Investigators hunting for debris from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are about to be joined by a mechanical teammate. In the Australian Transport Safety Bureau's weekly operational update on the MH370 search released Wednesday, officials revealed they were installing a robot on one of the two vessels scanning the ocean floor for wreckage. The Associated Press called it a "drone." The Dong Hai Jiu 101 was in Fremantle this week being set up with the Remora III, a remotely operated vehicle with video cameras and high-tech sensors. Its mission is to "reacquire and investigate, through video imaging, a range of sonar contacts which have been identified during previous deep tow operations," according to the bureau.

There would always be a first death in a driverless car and it happened in May 2016. Joshua Brown had engaged the autopilot system in his Tesla when a tractor-trailor drove across the road in front of him. It seems that neither he nor the sensors in the autopilot noticed the white-sided truck against a brightly lit sky, with tragic results. Of course many people die in car crashes every day – in the USA there is one fatality every 94 million miles, and according to Tesla this was the first known fatality in over 130 million miles of driving with activated autopilot. In fact, given that most road fatalities are the result of human error, it has been said that autonomous cars should make travelling safer.

The research distinguishes between using face recognition to check the ID of someone being legally held and scans of people walking by surveillance cameras. New research shines a light on US law enforcement's unchecked use of surveillance cameras and facial recognition to scan the public. One in two US adults are now in a law-enforcement face-recognition database of some description, according to a new report by Georgetown University's Law Center on Privacy & Technology. The report, entitled'The Perpetual Line-up: Unregulated police face recognition in America' estimates that law-enforcement facial-recognition systems now have information on 117 million US adults. As the report notes, facial recognition is a mature technology and is used legitimately to combat serious and violent crimes.

Medical imaging leaders are facing a number of challenges in the ongoing transformation of care delivery, yet many of the key market forces that are changing the field also are pushing imaging toward innovation, according to many imaging informatics leaders at a recent conference in New York City. At a conference focused on driving innovation in imaging, leading radiologists and imaging informaticists shared their perspectives on the future of medical imaging and the role that imaging plays in the transition to value-based care and population health initiatives. The event was sponsored by New York City-based Ambra Health, formerly DICOM Grid, a medical data and image management company. There are key industry forces pushing radiology to innovate, notably care delivery transformation, imaging consumerism and the overall growth outlook for the radiology field, Lea Halim, senior consultant at Washington, D.C.-based The Advisory Board's Research and Insights division, said. Halim also said there are industry and economic trends impacting the growth outlook for imaging.

It is Thursday, Oct. 20. Disney and Dole Food Co. are partnering to get kids to eat their fruits and vegetables. California's proposed rules for self-driving vehicles are getting pushback from vehicle makers and industry groups that fear the regulations could slow development of the technology and conflict with more flexible federal rules. Has homelessness in Los Angeles gotten bad enough that Angelenos will be willing to tax themselves in order to help others? Proposition HHH asks voters to authorize 1.2 billion in borrowing to build housing with on-site clinical services.

Why is this ad appearing on this site? This was a frequent questions both advertisers and publishers asked of Google. Behind the scenes, machine learning models match the best ad to the best website, given a set of constraints including budget and the dynamics of the ad auction. To untangle the decision chain across the many different targeting systems to answer the question is a knotty task indeed. In March, the head of Google research Peter Norvig spoke at MIT.

On Oct. 13, 2016, the White House hosted the "White House Frontiers Conference" (#WHFrontiers) on the #FutureofAI. The White House had also released two reports on artificial intelligence ("AI") the previous day: (1) Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence on the current state of AI, the existing and potential applications of AI, and the societal and public policy questions relevant to AI, and (2) The National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan for Federally-funded research and development in AI. As stated in the Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence report, "Future AI systems could perform predictive analytics to anticipate cyberattacks by generating dynamic threat models from available data sources that are voluminous, ever-changing, and often incomplete." To this end, a representative from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) at the #WHFrontiers conference highlighted the "promise of artificial intelligence" in view of the recent Cyber Grand Challenge. The DARPA representative stated that, with artificial intelligence, cyber-attacks could be addressed in minutes and not hours, days, or months.

As one of the most in-demand voice-over actors in Hollywood, Phil LaMarr has worked on a slew of prominent video games, including the "Metal Gear" and "Star Wars" series, last year's "Mortal Kombat X" and the "Injustice" superhero games. The former "MADtv" cast member has experienced some of the physical perils that come with this burgeoning segment of the acting profession. He once worked on a "Terminator 3" game where he was required to shout and scream, and "threw my voice out in under 30 minutes," LaMarr recalled. More recently, he performed a motion-capture role on a game in which he was asked to dangle from a scaffolding. The production, which he declined to name, lacked a stunt coordinator who could ensure his safety.

This is the fourth installment in a series that aims to explain and peer inside the black-box algorithms that increasingly dominate our lives. Early computers were mostly just big calculators, helping us process large numbers. Now, however, computers are so powerful that they are learning how to make decisions on their own in the rapidly growing field of artificial intelligence. But AI-enabled machines are only as smart as the knowledge they have been fed. Microsoft learned that lesson the hard way earlier this year when it released an AI Twitter bot called Tay that had been trained to talk like a Millennial teen.

Donald Trump refused to guarantee that he would accept the result of the US election if he loses, in a fiery third and final presidential debate in which Hillary Clinton accused her Republican rival of being a "puppet" of Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to a YouGov poll, 49 per cent of respondents said Mrs Clinton won the debate, while 39 per cent thought Mr Trump the victor. Here is what FT readers thought. Airbnb faces fight for survival in NYC Governor Andrew Cuomo is preparing to sign a bill that would in effect end the home-sharing company's business in New York City. The San Francisco-based company has waged a last-minute campaign to thwart the law, which would impose fines of up to 7,500 on any host who advertised short-term accommodation through Airbnb.