Buyers and vendors are seen at Shenzhen's Seg electronics market, a popular place for hardware startup entrepreneurs to buy components for their inventions and prototypes in Shenzhen, China. Did you know that your product might be copied in China even before you ship it? While copying happens elsewhere, including Facebook blatantly copying Snapchat features or Google Home being a strong echo of Amazon's echo, Chinese copycats can be particularly aggressive. Realistically, the gigantic Chinese supply chain, built over decades with some of the dollars from our past and future iPhones, cannot possibly move overnight (or over a U.S. presidential term). As a result, most high-tech manufacturing will remain in China--at least for a while.

This is part of a series on my quest to learn as much as possible about AI. To know why I'm doing this, check out my first post. In grad school, I primarily studied Ancient Greek philosophy. My only published piece of academic research is on his Atlantis myth. But now I work at a tech company and I'm writing about artificial intelligence -- a subject I'm very interested in but know little about.

Helen of Troy may have had a "face that launch'd a thousand ships", according to Christopher Marlowe, but these days her visage could launch a lot more besides. She could open her bank account with it, authorise online payments, pass through airport security, or raise alarm bells as a potential troublemaker when entering a city (Troy perhaps?). This is because facial recognition technology has evolved at breakneck speed, with consequences that could be benign or altogether more sinister, depending on your point of view. High-definition cameras combined with clever software capable of measuring the scores of "nodal points" on our faces - the distance between the eyes, the length and width of the nose, for example - are now being combined with machine learning that makes the most of ever-enlarging image databases. Applications of the tech are popping up all round the world. In China, for example, fried chicken franchise KFC recently unveiled its first "smart restaurant" that uses facial recognition to predict what meal customers are likely to want, based on their age, gender and the time of day, while payments giant Alipay is experimenting with "smile to pay" tech.

Activists protest against the gang-rape of a 16-year-old girl in Brazil last year – videos and images of the assault were posted to social media and circulated widely, revictimizing the woman. As Facebook defended itself in a German court against claims that it does too little to counter abusive content on its platform, one of its lawyers made the intriguing claim "There are billions of postings each day. You want us to employ a sort of wonder machine to detect each misuse. Such a machine doesn't exist." For a technology company with a heavy investment in deep learning and filtering technologies that has repeatedly run afoul of free speech advocates for its aggressive stance on content removal this is certainly a curious claim to make.

A warning went out to millions of parents today that schoolchildren could be sending nude selfies after being groomed by paedophiles through a teenage dating app. The children are being lured into sending sexual, 'inappropriate' images of themselves through the Mylol website and mobile dating app. It's feared'pervert' adults are tricking teenagers into sending naked images of themselves. A warning went out to millions of parents today that schoolchildren could be sending nude selfies after being groomed by paedophiles through teenage dating app Mylol. The dating app and site has been labelled as'Tinder for teens' by concerned parents Mylol is a site described as the'number one teen dating site in the US, Australia, UK and Canada.'

As Samsung's unveiling of its make or break Galaxy S8 approaches, the firm's official cases for the handset appear to have leaked online. The leather cases, complete with a Samsung logo, show the S8 will have a fingerprint sensor on the rear - backing previous claims it will have no home button but an'infinity screen' on the front. It also reveals the firm may have added a button just for its new Siri-killer smart AI, called Bixby. The leather cases, complete with a Samsung logo, show the S8 will have a fingerprint sensor on the rear - fitting with previous claims it will have no home button but an'infinity screen' on the front. Bixby could be used for a wide variety of functions in a similar way to Apple's Siri.

A "mystery benefactor" bought the copies of George Orwell's dystopian satire at Booksmith and asked that they be given away free to interested customers, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Booksmith is located in San Francisco's famously progressive Haight-Ashbury district. The Orwell books were claimed, but the giveaway idea caught on. Another patron purchased copies of Margaret Atwood's novel "The Handmaid's Tale" and Erik Larson's nonfiction book "In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin" to be given away to shoppers. Orwell's "1984," a dark vision about a Britain taken over by a totalitarian regime that uses "doublethink" and "Newspeak" to mislead and control its citizens, has seen a spike in sales since late January, after President Trump's advisor Kellyanne Conway appeared on "Meet the Press" and used the term "alternative facts" to defend the administration's provably false statements about the size of the crowds at the inuaguration.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. Samsung is edging closer to its final foldable phone design according to recently submitted patents. The designs, dated by the US Patents Office as the 31st January 2017 and spotted by PhoneArena, reveal a flexible display device that folds in the middle.

Writing in the Economist newspaper on 8 October 2016, US President Barack Obama called out artificial intelligence (AI) as one of several areas where'in recent years we have seen incredible technological advances'.2 Long a backroom area of computer science, AI has captured the popular imagination over the last two years as the range and impact of practical AI applications have expanded at a dizzying pace: a quick search on ft.com for'artificial intelligence and robotics' returned 4 stories from September and October 2014, 16 for the same period in 2015 and 54 in 2016. AI is one of several areas of digital innovation that are all both developing increasingly rapidly and interacting with each other in ways whose consequences are challenging to foresee. A useful portmanteau for these changes is the'fourth industrial revolution'. After steam, electricity and computing, this is the term coined3 by Davos founder Klaus Schwab for the deep digital transformation now upon us.

As our Supreme Court weighed the First Amendment implications of brutal video games back in 2011, Justice Samuel Alito cut in with a sarcastic jab: "Well, I think what Justice Scalia wants to know is what James Madison thought about video games. Laurence H. Tribe is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor and professor of constitutional law at Harvard University. Tribe and Matz are the co-authors of Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution." This wasn't the first time that scientific advances had divided these super-conservative justices--and that speaks to a crucial point. While the confirmation hearings for Judge Neil Gorsuch will involve familiar debates over how to read the Constitution, judicial orientations toward new technology can scramble the fields in surprising ways.