When it comes to defending against pesky drones, the French military has gone to the birds. These drone-hunting birds of prey are being trained at a French Air Force base in Southwestern France. They're literally born on top of drones, and kept there during early stages of feeding. When they're ready to fly, they're brought to a field to intercept drones. In turn, they're rewarded with meat.

The worldwide market for radiology-specific deep learning will soar from around $40 million next year to some $300 million by 2021, largely on the wings of increasing demand for imaging combined with radiologist shortages like the one Scotland is facing. The projection comes from the U.K.-based healthcare market research firm Signify Research. "Radiology is evolving from a largely descriptive field to a more quantitative discipline," a Signify analyst says in a press release. "Intelligent software tools that combine quantitative imaging and clinical workflow features will not only enhance radiologist productivity but also improve diagnostic accuracy." Meanwhile the release, sent to publicize Signify's full report on the topic, notes that doubts over how deep learning arrives at its radiological diagnoses "could lead to legal implications. Whilst none of these problems are insurmountable, healthcare providers are likely to take a'wait and see' approach before investing in deep learning-based solutions."

Have you ever wondered how Facebook collects all the data it has to feed you with the content it presumes you'll like and keep you coming back for more? Well, now there's an app that can answer these questions. Available for free, Data Selfie is an open-source Chrome extension that helps you discover how machine learning algorithms track and process your Facebook activity, and gain insights about your personality and habits. Last year, Facebook's VP of Design thought the TNW Conference main stage was the best she'd ever been on. To accomplish this, the nifty extension monitors your Facebook interactions for patterns and then crunches the collected data into insightful reports. Data Selfie essentially tracks your activity – what you look at, how long you look at it, what you like, what you click and what you type – and then applies natural language processing and machine learning algorithms from IBM Watson and the University of Cambridge to turn this data into insight.

Last week, a senior White House official shared a candid theory with me about why President Donald Trump and his team have been adrift since November: they've yet to adjust to the post-election reality, and they haven't yet learned how to operate without a single, common enemy--Hillary Clinton--to focus on. It was a frank admission that a team built for winning a campaign has so far failed at governing. Incoming Presidents usually trade in some of their political tacticians for experienced Washington hands when they take office, but Trump installed his entire senior campaign leadership into top positions in the White House, a place where few of them have ever worked before. In fact, one of the only senior Trump staffers with previous White House experience is Omarosa Manigault, the reality-star villain from "The Apprentice," who briefly worked in the Clinton White House when she was twenty-three years old. The early results of this experiment in governance by the least experienced have not been promising.

When Anders Sandberg was a kid in the 1980s, he enjoyed making simulations on his Sinclair ZX81, mocking up mini solar systems. Later, he graduated to designing artificial neural networks that use learning algorithms inspired by the brain. "Some people relax by watching television. I program simulations while listening to philosophy lectures," Sandberg chuckles. One day back in 1999, he recalls, he deleted a copy of a neural network on his computer and got a "tinge of bad conscience." He couldn't help worrying: "Have I just killed a little creation?"

When elderly people fall it can be potentially catastrophic for their health or even fatal. But now a revolutionary home monitoring system can predict whether an old person will fall three weeks in advance. While it may sound like science fiction, infra-red monitors can detect subtle changes that can foretell with a high degree of accuracy health changes that put an old person at risk of collapse. The pioneering system which uses sensors in each room of the house allows medical personnel to intervene before a potentially lethal collapse becomes likely to happen. By preventing falls, the system allows old people to live longer independently for to 2.5 years longer than average – which could possibly save millions from social care bills.

Don't take this the wrong way, but you're just data. Genes built you, from the tips of your toes to the crown of your head. In that sense, you're not unlike a computer: Code produces the output that is your body. In fact, for the past two decades, scientists have used actual DNA as if it were literal code, a process called DNA computing, to do things like calculating square roots. Today, researchers report in the journal Nature Communications that they've deployed DNA to detect antibodies--soldiers your body produces to fight viruses and such--by running a sequence of molecular instructions.

Facebook is secretly building artificially intelligent systems that can read people's private messages, according to a major manifesto published by Mark Zuckerberg. The Facebook CEO posted a 6,000-word essay in which he worried about the end of globalisation and seemed to suggest that Facebook would be necessary for the future safety of the world. But it didn't include one paragraph that had been expected to be part of it – apparently as a result of the worrying features it suggested the social network was developing. In one version of the text, Mr Zuckerberg wrote about the fact that Facebook appeared to be using artificial intelligence for online surveillance. It could eventually develop robots that would read through people's private messages and check for anything that it deems worrying, the manifesto read. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

A talking doll that could allow hackers to listen and talk to children should be destroyed, an official watchdog in Germany has said. The "My Friend Cayla" doll uses a Bluetooth device to access the internet and answer users' questions as well as ask for their personal information. But researchers have warned since the start of 2015 that the Bluetooth device is insecure, allowing hackers to access it. Now the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur), which oversees communications in Germany, has said the doll should be destroyed because it is in effect a "concealed transmitting device," which is illegal in Germany. The country's Telecommunications Act rules that manufacture, distribution and possession of what equates to espionage equipment is prohibited.

The world's first rotating skyscraper is set to be built in Dubai by 2020. The Dynamic Tower Hotel has been planned since 2008, having been proposed by Israeli-Italian architect David Fisher. It will stand at 1,375 feet tall, with each of its 80 storeys capable of rotating individually around a concrete core, offering 360-degree views of Dubai. Residents will be able to control rotation speeds and stop their apartment from spinning with voice commands. The skyscraper is expected to be completely self-powered, reportedly featuring as many as 79 horizontal-lying wind turbines between floors, as well as roof-mounted solar panels.