A former airpark is transformed into a space where drone pilots can go to hone their craft. This step is taken by the Osage Nation. The area turns to be the perfect landscape for a real-life scenario. "The boundaries are limitless for drones." Moreover, the Osage Nation used this opportunity very well and used the land for something productive.

Legal AI doc review company, Luminance, is branching out into the regulatory world in order to expand its offering by covering areas such as Brexit impact on contracts and GDPR compliance. The move follows a recent expansion into real estate documentation review, showing the company's initial strategy of focusing only on M&A due diligence is well and truly over, with a mission now to capture a greater share of the NLP-driven doc review market across different practice areas. In other news, the firm has also bagged top New Zealand law firm, Russell McVeagh, as its client base widens to 75 around the world, and operating in 23 countries, which is not bad considering the company only launched in September 2016. Luminance already works with Chapman Tripp, New Zealand's largest full-service commercial law firm. How much each of these firms uses their Luminance review system is currently unknown, but if market feedback is accurate then not all customers are making maximum use of the AI system they have signed up to – at least not yet.

InSight's primary instrument is a French-built seismometer, designed to detect the slightest vibrations from "marsquakes" around the planet. The device, to be placed on the surface by the lander's robot arm, is so sensitive it can measure a seismic wave just one-half the radius of a hydrogen atom.

Russian President Vladimir Putin stated in 2017 that the country that establishes superiority in artificial intelligence will become the ruler of the world. More recently, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and renowned psychologist Steven Pinker engaged in some rather heated debates over AI use, risks and regulation, with Musk warning that while the benefits of the new tech are revolutionary, the exponential increase in hardware ability and software talent also make AI a potential source of incredible risk. Given these disparate opinions, it's important that federal technologists collaborate with industry leaders to determine the best way to introduce AI to their agencies, while mitigating risks and capitalizing on its intended use and benefits. It is also critical that industry re-evaluate the speed and manner with which they bring any new technology to market. While there are many ways AI is being used positively to improve or simplify life, AI is largely open source so the code is publicly available to anyone: ambitious startups, innovative developers and malicious actors. While many of the big tech companies and leaders in the burgeoning AI field make their code available to the public with the goal of stimulating innovation, many would argue more adversaries than legitimate users are leveraging the code for ill-intent, as evidenced by the foreign influence of the 2016 election.

A 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck Hawaii's big island as the volcano forces thousands to evacuate. A 6.9-magnitude earthquake rattled the Big Island of Hawaii on Friday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, following a recent volcanic eruption. The quake hit roughly 10 miles southwest of Leilani Estates, the USGS reported. It was centered near the south flank of Kilauea volcano, which erupted Thursday and continued to spew lava into Friday. This is in almost exactly the same location at the deadly 1975 M 7.1 earthquake.

At the end of each summer for the last 14 years, the small Welsh town of Porthcawl has been invaded. Every year its 16,000 population is swamped by up to 35,000 Elvis fans. Many people attending the yearly festival look the same: they slick back their hair, throw on oversized sunglasses and don white flares. At 2017's Elvis festival, impersonators were faced with something different. Police were trialling automated facial recognition technology to track down criminals.

The UK and Europe must continue to work closely together on artificial intelligence research regardless of Brexit, according to experts, as the race for AI leadership pushes nations to form strategic alliances. Dame Wendy Hall, Regius professor of computer science at the University of Southampton, said that the strength of UK research in the field meant that the European Union could ill afford not to strike a deal on collaboration with UK universities. She argued that a common goal of developing ethical practices in both research into and the application of AI technologies would give the UK and Europe a "high ground" and position them well to compete with the US and China. "There's a whole hype-wave around AI right now and every government in the world wants to get the best of it," said Dame Wendy, who was commissioned by the government to conduct a review of the UK's policies on AI last year. "[Anyone] not in a position to seize those opportunities and develop [their] own AI sector becomes dependent on the US or China. So it's very important that we build on our fantastic 50-year legacy of British AI research."

The USGS said a 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit Hawaii's Big Island on Friday. A 6.9-magnitude earthquake rattled the Big Island of Hawaii on Friday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, following a recent volcanic eruption. The quake hit 16km southwest of Leilani Estates, Hawaii, the USGS reported. It was centered near the south flank of Kilauea volcano, which erupted on Thursday and continued to spew lava into Friday. This is in almost exactly the same location at the deadly 1975 M 7.1 earthquake.

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!): Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. Nothing is more secure than a workplace protected by prowling robots. But are the fish okay?

The Transportation Security Administration is looking to Silicon Valley startups to help it bring machine learning to security screening to improve the accuracy of airport baggage scanners. Through an Other Transaction Solicitation, the Department of Homeland Security's Science & Technology Directorate and TSA's Office of Requirements and Capabilities Analysis are looking for a new way to detect evolving threats carried in airline passenger luggage. Rapidly changing consumer electronics, the RFI said, are an example of a dynamic threat vector that evolves faster than next-generation detector hardware. TSA personnel looking at baggage scanner images might miss subtle new differences in how newly introduced consumer devices are wired or put together. The agency wants developers to come up with AI-based methods that could automate detection algorithm training, allowing detection hardware to "intuitively recognize" such subtleties and new objects that come through airports in luggage.