Industry reports show advanced attacks can sit undetected for up to 200 days, waiting for security software to catch up. In today's threat environment, organizations need intelligent security solutions that continually evolve to detect the latest threats as they emerge.

Marc Andreessen on why AI can spawn a new generation of big, important technology companies -- Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and machine learning are enabling computers to understand the world and respond intelligently to it. Maxim Harper / @maximharper: Liked the entire chat, but the reply regarding the evolution of retail is fantastic. Grady Booch / @grady_booch: If software is eating the world, then AI is eating our lunch. Brian Roemmele / @brianroemmele: Few people get deep magnitude of AI as well as the astounding Marc Andreessen. This is a must read, especially post Viv sale.

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

Anyone looking for a book about driverless cars -- smart, wide-ranging, nontechnical, easy to understand -- was pretty much out of luck until "Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead" was published in September. The authors, Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman, have a reputation for clear, succinct writing about emerging technologies. It's geared toward nonexperts, but scientists, engineers and computer programmers can learn new things too. Lipson is a roboticist and professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University, where he directs the Creative Machines Lab. Kurman, a former product manager and industry analyst at Microsoft, is an author and speaker with a specialty in technology and its effect on our daily lives and the economy.

If President Roosevelt is remembered for starting the Manhattan Project, President John F. Kennedy for setting the goal to put a human on the moon, Clinton/Gore team for launching the Internet revolution, should President Obama be known as the founder of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Revolution? We believe the answer to that question is a resounding "yes". A less known fact about the Obama Administration is the level of guidance, support, encouragement, and focus it has provided in the growth of technology in general and artificial intelligence in particular. In fact, in some ways, the only failure that can be pointed out is that the administration has been too modest in promoting its role in driving and creating the recent artificial technology revolution. When President Obama took office, America was engulfed in an unprecedented economic crisis.

It seems like everyone including the U.S. government is getting hacked on a regular basis. Like the British broadband provider TalkTalk recently found out, we can all do more to protect ourselves. But fighting against cyber threats seems futile as staying a step ahead of criminals seems almost impossible. So it begs the question, is Machine Learning (ML) the answer we have all been waiting for? The amount of data that's being generated individually and collectively is multiplying rapidly.

I'd be willing to bet that if you were asked to list ten uses for your smartphone, you probably wouldn't include "medical device" in your answer. But as smartphones become increasingly capable, highly-portable computing platforms, researchers are looking to the computer in everyone's pocket as a way to improve global health. As Wired UK declared earlier this year, the next revolutionary medical device is likely to be your smartphone. Scientists have already developed smartphone-based apps that can monitor asthma, detect skin cancer, and diagnose traumatic brain injuries. The latest app that joins the "doctor in your pocket" list is helping screen for anemia.

Any future war with Russia or China would be "extremely lethal and fast" and produce violence on the scale not seen for 60 years, according to US generals. Artificial intelligence and automated weapons systems will accelerate any future conflict, Major General William Hix has warned. "A conventional conflict in the near future will be extremely lethal and fast," he told a future-of-the-Army panel on Tuesday, Defense One reports. "And we will not own the stopwatch." General Hix described his vision of accelerated future warfare: "The speed of events are likely to strain our human abilities.

Applied artificial intelligence is maturing fast. With maturity comes adoption, commercialization, and diffusion. What also comes is the responsibility to protect and safeguard the interests of businesses and households. As artificial intelligence products and services become mainstream and the technology becomes consumer facing, we have two responsibilities: to enhance and to protect. Hence, the mission of the AI Post (and The American Institute of Artificial Intelligence) is: To advance artificial intelligence safely and responsibly.