Simply by reading this, you have allowed me to hijack your thoughts, each word leaping from my mind to yours. I can even conjure mental images against your will – quick, don't think about a pink elephant! Whatever you do, don't imagine it! Thankfully, there are limits to what I can do to you with words and ideas alone. What if there were a phrase so powerful that I could use it to turn your own mind against you, to the point of death?

It was some time in the early 2000s and Asif Kapadia, already a successful film director, a wunderkind whose first feature in 2001, The Warrior, won the Bafta for outstanding British film, was travelling back from New York. I'm in a limo being taken to the airport. And I was taking photos of Manhattan because I was driving over Brooklyn Bridge and it's just all so cinematic and I became subconsciously aware of the driver watching me in the rear view mirror. "I get to the airport and I'm in the Virgin lounge when my name is called out. And I thought: 'Have I left a bag or something?' But then five or six people come: homeland security. And they stop me in the lounge in front of everyone, the only person of colour in there, and empty out my bag, and they say: 'Someone's reported you.' And it's like: 'Who are you? An itinerary of his trip and its purpose proved his credentials and he was eventually allowed to go and boarded his flight. But for nearly a decade afterwards, he found himself on a "watch list". "I would get stopped and interviewed two times before I got on a plane, pulled out in a room.

Identifying driving maneuvers plays an essential role on-board vehicles to monitor driving and driver states, as well as off-board to train and evaluate machine learning algorithms for automated driving for example. Maneuvers can be characterized by vehicle kinematics or data from its surroundings including other traffic participants. Extracting relevant maneuvers therefore requires analyzing time-series of (i) structured, multi-dimensional kinematic data, and (ii) unstructured, large data samples for video, radar, or LiDAR sensors. However, such data analysis requires scalable and computationally efficient approaches, especially for non-annotated data. In this paper, we are presenting a maneuver detection approach based on two variants of space-filling curves (Z-order and Hilbert) to detect maneuvers when passing roundabouts that do not use GPS data. We systematically evaluate their respective performance by including permutations of selections of kinematic signals at varying frequencies and compare them with two alternative baselines: All manually identified roundabouts, and roundabouts that are marked by geofences. We find that encoding just longitudinal and lateral accelerations sampled at 10Hz using a Hilbert space-filling curve is already successfully identifying roundabout maneuvers, which allows to avoid the use of potentially sensitive signals such as GPS locations to comply with data protection and privacy regulations like GDPR.

Cultural code-switching concerns how we adjust our overall behaviours, manners of speaking, and appearance in response to a perceived change in our social environment. We defend the need to investigate cultural code-switching capacities in artificial intelligence systems. We explore a series of ethical and epistemic issues that arise when bringing cultural code-switching to bear on artificial intelligence. Building upon Dotson's (2014) analysis of testimonial smothering, we discuss how emerging technologies in AI can give rise to epistemic oppression, and specifically, a form of self-silencing that we call 'cultural smothering'. By leaving the socio-dynamic features of cultural code-switching unaddressed, AI systems risk negatively impacting already-marginalised social groups by widening opportunity gaps and further entrenching social inequalities.

"We need to know how the many subjective decisions that go into building a model lead to the observed results, and why those decisions were thought justified at the time, just to have a chance at disentangling everything when something goes wrong," the paper reads. "Algorithmic impact assessments cannot solve all algorithmic harms, but they can put the field and regulators in better positions to avoid the harms in the first place and to act on them once we know more." A revamped version of the Algorithmic Accountability Act, first introduced in 2019, is now being discussed in Congress. According to a draft version of the legislation reviewed by WIRED, the bill would require businesses that use automated decision-making systems in areas such as health care, housing, employment, or education to carry out impact assessments and regularly report results to the FTC. A spokesperson for Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a cosponsor of the bill, says it calls on the FTC to create a public repository of automated decision-making systems and aims to establish an assessment process to enable future regulation by Congress or agencies like the FTC.

At the turn of the 20th century, a German horse took Europe by storm. Clever Hans, as he was known, could seemingly perform all sorts of tricks previously limited to humans. He could add and subtract numbers, tell time and read a calendar, even spell out words and sentences--all by stamping out the answer with a hoof. "A" was one tap; "B" was two; 2 3 was five. He was an international sensation--and proof, many believed, that animals could be taught to reason as well as humans.

If you worked on video game magazines in the 90s, there was one sight you got used to pretty quickly. On every desk, in every drawer, there were dozens of DVD-R discs with the titles of games scrawled on them with Sharpies. These were the prerelease versions of games that were sent to us by developers to preview and review. We'd play them on debug consoles (the machines used by developers to build and test games), write our thoughts, then chuck the discs in a pile, or a bin. Fast forward two decades and game players now realise that such early and unreleased versions of games have genuine historical value.

The HR function sits on a data goldmine. We explore how NLP can help HR teams turn this data into valuable insights to drive business performance. Data is the bedrock of 21st century HR and organizations have been obsessing over data analytics over the past couple of years – and with good reason. Data analytics has helped HR become more objective and strategic. As a business function that historically been a key consumer and producer of vast amounts of data, HR has been slow to embrace the promise of analytics.

Human colonisation of Mars is not the answer in saving our species and ensuring our long term survival, a retired philosopher has claimed. Adam Morton worked for the University of British Columbia and says the migration to other planets could be disastrous for mankind's longevity. In an article for Newsweek he revealed it could bring about biological and nuclear warfare on both Earth and the red planet, the emergence of killer robots and the ecological ruin of our original home. Adam Morton worked for the University of British Columbia and says the migration to other planets could be disastrous for mankind's long-term survival. Professor Morton said that if one nation succeeded in moving to Mars they may trigger a war on Earth as other countries grow suspicious of their motives.

Tesla shares have plunged this morning after Elon Musk smoked marijuana and drank whiskey while discussing everything from drugs to the possibility we're all living in a simulation, in a rambling two-and-a-half hour podcast appearance which was live-streamed on YouTube. The 47-year-old billionaire went on the Joe Rogan Experience late on Thursday night and accepted a joint from the host - after a rambling conversation that also took in the dangers of AI and the possibility China is spying on US citizens through their phones. Hours later, the company's chief accounting officer Dave Morton resigned citing'public attention' on the company. Meanwhile, shares plummeted to nine per cent this morning, wiping $4.3 billion off the company's value. By close of trading they had slightly recovered to a 6.3 per cent drop, reducing the company's value by $3.1bn. It follows weeks of serious turbulence for both Musk and Tesla, after he falsely announced he was taking the company private in a deal with Saudi Arabia and accused a British hero diver of being a paedophile.