The Real Vaulties: Tech Billionaires and Secret Hide Away Bunkers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly17834524o

Maybe Fallout had it right all along? 

We should find out tomorrow night on Netflix!

Climate Change - World on Course for Dangerous Levels

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58600723

Anybody surprised?

RAND's Jason's predicted this back in the 1970's and it looks like they were right! 

AI in the news again (for all the wrong reasons) Facebook

BBC News tells the sorry tale of Facebook following on in the faux pas footsteps of Google, Microsoft and others:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58462511

China's Rover Landed on Mars: The NEW Space Race?

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57122914

Just when you thought you had heard the strangest of tales .. Cryptocurrencies

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p07nkd84

The world is such a strange place it seems even to defy even the crazy logic and genius of the late Douglas Adams .. when is money not really money?

Is an Army really an Army without Tanks?

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53909087

In the "Good Old Days" Spies needed a Good Disguise ... now ...

Apparently they now need AI tools ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52415775

Spies do it best in "Plain Sight" and a link to a free AI course and what the Vatican thinks!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51467536

Black boxes are just that and they could be working for another side as well as your own.
If you want to take a look at what can be inside them there is a free AI course running at the University of Helsinki:

https://www.elementsofai.com/

Vatican, IBM and Microsoft call for Ethical AI:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51673296

Embrace the difference in thinking!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51014028#

Pandemic a Game but being Played for Real!

Take a look at this light-hearted BBC News report:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51222796

And contrast it with more recent ones:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-51628484
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51625733
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51627597
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-51625123
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51496830
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-51611422
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51048366
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02/25/mass-testing-uncover-spread-coronavirus-britain/?WT.mc_id=tmgliveapp_androidshare_At5FJyfV0lPC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-51680560
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51683428

At the "work" after hours game club [no tanks allowed] we recently played Pandemic: The Cure and thankfully beat all four pathogens courtesy of the Generalist's life saving end of game dice throw to defeat the "Red Plague" (see below, all players had somewhat bated breath as she had 'muffed' the last roll [we are not a blame culture but panic almost set in] and we were starting to fear the worst - now after the hard won victory we should perhaps make Miss D's, Dr F's, Miss S' and Mr H's collective services available to the WHO or NHS who need a few good dice rolls themselves just now):

Time to take some vitamin C and vitamin D tablets perhaps!

The Science of Cracks rather than Cracked Scientists?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-51413801

Superbowl - Heart Broken but "What a Great Game"

Read all about it:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/american-football/51352326

Great Game and Respect to Kansas City!
Looking forward to seeing more magic from Patrick Mahomes in the coming years!

Climate Doom

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51111176

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51123638

A Chinese Fisherman's Tale

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-51130644

AI a Familiar Story: Another Winter Predicted

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51064369

Stop selling the hype and concentrate on what it does!

AI in the News - Good News: Explainable AI

Google admits the Black Box problem of AI: 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50506431

Google's answer eXplainable AI (XAI): 

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/google-cloud-ai-explanations-to-increase-fairness-responsibility-and-trust

Shapely Values:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley_value

When you think you are an expert you are not, when you have doubts then you know you are on the way to becoming an expert:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

Oh dear this does not sound good at all: 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/50225315/artificial-intelligence-machines-given-power-to-kill

AI in "playing" Games better than humans: 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50212841

Lets see what happens in 2020!

Putin's Late Xmas Toy: Hypersonic Missile

Travelling at twenty times the speed of sound:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50927648

Sleep well!

Dear Santa .. Can I have my own Internet .. Yours Putin

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50902496

AI and a Dark Future?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50166357

Popular culture seems to be turning against Big Data and the Statisticians!

Please Keep Off the Grass

In the computer trade sometimes hype breaks common sense reasoning. Perhaps I too have been guilty of this. Drawn along by the Agile Manifesto I sounded out the mantra of "Move Fast and Break Things Quick". Perhaps I should also remember the simplest and most powerful of mathematical techniques - always view the validity of the inverse argument to see if it is more powerful! So from the lips of the Microsoft President:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-49768347/microsoft-president-don-t-move-fast-and-break-things

Maybe we all can be "Muppets"! Hey those are social media weapons of mass destruction.

Brad Smith's book - Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age