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Raccoon rescued after sticking its head in a Cape Cod drain grate
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Suspect shoots robotic police dog in Massachusetts standoff; manufacturer says it's a first
Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A robotic dog is being thanked by state police in Massachusetts for helping avert a tragedy involving a person barricaded in a home. The dog named Roscoe was part of the Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad and deployed on March 6 in a Barnstable house after police were fired upon. Police sent in two other robots often used for bomb disposal into the house to find the suspect along with Roscoe.
The big thing in TV sets this year is ... big TV sets
True, set manufacturers are bombarding consumers with a whole series of buzzwords -- OLED, 4K, 8K, HDR, QLED, wide color gamut -- intended to spur excitement and generate sales. Flashy new sets with these supposedly "must have" features are getting the spotlight Wednesday at the annual CES gadget show in Las Vegas. But when it comes down to it, none of these amount to revolutionary improvements for your living room. Set manufacturers may not have run out of technological tricks yet, but for this year, at least, they're reduced to improving what's already out there. "That's a good thing," said Gartner analyst Brian Blau, looking for the bright side.
NASA JPL Researches Artificial Intelligence for Submersible Drones Unmanned Systems Technology
NASA has announced that a team of researchers from its Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and other institutions recently visited Monterey Bay, California as part of ongoing research into developing artificial intelligence for submersible drones. In addition to benefitting our understanding of Earth's marine environments, the team hopes this artificial intelligence will someday be used to explore the oceans believed to exist on moons like Europa. If confirmed, these oceans are thought to be some of the most likely places to host life in the outer solar system. A fleet of six coordinated drones was used to study Monterey Bay. To plot their routes, forecasts of these ocean features were sent to the drones from shore. The drones also sensed how the ocean actively changed around them.