Killer robots must be banned to prevent unlawful killings, injuries and other violations of human rights'before it's too late', according to Amnesty International. The human rights non-profit is calling upon the United Nations to place tough new restraints on the development of autonomous weapon systems ahead of key negotiations in Geneva this week. The development of automated weapons, which can pick out and eliminate targets without input from a human being, has proliferated over the past decade. Countries including the UK, France, Israel and the US are known to be developing the technology for use in military and police operations. Amnesty International argues humans should remain'at the core of critical decisions' on the use of deadly force, such as the selection and engagement of targets.

MIAMI – Two people were killed and 11 others wounded Sunday when a video game tournament competitor went on a shooting rampage before turning the gun on himself in the northern Florida city of Jacksonville, local police said. Sheriff Mike Williams named the suspect of the shooting at a Madden 19 American football eSports tournament as 24-year-old David Katz from Baltimore, Maryland. "There were three deceased individuals at the scene, one of those being the suspect, who took his own life," Williams told reporters. He said local fire and rescue transported nine victims -- seven of whom had gunshot wounds -- to local hospitals, while another two people who were shot took their own transportation to hospital. Williams said Katz was a competitor in the eSports tournament and used "at least one handgun" to carry out the shooting.

Without a doubt, artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most important new technologies in the world, with the power to create entirely new industries and professions. Stanford professor Andrew Ng, in fact, has called AI "the new electricity" for its potential world-changing possibilities. So it's perhaps only natural to ask: What impact will AI have on libraries and the world of literature? Perhaps most obviously, AI machines will soon have the power to take over the role of librarians. They will have the power to become not just the stewards of the world's information and literature, but also trusted mentors, research advisors, and content matter experts.

Some of the best-known applications for artificial intelligence, or AI, range from autonomous vehicles to finance to medical diagnosis. But AI is rapidly expanding to every sector of the economy, including fashion. For a growing number of fashion companies, AI is already transforming the methods used to predict trends, create products and interact with suppliers and customers. Not surprisingly, AI advances raise unique new legal questions, chiefly in the realm of intellectual property and privacy. Broadly defined, AI is computer technology that aims to simulate intelligent human behavior, or to perform cognitive tasks that ordinarily require human intelligence.

There was a mass shooting at a downtown marketplace in Jacksonville, Florida during a video game tournament Sunday. Early reports say that at least 11 people were shot and four were killed. The Jacksonville Sherriff's Office tweeted that one suspect was dead at the scene and at a news conference later in the day said there were "no outstanding suspects." The Sherriff's Office had said earlier there were "multiple fatalities" but did not release any detailed information. Authorities have also urged people to stay away from the area because it "is not safe."

As news trickeld out about the mass shooting at a video game tournament in Jacksonville, Florida on Sunday, some quickly recalled that right in that same spot there was a pro-gun control event a month ago. Survivors of the February school shooting in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17 people, held an event at the Jacksonville Landing in late July. The Jacksonville Landing is a waterfront commercial district in downtown Jacksonville with lots of bars and restaurants. Our hearts are with you Jacksonville Landing. It's crazy to think that March for Our Lives Road to Change had an event there just about a month ago.

Civil liberties and privacy advocates said they both welcomed and felt wary of Microsoft's push for government regulation, questioning how committed the company was to strong user privacy controls. In May, for instance, Satya Nadella, Microsoft's chief executive, said at a company developer conference that privacy was a "human right." Yet in June, Microsoft donated $195,000 to an effort to defeat a consumer privacy bill in California. "People have a right to go about their lives without having their faces scanned in secret -- by companies or the government," said Alvaro Bedoya, director of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law, who has studied facial recognition. "Will Microsoft agree that companies should never scan your face without your permission? Will it agree that government face scans should be tightly controlled and in some cases banned?"

Identifying the physical aspect of the earth's surface (Land cover) as well as how we exploit the land (Land use) is a challenging problem in environment monitoring and many other subdomains. This can be done through field surveys or analyzing satellite images(Remote Sensing). While carrying out field surveys is more comprehensive and authoritative, it is an expensive project and mostly takes a long time to update. With recent developments in the Space industry and the increased availability of satellite images (both free and commercial), deep learning and Convolutional Neural Networks has shown a promising result in land use classification. In this project, I used the freely available Sentinel-2 satellite images to classify 9 land use classes and 24000 labeled images ( Figure 2).

Artificial intelligence could outsmart and enslave humanity, but our species' future could turn out even worse if we don't advance in the field. That's according to Tomas Mikolov, a research scientist at Facebook A.I. Research, who believes that catastrophic events could have a detrimental effect on society, and it may be machines that save humans from themselves. "There are these arguments that maybe we should not develop A.I. because it's going to destroy us," Mikolov said at the Human-Level Artificial Intelligence conference in Prague, Czech Republic on Saturday, describing this scenario as resulting from science fiction drama. "What if actually not achieving A.I. is the biggest existential threat for humans? As the technology is getting increasingly complex, we are producing more artificial substances that could get into the environment. We as humans are actually very bad at making predictions. What will happen in some distant time, 20, 30 years from now if we make some bad decisions? Maybe actually it will be A.I. that will help us to become much smarter."

Algorithms increasingly govern our social world, transforming data into scores or rankings that decide who gets credit, jobs, dates, policing, and much more. The field of "algorithmic accountability" has arisen to highlight the problems with such methods of classifying people, and it has great promise: Cutting-edge work in critical algorithm studies applies social theory to current events; law and policy experts seem to publish new articles daily on how artificial intelligence shapes our lives, and a growing community of researchers has developed a field known as "Fairness, Accuracy, and Transparency in Machine Learning." The social scientists, attorneys, and computer scientists promoting algorithmic accountability aspire to advance knowledge and promote justice. But what should such "accountability" more specifically consist of? At a two-day, interdisciplinary roundtable on AI ethics I recently attended, such questions featured prominently, and humanists, policy experts, and lawyers engaged in a free-wheeling discussion about topics ranging from robot arms races to computationally planned economies.