HALIFAX — One of the world’s top technology executives is urging democratic countries to turn to youth in a bid to find innovative solutions to looming security problems. Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., was in Nova Scotia on Saturday, speaking to the Halifax International Security Forum. He also said some fresh sets of eyes would be helpful in tackling security issues and “a new set of brains and talent” is needed. He noted there are a huge number of computer scientists coming out of the world’s top universities who can provide leadership. Information that is repetitive, exploitative, false or likely to be weaponized should be de-ranked, according to Google’s algorithms, he said.

Source: National Post November 19, 2017 00:45 UTC