Widely Followed Chinese Technologist Says In Next Decade, AI Will Replace Half Of All Jobs

According to Kai-Fu Lee, founder of venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures and a top voice on tech in China, robots are likely to replace 50 percent of all jobs in the next decade. Terming Artificial intelligence (AI) as the “singular thing that will be larger than all of human tech revolutions added together, including electricity, [the]…

CEO Of World’s Largest Ad Firm Says Facebook, Google Need To Accept They Are Not Tech Companies But Media

Despite both U.S. firms trying to distance themselves from the label of media, Facebook and Alphabet-owned Google must and they must accept that they are media, not technology companies, said Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP. Questions about the “brand safety” issues seen on both Facebook and YouTube, such as ads being placed next to extremist content…

Symantec Says As Victims Keep Paying There Is A Surge In Cyber Extortion

As cyber criminals seek to maximize profits from large numbers of victims willing to pay up, according to cyber security firm Symantec Corp, hackers are demanding increasingly hefty ransoms to free computers paralyzed with viruses. According to Symantec, the pricing has continued to rise in 2017 and last year the average demand embedded in such malicious software,…

With A Warning On Dairy Farming And A New Tariff On Lumber, Trump Puts Canada On Trade Notice

The seriousness with which U.S. President Donald Trump is viewing his intention to enforcing trade rules was exhibited by the U.S. governments’ new tariff averaging 20 percent on Canadian timber imports, said the Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. “The Trump administration has been much more focused on enforcement than had been true previously,” he said, taking a…