Paul LaPorte is an expert in security, business continuity, and disaster recovery (DR). He is Director of Products at Metalogix and co-author of SharePoint RBS for Dummies, 2013 edition. Prior to Metalogix, he served as global manager for SaaS solutions at Proofpoint, a publicly traded email and data security company, principle strategist for Continuity Research, and a senior executive at Evergreen Assurance, a pioneer in real-time DR for mission critical applications. He holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Georgetown University.

It took just two tweets for an internet troll going by the name of Ryan Poole to get Tay to become antisemitic. Tay was a "chatbot" set up by Microsoft on 23 March, a computer-generated personality to simulate the online ramblings of a teenage girl. Poole suggested to Tay: "The Jews prolly did 9/11. I don't really know but it seems likely." Shortly thereafter Tay tweeted "Jews did 9/11" and called for a race war. In the 24 hours it took Microsoft to shut her down, Tay had abused President Obama, suggested Hitler was right, called feminism a disease and delivered a stream of online hate.

The system uses an optical camera for detection, as well as "passive ranging features" to predict whether any nearby aircraft will cross its flight path. If there's a potential collision, it'll recommend the best evasive action that complies with air safety regulations. "This SAA system has the potential to enable a wide range of manned and unmanned systems to safely integrate into an increasingly populated and complex airspace," Dan Patt, a Program Manager at DARPA said. "What pilot wouldn't want to set a box on their dashboard that would provide an additional pair of eyes?" DARPA has been working on the project for two years now. Its next step is to shrink the hardware -- a shoebox is still a little large, especially for commercial drones -- continue testing and develop some "mature" features, such as the ability to detect aircraft below the horizon line.

WASHINGTON – A Boeing company manager convicted of child pornography charges in December says he has a right to know what arguments the government used to obtain the warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Now, the Los Angeles case is testing a defendant's ability to access information about himself presented to the nation's secretive intelligence court, which issued the warrant that let agents scour his computers. At issue is how the government uses evidence derived through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and under what circumstances that information should be seen by defendants, particularly when it's repurposed for a routine criminal prosecution that has nothing to do with national security. Gartenlaub and his lawyers say they have a right to know the government's arguments that were used to obtain the warrant, and fight them. "You can't base a search on lies," the 47-year-old said in an interview with The Associated Press.

ARLINGTON: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing artificial intelligence that can help humans understand the floods of data they unleashed 50 years ago with the Internet and make better decisions, even in the heat of battle. Such "human-machine collaboration" -- informally known as the centaur model -- is the high-tech holy grail of the Defense Department's plan to counter Russian and Chinese advances, known as the Third Offset Strategy. "We've had some great conversations with the deputy," said DARPA director Arati Prabhakar, referring to the chief architect of Offset, Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work. "In many of our programs you'll see some of the technology components" of the strategy. "Fundamentally, what's behind the push of the Third Offset Strategy is this idea that the department needs to reinvigorate our ability to develop these advanced technologies," Prabhakar said.

Apple has fixed a security problem that could allow hackers to gain access to the photos and contacts stored on an iPhone even without the proper password. The trick, which was detailed in a video posted on YouTube channel Videosdebarraquito, required using a combination of Siri and 3D Touch, a newer iPhone feature that lets users more quickly access various shortcuts. Apple rolled out a fix Tuesday morning, just one day after the video was highlighted by tech blog The Daily Dot. Because the exploit took advantage of 3D Touch, it's unlikely it would have affected phones older than the iPhone 6s, the first to incorporate that feature. This isn't the only instance in which people have uncovered gateways into locked iPhones via Siri.

In the 1950s, artificial intelligence (AI) became a hot topic of scientific conversation in science fiction novels. The prospect of attacks by intelligent machines became a trend that led the imagination down dark paths of technological domination. AI is no longer science fiction and is on a path of destruction, but not one that could have been predicted 60 years ago. It is playing no small role in the prevention of cybercrime, and leading the fight back in protecting data. Machine learning is providing teams with the capability to thwart APTs (advanced persistent threats) through zero day attacks and with the analytic prowess they need to identify both internal and external threats.

Bergan Flannigan, of Plattsburgh, N.Y., says she used to "get a lot of stares" when she wore her prosthetic leg with the metal pipe exposed. "I feel like people don't look as much" with the cover, she says, "which I like." Bergan Flannigan, of Plattsburgh, N.Y., says she used to "get a lot of stares" when she wore her prosthetic leg with the metal pipe exposed. "I feel like people don't look as much" with the cover, she says, "which I like." Prosthetic limbs for people who have lost an arm or a leg have come a long way in the past decade.

Facebook has launched a new automatic text feature which uses machine learning technology to identify objects in photographs. Users of Facebook who are blind or visually impaired can now benefit from the technology when using the social networking site. The artificial intelligence system uses image recognition technology to caption photographs with keywords to improve the accessibility of the site for disabled users. Writing on the'Research at Facebook' Blog, software engineer Shaomei Wu said: "While visual content provides a fun and expressive way for people to communicate online, it also creates challenges for people with low vision or blindness. The challenges arise in both creating and consuming visual content. As a result, some people can feel isolated and frustrated when they can not fully participate in the interaction around visual content. "To achieve our mission of making the world more open and connected, we have to connect people of all backgrounds and abilities.

The dawn of drones is ushering in a fundamental shift in how we do things--it's affecting everything from lifestyle to privacy, logistics to entertainment. Yet one obvious (but largely untapped) potential use for unmanned aerial vehicles is its capacity to aid emergency services. While not completely unheard of (there have been talks of using drone technology for search and rescue missions or combat poaching), this is the first time that its capability is actually going to be tested. And according to a recent announcement, Rwanda is going to be the first country that will make use of delivery drones to ferry medical supplies around the country. Zipline, a drone startup, is behind the initiative, working in partnership with the Rwandan government.