'San Fransicko' author Michael Shellenberger discusses the homeless crisis in California and how to solve it. A federal judge has issued a temporary ban on San Francisco clearing most homeless encampments amid an ongoing lawsuit against the city filed by advocacy groups seeking to stop police sweeps of homeless encampments. Last week, Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu in the U.S. District Court in Oakland questioned the tactics used by the city of San Francisco in its homeless encampment cleanups, suggesting that the city is not adhering to its own policies of providing shelter beds to individuals who are being asked to vacate a public area. In her decision, Ryu stated that the city did not offer shelter to homeless individuals before clearing encampments and confiscating their property. The judge also found the city's justification for taking enforcement actions to be "wholly unconvincing," stating that the defendants did not adequately dispute that they cleared people without first providing shelter.

Doosan Robotics recently appointed William (Junghoon) Ryu as its new chief executive officer. Ryu joined the Doosan Robotics board of directors on July 1, 2021 leaving his previous role as vice-president of corporate strategy at Doosan Group. "I am honoured to take on the leadership role at Doosan Robotics and join forces with the incredible team, aiming to drive innovation and growth of the company to become number one in the robotics industry," said Ryu. "Doosan Robotics is a young and uprising organization. I am excited for more agile practices to accelerate servicing our products to customers in the market with breakneck speed of changes." In his new role, Ryu is expected to enhance technological collaboration with the parent company's new business areas.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has entered the office. In fact, 90 percent of U.S. workers said they're optimistic about the changes technology will bring in the next five years, according to Accenture. Further, a recent McKinsey brief estimated that AI techniques could potentially create between $3.5 trillion and $5.8 trillion in value annually across nine business functions in 19 industries. As AI continues to get smarter and more capable, employee productivity is poised for a sizable shift with the new tools and technology available to workers. All signs are pointing to AI becoming a key element and driver in unleashing workforce potential.iStock

IBM created a computer chip that works like a brain. Now, Samsung has used it to create a biologically inspired digital eye. The IBM chip, called TrueNorth, is built of 4,096 tiny computing cores that form about a million digital brain cells and 256 million connections. Together they act like the brain's neurons, sending short messages to one another to process data. The design, known as neuromorphic computing, marks a dramatic departure from traditional chips that run software packaged into strict sequences of instructions.

There are some mistakes that we make habitually. Even as we're doing it, a part of our brain is screaming: "This is absolutely the wrong thing to do." But somehow, before we know it, we've gone ahead done it; we've bought a ticket to see Batman v Superman. Sometimes those things happen in games too. It doesn't matter how experienced you are at Call of Duty, there are moments you think you can take out several incoming players at once by charging at them with your pistol and two bullets in the clip.

There are some mistakes that we make habitually. Even as we're doing it, a part of our brain is screaming: "This is absolutely the wrong thing to do." But somehow, before we know it, we've gone ahead done it; we've bought a ticket to see Batman v Superman. Sometimes those things happen in games too. It doesn't matter how experienced you are at Call of Duty, there are moments you think you can take out several incoming players at once by charging at them with your pistol and two bullets in the clip.