Three years after CEO Jeff Bezos secured a massive dose of publicity with the announcement that Amazon was working on drone deliveries, that vision is a reality. First-ever #AmazonPrimeAir customer delivery is in the books. Check out the video: https://t.co/Xl8HiQMA1S Workers at a British fulfillment center are stuffing shoebox-sized packages--in one case with a Fire TV and some popcorn--and loading them into the belly of electric, quadcopter drones, which set off to the customer. The company claims the drones, guided by GPS and flying below 400 feet, can make deliveries within 30 minutes, from click to plop.

These topics were hot in 2016, and interest in them should continue strong in 2017. However, the discussions will take new turns. I predict that three particular trends will gain real momentum and re-shape the cyber landscape in 2017. Anxiety about our machines turning on us is already running hot, as you can tell from the popularity of shows such as Westworld and Humans. In light of the recent Dyn attack, questions have been raised about the security of IoT devices.

Uber's self-driving cars are now picking up riders in San Francisco--even as regulators say they aren't allowed to. Unlike Pennsylvania, where in September Uber launched its first pilot program, the state of California requires that companies testing autonomous tech apply for a permit with the Department of Motor Vehicles, have insurance for the technology, and publicly report data like crashes and "disengagements"--when the human operator takes back control to make sure the car operates safely. Uber has been testing its autonomous cars--a few dozen retrofitted Volvo XC90 SUVs--for weeks in San Francisco, without a permit and without following those rules. "We didn't get a permit in California because we don't believe we need one," says Shari Doherty, a spokesperson for Uber. In a blog post, the company's autonomous tech chief, Anthony Levandowski, asserted that the rules only apply to cars that can drive themselves without a human supervisor, while Uber's cars have human engineers at the wheel, ready to take over if necessary.

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IBM Watson is known for its work in identifying cancer treatments and beating contestants on Jeopardy! But now the computing system has expertise in a new area of research: neuroscience. Watson discovered five genes linked to ALS, sometimes called Lou Gehrig's disease, IBM announced on Wednesday. The tech company worked with researchers at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. The discovery is Watson's first in any type of neuroscience, and suggests that Watson could make discoveries in research of other neurological diseases.

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Late one Friday night in early November, Jun Rekimoto, a distinguished professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Tokyo, was online preparing for a lecture when he began to notice some peculiar posts rolling in on social media. Apparently Google Translate, the company's popular machine-translation service, had suddenly and almost immeasurably improved. Rekimoto visited Translate himself and began to experiment with it. He had to go to sleep, but Translate refused to relax its grip on his imagination. Rekimoto wrote up his initial findings in a blog post. First, he compared a few sentences from two published versions of "The Great Gatsby," Takashi Nozaki's 1957 translation and Haruki Murakami's more recent iteration, with what this new Google Translate was able to produce. Murakami's translation is written "in very polished Japanese," Rekimoto explained to me later via email, but the prose is distinctively "Murakami-style."