This paper brings together the strengths of analyst intuition and machine learning, and ultimately drives down both false positives and false negatives,

Research at Purdue University funded through a National Science Foundation grant has led to development of a new kind of toy-building kit that allows children to create robots and control them remotely like a puppeteer. The new kit, called Ziro, was developed in research led by Karthik Ramani, the Donald W. Feddersen Professor of Mechanical Engineering and co-founder and chief scientist of the company ZeroUI, with locations at the Purdue Research Park and in San Jose, California. Ziro is the first commercial application of ZeroUI's gesture-based Natural User Interface technology platform. Sensors in a "smart glove" communicate with wireless motorized modules, enabling users to direct the robotic creations with the lift of a finger or flick of a wrist in real-time. Research funding was provided as part of the NSF grant to both the university as well as through the Small Business Innovation Research program, designed to move innovations from discovery to commercialization. The NSF is nurturing a national innovation ecosystem through development of technologies, products and processes that benefit society.

Neither humans nor AI have proved overwhelmingly successful at maintaining cybersecurity on their own, so why not see what happens when you combine the two? That's exactly the premise of a new project from MIT, and it's achieved some pretty impressive results. Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and machine-learning startup PatternEx have developed a new platform called AI2 that can detect 85 percent of attacks. It also reduces the number of "false positives" -- nonthreats mistakenly identified as threats -- by a factor of five, the researchers said. The system was tested on 3.6 billion pieces of data generated by millions of users over a period of three months.

China exported military drones worth hundreds of millions of dollars to over 10 countries, state-run media said Thursday. The Asian powerhouse also plans to sell unmanned aircraft capable of launching laser-guided bombs. Chinese drones "have bigger payloads, which means they can carry more weapons" than their rivals, Shi Wen, chief drone designer at the China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics, told the China Daily newspaper. Shi did not name the countries that bought the drones, the numbers of drones sold or the exact deal value, but said that the academy's most valuable sale was worth "hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars." The report added that the drones are named Cai Hong, which means rainbow.

American drones fired more ammunition last year than manned warplanes for the first time, according to new data analyzed by Reuters. The news comes three years after U.S. President Barack Obama said that a drawdown of U.S. military forces after 2014 would "reduce the need for unmanned strikes." The data shows just how much American forces have come to rely on the unmanned vehicles to carry out missions in the Middle East and abroad, even while human rights organizations and some foreign governments have raised concerns over what they call an unnecessary amount of civilian casualties. "In recent months it's definitely flowed more," Lieutenant Colonel Michael Navicky, who commands the Air Force's 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, said. "We've seen increased weapons deployment in the past few months, and the demand is insatiable."

For over a hundred years, experts have been predicting that salespeople were on their way out. Turn-of-the-century critics predicted that the traveling salesman would soon become obsolete because the branding and advertising industries would do his job. If this sort of prediction sounds familiar, it's because just in the last decade many have been making the same prediction, for reasons not dissimilar to those of 100 years ago: They say technology--e-commerce, automatic kiosks, and maybe even robots--will soon replace salespeople and cashiers. But there's one thing that these predictions ignore, which is the fact that despite persistent fears of automation's effects on retail hiring, the number of salespeople in the U.S. has actually been increasing. According to the latest Occupational Employment Statistics from the Labor Department, which collects data from roughly 200,000 employers, retail salespeople and cashiers were the two most common occupations in the country. Together, the two jobs are estimated to employ more than 8 million Americans--representing roughly 6 percent of total American employment.

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 10: United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara speaks at a news conference where he announced charges against three individuals for offenses related to the computer hacking of numerous financial institutions, financial news publishers, and other companies on November 10, 2015 in New York City. If companies don't adequately protect their data, cyber attacks can do a lot of damage. Fortunately, a solution to this issue can be found in new applications of the artificial intelligence for predicting hacker attacks. From the security breach leaving VTech toys vulnerable to ransomeware holding hospital records hostage, lately cyber attacks have been in the news a lot. Companies make efforts to better protect their data, but oftentimes they cannot detect that a system is compromised until it's too late.

In recent weeks, it seems like every other day I have encountered another article or media reference to robots and to our anxiety pertaining to their growing presence and role in our life. Fears have ranged from "will they take away our jobs?" to "will they dominate and enslave us?" The latest piece I've read was "Can you trust your robot?" (an ominous and paranoia-tinged title) by a robotics professor in the US. In that article, he explained why human-robot interactions lack the instinctive aspects that human-human relations naturally have, because "we do not understand each other", and more specifically "we cannot tell each other's intentions." In a number of media references at the end of last year, 2015 was identified as the year when artificial intelligence (AI) became one of our prime concerns about the future.

US politicians are considering new legislation that would allow authorities to intercept or shut down drones that get too close to airports. The US Senate passed the measures, part of a general aviation bill, on Tuesday in response to rising concerns about drone safety. It follows a suspected collision between a drone and a British Airways plane near London's Heathrow Airport. Start-ups are already lining up to offer solutions to the problem. The FAA (Federal Aviation Authority) reauthorisation legislation, passed by the US Senate, could also pave the way for the commercial deployment of drones in national airspace - but comes with several safety caveats.