Fast-tracking development of autonomous vehicles will significantly reduce road deaths in America, says the Department of Transportation. The American public has some questions first.

The first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is in the books. I tweeted, took notes and picked some winners and losers. At times she came across as overly rehearsed and robotic. This week, the advertising world converges on New York City to discuss the industry and its ongoing changes. The team at Advertising Week has created a program full of interesting speakers and topics, including brand storytelling, mobile advertising and diversity.

At a political rally in Moscow, police are reported to have attempted to handcuff and detain an activist called Promobot. The event at which the futuristic fracas occurred was in support of Valery Kalachev, a candidate for Russia's parliament. Kalachev was using the automaton to record the opinions and reactions of the crowd for future processing. Apparently that didn't sit well with Russian police officers, who "asked to remove the robot … and even tried to handcuff him," according to the robot's makers, who added that "the robot did not put up any resistance." There is, of course, a whiff of publicity stunt about the whole thing--buoyed by the fact that Promobot already has a track record for getting into scrapes.

Faith Hedgepeth was bludgeoned to death four years ago inside her off-campus apartment at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in a case that remains unsolved. The killer left behind a chilling note and traces of DNA -- which a forensic technology company has now used to create a 3-D sketch of what the suspect might look like. A "snapshot tool" developed by Parabon NanoLabs has created a 3-D image of the killer based on DNA traits, and authorities are hopeful the sketch could lead to a break in the case. The Reston, Va.-based Parabon Nanolabs, with funding from the Department of Defense, debuted the breakthrough type of analysis called DNA phenotyping in 2015 which the company said can predict a person's physical appearance from the tiniest DNA samples, like a speck of blood or strand of hair. The DNA phenotyping service, commercially known as "Snapshot," could put a face on millions of unsolved cases, and generate investigative leads when the trail has gone cold.

It is projected that urban India will contribute about 75% of the national GDP in the next 15 years. With the rapid rate of urbanization and depleting resources, it is essential for India to rethink its strategy to see how it can best optimize the capabilities of its physical infrastructure. By leveraging global best practices in smart city development and ICT (Information and Communication Technology), India is in a unique position to leapfrog a few stages of growth to become a global superpower. In 2015, the Indian government announced an ambitious plan to develop 100 smart cities, with a commitment of spending 7.27 billion over the next five years. The infrastructure overhaul would include creating intelligent transport systems, smart grids, smart waste management, and smart water grids/solutions.

They are the APAC and Australian leaders of some of the largest, or fastest rising marketing tech, adtech and ecommerce companies. And they are passionate about helping their clients understand their own consumers using data analytics. So we figured it was time to turn the lens around. We used IBM's Personality Insight services in the Watson Developer Cloud to tell us a little bit about the personality of each of the following executives; Karen Stocks from Twitter, Ben Sharp from AdRoll, Liam Walsh from Amobee, Jodie Sangster from ADMA, Paul Robson from Adobe, Derek Laney from Salesforce, Paul Cross from Oracle, Matt Barrie from Freelancer and Ruslan Kogan from Kogan. Given their commitment to the cause of data-driven marketing we are sure they won't mind at bit.

The Pentagon's oft-repeated line on artificial intelligence is this: we need much more of it, and quickly, in order to help humans and machines work better alongside one another. But a survey of existing weapons finds that the U.S. military more commonly uses AI not to help but to replace human operators, and, increasingly, human decision making. The report from the Elon Musk-funded Future of Life Institute does not forecast Terminators capable of high-level reasoning. At their smartest, our most advanced artificially intelligent weapons are still operating at the level of insects … armed with very real and dangerous stingers. So where does AI exist most commonly on military weapons?

All those cars on California's famously gridlocked highways could be doing more than using energy. They could be producing it. The California Energy Commission is investing 2 million to study whether piezoelectric crystals can be used to produce electricity from the mechanical energy created by vehicles driving on roads. The commission is choosing a company or university to take on small-scale field tests. It will study how the small crystals, which generate energy when compressed, could produce electricity for the grid if installed under asphalt.

In the Summer of 2015 a team of hackers attempted to take control of an unmanned military helicopter known as Little Bird. The helicopter, which is similar to the piloted version long-favored for US special operations missions, was stationed at a Boeing facility in Arizona. The hackers had a head start: At the time they began the operation, they already had access to one part of the drone's computer system. From there, all they needed to do was hack into Little Bird's onboard flight-control computer, and the drone was theirs. When the project started, a "Red Team" of hackers could have taken over the helicopter almost as easily as it could break into your home Wi-Fi. But in the intervening months, engineers from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency had implemented a new kind of security mechanism--a software system that couldn't be commandeered.

Taban Deng Gai, who is now first vice president of South Sudan, speaks to reporters in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa on Jan. 8, 2014. In an interview airing on Monday's PBS NewsHour, South Sudan Vice President Taban Deng Gai responded to a report that the country's top leaders were profiting off the five-year conflict by saying it's under investigation, but the report might be false. Human rights group The Sentry this month released the results of a two-year investigation that found South Sudanese politicians were spending international aid on mansions and fancy cars, and giving expensive contracts to family members. "They say that my president, for example, they accuse him of having a house in one of the suburbs of Nairobi city. I don't think a crime for a president -- a sitting president for more than 10 years" to have a house there, Deng told PBS NewsHour Weekend anchor Hari Sreenivasan.