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Over the long weekendreportsemerged of an alleged data breach, impacting half a billion Facebook users from 106 countries. And while this figure is staggering, there’s more to the story than 533 million sets of data. This breach once again highlights how many of the systems we use aren’t designed to adequately protect our information from cyber criminals. Nor is it always straightforward to figure out whether your data have been compromised in a breach or not....

“Our consciousness is everything. You become what you think about.” — Buddha In the few minutes that you are reading this article, I will tell you about a completely new type of artificial intelligence, I will name the design features and advantages, I will outline the immediate prospects and possible long-term consequences of the introduction of this technology into real life. Together we will touch the future. This article is the fourth in a series on the nature of human intelligence and the future of artificial intelligence systems....

How useful is your AI? It’s not a simple question to answer. If you’re trying to decide between Google’s Translate service or Microsoft’s Translator, how do you know which one is better? If you’re an AI developer, there’s a good chance you think the answer is: benchmarks. But that’s not the whole story. The big idea Benchmarks are necessary, important, and useful within the context of their own domain. If you’re trying to train an AI model to distinguish between cats and dogs in images, for example, it’s pretty useful to know how well it performs....

What air travel might look like in 2050 Flight rationing Every person could be allocated a maximum number of “flight kilometers” each year. This allowance would increase the longer a person abstained from flying. The first year allocation would be 500km, then the following year it would be 1,000km and would double every year. It would take seven years to accumulate enough to fly from the UK to Australia and back....

We’re living in an age where expectations of businesses are changing. That’s no secret. If you believe what Gary Vaynerchuk has to say about it, then we’re moving back toward the “mom and pop” mentality of being truly thankful to our customers. As such, many businesses are taking steps that we’ve not previously seen in order to make sure that their customers know that they’re appreciated. Enter the events of the past couple of weeks, surroundingAirbnb....