Earlier this year, the union representing U.S. airport security agents called for hiring 6,000 additional screeners to reduce long waits and help handle the rise in summer travelers. Government positions -- especially those at an agency like the Transportation Security Administration -- require a rigorous screening process in which officials might consider 100 employees for every one hire made. Airport security is clearly an area that could benefit from automation. Through a process known as organizational change management, TSA could automate some entry-level IT jobs that were previously handled by tech employees and repurpose those employees to ease the demand for additional security screeners. Automation allows employees to focus on more complex tasks, and artificial intelligence-based technology can handle knowledge work in a fraction of the time and with no errors -- a level of performance humans can't match.

It's smart torpedoes that wait, like mines, until special sounds wake them up and tell them to attack. Last summer, the Pentagon's Defense Science Board commissioned a study to examine angles on a particular challenge for DoD, with participants drawn from consulting, defense and technical industries, as well as the military and academia. In possibly the worst John Lennon cover ever made, participants were asked to "Imagine if….We could covertly deploy networks of smart mines and UUVs [Unmanned Underwater Vehicles] to blockade and deny the sea surface, differentiating between fishing vessels and fighting ships… …and not put U.S. Service personnel or high-value assets at risk." The scenario, and several others like it, were at the core of the study on autonomy, specifically autonomous machines and computers and systems, and what they mean for the Pentagon and the wars of the future. This matters a great deal, because what the Pentagon thinks of autonomy will shape the weapons it orders and the way it fights wars, and, likely, the way that laws of war are written.

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

Amy Kennedy, Education Director of the Kennedy Forum, and wife of Patrick J. Kennedy, honoree, advocate and former U.S. Representative from Rhode Island, speaks on stage at 2016 Many Faces Of Mental Health Gala at The Pierre Hotel on April 12, 2016 in New York City. In recent months, the pervasiveness of artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of precision medicine has continuously progressed. In fact, its influence has not only concentrated in transforming healthcare systems but also revolutionizing the approaches when it comes to diagnosing diseases such as cancer, autism and now, mental health disorders. Artificial intelligence has indeed proven its potential and significance in various field of sciences. With the integration of AI into the medical field, a promising future awaits the full utilization of data-driven medicine, which was dubbed as healthcare transformation's "next frontier," Parent Herald previously noted. After proving that artificial intelligence can be useful in the diagnosis of cancer, eye diseases, autism and even in cosmetic medicine, experts found that AI's machine learning approach can potentially assist them in diagnosing mental health disorders such as schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorders.

Humans pick up on sarcasm instinctively and usually do not need help figuring out if, say, a social media post has a mocking tone. Machines have a much tougher time with this because they are typically programmed to read text and assess images based strictly on what they see. Nothing, unless computer scientists could help machines better understand wordplay used in social media and on the internet. And it looks like they may be on the verge of doing just that. Just what you needed--a sarcasm-detection engine that helps marketers tell whether you were praising or mocking their product, and adjust their messages to sell you more stuff.

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NASA video shows a robotic arm releasing the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from the International Space Station over Australia. A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule left the International Space Station on Friday, Aug. 26, 2016. The capsule is carrying 3,000 pounds of cargo after a month at the outpost. CAPE CANAVERAL -- A SpaceX Dragon capsule returned to Earth on Friday after staying more than a month at the International Space Station. A robotic arm released the unmanned capsule packed with 3,000 pounds of cargo at 6:11 a.m.

Slate and Future Tense are discussing Mr. Robot and the technological world it portrays throughout the show's second season. You can follow this conversation on Future Tense, and Slate Plus members can also listen to Hacking Mr. Robot, a members-only podcast series featuring Lily Newman and Fred Kaplan. In this episode of Hacking Mr. Robot, Fred and Lily discuss Episode 8: "eps2.6succ3ss0r.p12." They're joined by special guest Matt Devost, a cybersecurity expert and the CEO of FusionX. Fred Kaplan is the author of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War.

Ben Dickson is a software engineer and freelance writer. He writes regularly on business, technology and politics. Insider threats are the biggest cybersecurity threats to firms, organizations and government agencies. This is something you hear a lot at security conference keynotes and read about in data breach reports, white papers and surveys -- and these insider threats are becoming increasingly more difficult to detect and prevent, as well as more frequent. This seemingly unstoppable growth accentuates the problem and shortcomings of current solutions, and warrants the need for new defensive technologies to detect and stop the digital daggers aimed at our backs.

The skies are about to get substantially more populated with drones. They won't deliver packages to your doorstep anytime soon, but a large menu of other kinds of commercial drone missions will become legal on Monday thanks to new federal rules. The guidelines also make it much simpler to become a commercial drone pilot, lowering the barrier of entry for people and companies to use unmanned aircraft commercially. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's new drone regulations limit commercial operations to relatively low-risk scenarios. The aircraft must weigh less than 55 pounds, remain below 400 feet, and cannot fly beyond the operator's visual line of sight, at night, or directly over crowds of people.