Before the conference to honor Dr. Alondra Nelson with 2024 World Leader in AIWS on April 30, BGF Chief Editor Minh Nguyen interviewed Dr. Nelson. Watch the full conversation on YouTube. “Science and technology policy affects everything.” When I threw an icebreaker...
This is an excerpt of the article originally published in ScienceAlert. You probably know to take everything an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot says with a grain of salt, since they are often just scraping data indiscriminately, without the nous to determine its...
Lucian Kim writes in a Reuters opinion piece that the Russian athletes' "doping scandal is a symptom of a much larger problem: the casual disregard for the truth that has become a hallmark of {Russian President Vladimir} Putin’s rule. In a country where...
The Russian Far East is in red. Many Russians fear that their nation's Far East could end up being absorbed by China, with its 1.4 billion people and huge economy. So the Russian government, following the directive of strongman President Vladimir Putin, is offering...
Su Bin, a Chinese businessman who admitted being part of a group hacking U.S. defense secrets, has been given nearly four years’ jail. He had been extradited from Canada. Su Bin was convicted of taking part in a multi-year plot by Chinese military officers to...
Google senior vice president Diane Greene said on July 11 that the company was notifying customers of about 4,000 state-sponsored cyberattacks per month. The Internet search leader has led the sector in notifying users of government spying. Others, including Microsoft...
The apparent shooting down of a new Russian state-of-the-art Mi-35M helicopter, which could only be operated by the Russian military, over a Syrian area controlled by the Islamic State suggests how much the Russians are directly involved in the Syrian civil war...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has ordered Economic Revitalization Minister Nobuteru Ishihara to draft a range of economic measures to end deflation and raise Japan’s growth potential. The program will include a supplementary fiscal 2016 budget. The...