The US Army and Marine Corps are set to test tanks with a new version of the iron dome' system developed by the Israeli government. The Trophy Active Protection System (APS) uses sensors to detect an anti tank missile is coming. It then fires small rounds to deflect them, and can also use jammers to mislead the enemy. The system is designed to create a protective field around tanks, shooting down incoming missiles before they detonate. The Trophy Active Protection System (APS) uses sensors to detect an anti tank missile is coming.

A new drone security startup claims it can disable or fly rogue drones that get too close to airports, military bases, stadiums or other other sensitive areas. SkySafe is one of several startups looking to stake a claim in the burgeoning drone enforcement industry. Headquartered in San Diego, SkySafe showed off its technology, but offered few details of how it was able to detect, hack into and control a drone in midair. It was speculated that SkySafe uses radio frequencies to take over the unmanned autonomous vehicles. "We fully take control of the drone from the operator, it sees us as the legitimate controller, and we can move it to a safe location and land it," said Grant Jordan, founder of SkySafe, in an interview with the Verge.

During Build 2016 this year, Microsoft pitched a world of connected devices and sensors all speaking through cloud-backed machine learning models to developers. Microsoft is betting on a future that involves developers utilizing sensors that link to a vast pool of intelligent data to return immediate real-world benefits. Practicing what the company preaches, Microsoft's Solution Architect and Technical Manager of Microsoft Research, Kenji Takeda talks about how Cortana Intelligence suite is being used to secure safe drinking water for thousands of villages in rural Africa and Asia. A team consisting of Dr. Robert Hope of the REACH initiative, and machine learning experts David Clifton, an associate professor, and graduate student Farah Colchester have come together to try and secure safe and healthy water sources for 5 million poor people in Asia and Africa. The REACH program utilizes a series of mobile sensors connected to cloud computing to monitor water wells to secure a safe supply of water in more rural areas.

IMAGE: Researchers collect information for the design of PAWS in a protected area for a trial patrol. A century ago, more than 60,000 tigers roamed the wild. Today, the worldwide estimate has dwindled to around 3,200. Poaching is one of the main drivers of this precipitous drop. Whether killed for skins, medicine or trophy hunting, humans have pushed tigers to near-extinction.

A program designed by MIT to battle hackers is example of effective artificial intelligence and human collaboration. South Korean professional Go player Lee Sedol puts the first stone against Google's artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo.

Like Beyoncé, we now know, Hillary Clinton has hot sauce in her bag. She said so on New York's Power 105.1, so it must be true. Still, Donald Trump doesn't believe her, nor do Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham nor many of Fox News' talking heads. Even Power 105.1 host Charlamagne Tha God kind of accused her of pandering. I think she just likes hot sauce -- and not just because she's on record as a chilehead in interviews going back at least to 2008.

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Google may have the most self-driving cars on the road and Ford might be testing its driverless vehicles in the most extreme conditions, but Jia Yueting certainly has the most autonomous auto brands under his belt. The Chinese Internet billionaire owns self-driving EV startup Faraday Future, has a big investment in its stealthy rival Atieva, and has partnered with Aston Martin to build a third EV. Now, Jia just revealed yet another self-driving car, under the LeEco brand. At a glitzy event in Beijing, Jia and Ding Lei, the man in charge of LeEco's car business, demonstrated a self-driving concept car called the LeSEE. LeEco (previously LeTV) is Jia's first firm; it was once known as the Netflix of China, but is now diversifying into smartphones, televisions, and original video content. During presentations that veered from enthusiastic to accusatory to emotional (Ding at one point said, "We have gone through the process of being laughed at, to being judged, to being trusted by people"), they managed to make some concrete claims.

The other day, the National University of Science and Technology (MISiS) hosted a meeting on the development of robot technologies during the implementation of projects for the National Technology Initiative. Meeting participants watched a presentation of an international project to create an online site for testing unmanned equipment. Russia's KAMAZ Automotive Plant and IT solutions developer Cognitive Technologies have said they are ready to unveil the first Russian-made autonomous truck, an autopilot system that can detect road signs, lane markings and other vehicles. According to developers, the first autonomous commercial trucks could reach production by 2020. Some estimates show that the use of online testing sites will make it possible to save up to two billion rubles that would otherwise be spent on real-life tests and simulated real-life situations.

The impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the world must surely be one of the greatest contemporary puzzles. The spectrum of risk and the gamut of possible applications are significantly complex that almost any scenario can be envisioned, from robot apocalypse to workless utopia. The only assurance is that change is coming, and in my opinion, it is likely to be a revolution of a scale seen only during the onset of history-shifting events such as industrialization or farming. The timing is auspicious: Google AI unit DeepMind's AlphaGo has recently beaten South Korean professional game player Lee Sedol at the ancient Japanese board game Go--a game of huge potential complexity based on simple rules and considered one of the biggest challenges in AI, since it defies brute-force planning. As a milestone in machine intelligence (and good PR), it sits up there with IBM Watson's victory on Jeopardy in 2011 and IBM's earlier AI DeepBlue's victory over chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997.