More bad news for Uber: one of the ride-hailing giant's self-driving Volvo SUVs has been involved in a crash in Arizona -- apparently leaving the vehicle flipped onto its side, and with damage to at least two other human-driven cars in the vicinity. The aftermath of the accident is pictured in photos and a video posted to Twitter by a user of @FrescoNews, a service for selling content to news outlets. According to the company's tweets, the collision happened in Tempe, Arizona, and no injuries have yet been reported. Uber has also confirmed the accident and the veracity of the photos to Bloomberg. We've reached out to the company with questions and will update this story with any response.

LG TVs add'delete' option for Copilot And one of Uber's self-driving Volvo SUVs has overturned in an accident. In case you were counting, it has been more than a month since Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced an investigation into claims of sexual harassment and discrimination within his company. Tonight reports that in 2014, Kalanick senior VP of business Emil Michael and several other employees visited an escort-karaoke bar. Within minutes of that article being published, another report from Arizona revealed that one of the company's self-driving cars has been involved in an accident. In a story recounted by Gabi Holzwarth, a professional violinist and business development manager who was dating Kalanick at the time, four other men in the group picked out their favorites from a group of numbered women and proceeded downstairs to sing karaoke.

The Bragi Dash "glows" green or blue, depending on whether it's charged and in use. A red hue means it's time to charge it back up. The tussle for supremacy between Amazon and Google to create the most useful voice assistant is getting louder. But while this battle is largely taking place in home speakers and phones, another player – IBM -- is carving out territory in the ear. At Barcelona's Mobile World Congress in February, Big Blue showed that it is getting down to business with voice, previewing applications that help a wide swath of professionals, from firefighters to family doctors, work smarter by using voice to tap into the Watson cognitive engine.

Machine learning is increasingly being seen as the solution, dealing - or at least appearing to deal - with a number of the problems organizations are having implementing their cybersecurity initiatives. Former Department of Defense Chief Information Officer, Terry Halvorsen, believes that'within the next 18-months, AI will become a key factor in helping human analysts make decisions about what to do.' This point of view is being reinforced by significant investment in the field by the world's largest technology companies. MIT has been experimenting with it for some years, while IBM is training its AI-based Watson in security protocols and has now made it available to customers. Amazon also recently acquired AI-based cyber-security company Harvest.ai,

We are at the cusp of the next industrial revolution--or maybe it's in full swing already. Artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, cloud computing, smartphones, and a slew of other technologies that were unknown or sci-fi before the turn of the century are redefining and disrupting different aspects of life as we know it today. As with every industrial revolution, most of the changes overcoming our lives are pleasant. These are just some of the advantages brought by these technologies. But the same trends drag in tow some less appreciated disruptions, namely the upheaval of the socio-economic landscape.

NEC's artificial intelligence platform is mixing data, bus telematics, and human observation to determine whether a bus driver in Singapore is likely to cause an accident in the next three months. NEC, in partnership with Singapore public transport service provider SMRT Corporation, is using artificial intelligence (AI) to prevent bus accidents on the city-state's roads. The Japanese giant is taking historical data from a bus driver's work records, telematics data produced by each bus, and observations made by on-board data scientists to determine whether a driver is likely to cause an accident in the next three months, and intervene before SMRT has to deal with the costly and potentially life-threatening aftermath. Here's what Samsung's latest budget phones may tell us about the Galaxy S9 Addressing the Tech Leaders Forum 2017 on Monday, Mervyn Cheah, head and vice president of NEC Laboratories Singapore, explained that once an at-risk driver is identified, they are sent for further training. Buses on the road, sometimes they do create accidents and actually they will always react when they have an accident, you'll send them for training, he said.

Earlier this year I was fortunate to once again participate in one of Arc Fusion's Jeffersonian-style dinner talks, this time with a constellation of tech and design luminaries, such as Ray Kurzweil (Google), Lorie Fiber (IBM Watson), Paul Saffo (Stanford), and Bruce MacGregor (IDEO). Arc Fusion's mission is to convene top scientists, entrepreneurs, investors, engineers, artists, and doers to explore the frontiers of health, IT, and biomedicine. This "recipe for dialogue" worked incredibly well, and the overall tone of conversation was very positive, focusing on the potential power and impact of exponential information technologies. Led by insights from Ray Kurzweil, who has exhaustively studied the growth curves of various digital technologies, we discussed how the next two or three "doublings" of computing power are about to unleash completely astonishing breakthroughs--including the possibility of extending the human lifespan indefinitely. Even before these coming leaps in computing power arrive, we're already seeing some of the ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) has impacted healthcare, as cloud-based systems, such as IBM Watson, turn their vast computing power on fast-moving fields like oncology: It's clear that AI appears poised to increase patient safety, drive early prevention by predictive modeling, and, eventually, maybe even extend human lifespans to unimaginable lengths.

JERUSALEM – The Israeli military has confirmed that a drone crashed in Syria earlier this week in unclear circumstances. In a statement, the military said the "Skylark" went down on Sunday and that the incident was being investigated. Tuesday's statement said there is "no risk of a breach of information." Hezbollah's media arm published photographs of what it said was a drone it had shot down after infiltrating Syrian airspace in the Golan Heights. Although Israel is not actively fighting in the Syrian civil war, it keeps close tabs on its enemies Iran and Lebanon's Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group, which are both backing Syrian government forces.

Small development boards have become a key enabler of a recent wave of hardware startups. The most popular boards such as the Arduino and Raspberry Pi have inspired many projects and many knock-offs. These boards are great to kick start a project like a beer brewing machine, but they are limited in compute power. When your project needs real compute power, and possibly some local machine learning, where do you go? One popular choice is the NVIDIA Jetson boards.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has promised to relieve us of our dullest tasks and improve almost every aspect of our lives, from transportation to health care. But, by their very nature, the best tech ideas lead to incredible efficiencies, and if those efficiencies touch on people's jobs, it will take those jobs away. The Industrial Revolution replaced entire job descriptions, but more highly skilled and better-paying jobs eventually followed. That may not necessarily end up the case with AI, as deep learning helps machines replace people further up the talent chain. How many jobs could be affected?