America ‘Totally Unprepared’ For Artificial Intelligence’s Impact, Says Hillary Clinton

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Former First Lady, Secretary of State, and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said that the United States is “totally unprepared” for the societal and economic impact of artificial intelligence. She made the comments in an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt earlier this week. The world is “racing headfirst into a new era of artificial intelligence,” she said, adding that it’s going to affect how we live, think, and relate to each other.

Clinton also pointed out that some of the smartest minds on the planet are sounding an alarm that nobody is paying attention to. People like Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking, and Elon Musk have all been trying to focus the world’s attention on the risks that AI poses.

“Their alarm is artificial intelligence is not our friend,” she said. Clinton particularly mentioned AI’s impact on digital surveillance and job automation. “Everything we know and everything we say and everything we write is, you know, recorded somewhere,” she pointed out, while mentioning that the country is not prepared to deal with the fallout from significant job automation as a result of AI advancements.

Clinton doesn’t go into a lot of detail about the policies that she would like to see the government enact to she did say that the government should act quickly.

“One thing I wanted to do if I had been president was to have a kind of blue ribbon commission with people from all kinds of expertise coming together to say what should America’s policy on artificial intelligence be?,” she said.

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Foxconn Stops Interns From Working illegal Overtime For iPhone X Production


It was reported recently that student interns at Apple’s manufacturing partner Foxconn were working illegal overtime for assembling the iPhone X. Some interns had revealed that they were working 11-hour days regularly to assemble the new flagship smartphone. These long work hours are illegal for student interns as per the country’s laws. Apple had said that the students “should not have been allowed to work overtime,” and Foxconn has now put an end to that.

The student interns were reportedly 17 to 19 years old. They had to complete a three-month internship at Foxconn before they could graduate.

One student had claimed that the work they were doing wasn’t related to their studies. That student also claimed to have assembled as many as 1,200 iPhone X cameras every single day.

In their initial responses, Apple and Foxconn both said that the students were not “forced” to work beyond the legal hourly limits. However, they did acknowledge that some cases of students working illegal overtime do exist.

Foxconn has now confirmed to the BCC that it has taken immediate action to ensure that no student interns carry out any overtime work at its manufacturing facilities. Foxconn added that the interns make up a “very small percentage” of its workforce in China and that the breach of labor laws was also inconsistent with its own policies.

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Xbox Live Games With Gold For December 2017 Revealed

Xbox Live Gold members receive a handful of free games every month as part of their subscription. Microsoft has confirmed the Xbox Live Games with Gold for the month of December 2017. Two games each will be offered to subscribers who own an Xbox One and Xbox 360. Since the Xbox 360 titles are backward compatible, that means the subscribers who own an Xbox One essentially get four free games as part of their subscription.

Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide, a $39.99 value, is going to be free to download for Xbox Live Gold members on the Xbox One during the month of December. The $19.99 Back to the Future: The Game – 30th Anniversary Edition is also going to be available for free from December 16th to January 15th.

Child of Eden, which normally costs $29.99, is going to be free for Xbox Live members on Xbox 360 from December 1st through December 15th. Marlow Briggs and the Mask of the Death, a $14.99 value, is going to be free from December 16th through December 31st.

Both of the titles that are available for free to members with an Xbox 360 will also be playable on the Xbox One as they’re backward compatible. These titles will be available as free downloads for all Xbox Live Gold members in all markets where Xbox Live is available.

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Twitter Bookmarks Feature Enters Private Testing


Twitter has been working on a new feature that will let users save tweets in their timeline that they want to read or refer back to in the future. It started working on this feature last month and Twitter has now revealed that this feature is going to be called. Twitter is going to call it Bookmarks, which is as apt as it is predictable.

The only way you can save a tweet on Twitter right now to come back to later is by “liking” it. That’s done by tapping on the heart icon. It gets the job done but this action notifies the user and also indicates that you “like” that particular tweet even when you may not.

The confirmation about the Bookmarks feature comes from Tina Koyama, one of the staff product designers at Twitter. Tina revealed that Twitter has selected different versions of how this Bookmarks feature will look and work. It will start testing them in the Twitter community to see which is most preferred.

Reports suggest that the Bookmarks feature will live in a menu in the bottom right corner of a tweet on mobile or in the dropdown menu in the upper right corner on desktop. It will also be available when sending a tweet in direct message or creating a Moment.

Users will be able to view bookmarked tweets via their profile page. That’s also where the Lists and Moments can already be found.

Twitter is yet to confirm when the Bookmarks feature will be rolled out for all users.

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