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Border state law enforcement to shoot down 'weaponized' drug-smuggling drones
Raul Gastesi speaks with Fox News Digital about a bill moving through the Florida Senate that would give homeowners the right to use "reasonable force" to take down drones infringing on their privacy rights. A newly-minted law allowing Arizona law enforcement officers to shoot down drug-carrying drones along the U.S.-Mexico border has taken effect after sailing through the state's legislature with bipartisan support. HB 2733 was signed into law on April 18 and grants officers the ability to target drones suspected of carrying out illegal activity within 15 miles of the state's international border. "Cartels are increasingly using drones to survey the border to locate [U.S. Customs and Border Protection] officers' locations and to transport illegal drugs from Mexico into our state," state Rep. David Marshall, the bill's sponsor, said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "Law enforcement tools at [our] disposal will be electronic jamming devices, as well as using shotguns with bird shot to bring down these drones."
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Border state officials put cartels on notice as they await green light to take major action
An Arizona state bill would allow local and state authorities to shoot down drones used by drug cartels. House Bill 2733, sponsored by Republican state Rep. David Marshall, would provide qualified immunity to authorities for injuries that may be caused by taking out an "unmanned" drone within 30 miles of the southern border. Cartels regularly use drones as a tool to monitor law enforcement activity around the border in hopes of evading them in their own smuggling operations, even using the technology to send their drugs into the country. Although the situation at the border is calming down, there are still plenty of issues to tackle when it comes to crime, according to one sheriff. A drone reportedly flew into a crowd of Boston Celtics fans Tuesday night at an outdoor party.
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Geometric Feature Enhanced Knowledge Graph Embedding and Spatial Reasoning
Hu, Lei, Li, Wenwen, Zhu, Yunqiang
Geospatial Knowledge Graphs (GeoKGs) model geoentities (e.g., places and natural features) and spatial relationships in an interconnected manner, providing strong knowledge support for geographic applications, including data retrieval, question-answering, and spatial reasoning. However, existing methods for mining and reasoning from GeoKGs, such as popular knowledge graph embedding (KGE) techniques, lack geographic awareness. This study aims to enhance general-purpose KGE by developing new strategies and integrating geometric features of spatial relations, including topology, direction, and distance, to infuse the embedding process with geographic intuition. The new model is tested on downstream link prediction tasks, and the results show that the inclusion of geometric features, particularly topology and direction, improves prediction accuracy for both geoentities and spatial relations. Our research offers new perspectives for integrating spatial concepts and principles into the GeoKG mining process, providing customized GeoAI solutions for geospatial challenges.
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DAVID MARCUS: Kamala Harris finally visits the border. Was George Orwell her travel agent?
Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin gives the latest on Vice President Kamala Harris' southern border visit on'Special Report.' It was George Orwell, in his seminal book "1984," which turned out to be about 40 years off, who wrote that eventually the state would make us believe that 2 2 5. Vice President Kamala Harris' incomprehensibly shameless photo op on the southern border might have dialed it up to a 6. There she was, our vice president, in front of the wall, and the barbed wire, ready to get serious about the problem she and "kind of" President Joe Biden created in the first place. I recalled a film in which Cheech and Chong said it was time to get serious about the band. This is like Oedipus saying, "Who did all this?"
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Oregon college student falls to his death after climbing mountain
CBP's Air and Marine Operations launched a rescue operation upon request by the Cochise County Sheriff's Office. A college student was located Thursday after he fell several hundred feet while climbing an Oregon mountain. Joel Tranby was climbing North Sister in the Cascade Mountains with his girlfriend early Monday afternoon when he fell about 300 to 500 feet and was severely injured. While Tranby's girlfriend was able to use her phone to call for help, she could not see where Tranby had landed, authorities said. "Unfortunately, he stopped responding verbally before searchers arrived," Lane County Sheriff's Office Sgt.
