Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Skeletonized human remains were found in an unused residence hall on the campus of University of California, Berkeley last week, officials said. The skeleton was found in the shuttered graffiti-ridden building on the Clark Kerr Campus on Jan. 10, but it remains unclear how many years the remains were there, police said. FILE: A view of the UC Berkeley campus is seen from this drone view in Berkeley, Calif., on Monday, Nov. 28, 2022.

Large-scale online campaigns, malicious or otherwise, require a significant degree of coordination among participants, which sparked interest in the study of coordinated online behavior. State-of-the-art methods for detecting coordinated behavior perform static analyses, disregarding the temporal dynamics of coordination. Here, we carry out the first dynamic analysis of coordinated behavior. To reach our goal we build a multiplex temporal network and we perform dynamic community detection to identify groups of users that exhibited coordinated behaviors in time. Thanks to our novel approach we find that: (i) coordinated communities feature variable degrees of temporal instability; (ii) dynamic analyses are needed to account for such instability, and results of static analyses can be unreliable and scarcely representative of unstable communities; (iii) some users exhibit distinct archetypal behaviors that have important practical implications; (iv) content and network characteristics contribute to explaining why users leave and join coordinated communities. Our results demonstrate the advantages of dynamic analyses and open up new directions of research on the unfolding of online debates, on the strategies of coordinated communities, and on the patterns of online influence.

This is a weekly newsletter exploring the collision of technology and humanity. What's exciting about AI right now is that the platform layer is solidifying, meaning that it's time for the application layer to emerge. Over the past few months, I've written several Digital Native pieces about what's happening in AI. Given that this is the topic in tech as we head into 2023, I wanted to combine those pieces into one cohesive deep-dive on AI, and then expand upon them. The result is that this is a longer piece than usual, but my hope is that it offers a "state of the union" snapshot for where we are and a hint at where we might be going. When I think about what's happening in artificial intelligence, I tend to think of two movies. One came out 33 years ago, and one came out 10 months ago. Hyperland is a mostly-forgotten 1990 film written by Douglas Adams, an author best known for writing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The premise of Hyperland (which you can watch on YouTube here) is that Adams is fed up by passive linear TV--what the film calls "the sort of television that just happens at you, that you just sit in front of like a couch potato." Seeking a more interactive form of media, Adams takes his TV to a dump, where he meets Tom (played by Tom Baker). Tom is a software agent--essentially, a digital butler capable of personalizing your information and entertainment diet to your specific interests. Tom takes our protagonist through a virtual land of hypermedia--linked text, sounds, images, and videos. In other words, Tom takes Adams on a journey through the internet.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is hailed as the disruptive technology that is set to revolutionize the 21st century. The function and popularity of this technology are soaring by the day. It has the potential to solve many of humanity's most pressing problems. AI is an umbrella term for technologies that can display some kind of intelligence such as machine learning computer vision, natural language processing, etc… These intelligent agents are algorithms trained using vast amounts of data to give machines some kind of reasoning ability. Instead of purely logical processing that computers usually perform, intelligent agents are designed around human thinking patterns and problem-solving skills. Artificial intelligence technologies create intelligent systems capable of self-learning and adapting to any new challenge. These specification has led to the rapid adoption of AI across different fields and industries around the world. Artificial intelligence has been around for decades, but its applications are only now opening up as more and more resources are dedicated to it. Over the last few years, AI has significantly evolved and is being extensively used in different aspects of human life and industry. Companies have begun using intelligent machines to mine data to optimize just about everything within their business operations. Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science that aims to create intelligent machines that work and react like humans. It is the broad term for any device that is capable of performing a task normally restricted to human intelligence. AI combines several disciplines such as computer science, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience. The concept underlying AI is to get a non-human entity to make decisions just as an intelligent human would. Artificial intelligence research is about the creation of computer systems capable of visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages. So many fields are using AI nowadays, from research and home automation to data processing and analysis. The technology is used to solve problems in many different ways and it is found in many types of systems such as household appliances, automobiles, financial systems, medical applications, and many other common tools. AI has undergone rapid development over the past decades, fueled by significant research and trail-blazing technological advancements. Nowadays, it is often used to make computer programs better than humans at perception and cognition tasks. AI technologies are on an exponential level of development and are becoming so advanced that it is entering nearly every field of modern life.

As many in the accessibility community will tell you, inclusive design isn't an endeavor that's "one and done." It's a continuous, ongoing effort to ensure that as new products and services are made, people with different needs or disabilities aren't left out. Over the last three years, Engadget has produced a report, in addition to our regular coverage, that looks back on the developments in the tech industry that impact the accessibility community, focusing on the largest companies like Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta. Of course, there are plenty of other big companies to consider, like Uber, Airbnb, Netflix and more. But the six we've selected have an outsized impact and influence on the industry..

Sanjib Chaudhary chanced upon StoryWeaver, a multilingual children's storytelling platform, while searching for books he could read to his 7-year-old daughter. Chaudhary's mother tongue is Kochila Tharu, a language with about 250,000 speakers in eastern Nepal. Languages with a relatively small number of speakers, like Kochila Tharu, do not have enough digitized material for linguistic communities to thrive--no Google Translate, no film or television subtitles, no online newspapers. In industry parlance, these languages are "underserved" and "underresourced." This is where StoryWeaver comes in.

Face filters and selfie apps are so compelling because they simulate limitless interest in what we look like. Last year ended with images flooding Instagram, Twitter and group chats -- pictures of us, but not exactly. They were products of an app called Lensa AI, which can apply machine-learning tools to scan your selfies and generate portraits of you in a variety of artistic styles. This sort of thing seems to bea semiannual trend: Every few months, an app emerges to collect photos of your face and manipulate your image, reflecting and refracting it back to you anew. There have been tools allowing you to apply virtual makeup to selfies, to apply "art filters" imitating famous paintings, to morph into an animal.

DALL-E 2 is artificial intelligence software that can turn anything you type into art, in any style. You want a portrait of a panda in the style of Renoir? Try this! Said one woman, "That is frightening and fascinating all at the same time!" I've even used it to illustrate "Sunday Morning" stories. DALL-E 2 and its rivals, like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, are available to anyone; they're inexpensive, or even free, to use.

Joel and Tess's hunt for a car battery puts them in the orbit of the Fireflies. Joel needs a car battery because he received a signal for help from his brother Tommy, who may be in Wyoming. This plot point, new for the show, gives Joel an initial motivation to leave Boston. Robert tries to fails to scam the Fireflies with the same car battery from before (which turns out to be broken) and he's killed for it. The Fireflies needed that car battery for their journey out of Boston.

The zombie apocalypse depicted in the popular video game series and newly adapted HBO series "The Last of Us" derives from a mutation to a type of fungus called cordyceps. Cordyceps is real, and some 600 variations of it can be found around the world, primarily in Southeast Asia.