CONCORD, N.H. – A New Hampshire judge has dismissed an 84-year-old doctor's attempt to regain her license, which she had surrendered before a disciplinary hearing partly over her not using a computer. The state challenged Dr. Anna Konopka's record keeping, prescribing practices and medical decision making. They say not using a computer prevents her from accessing and using the state's mandatory electronic drug monitoring program. The program requires prescribers of opioids to register in an effort reduce overdoses. Konopka surrendered her license, but later requested an injunction allowing her to continue her practice.

Relatives of two people killed in the strike sued the United States, claiming it was the actions of the U.S. that killed their family members, who were innocent civilians. Faisal bin Ali Jaber filed a wrongful death lawsuit against then-President Barack Obama in 2015. His nephew Waleed, 26, and brother-in-law Salem, a father of seven, were killed in the attack along with three others, Al Jazeera reported.

The fight against people cheating in online games is getting ugly. Specifically, Epic Games is suing 14 year-old Caleb Rogers for allegedly modding the game and causing the developer to lose profits from his activity in the free-to-play "Battle Royale" mode for Fortnite. Rogers' mother filed a letter with North Carolina's US District Court saying that Epic "has no capability of proving any form of modification" because her son merely installed cheats he downloaded from Addicted Cheats, versus altering the game's source code himself. The cheats in question were apparently aim-bots (similar to cheats Ubisoft has battled in The Division and Rainbow Six: Siege) that cost between $5 - $15 per month, according to Kotaku. The lawsuits began in October, but the age of one of Epic's targets has only recently come to light.

The court said Monday it would not take up the case. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled earlier this year that the case had been properly dismissed. The appeals court said taking up the case would require it to second-guess the wisdom of a military action, which it said courts could not review.

Women's rights group Gabriela recently introduced the first chatbot in the Philippines to help make the reporting of sexual harassment easier. Gabriela said Gabbie is a Facebook messenger chatbot which can be searched as "Gabbiegabriela" on the social media site. "The human truth here is that women hesitate to report. Sexual harassment is a sensitive issue, after all. So we wanted to make that easier for them--through a tool that they use every day," Gabriela's Secretary General Joms Salvador said in a statement.

The UK doesn't just want to institute rules governing how you fly your drone -- it wants to give police more power to take drones out of commission. A newly unveiled Drone Bill would give law enforcement the authority to order pilots to not only order operators to ground drones, but to seize drone parts if needed to prove that the machine was used to break the law. If someone's caught flying a drone over a prison, officers could both force the robotic flier down and confiscate it to illustrate what happened. The proposed law would also codify the rules brought up during the summer. You would have to register any drone weighing over 250g (0.55lbs) and take a safety awareness test.

Tax preparation, auditing and strategy consulting are services that have historically relied on an intensive use of human capital. Artificial intelligence (AI) now threatens these business models. Technologies such as natural language processing (NLP) and robotic process automation (RPA) complete in mere hours what human auditors took weeks to do. Deloitte, Ernst & Young (EY), and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) are three of the famed Big Four tax and accounting companies. I recently sat down with innovation leaders at these companies to learn how AI is transforming the tax and auditing business.

Artificial intelligence is set to play a significantly greater role in society. And that raises the issue of accountability. If we rely on machines to make increasingly important decisions, we will need to have mechanisms of redress should the results turn out to be unacceptable or difficult to understand. But making AI systems explain their decisions is not entirely straightforward. One problem is that explanations are not free; they require considerable resources both in the development of the AI system and in the way it is interrogated in practice.

The concerns over government facial recognition systems don't just revolve around the possibility of Orwellian control -- it's that they may share that data with others you don't completely trust. Australia is learning this first-hand. The Guardian has obtained documents showing that the country's Attorney General office is talking to telecoms and banks about testing private use of the Facial Verification Service in 2018. Companies would need to get your permission and would have to show that they're honoring Australia's Privacy Act, but they could otherwise use it to fight fraud or otherwise verify the identities of their customers. The approach would be similar to the existing Document Verification Service, where companies pay a fee every time they want to verify info from documents like your driver's license or passport.

Earlier this year Alsup, who is hearing the civil action brought by Waymo, asked federal prosecutors to investigate whether criminal theft of trade secrets had occurred. That probe is being handled by the intellectual property unit of the Northern California U.S. Attorney's office, sources familiar with the situation said. No charges have been filed.