One way researchers discover "new" craters on Mars is to analyze images taken from NASA satellites that are pointed at the surface of the Red Planet. Researchers will look at a collection of images spanning over various time frames, then compare images of the surface to each other. If a new crater appears between an image taken on A date and an image taken B date, then researchers can estimate that an impact must have occurred sometime between the dates of the images taken. To analyze one image, a researcher will spend about 40 minutes. As humans tend to do, we have offloaded the process to technology that can complete the task much more efficiently, freeing up time for researchers to work on other tasks.

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is turning to a Japanese startup for help in creating maps of the wind that will make it safer for drones and air taxis to take to the skies around the world. MetroWeather Co. makes compact, low-cost lidar sensors that can be used to detect hazards like wind shear, allowing unmanned aerial vehicles to operate in urban environments, Chief Executive Officer Junichi Furumoto said in an interview. The Kyoto-based company will work with TruWeather Solutions Inc. in the U.S. as part of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research grant program. Autonomous drones and flying cars, long a science fiction staple, are slowly edging toward reality. The four-rotor machines known as quadcopters are already being used for photography, inspections and mapping.

In addition to new outfits and backpacks, face masks are now an essential addition to kids' back-to-school gear. According to new guidelines released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, all students and staff should wear masks inside schools, regardless of vaccination status. But kids used to virtual learning may not have much experience interacting or communicating with their peers or teachers while masked. And parents and child development experts alike are wondering how that will affect children as they return to school. For instance, to assess whether kids can accurately interpret a masked person's emotions, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Child Emotion Lab showed children ages seven to 13 pictures of people displaying different emotions.

We describe ACE0, a lightweight platform for evaluating the suitability and viability of AI methods for behaviour discovery in multiagent simulations. Specifically, ACE0 was designed to explore AI methods for multi-agent simulations used in operations research studies related to new technologies such as autonomous aircraft. Simulation environments used in production are often high-fidelity, complex, require significant domain knowledge and as a result have high R&D costs. Minimal and lightweight simulation environments can help researchers and engineers evaluate the viability of new AI technologies for behaviour discovery in a more agile and potentially cost effective manner. In this paper we describe the motivation for the development of ACE0. We provide a technical overview of the system architecture, describe a case study of behaviour discovery in the aerospace domain, and provide a qualitative evaluation of the system. The evaluation includes a brief description of collaborative research projects with academic partners, exploring different AI behaviour discovery methods.

A U.S. drone strike blew up a vehicle carrying "multiple suicide bombers" from Afghanistan's Islamic State affiliate on Sunday before they could attack the ongoing military evacuation at Kabul's international airport, American officials said. An Afghan official said three children were killed in the strike. The strike came just two days before the U.S. is set to conclude a massive two-week-long airlift of more than 114,000 Afghans and foreigners and withdraw the last of its troops, ending America's longest war with the Taliban back in power. The U.S. State Department released a statement signed by around 100 countries, as well as NATO and the European Union, saying they had received "assurances" from the Taliban that people with travel documents would still be able to leave the country. The Taliban have said they will allow normal travel after the U.S. withdrawal is completed on Tuesday and they assume control of the airport.

In the movie Guardians of the Galaxy, the Yaka arrow, when shot by the Yondu Udonta, goes through a bunch of people in a flash; the weapon is highly responsive to certain high-octave whistle commands, which cause it to change trajectory as needed, return to the holster promptly or even combust into a fiery explosion on command. Real life Artificial Intelligence drone technology is making possible the deployment of autonomous weapons that could do pretty much the same and more. It will take some time to see whether robots of the future steal all our jobs, but drones are already stealing the march on the future of war. Based on common understanding, it has almost become natural to visualise a robot as having a human-like form, fighting off enemies. But essentially, drones are robotic machines that are capable of executing specific tasks with little or no human intervention, with speed and precision.

Priorly tech-friendly governments around the globe are now cracking down on big tech companies, which is putting the economies through a wind whirl. Since tech companies are forced to comply with the government, it gives the latter more power to manage their image. China has made good progress in the AI arms race in the last decade and is running almost in lockstep with the US. Recent research based on metrics such as patents and research publications ranked China as the top country for AI development, followed by the US and Japan. China's big-tech friendly policies were instrumental in putting the country on the AI map.

Artificial intelligence is described as having machines do "smart" or "intelligent" matters on their very own barring human guidance. AI security entails leveraging AI to become conscious of and provides up cyber threats with much less human intervention than is usually predicted or wished with normal protection approaches. AI safety equipment are regularly used to pick out "good" versus "bad" with the aid of evaluating the behaviours of entities throughout surroundings to these in a comparable environment. This system allows the gadget to mechanically examine about and flag changes. Often known as unsupervised gaining knowledge of or "pattern of life" learning, this technique effects in giant numbers of false positives and negatives.

Mere ours after President Joe Biden warned it was "highly likely" there would be another terrorist attack at the airport in Kabul, a U.S. drone strike blew up a vehicle filled with explosives in the Afghan capital on Sunday. The vehicle was carrying "multiple suicide bombers" from Afghanistan's Islamic State affiliate who were planning to strike the Kabul International Airport amid the ongoing evacuation efforts, according to U.S. officials. The strike targeted "an imminent ISIS-K threat to Hamad Karzai International airport," said a spokesman for the U.S. Central Command. "Significant secondary explosions from the vehicle indicated the presence of a substantial amount of explosive material." Earlier in the day, the U.S. Embassy in Kabul had warned of a "specific, credible threat" to the area surrounding the Kabul airport.

This is a rush transcript of "Fox News Sunday" on August 27, 2021. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. A drone strike takes out two high profile ISIS-K targets, as U.S. troops continue their evacuation mission with just 48 hours to go in Afghanistan. JOHN KIRBY, PENTAGON PRESS SECRETARY: They lost a planner and they lost a facilitator and that got one wounded. WALLACE (voice-over): But warnings the threat is far from over. JEN PSAKI, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Our troops are still in danger, that continues to be the case every day that they are there. WALLACE: With the clock ticking down, what does it mean for the security of our troops and civilians looking to get out of harm's way? We'll ask White House national security advisor Jake Sullivan about the situation on the ground and the danger in the final days of the mission. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY), MINORITY LEADER: The Taliban should not be allowed to tell us how long we are there to get our personnel out. WALLACE: We'll get reaction from Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who's calling on the president to extend the evacuation beyond Tuesday. We'll ask our Sunday panel about the latest test for the nation's schools. We begin with breaking news on two stories. But first, the next two days could be the most tense and dangerous for U.S. They are trying to evacuate some of the thousands of Americans and Afghan civilians while at the same time rolling up their own operation. Meanwhile, President Biden making good on his promise to retaliate for the deadly suicide bombing in Kabul, ordering a drone strike that killed two ISIS-K planners and wounded another -- as his advisors warn another attack the airport is likely before the U.S. completes its exit. In a moment, we'll discuss all this with the president's national security advisor, Jake Sullivan. We begin with FOX team coverage. David Spunt is at the White House, but first, Trey Yingst in Doha, Qatar, with the latest on the ongoing withdrawal -- Trey.