Neither humans nor AI has proven overwhelmingly successful at maintaining cybersecurity on their own, so why not see what happens when you combine the two? That's exactly the premise of a new project from MIT, and it's achieved some pretty impressive results. Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and machine-learning startup PatternEx have developed a new platform called AI2 that can detect 85 percent of attacks. It also reduces the number of "false positives" -- nonthreats mistakenly identified as threats -- by a factor of five, the researchers said. The system was tested on 3.6 billion pieces of data generated by millions of users over a period of three months.

A NASA-developed air traffic control system for drones could take a major step forward this week when up to 24 drones take to the skies from locations across the U.S. in the agency's first coordinated test. Called UTM, for unmanned aircraft system traffic management, the platform is seen as a key safety system that would allow greater numbers of drones to fly in the sky and avoid mid-air collisions with piloted aircraft and other drones. It allows drone operators to enter a flight plan and request clearance for the flight. The system checks the plan for conflicts with other planned drone flights and accepts or rejects it. For example, a farmer could program a drone flight above her land, effectively reserving it for a certain period of time, and then carry out the flight in the knowledge that a delivery drone scheduled to arrive at the same time will automatically calculate a path to avoid a collision.

Funding dollars to Internet of Things startups jumped 31% in the first quarter of this year, compared to Q4'15. That was the second-highest total yet in a quarter. As industrial and business processes are more frequently mediated by the IoT, and IoT-driven analytics solidifies as a category, startups are leveraging machine learning and deep learning to provide predictive insights based on the data collected from wearables and sensors. Just in the last quarter, companies like Tellmeplus, Neura, and Sentenai raised funds to integrate machine learning algorithms with different IoT functions, including data collection, sorting, analyzing, insights, and automation. "A good IoT solution gives you an extraordinarily useful view of your organization's data; a great one allows you to build algorithms that can predict what's next…" – Microsoft IoT blog.

In 2011, Ian Burkhart, a college freshman, broke his neck while diving into a wave in North Carolina. His spinal injury left him paralyzed from the chest down, a quadriplegic, his brain no longer able to communicate with his limbs. Last week, neural engineers at Ohio State University, activated a computer chip that had been surgically implanted in Mr. Burkhart's brain, bypassing his spinal cord they rerouted his brain signals directly to his arm, and allowed him to pick up objects, stir liquids and play guitar video games - using his own thoughts. Dr. Ali Rezai, the surgeon and director of Ohio State's Center for Neuromodulation, implanted the eraser-head sized chip, using brain imaging to find the precise location with Mr. Burkhart's motor cortex that controls hand movements. The chip holds 96 "microelectrodes" that record the firing patterns of individual neurons.

When creating a culture of innovation, many organizations face hurdles related to talent, capital and time. CIOs and the enterprises they lead are now at an inflection point in the way that humans and technology work together in the business ecosystem, with companies utilizing cognitive automation as a way to shift workflow dynamics and unleash the potential for every employee to be an innovator. The opportunity for cognitive automation is so great that industry analysts predict that by 2020, smart machines will become a top five investment priority for almost a third of CIOs. By mimicking human activities such as perceiving, inferring, gathering evidence and probabilistic reasoning, cognitive systems can perform tasks that have historically required human intelligence and situational analysis. The co-existence between human employees and cognitive systems is creating a new class of digital labor that can enhance human skills and expertise, allowing employees to innovate constantly. Working within this new ecosystem, generalists can behave like specialists, and less experienced employees can perform like seasoned veterans.

We can predict the future, to an extent. Science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov, often cited by futurist Ray Kurzweil as an influential thought leader in the classic debate between man and machine, theorized that human behavior can be predicted in aggregate over a long period of time. So, if we believe that past behavior is a good predictor of future behavior, we can take a good guess at what the far future holds for us. If this pattern continues, then the next generation of technology will be autonomous. We're already seeing this become a reality.

Last year ride-share apps made over one billion passenger trips. This year that number is poised to grow significantly. So, how do taxi and limousine companies compete with global juggernauts and take back those billions of rides? Arghon transport is free software that is produced in partnership between Arghon Inc., an Artificial Intelligence technology company, and taxi and limousine companies around the globe. The software is easy to use, yet is the most advanced of its kind anywhere.

Jody Williams received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 together with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines for their central role in establishing the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. The US-based political activist is known across the world for her efforts to enhance understandings of security and related issues in the world today. She is also the chair of the Noble Women's Initiative that she founded in 2006 together with five other women Nobel Peace laureates. She, along with 20 of her fellow Nobel Peace laureates have called for a preemptive ban on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS)--weapons that could operate without human supervision once activated even in matters of killing human beings. The UN's Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) held their third informal government's meet in Geneva from 11-15 April.

As British Airways flight BA727 from Geneva approached the runway at London's Heathrow airport on Sunday, something unexpectedly hit the front of the plane. On board were 132 passengers and five crew. Thankfully, the aircraft was not damaged and landed safely. But a police investigation has been launched and, if the object is confirmed as a drone, it will be the first known collision of its kind in the UK. What can be done to stop this happening again?

A financial trading firm's plan to make millions by building a mast higher than the Shard in rural Kent has suffered a setback after its proposals were challenged by Dover council. Vigilant Global is one of two companies hoping to build a communications mast designed to boost profits by shaving milliseconds off the time it takes to beam information to European markets. But the council questioned the tactics used by the firm in the planning process and cast doubt on whether local people would see the benefits that Vigilant says they will. In a 20-page document, council officials said Vigilant had provided "only scant detail of the purpose of the mast", instead choosing to focus on the potential benefits to the local community. "Of primary concern is the lack of detail of the main function and purpose of the mast," the council said, adding that the plan "appeared to relate to improvements in the financial field".