the Lennox Virtual Academy would get a free Chromebook computer to use at school, with access to online classes. All parents had to do was fill out the forms, authorizing St. Francis to share information about their finances and their children's health with the Lennox School District a hundred miles away. "This partnership is expected to bring many benefits for St. Francis students," Principal Kelli Gruszka wrote to parents.

The CIA currently has 137 different artificial intelligence pilot projects underway, according to a senior agency official. Dawn Meyerriecks, the CIA's deputy director for science and technology, told an audience at the annual Intelligence and National Security Summit in Washington that the agency has a "punch list" of different artificial intelligence problems that it wants the private sector to work on. The CIA is already coordinating this work with In-Q-Tel, the agency's venture capital firm, she said. The intelligence community has been eyeing artificial intelligence and machine learning to replace some of the tedious tasks its analysts perform for a while now. In June, Robert Cardillo, the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, vowed to bring in robots to do 75 percent of the tasks currently being done by employees to analyze and interpret images beamed in from feeds around the globe and in space.

For many Russian students, the academic year started last Friday with tips on planetary domination from President Vladimir Putin. "Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind," he said, via live video beamed to 16,000 selected schools. "Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world." Putin's advice is the latest sign of an intensifying race among Russia, China, and the US to accumulate military power based on artificial intelligence. All three countries have proclaimed intelligent machines as vital to the future of their national security.