Bayer buying Monsanto, Uber's self-driving cars, a Navy commander faces attempted rape charges, and Hesperia's halfway houses might be closed. Bayer buying Monsanto, Uber's self-driving cars, a Navy commander faces attempted rape charges, and Hesperia's halfway houses might be closed. Shirley Teeter was punched while attending a Donald Trump rally on Sept. 13 in Asheville, N.C. Shirley Teeter was punched while attending a Donald Trump rally on Sept. 13 in Asheville, N.C. For decades, environmentalists have rhapsodized about the tranquil beauty of California's deserts while battling fiercely with energy companies, the government and within their own ranks over what if any power production should occur on those sun-baked, wind-blown, geothermally active expanses of land.

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The new way of thinking about AI is to see it doing time-consuming tasks, freeing up space for accountants to do the serious thinking and to exercise professional judgement on more complex matters. Despite some people's fears, AI's advocates say it can be a job-creator, not a job-killer. For years, there have been fears that Artificial Intelligence (AI) – smart machines that work and react like humans while having self-learning capabilities – will redefine the role of accountants. Now innovative firms are investing in AI so they can be at the forefront of cognitive technologies. What does the evolution from automation and data-analytics software to AI mean for accountants?

Think about all the things that are pixelated to protect our identity. License plate numbers are routinely blurred, as are the faces of children and victims. When journalistic images of crimes are deemed too disturbing, scenes of horror are edited to preserve the dignity of those involved. Now though, researchers from University of Texas at Austin and Cornell University are calling the practise out: as machine learning comes on in leaps and bounds, simply muddling a series of small squares is no longer enough. Today, our deep learning tools – which use computer algorithms to crack codes – have become so advanced that Texas and Cornell researchers identified a number of obscured faces and numbers.

Could robots soon take over the legal drudge work that slows down so many mergers and acquisitions? Luminance, a start-up backed by Mike Lynch, the British technology investor, is aiming to reduce the time taken on due diligence that accompanies multimillion-pound M&A deals from weeks to days or even hours using a new form of artificial intelligence. Its new software deploys machine learning to read and "think" like a lawyer. Scanning hundreds of pages of complex documents a minute, it can spot anomalies and potential pain points in contracts and other corporate paperwork.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced THINK Marketing, a new one-stop destination for marketers to gain knowledge, learn skills and ultimately drive a digital transformation within their business. Designed to help Chief Marketing Officers (CMO) and their teams build proficiency and experience, THINK Marketing delivers news and thought leadership content from the industry's top marketing influencers and news outlets. Through these assets, marketers can gain a deeper knowledge and, when ready, match their needs with solutions from IBM and more than sixty marketing technology companies from around the globe including Sprinklr, Mirakl and MediaMath. THINK Marketing will rapidly grow to include new industry specific content, collections of content on additional marketing functions and double the number of third-party solutions. THINK Marketing will also include a developer marketplace where start-ups and developers can virtually brainstorm, try solutions and also create and bring to market new cognitive and cloud apps that address important marketing challenges.

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NVIDIA Corp announced the debut of a smaller and more efficient artificial intelligence (AI) system for self-driving cars that would operate Baidu's navigation and autonomous vehicle technology. According to a Reuters report, Nvidia debuted its new Drive PX 2 at the GPU Technology Conference in Beijing. Chinese web giant Baidu will roll out the in-vehicle computer as its autonomous driving computer system. Nvidia's latest Drive PX 2 computer, which launched in January, uses 10 watts of power and is half the size of the original version.

Over the last 30 years, consumers have reaped the benefits of dramatic technological advances. In many countries, most people now have in their pockets a personal computer more powerful than the mainframes of the 1980s. The Atari 800XL computer that I developed games on when I was in high school was powered by a microprocessor with 3,500 transistors; the computer running on my iPhone today has two billion transistors. Back then, a gigabyte of storage cost 100,000 and was the size of a refrigerator; today it's basically free and is measured in millimeters. Even with these massive gains, we can expect still faster progress as the entire planet--people and things--becomes connected.

As a cease-fire in Syria entered its third day, authorities said Wednesday that the government was to begin withdrawing forces from a strategic road in the besieged rebel-held area of Aleppo, a move that would open the way for U.N. relief shipments. Syrian forces, with Russian air support, closed the road in July, thereby completing the encirclement of rebel districts with a population of as many as 300,000. A withdrawal south of Castello Road was to begin Thursday morning, according to Russian state news agency TASS. Rebel forces reportedly were to retreat simultaneously to positions north of the road. But it remained unclear whether residents of the city would accept the sacks of flour and food baskets the United Nations hopes to deliver.