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- Information Technology > Artificial Intelligence > Robots > Autonomous Vehicles > Drones (0.52)
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Tesla on autopilot smacked into Florida Highway Patrol cruiser that stopped to help disabled vehicle
A Tesla Model 3 driving on'autopilot' smacked into a Florida Highway Patrol cruiser on Saturday morning, narrowly missing the driver of the cruiser who had stopped in order to help a disabled vehicle. The incident is the 12th such smash involving a Tesla on autopilot mode and an emergency vehicle. All the cars which have been struck had their lights flashing, or had deployed an emergency flare, illuminated warning sign or cones, raising questions about whether they may have confused the Tesla's sensors. Saturday's smash happened after when the 28-year-old trooper, who has not been named, stopped shortly after 5 am on August 28 on I-4 near downtown Orlando while responding to a broken down car. He put his emergency lights and was walking over to a disabled vehicle when the Tesla hit the cruiser's left side, according to a copy of the police report seen by DailyMail.com.
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U.S. Opens Investigation Into Tesla's Autopilot Driving System
The U.S. government has opened a formal investigation into Tesla's Autopilot partially automated driving system after a series of collisions with parked emergency vehicles. The investigation covers 765,000 vehicles, almost everything that Tesla has sold in the U.S. since the start of the 2014 model year. Of the crashes identified by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration as part of the probe, 17 people were injured and one was killed. NHTSA says it has identified 11 crashes since 2018 in which Teslas on Autopilot or Traffic Aware Cruise Control have hit vehicles at scenes where first responders have used flashing lights, flares, an illuminated arrow board or cones warning of hazards. The agency announced the action Monday in a posting on its website.
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Tesla's Autopilot faces US investigation after crashes with emergency vehicles
The US government has opened a formal investigation into Tesla's Autopilot partially automated driving system after a series of collisions with parked emergency vehicles. The investigation covers 765,000 vehicles, almost everything that Tesla has sold in the US since the start of the 2014 model year. Of the crashes identified by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) as part of the investigation, 17 people were injured and one was killed. NHTSA says it has identified 11 crashes since 2018 in which Teslas on Autopilot or Traffic Aware Cruise Control have hit vehicles at scenes where first responders used flashing lights, flares, an illuminated arrow board or cones warning of hazards. The agency announced the action on Monday in a posting on its website.
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration launches investigation into Tesla Autopilot over emergency responder crashes
U.S. auto-safety regulators have launched an investigation into Tesla's partially self-driving car system after nearly a dozen reports of the company's vehicles crashing into cars at the scenes of incidents involving emergency responders. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Friday opened the probe into Tesla's Autopilot, which automatically steers, brakes and accelerates the vehicle on most roads with lanes. While the system can drive the vehicle on its own in many circumstances, drivers are supposed to keep their hands on the wheel in case they need to take over when Autopilot encounters a situation that's too complex for it to handle on its own. But Autopilot has come under scrutiny on a number of occasions in recent years. The National Transportation Safety Board and NHTSA have investigated Autopilot multiple times, including for a 2016 crash that killed a man in Florida who authorities said had too much confidence in the system's capabilities.
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Interpretable Deep Neural Networks for Facial Expression and Dimensional Emotion Recognition in-the-wild
Richer, Valentin, Kollias, Dimitrios
In this project, we created a database with two types of annotations used in the emotion recognition domain : Action Units and Valence Arousal to try to achieve better results than with only one model. The originality of the approach is also based on the type of architecture used to perform the prediction of the emotions : a categorical Generative Adversarial Network. This kind of dual network can generate images based on the pictures from the new dataset thanks to its generative network and decide if an image is fake or real thanks to its discriminative network as well as help to predict the annotations for Action Units and Valence Arousal due to its categorical nature. GANs were trained on the Action Units model only, then the Valence Arousal model only and then on both the Action Units model and Valence Arousal model in order to test different parameters and understand their influence. The generative and discriminative aspects of the GANs have performed interesting results.
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