The Trump administration has laid out its own ambitious goals for recruiting more tech talent. On April 3, Russell Vought, Trump's Director of the Office of Management and Budget, released a 25-page memo for how federal leaders were expected to accelerate the government's use of AI. "Agencies should focus recruitment efforts on individuals that have demonstrated operational experience in designing, deploying, and scaling AI systems in high-impact environments," Vought wrote. Putting that into action will be harder than it needed to be, says Deirdre Mulligan, who directed the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office in the Biden White House. "The Trump Administration's actions have not only denuded the government of talent now, but I'm sure that for many folks, they will think twice about whether or not they want to work in government," Mulligan says. "It's really important to have stability, to have people's expertise be treated with the level of respect it ought to be and to have people not be wondering from one day to the next whether they're going to be employed."

Many a cinephile has asked themselves the question: What if Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris, the avant-garde 1972 sci-fi classic about a widowed space explorer forced to grapple with his grief while on a mission to a mysterious planet, starred Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan as a fracturing married couple, alongside Paul Dano as the voice of a giant benevolent space spider? And what if Isabella Rossellini were the leader of Czechoslovakia's space program, which somehow, in this universe's alternate version of political and technological history, was the best-equipped in the world to send a manned mission to the outer reaches of Jupiter? The result of that mashup might be something like Spaceman, an oddball psychological drama from the Swedish director Johan Renck, best known for a long résumé of music videos and lately for helming all five episodes of the acclaimed HBO miniseries Chernobyl. The script, adapted by Colby Day from the 2017 novel Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar, leaves many questions unanswered. If the mission of Sandler's character--the depressive, remote, and career-obsessed Jakub--is so significant to humanity's future, it isn't clear why he would have been sent into space all alone.

After months of anticipation, the 2024 Golden Globes nominees were finally announced this week. From popstar Dua Lipa to actress Hannah Waddingham, plenty of British and Irish stars managed to earn themselves top nods. But while the stars will have to wait until 7 January to discover their fate, we let curiosity get the better of us and enlisted AI to help predict the results. MailOnline gave Google's Bard the list of nominees and asked it to guess the winners, based on past trends and current reviews. So, do you agree with its predictions?

Alessandro Vespignani is a modern numen of computational epidemiology. He opened his talk with a brief survey on the history of numerical epidemic models, emphasizing how their advances virtually halted in the '50s. Those data-hungry models started to work egregiously only after the Big Data revolution: Multidimensional and granular data from a galaxy of public and private providers allowed epidemiologists to predict with striking accuracy the spreading of pandemics like H1N1, Ebola, and Zika. Inebriate by the power of Big Data, the scientific community explored new predictive models that were increasingly data-driven and less focused on understanding the underlying phenomena. That line of thinking led to glaring failures, epitomized by the infamous Google Flu Trends fiasco.

Investigators in California were pointed in the right direction when a prosthetic arm that was reported stolen last week was spotted in the alleged thieves' car. Investigators in California were pointed in the right direction after a prosthetic arm that was reported stolen last week was spotted in the alleged burglars' car, leading to arrests. An officer with the Grass Valley Police Department on Wednesday came across the suspects -- identified by the Nevada County Sheriff's Office as Michael Martin, Emma St. Claire and Mike Mulligan -- and searched their car. Mike Mulligan, left, Michael Martin and Emma St. Claire were booked at a correction facility in California for suspicion of burglary and possession of stolen property. Law enforcement officials uncovered the prosthetic limb -- which the sheriff's office described in a Facebook post as "the exact arm that was stolen in the burglary."

Verily partnered with MosquitoMate, a Kentucky-based sterile mosquito breeder, and Fresno's local authority, the Consolidated Mosquito Abatement District, to release a million insects a week through the end of 2017. His team used a sieve-like device to sort the sexes by size in their pupal stage, and then gave each mosquito another look under a microscope before shipping them from Kentucky to California, where district officials released the bugs by hand, shaking them out of cardboard tubes. If this summer's trial proves effective, Mulligan and Dobson hope they could expand to other places in California and wipe out the existing pockets of Aedes aegypti before they become a permanent feature of the landscape. Its ultimate goal is to be able to make more mosquito factories, ready to ship all over the world whenever a new mosquito-borne disease strikes.

Spotify is a household name, with more paying users than any other music-streaming service in the world. But it doesn't make a penny. Those 30 million paid subscribers help it rake in almost half the revenues in the global industry. But most of the money goes to record labels and artists, while the privately owned Swedish company faces growing competition from Apple with its deep pockets and massive iPhone user base. To reduce its dependence on labels and stand apart from rivals, Spotify is broadening beyond its music library.

Boiteux, an assistant fire chief from Los Angeles, is helping train Greek first responders to use Emily. Boiteux, an assistant fire chief from Los Angeles, is helping train Greek first responders to use Emily. On a cold, rainy morning a few weeks ago, eight black inflatable rafts, loaded with migrants, bob in the waters off the northern shore of the Greek island of Lesbos. "This boat up there?" he says. So they ask for help from the coast guard." A Norwegian rescue boat with the European Union's border agency, Frontex, heads toward the distressed raft. Hantzopoulos walks along the rocky shore with John Sims, a fire captain from Sahuarita, Ariz. He's teaching members of the Hellenic Red Cross how to use a remote-controlled rescue device called Emily -- which stands for Emergency Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard. You might call Emily a buoy. You might call her a boat. She's about 4 feet long, weighs 25 pounds and looks like a cylinder wrapped in an orange-red life jacket. Sims steers Emily in the water with a remote control. She speeds toward the migrant rafts. "I'll keep her about 20-30 meters behind [them]," he says. The only thing that affects her sometimes over a wave is a little bit of wind. In a high wind situation we would actually fill the hull with some water to be able to weight her down some so, so, she wouldn't fly so bad off the top of the waves."

Suresh Venkatasubramanian of the University of Utah presented a method for finding disparate impact in algorithms last year at the ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. If you have ever searched for hotel rooms online, you have probably had this experience: surf over to another website to read a news story and the page fills up with ads for travel sites, offering deals on hotel rooms in the city you plan to visit. Buy something on Amazon, and ads for similar products will follow you around the Web. The practice of profiling people online means companies get more value from their advertising dollars and users are more likely to see ads that interest them. The practice has a downside, though, when the profiling is based on sensitive attributes, such as race, sex, or sexual orientation.