In just seven minutes, the thieves took off with crown jewels containing with thousands of diamonds along with other precious gems. Police stand outside the Louvre after a brazen theft. Could the French TV series have been prophetic? The show envisioned a heist at the Louvre, an event that became reality on the morning of October 19, when a group of professional thieves managed to break into the world-famous Paris museum . In just seven minutes, they stole a host of priceless French crown jewels.

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Security teams can't protect what they don't know about. But it is not enough to just understand what they have within their organizations' environment. Defenders also need to put themselves in an adversary's shoes to understand which systems are likely to be targeted and how the attack would be carried out. Technologies such as attack surface management and attack path modeling make it possible for security teams to gain visibility into which assets adversaries can see and how they might gain access. With attack surface management, organizations are continuously discovering, classifying, and monitoring the IT infrastructure.

Ever since computers were clunky, whirring machines that took up entire floors, humans have marvelled at their potential, envisioning all the ways they could help or even be like us. Tapping into our own dark nature, science fiction tends to reach what creepily feels like the natural conclusion of obscenely smart machines with human dispositions; our demise. There's no robot apocalypse on the horizon, but the revolution is well under way. It's been here, in some form, since the '60s, and it's poised to lead the city, and world, in to the future. On April 1, 1964, U of A built Canada's first Department of Computing Science around five academics, a small support staff and the LGP-30, an 800-pound, deep freeze-shaped digital computer.

Britain's first passenger drone company claims it has found the answer to the dismal morning commute. Entrepreneur Martin Warner, 46, claims his new ultra-sleek drone will be able to transport commuters from Charing Cross to Heathrow in just 12 minutes. Scheduled for unveiling this Spring, the drone will be the first in the world to carry passengers - and could revolutionise city commutes. Britain's first passenger drone company claims it has found the answer to the dismal morning commute. Entrepreneur Martin Warner, 46, claims his new drone (artist's impression) will be able to transport commuters from Charing Cross to Heathrow in just 12 minutes Autonomous Flight is set to unveil Y6S, a two-seater electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle (VTOL), in London in March.

Those of you who follow advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have probably heard data called the "new currency" or the "crown jewels." At the same time, a contingent of people believe data is a commodity. But it can't be both a highly prized proprietary possession and an interchangeable good. With college economics far behind many of us, here's a quick refresher on what makes a commodity a commodity. Data -- accurate, precise training data that teaches models to discover predictive relationships -- does offer the keys to the kingdom.

First there was TensorFlow, Google's machine learning framework. Then there was SyntaxNet, a neural network framework Google released to help developers build applications that understand human language. What comes next is anyone's guess, but one thing is clear: Google is aggressively open-sourcing the smarts behind some of its most promising AI technology. Despite giving it away for free, however, Google is also apparently betting that "artificial intelligence will be its secret sauce," as Larry Dignan details. That "sauce" permeates a bevy of newly announced Google products like Google Home, but it's anything but secret.