The government could push through extreme internet regulation while people are distracted by the current political situation, according to activists. Theresa May might use her wide-ranging plans for technology – which includes weakening security and increasing censorship – as a way of restoring some of "image as a tough leader", the Open Rights Group has warned. The prime minister might look to automatically censor the internet, for instance, and weaken security in a way that "could put all of us at a great risk of crime", it said. Despite failing to win a majority at the recent election, Ms May has suggested that she will keep going with her extreme plans. And she might do so specifically because the government's majority is "fragile", he said.

On May 12, the largest ransomware outbreak in history took place, targeting 300,000 machines in 150 countries, with the U.K.'s National Health Service (NHS) taking the brunt of the attack. In fact, 48 hospital trusts in the U.K. were targeted by the NSA cyber weapon-powered WannaCry ransomware, in addition to an unknown number of hospitals in the United States. Further, the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) reported that not just hospital machines were infected, but also medical devices from both Bayer and Siemens. By shutting down systems, communication channels and equipment, cybercriminals locked healthcare professionals out of their EHRs, forced them to cancel appointments and even turned away emergency patients. Unfortunately, this is just another example of the healthcare industry being targeted by increasingly sophisticated and frequent ransomware attacks.

The first real computer, the ENIAC, was built in 1946. The first computer war game appeared two years later. It was built by the Army Operations Research Office, and it was as rudimentary as you might think. Since then, the relationship between the military and world of games has gotten endlessly deeper. Veterans help develop popular games, and popular games help veterans recover.

In 1950, Alan Turing, already famous for helping to crack the German Enigma code during World War II, devised the Turing test to define intelligence in machines. Could a computer, Turing asked, fool a human into thinking he was interacting with another person, or imitate human responses so well that it would be impossible for a person to tell the difference? If the machine could, Turing proposed, it could be considered intelligent. Turing's thought experiment spawned scores of science-fiction tales, such as the 2015 hit movie Ex Machina. Now, artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous algorithms are not only passing the Turing test every day but, more importantly, are making and saving money for the businesses that deploy them.

North Korea has been accused of spying on South Korea after a suspected Pyongyang drone was spotted on the site of a U.S. missile interceptor system, Seoul's military officials said Tuesday. The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system, which is designed to intercept and destroy ballistic missiles, is being deployed in Seongju in order to protect South Korea from Pyongyang's growing threats. According to Yonhap News, the small unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with a Sony-made camera was found last week on a mountain near the inter-Korean border. The drone had apparently crashed close to the THAAD site. The South's military took the drone in custody and analysed the content of the 64-gigabyte memory chip.

The 119 drones underwent catapult-assisted take-offs and performed aerial formations, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Sunday. The CETC said "swarm intelligence" is regarded as the core of the artificial intelligence of unmanned systems and the future of intelligent unmanned systems. The huge scale of low cost and multi-function UAVs could be used in risky tasks such as emergency communications. CETC engineer Zhao Yanjie said since drones were invented in 1917, intelligent swarms have "changed the rules of the game." In November 2016, the CETC launched 67 drones during the China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai, South China's Guangdong Province, breaking the previous record of 50 drones by the US Navy, CCTV reported.

Companies spend a fortune to provide health insurance for their employees. In the U.S., 57 percent of all people get their health care through an employer-provided plan. In the past 10 years, employers have seen their costs increase over 63 percent, and costs are forecasted to grow at three times the inflation rate for the foreseeable future. Companies have begun shifting more of these costs to employees. The use of high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) by companies of all sizes just passed the 50 percent mark.

The term'Artificial Intelligence' is one that resonates far and wide and encompasses everything and everyone, – from the scientists seeking to reach out beyond the existing limits of our knowledge of the universe to the intelligent digital personal assistants now found on various platforms such as iOS, Android, and Windows Mobile. It includes the self-driving car, which is getting ever-closer to reality and the ubiquitous smartphone that is growing even smarter (e.g. Even the way we carry out financial transactions, light and heat our homes and restock our fridges and freezers has AI at its heart. It is not difficult to see why AI is impacting our lives in such a transformational manner; after all, everything we have of value as human beings, as a civilisation, is deeply entwined with our intellect. At its best, AI can become a commanding force that helps to augment that human acumen. Properly employed, it has the power to help us move our civilisation forward in so many positive and ethically sound ways.

You may be all too familiar with HAL 9000 from Space Odyssey, 2001 film, AI program onboard the spaceship that became all too powerful. Welcome NASA's humanoid robot, developed to power space exploration and help astronauts by operating in extreme and dangerous environments and performing repetitive tasks. Though Robonaut is still in a test phase, the ESA powered it up to test its power consumption and troubleshoot a faulty cable. The ESA post reveals that Robonauts could be used to explore other planets under human control by astronauts – the Haptics2 telerobotic experiment.

Southern California has experienced a boost in trade and logistics employment in the last decade, but policy and labor challenges lie ahead, according to a new economic report. Trade-related jobs increased nearly 10% from 2005 to 2015, more than double the overall regional employment increase of 4.2%, the report released Monday by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. found. Warehousing and logistics jobs led the charge, jumping 55.1% over the decade, said the report, titled "Trade & Logistics in Southern California." The growth came at a cost, however. Wages in warehousing dropped 9% during the period, compared with an increase of almost 3% in the industry overall, which includes the highly paid dockworkers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the nation's largest cargo complex.