‘We can’t compete’: why universities are losing their best AI scientists | Science | The Guardian

It was the case of the missing PhD student.

As another academic year got under way at Imperial College London, a senior professor was bemused at the absence of one of her students. He had worked in her lab for three years and had one more left to complete his studies. But he had stopped coming in.

Eventually, the professor called him. He had left for a six-figure salary at Apple.

“He was offered such a huge amount of money that he simply stopped everything and left,” said Maja Pantic, professor of affective and behavioural computing at Imperial. “It’s five times the salary I can offer. It’s unbelievable. We cannot compete.”

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/01/cant-compete-universities-losing-best-ai-scientists?CMP=share_btn_link

Computer science GCSE in disarray after tasks leaked online – BBC News

The new computer science GCSE has been thrown into disarray after programming tasks worth a fifth of the total marks were leaked repeatedly online.

Exams regulator Ofqual plans to pull this chunk of the qualification from the overall marks as it has been seen by thousands of people.

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-42138037

The electricity used to mine bitcoin this year is bigger than the annual usage of 159 countries

http://www.businessinsider.sg/bitcoin-mining-electricity-usage-2017-11/?r=UK&IR=T

IOT Life Simplified with Connected Devic_480P

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VoqvPPetDH0

Uber Is Under Investigation By Multiple States Over a 2016 Data Breach

https://www.recode.net/2017/11/22/16690556/uber-data-hack-57-million-state-investigation

Study of Recent Interstellar Asteroid Reveals Bizarre Shape

Study of Recent Interstellar Asteroid Reveals Bizarre Shape – http://www.slashdot.org/story/333913

Google Collects Android Users’ Locations Even When Location Services Are Disabled

Google Collects Android Users’ Locations Even When Location Services Are Disabled – http://www.slashdot.org/story/333923

Microsoft Offering Free Windows 10 Development Environment VM for a Limited Time

Microsoft Offering Free Windows 10 Development Environment VM for a Limited Time – http://www.slashdot.org/story/333941

Android Studio 3. 0 IDE supports Android Things for the IoT

Android Studio 3.0 IDE supports Android Things for the IoT

BBC News: China dominates top supercomputers list

China dominates top supercomputers list – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41971380