It's a booming time to be a truck driver. According to data NPR compiled from the US Census Bureau, truck driving is currently the most popular job in 29 states. It's not that truck driving is a particularly sought after career path, however. Rather, it is simply one that is available and pays decently. Unlike a plethora of other jobs that have declined in recent years, truck driving has remained immune to the forces that have elbowed out different lines of work.

When MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab researchers showed videos of a drumstick hitting and brushing through various objects, subjects were fooled into believing that the sounds they heard actually came from the objects and materials on screen. Instead, a computer programmed to analyze the video and apply the correct sounds from its own library of samples chose the audio clips for all the videos. And the subjects were none the wiser. The team's work is described in a new paper released Monday and being presented next week at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Las Vegas. To be clear, there really isn't any such thing as an Auditory Turing test.

The traditional definition of artificial intelligence is the ability of machines to execute tasks and solve problems in ways normally attributed to humans. Some tasks that we consider simple--recognizing an object in a photo, driving a car--are incredibly complex for AI. Machines can surpass us when it comes to things like playing chess, but those machines are limited by the manual nature of their programming; a 30 gadget can beat us at a board game, but it can't do--or learn to do--anything else. This is where machine learning comes in. Show millions of cat photos to a machine, and it will hone its algorithms to improve at recognizing pictures of cats.

This undated image provided by the Orlando Police Department shows Omar Mateen, the shooting suspect at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12, 2016. The gunman opened fire inside the crowded gay nightclub early Sunday before dying in a gunfight with SWAT officers, police said.

How do you bring a bad drone down? New kinds of drones that can fly autonomously can't be stopped with traditional techniques, the US Air Force has warned. It's put out a call for ideas to yank drones right out of the sky. Millions of drones are sold worldwide each year. Most are flown for fun, but a few have been put to criminal use: carrying cameras to bedroom windows, flying into secure airspace over nuclear power stations, and smuggling contraband into prisons.

The logo of Jack'd, an online dating and chat app for gay men. According to some reports, Orlando shooter Omar Mateen used the app to message men in the months prior to the shooting. SAN FRANCISCO -- There are reports that Orlando shooter Omar Mateen had been using a gay chat and dating app called Jack'd for at least a year before his assault at a gay dance club left 49 victims dead and 53 wounded on Sunday. According to the Los Angeles Times, Mateen, 29, had messaged at least one regular Pulse patron sporadically over the past year using the Jack'd app. Kevin West was at Pulse the night of the attack and said he recognized Mateen from the app.

This includes the future of messaging, photos, maps, and more. Apple's Photos app will create automatic folders and videos from your work (Photo: Jefferson Graham) SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple spent two hours at the WWDC developer conference updating us on enhancements for mobile devices, computers, the Apple TV set-top box and the Apple Watch. The new software enhancements will be available for us in the fall. Apple's Photo app has hundreds, if not thousands, of photos taken by us, and locating them is a chore. So in a nod to rival Google Photos, Apple is going to use machine learning to use facial recognition to organize faces and identify places.

Attention is currently considered the most important currency of the web, but there is another, equally important factor amplifies attention: trust. Trust is what enables meaningful engagement between the content creator and consumer. It is hard to earn, easy to lose, and impossible to purchase. The reading experience has never been more important for publishers – alongside with creating great content, it's how they build their brand and their audience. A great reading experience is what enables loyalty and trust, and creates the engagement levels that in turn are able to generate revenue and attract brands.

Hindsait's AI platform identifies and extracts actionable data from information trapped in clinical notes and other electronic records for improved patient outcomes at lower costs Based on its recent analysis of the market for artificial intelligence (AI) systems for the healthcare industry, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Hindsait, Inc. with the 2016 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Visionary Innovation Leadership. Hindsait has demonstrated a strong commitment to breaking down communication barriers and enhancing healthcare delivery using AI and cognitive computing technology. With its novel software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, Hindsait helps payers reduce costs and improve the quality of services while simultaneously enabling healthcare providers, such as accountable care organizations (ACOs) and hospitals, to reduce risks and offer superior, more affordable care. Although there are organizations that apply AI and cognitive computing in healthcare, many of them simply adapt approaches applied in other industries to healthcare. Hindsait, on the other hand, is dedicated to the needs of the healthcare industry.

Julian Gerighty of the video game maker Ubisoft and actress Aisha Tyler speak at a press conference during the E3 video game trade show in Los Angeles. Julian Gerighty of the video game maker Ubisoft and actress Aisha Tyler speak at a press conference during the E3 video game trade show in Los Angeles. The annual video game trade show, E3, began this week in Los Angeles under the cloud of the mass shooting in Orlando, Fla., the deadliest in America's recent history. The conference is expected to draw tens of thousands industry professionals who want hands-on experience with games that turn virtual violence into entertainment. There were signs that organizers were trying to bridge the contradictions.