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Sony's upgraded PlayStation 4 is codenamed 'NEO', leaks reveal
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
DJI Could Hand Over Phantom Drone Flight Data In Hong Kong To China If Requested
Chinese-based drone manufacturer DJI said Wednesday it complies with government requests to hand over data collected by unmanned aerial vehicles, the New York Times reported. This is a standard requirement for any business working in the country, but DJI stated it could provide data from drones flown in Hong Kong if requested to do so by the Chinese government. If the Chinese government requests data from a particular drone, DJI will notify the user, company spokesman Zhang Fanxi said in a press briefing held in Shenzhen, the mainland industrial city near Hong Kong. "We are constantly having communications with our government and related departments. We have made suggestions to regulators and given them our advice, and said that we're willing to share our data," Zhang said.
Hitachi Social Innovation Stories The new crime-fighter: how does artificial intelligence support security surveillance?
At a time when there is high pressure and scrutiny around security, innovative new technologies are helping to track and predict crime. Artificial intelligence (AI) is key in this new way of fighting crime, providing analysis that can give real support to law enforcement services as they make difficult decisions about how best to use their resources. CCTV cameras have been in use in Europe since the Second World War. However, they have sometimes come under scrutiny about their effectiveness when it comes to tackling crime, as they tend to only provide retrospective support for law enforcement (such as placing a suspect at the scene of the crime in their trial). With new cameras able to send and receive data via a computer network and the Internet (IPTV), as well as the huge amount of data collected every second using traditional CCTV, AI can collate this data extremely quickly ready for analysis.
Norwegian court rules mass killer Breivik's rights violated
Norwegian authorities have violated mass killer Anders Behring Breivik's human rights by holding him in solitary confinement in a three-cell complex where he can play video games, watch TV and exercise, a court in Oslo ruled Wednesday. In a written decision, the Oslo district court said Breivik's solitary confinement for killing 77 people in 2011 bomb-and-gun massacres breached the European Convention on Human Rights' ban on inhuman treatment. "The prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment represents a fundamental value in a democratic society," the court said. "This applies no matter what -- also in the treatment of terrorists and killers." The court ordered the government to pay Breivik's legal costs of 331,000 kroner, about 41,000.
MIT Develops AI That Detects 85 Percent of Cyber-Attacks
MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), together with researchers from security firm PatternEx, has revealed a new AI (Artificial Intelligence) system called AI2, which can detect 85 percent of cyber-attacks, with false positives rates five times smaller than existing solutions. The new system doesn't rely entirely on artificial intelligence (AI), but also on user input, something that researchers call analyst intuition (AI), hence its name of AI2. Researchers said they fed AI2 with over 3.6 billion lines of log files, allowing the system to scan the content with unsupervised machine-learning techniques. At the end of each day, the system presents its findings to a human operator, who then confirms or dismisses security alerts. This human feedback is then incorporated into AI2's learning system and used the next day for analyzing new logs. After their tests had concluded, MIT and PatternEx researchers said AI2 achieved an 85 percent accuracy rate in detecting cyber-attacks, which is 2.92 times better than similar automated cyber-attack detection systems used today.
Rich Americans seek black market brain implants to plug into AI 'matrix'
A pair of super-rich American technology gurus are planning to undergo surgery to install experimental implants directly into their brains. The two men are currently trying to find a doctor willing to perform this untested and highly risky procedure, The Mirror has learned. If they survive the operation, the men hope to be able to directly communicate with the primitive forms of artificial intelligence currently being developed in labs across the world. But critics and conspiracy theorists fear these pioneering implants are the first step towards creating a society where every human is plugged into "the matrix". Zoltan Istvan, a U.S. Presidential candidate, personally knows both of these would-be bionic men.
Apple poaches top Tesla Motors executive to work on its electric car project
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
This MIT-designed airtificial intelligence can predict up to 85% of cyber-attacks
An AI created by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) uses machine learning to detect suspicious activity - getting it right 85% of the time. The system uses an algorithm called "AI2", that detects anomalies, in conjunction with a human expert, because AI2 on its own can lead to false positives, according to MIT News. "The more attacks the system detects, the more analyst feedback it receives, which, in turn, improves the accuracy of future predictions," said one of the researchers behind the project, Kalyan Veeramachaneni. "That human-machine interaction creates a beautiful, cascading effect." The merging of artificial intelligence and what researchers call "analyst intuition" has allowed for this new system to be successful in its early development, Veeramachaneni and fellow scientist Ignacio Arnaldo said.
The AI system that can detect 85% of cyber attacks, with a little human help
MIT scientists have built a hybrid human/artificial intelligence (AI) machine that they claim can learn how to detect 85% of cyber attacks – that's roughly three times better than previous benchmarks – while reducing false positive rates by a factor of 5. Nitesh Chawla, professor of computer science at Notre Dame University, said in a statement from MIT that the machine "has the potential to become a line of defense against attacks such as fraud, service abuse and account takeover." Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the machine-learning startup PatternEx demonstrated the platform, called AI2, in a paper titled "AI2: Training a big data machine to defend". As the researchers describe the current state of the art, today's security systems are typically driven by either humans – so-called "analyst-driven solutions" – or by machine. The problem with security systems based on fixed rules is that they miss attacks that don't match those rules. Machine-learning approaches, as the name suggests, rely on an adaptive process that can trigger annoying numbers of false positives.