One day in the near future, your face or your fingers will be all the identification you need to board a plane. The airline industry has begun testing the idea of using biometrics -- facial recognition, retinal scans and fingerprints -- to identify fliers as a way to boost security and make life easier for travelers. JetBlue Airways announced that it will begin to use facial recognition technology this month to verify the identity of passengers boarding flights between Boston's Logan International Airport and Queen Beatrix International Airport in Aruba. Last week, Delta Air Lines began letting members of its loyalty reward program use their fingerprints as ID to enter the Delta Sky Club at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. If the test program goes well, the Atlanta-based airline says it plans to use fingerprints to let passengers check a bag or board a flight.

Megyn Kelly says she'll ask Putin directly about allegations of election meddling Happy birthday to Morgan Freeman, who turns 80 today Jennifer Garner takes issue with new People magazine cover Chloë Grace Moretz addresses body-shaming controversy over Snow White movie Megyn Kelly says she'll ask Putin directly about allegations of election meddling What were your earliest memories of going to the movies? The Golden Age of the multiplex is in the past. Theater owners are luring a new generation with upgraded screens and snacks. And even with the rising prices, tech distractions and rude patrons, there are still many pleasures to be had at the cinema. The L.A. Times film staff reminisced about their buttered-popcorn-scented memories and how the theater-going experience (sticky floors and all) made them fall for that old cinematic magic.

A convoy of US Army autonomous trucks is due to cruise along a stretch of public highway in Michigan this month as part of a trial of driverless military vehicles. Although the vehicles to be used in the trial will be flatbed military trucks, the technology could also be rolled out for tanks and armoured vehicles. The US Army said its future goal is to send unmanned trucks into dangerous scenarios that could put the lives of soldiers at risk. Called the Unmanned Mission Module, the technology used in the Fort Hood tests included a high performance LIDAR sensor - or laser radar. This remote sensing technology is capable of scanning the road ahead and measuring distances by illuminating a target with a laser, and analysing the light that is reflected.

June 1, 2017 --If all had gone according to plan, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would be celebrating its 10th anniversary of capturing stunning portraits of distant galaxies, NASA would be hard at work on its dark energy detector, Virgin Galactic would be running two daily tourist flights to the edge of space for just $50,000 a head, and a Russian company would be doing brisk business with its orbiting luxury space hotel. Of course, that's not how it worked out in reality. Last month, Virgin Galactic made its tenth annual prediction that "next year" it will finally shuttle tourists to space, joining the JWST on the horizon of 2018, and the inaugural mission of NASA's new Space Launch System slipped to 2019. As for that space hotel, don't ask. Planning for the future is part of what it means to be human, but cognitive biases, development challenges, and financing conventions conspire to make accurate predictions next to impossible.

I think the recent article in the New York Times about the boom in'artificial intelligence' in Silicon Valley made many people think hard about the future of cybersecurity – both the near and distant future. What's going on now in the field of'AI' resembles a soap bubble. And we all know what happens to soap bubbles eventually if they keep getting blown up by the circus clowns (no pun intended!): Now, of course, without bold steps and risky investments a fantastical future will never become a reality. But the problem today is that along with this wave of widespread enthusiasm for'AI' (remember, AI today doesn't exist; thus the inverted commas), startup-shell-companies have started to appear.

Technology continues to drive and disrupt today's talent management strategies. As we move closer to the halfway point of 2017, we take a look at 5 key HR tech trends shaping your business. The widely publicised global data breach that affected the NHS last month highlights the very real risks to all businesses. After the talent shortage, PWC notes that cybersecurity is the second highest ranked concern for CEOs, with three quarters (76%) citing this it as a significant challenge in its annual CEO Survey. A UK government report also found that half of all businesses have experienced at least one data breach or cybersecurity attack in the past year, rising to two thirds of medium and large businesses.

There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit," then-Senator Barack Obama said in a 2006 commencement address at Northwestern University. "But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit." What we need, he said, was the ability to "see the world through those who are different from us." Since Obama's speech, the phrase "empathy deficit" has gained a foothold, appearing everywhere from academic journals to mainstream media outlets. Among the varied responses to the 2016 United States presidential election were calls for a greater general empathy. Many liberals tried to peer across party lines to understand the motivations of Donald Trump voters, for instance interviewing Republican constituents and reading books about rural poverty (think J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy or Arlie Hochschild's Strangers in Their Own Land). But these efforts didn't alleviate tension between parties, which might be because empathy-building efforts don't always work.

Denver's LaMar's Donuts teamed up with Drone Dispatch -- from Austin, Texas -- to make this hungry tech-lover's dream become a reality and give the world a glimpse into the future of drone delivery. The drones delivered four boxes of LaMar's doughnuts to honor a tradition dating back to World War I when Salvation Army volunteers made doughnuts for soldiers. "We're doing it completely legal, we have very, very short deliveries from the drone where we have a safe takeoff location and the landing area is a Drone Dispatch team member who's receiving the box of doughnuts," CEO of Drone Dispatch, Chris Bonnet, told the AP. Amazon has been testing the delivery-by-drone method since 2016 when it made its first drone delivery of an Amazon Fire TV and a bag of popcorn in the United Kingdom.

Robots are taking over the world's workforce--and why shouldn't they? For so many jobs, machines are faster, more consistent, smarter, and cheaper than you or I will ever be. As advances in artificial intelligence accelerate, robots will spread into all corners of the labor market: blue collar and white collar, service work and knowledge work alike. Along with their jobs, people will lose their incomes. When that happens, governments will also lose theirs.

In the 1982 film Firefox, Clint Eastwood plays an Air Force pilot and Vietnam vet on a secret mission to steal an advanced Soviet fighter jet. The airplane is super fast, radar invisible, and can be controlled by thought (as long as those thoughts are in Russian). "Yeah, I can fly it," Eastwood says. "I'm the best there is." Two year later, Tom Clancy published The Hunt for Red October, later made into a film starring Alec Baldwin and Sean Connery.