WASHINGTON – Police say two Burundian teens who disappeared from an international robotics competition in Washington have been found safe. A Metropolitan Police statement Tuesday said Don Ingabire and Audrey Mwamikazi, who were seen crossing into Canada, "have been located safely." Event organizers believe the teens may have planned their disappearance. Members of the Burundi-American community say they have little doubt the teens are planning to seek asylum, either in the U.S. or in Canada.

The term "analytics" may be the most ubiquitous in today's legal tech landscape. Of the 91 exhibitors present at the annual American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting and Conference earlier this month, it's safe to assume that virtually all of them were armed with marketing material alluding to "analytics." The pervasiveness of the term raises a few basic questions. Are analytics and artificial intelligence the same thing? And why, exactly, should law firms and lawyers care about analytics in the first place?

Chinese companies are developing new facial recognition systems that can help law enforcement identify criminals and even potentially predict crimes before they occur, according to a report by Shanghaiist. Equipped with China's photo ID database and the extensive footage taken from public surveillance cameras, the country's facial recognition technologies are able to analyze billions of faces and objects to identify people. China's massive population and lenient privacy laws have made enormous amounts of data available to companies at a low cost to further develop facial recognition software. Wang Shengjin, a professor at Tsinghua University's Department of Electronic Engineering said that while China's primary competitors are other Western tech companies,"[they] are far ahead when it comes to deploying [facial recognition tech] commercially." Due to the fact that Beijing is willing to pay just about anything to ensure national security, quite a few companies are finding the growing industry increasingly profitable.

The New York Times reported that China "laid out a development plan on Thursday to become the world leader in A.I. by 2030, aiming to surpass its rivals technologically and build a domestic industry worth almost $150 billion." The July 20, 2017 report entitled "Beijing Wants A.I. to Be Made in China by 2030" included these details on the plan: In budget proposals, the Trump administration has suggested slashing resources for a number of agencies that have traditionally backed research in A.I.

The paper reveals author's personal conclusions derived from the fact that an increasing autonomy of robots is not a science fiction, yet it presents a notorious feature of modern era that requires a comprehensive and systematic legal approach. However, a European Parliaments' recently issued recommendation to consider robots as electronic persons seems inappropriate from human rights perspective and may reflect in serious violations of fundamental rights attached to all human beings. This article focuses on negative aftermaths of automaton and the impact they have on health law and the right to privacy. The fundamental principle of healthcare ethics, a protection of patient's clinical records presents a cornerstone of doctor-patient confidential relationship. The latter is, due to its importance, protected not only by national health legislations, yet also by Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, Right to privacy.

At the site of an ancient city on the West Bank, archaeologists are hunting for evidence of the tabernacle that once housed the Ark of the Covenant. Associates for Biblical Research, a consortium of individuals and universities, recently completed four weeks of excavation in Shiloh with the goal of eventually locating the tabernacle. Dr. Scott Stripling, director of excavations at Shiloh and provost at The Bible Seminary in Houston, Texas, told Fox News that the site could offer up vital clues. "We have just begun the process of accumulating evidence but we're confident that the tabernacle rested at Shiloh," he said, adding that that the tabernacle was located at Shiloh for about 350 years. "The tabernacle was set up at Shiloh in 1400 B.C. - Joshua 18:1 mentions it."

Digital technologies like the internet and smartphones are transforming our lives and society. They are proving to be powerful tools for liberating individuals' creative and entrepreneurial potential, as well as providing new educational opportunities and higher wages for marginalized people, both in the U.S. and around the globe. Unfortunately, in the U.S., outdated government regulations and weak consumer protections are undermining these opportunities. What's more, the Trump administration has not yet made significant moves to address this growing crisis: As of this writing, five key White House positions are vacant, without even acting directors or interim leaders to help the executive branch formulate U.S. science and technology policy. As the founder of both the Open Technology Institute and the X-Lab policy and innovation organization, I have spent years at the heart of many Washington, D.C. battles over technology policy, fighting for ideas that would best serve American workers and the general public.

MEPs have approved rules for keeping humans firmly in charge of Artificial Intelligence (AI). They include ways to establish liability in law, for example where driverless cars cause accidents. They have also called for ethical standards to be built in to AI algorithms and robots that work for humans, and standardisation across Member States to ensure a level playing field for technology companies. After a heated debate, the vote was passed on Thursday by a large majority, 369 to 123 with 85 abstentions. But clauses that would introduce a basic state allowance for people who lose their jobs to robotisation were defeated. A coalition of right-wing parties voted them out.

It was an unusual sight: Democrats and Republicans gently ribbing each other, giggling, and vowing to work closely together on legislation that is said to be vital to the health and safety of Americans. Of all the things that could bring both parties together in this era of rank partisanship, who would have thought it would be self-driving cars? The convivial atmosphere in today's hearing by the House Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, which was to mark-up a package of bills related to autonomous vehicles, was by design. After all, it was carefully cultivated by the big automakers and tech companies that are working furiously on autonomous driving technology. These companies want to ensure their interests are protected as legislation to regulate this emerging industry moves closer to a vote.

The rampant spread of artificial intelligence (AI) across all industries is happening so fast that our MBAs can barely keep up with it, making us wonder – when can we just replace our MBAs with artificial intelligence and never have to hear about Porter's 5 Forces ever again? Just about every stakeholder out there who has an economic interest tied to a firm is asking the same question – no, not about Porter – about how can we use AI to create more efficiencies and outperform our competitors. Some industries just scream out their suitability for an AI take over, like the legal industry for example. According to the American Bar Association, there are 1.1 million lawyers practicing in the U.S., a number which represents 80% of the world's lawyers. While some of these lawyers do good, many do not.