A controversial video game where players must commit sexual assault on female characters in order to progress has been removed from a popular gaming platform. The Rape Day game was listed on the Steam Store, advertising gameplay that involved "violence, sexual assault, non-consensual sex, obscene language, necrophilia, and incest". It prompted a major outcry, with an online petition calling for the game to be banned receiving more than 3,000 signatures. We'll tell you what's true. You can form your own view.

The Yavapai County Attorney said in a letter made public that there was "no basis for criminal liability" for Uber, but that the back-up driver, Rafaela Vasquez, should be referred to the Tempe police for additional investigation. Prosecutors' decision not to pursue criminal charges removes one potential headache for the ride-hailing company as the company's executives try to resolve a long list of federal investigations, lawsuits and other legal risks ahead of a hotly anticipated initial public offering this year. The crash involved a Volvo XC90 sport utility vehicle that Uber was using to test self-driving technology. The fatal accident was a setback from which the company has yet to recover; its autonomous vehicle testing remains dramatically reduced. The accident was also a blow to the entire autonomous vehicle industry and led other companies to temporarily halt their testing.

The advanced technology of artificial intelligence is already distributed across the industries and helps to make a renovate in the space broadly by driving solutions efficiently. The innovative nature of artificial intelligence features helping many enterprises and professionals to operate more efficiently than before. Today whatever the business operations, it contains tons of data, forcing professionals to maintain in the log. Artificial Intelligence is a part of computer science, applied to make the system function like human intelligence, such as reading, responding and identifying image or voice of objects to convert it to develop decisions based on data received from other sources. AI simulates certain operations of human doing and plays a vital role in all areas of industry.

A 17-year-old bet his high school programming club that artificial intelligence (AI) could outperform human beings. To prove it, Robbie Barrat developed a program that could write its own rap lyrics using 6,000 Kayne West lyrics.1 He is not the only one creating art using AI. Major news organizations like The Washington Post are integrating AI into their business models.2 In addition, a painting created by Obvious using AI was recently auctioned off by Christie's for almost a half of a million dollars.3

Technology changes the way we do things, and sometimes it's really hard to let go of the way things have always been done. Add lawyers to the conversation–who have been trained that precedent is pretty much everything–and we have the next best thing since oil met water. I want to introduce you to a term that you most likely have heard of, have an idea of what it is, and are most likely wrong. What pops into my mind are state appointed criminal defense attorneys. What I have discovered is that my concept of "access to justice" was really limited to the narrow definition.

A video still from a mounted camera captures the moment before a self-driving Uber SUV fatally struck a woman in Tempe, Ariz., last March. A Yavapai County prosecutor found that Uber is not criminally liable for the crash. A video still from a mounted camera captures the moment before a self-driving Uber SUV fatally struck a woman in Tempe, Ariz., last March. A Yavapai County prosecutor found that Uber is not criminally liable for the crash. An Arizona prosecutor has determined that Uber is not criminally liable in the death of a Tempe woman who was struck by a self-driving test car last year.

If you're a company that makes robots, farm tools, security tech, or really anything that isn't a self-driving car, Waymo has a lidar to sell you. The autonomous tech company that started life in 2009 as Google's self-driving-car project announced today it's creating a new revenue stream by selling its custom-developed, short range laser sensors. It's a bit unexpected, considering Waymo waged a bruising legal fight with Uber to protect this most valuable of sensing technologies, but it also signals that Waymo is exploring business models that don't hinge on yanking the human from behind the wheel. Waymo started developing its own lidar in 2011, after deciding existing sensors--chiefly those created by Velodyne, the company that pioneered the automotive lidar market--weren't sufficient for its needs. Over the next eight years, it said during its lawsuit against Uber, Waymo put "tens of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of hours of engineering time" into its custom solution.

A video game that encourages players to rape and murder women has provoked outrage after it was listed on a popular gaming platform. Alongside sexually explicit images and a description warning of "violence, sexual assault, non-consensual sex, obscene language, necrophilia, and incest," Rape Day appeared on the Steam Store online gaming platform. Desk Plant, the game's developer, claims it is a "dark comedy" that obeys the rules of Valve, the platform's owner. We'll tell you what's true. You can form your own view.

The United States must get serious about a comprehensive strategy on artificial intelligence or risk losing leadership in a technology that is different from any other that's been developed so far. Nations that lead in AI stand to gain tremendous advantages across industry, government and society at large. More than 20 countries and governing bodies have already released strategies to promote the development of AI in an effort to reap its benefits and, in some cases, take the lead in AI. But despite a promising recent executive order, the U.S., notably, has not created such a strategy. A transformative technology, AI's potential benefits include improving healthcare, streamlining national security and cyber defense, enabling more precise data analytics, and making agriculture more sustainable. A 2017 report by PWC estimated that AI technologies could increase global GDP by $15.7 trillion by 2030, representing a potential 20 percent increase, with $3.7 trillion of that increase occurring in North America, for a 14.5 percent increase in GDP.

Imagine you're using a VR headset and as a car races past, you hear it whip from left to right. Only the sound literally moves from left to right because it's coming from a robotic speaker that zips across the room. From the looks of a new patent, audio company Harman is dreaming up speakers that would do just that. This week, the US Patent Office awarded Harman a patent for a "mobile speaker system for virtual reality environments." According to the patent, the company would map VR soundscapes to robotic speakers, which would either drive or fly (thanks to quadcopters) to better represent the distance, direction and movement of sounds.