I think the recent article in the New York Times about the boom in'artificial intelligence' in Silicon Valley made many people think hard about the future of cybersecurity – both the near and distant future. What's going on now in the field of'AI' resembles a soap bubble. And we all know what happens to soap bubbles eventually if they keep getting blown up by the circus clowns (no pun intended!): Now, of course, without bold steps and risky investments a fantastical future will never become a reality. But the problem today is that along with this wave of widespread enthusiasm for'AI' (remember, AI today doesn't exist; thus the inverted commas), startup-shell-companies have started to appear.

Technology continues to drive and disrupt today's talent management strategies. As we move closer to the halfway point of 2017, we take a look at 5 key HR tech trends shaping your business. The widely publicised global data breach that affected the NHS last month highlights the very real risks to all businesses. After the talent shortage, PWC notes that cybersecurity is the second highest ranked concern for CEOs, with three quarters (76%) citing this it as a significant challenge in its annual CEO Survey. A UK government report also found that half of all businesses have experienced at least one data breach or cybersecurity attack in the past year, rising to two thirds of medium and large businesses.

There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit," then-Senator Barack Obama said in a 2006 commencement address at Northwestern University. "But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit." What we need, he said, was the ability to "see the world through those who are different from us." Since Obama's speech, the phrase "empathy deficit" has gained a foothold, appearing everywhere from academic journals to mainstream media outlets. Among the varied responses to the 2016 United States presidential election were calls for a greater general empathy. Many liberals tried to peer across party lines to understand the motivations of Donald Trump voters, for instance interviewing Republican constituents and reading books about rural poverty (think J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy or Arlie Hochschild's Strangers in Their Own Land). But these efforts didn't alleviate tension between parties, which might be because empathy-building efforts don't always work.

Denver's LaMar's Donuts teamed up with Drone Dispatch -- from Austin, Texas -- to make this hungry tech-lover's dream become a reality and give the world a glimpse into the future of drone delivery. The drones delivered four boxes of LaMar's doughnuts to honor a tradition dating back to World War I when Salvation Army volunteers made doughnuts for soldiers. "We're doing it completely legal, we have very, very short deliveries from the drone where we have a safe takeoff location and the landing area is a Drone Dispatch team member who's receiving the box of doughnuts," CEO of Drone Dispatch, Chris Bonnet, told the AP. Amazon has been testing the delivery-by-drone method since 2016 when it made its first drone delivery of an Amazon Fire TV and a bag of popcorn in the United Kingdom.

Robots are taking over the world's workforce--and why shouldn't they? For so many jobs, machines are faster, more consistent, smarter, and cheaper than you or I will ever be. As advances in artificial intelligence accelerate, robots will spread into all corners of the labor market: blue collar and white collar, service work and knowledge work alike. Along with their jobs, people will lose their incomes. When that happens, governments will also lose theirs.

In the 1982 film Firefox, Clint Eastwood plays an Air Force pilot and Vietnam vet on a secret mission to steal an advanced Soviet fighter jet. The airplane is super fast, radar invisible, and can be controlled by thought (as long as those thoughts are in Russian). "Yeah, I can fly it," Eastwood says. "I'm the best there is." Two year later, Tom Clancy published The Hunt for Red October, later made into a film starring Alec Baldwin and Sean Connery.

The process begins after customers check in for their flights, go through security and arrive at their gates. Travelers will step up to a camera at a Self-Boarding station, where they will have their photos taken. CBP will match the photo with travelers' passport, visa or immigration documentation. A message indicating the photo has been verified will flash on a screen, and customers will then be allowed onto the jet bridge.

Bias is how far removed a model's predictions are from correctness, while variance is the degree to which these predictions vary between model iterations.

Richard Duran, father of Bree'Anna Guzman, 22, discusses his daughter's murder in 2011 at a news conference attended by L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti and Police Chief Charlie Beck. Geovanni Borjas, 32, was arrested on suspicion of raping and killing Guzman and Michelle Lozano, 17, in Lincoln Heights and dumping their bodies by area freeways six years ago. Richard Duran, father of Bree'Anna Guzman, 22, discusses his daughter's murder in 2011 at a news conference attended by L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti and Police Chief Charlie Beck. Geovanni Borjas, 32, was arrested on suspicion of raping and killing Guzman and Michelle Lozano, 17, in Lincoln Heights and dumping their bodies by area freeways six years ago.

Drones have taken to the skies in Denver to make doughnut deliveries. A team of UAVs flew through parking lots to deliver doughnuts to Denver's mayor and the city's police and fire department. The event provided a glimpse at a future where groceries and merchandise are delivered quickly and cheaply by drone, according to its organizers. Denver's LaMar's Donuts hired Austin, Texas-based company Drone Dispatch to deliver four boxes of doughnuts using piloted drones flown within a block. LaMar's spokesman Tami Osifodunrin said Federal Aviation Administration regulations prohibit commercial drone pilots from losing sight of drones.