The race is on for artificial intelligence in cybersecurity, empowering computer solutions with the ability to understand threats and respond immediately to them without (or with reduced) human intervention. Will it will survive the hype? A lot depends on how well the cybersecurity industry draws on the lessons we learned in trying to implement artificial intelligence in legal applications. IBM recently announced its foray into the cybersecurity–artificial intelligence arena using its flagship technology Watson. Watson has famously demonstrated its remarkable versatility already; so far it is has won the game show Jeopardy against two former champions and released its own cookbook (admittedly with mixed success from those who have tried the recipes). While it is a remarkable piece of technology, that doesn't necessarily equate to success in cybersecurity.

An Amazon Prime package awaits pickup by its customer. SAN FRANCISCO -- Despite multiple news stories over the past several days that Amazon has ended its policy of reimbursing customers if the price of an item on its site drops within seven days of delivery, the company says it hasn't -- because it never had such a policy in the first place. Amazon (AMZN) does not do what's known as "price matching" or "price protection," though its customer service associates are empowered to make decisions on behalf of the customer when it seems appropriate, said spokeswoman Julie Law. "We've always had a no price matching policy, because we believe we're always making the best pricing decisions on behalf of our customers," she said. Because there's no actual policy and because customer service associates have broad freedom in what they offer customers, it's possible customers have in the past, and still are at times, getting price matching, Law said.

Pakistan's Interior Minister, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, says authorities will perform DNA tests on the body of a man who was killed in an American drone strike to determine whether the slain man is actually Taliban chief Mullah Mohammed Akhtar Mansour.

Many people find recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) quite alarming. Indeed, luminaries, ranging from Nobel laureate Stephen Hawking to technology pioneers Elon Musk and Bill Gates, have warned that artificial intelligence technology might be more dangerous to humankind than the atomic bomb. Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrum has argued that an "intelligence explosion" may lead to the extinction of humanity at the hands of rampant robots. These arguments distract us from the large and more imminent threat -- seismic loss of jobs, surging unemployment, and potentially calamitous social strife. This week, when the White House launches a sequence of workshops studying the future of AI, they should focus on the real dangers, not imaginary ones.

On Tuesday, IBM announced that Watson, its cognitive computing system (and former Jeopardy champion), will be spending the next year training for a new job--fighting cybercrime. Watson for Cyber Security is a cloud-based version of IBM's cognitive computing tools that will be the result of a one-year-long research project that is starting in the fall. Students and faculty from eight universities will participate in the research and train Watson to better understand how to detect potential threats. Like many other cognitive systems, Watson learns by digesting large amounts of information. Essentially, the students will train Watson "by annotating and feeding the system security reports and data," according to an IBM press release.

"Excuse me," the former vice president says, dabbing a tissue at his nose before offering up an explanation. Outside Gore's New York City office, spring has certainly sprung--early too. This March was the hottest one ever, beating the prior record set in March 2015. The same goes for February and January of this year, and, oh, the eight consecutive months before. Gore knows these statistics by heart. The fact that you might know them too is likely because of him.

A Pakistani police officer and paramedics stand beside two dead bodies reportedly killed in a U.S. drone strike in the Ahmad Wal area in Baluchistan province, Pakistan, at a hopsital in Quetta, Pakistan, Sunday, May 22, 2016. A senior commander of the Afghan Taliban confirmed on Sunday that the extremist group's leader, Mullah Mohammad Akhtar Mansour, had been killed in the strike.

Move over Janet Yellen, automation in the workplace is about to get personal. Instead of relying on the Federal Reserve chair, imagine using a computer to transform mountains of raw economic data into reliable predictions for unemployment, inflation and gross domestic product. "The capability is here," says Andrew Lo, director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, near Boston. "The biggest hurdle is the cultural barrier. You've got a lot of central bankers who are not as open to technology."

"Criminal was killed by robot" might soon become a standard police report. Just as an anonymous "police sniper," this robot gives the operator a chance to remain anonymous while pressing the red button to relay a kill command. The DOGO crawling traction tactical combat robot unveiled by Israeli General Robotics Ltd. was developed with counterterrorism in mind. The machine, operated remotely from a Panasonic touchpad, boasts 360-degree vision and audio intercom for conducting negotiations. It can be armed with non-lethal weapons, such as pepper spray and flashlight blinders, but it can also serve as an unemotional and lethal terminator.

You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Small drones need to stay aloft to do their jobs--whether it's searching for dangerous gas leaks or remotely monitoring atmospheric conditions. But the effort can quickly drain battery power. Now, scientists have created RoboBees, insect-sized flying robots that have a switchable electro-adhesive that allows them to perch on materials such glass, wood, or a leaf, using roughly 1,000 times less power than sustained flight. "One of the biggest difficulties with building insect-sized robots is that the physics change as you go that small. A lot of technologies that have been deployed successfully on larger robots become impractical on a centimeter-sized robot," says coauthor Sawyer Fuller, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Washington.