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Today: Who Has That 'Presidential Look'? A Bank Scandal Does the Impossible.
Here are some story lines I don't want you to miss today. Donald Trump's defenders say he is an equal-opportunity offender, as likely to go after "low-energy" Jeb Bush or "little" Marco Rubio as "crooked" Hillary Clinton. His critics say, as he might put it, there's something going on with repeatedly criticizing Clinton for not looking presidential and calling into question her strength and stamina. And there was his primary season comment about playing "the woman's card." So what is going on with gender in the campaign?
Setting the course for driverless cars
President Obama doubled downon driverless cars this week, declaring that the federal government, not the states, should oversee the development of self-driving cars, trucks and buses. The president and Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said that autonomous vehicles are too valuable for public safely and technological innovation to slow down with state-by-state regulations, or lengthy rule-making processes. And besides, self-driving technology is already on the road. Witness Tesla's semi-autonomous system, autopilot, which the carmaker added to its electric-powered sedans WHEN??? The system allows the vehicle to steer itself, change lanes, adjust speed and even find a parking space and parallel park.
Are you %@* kidding about cursing in front of your kids?
To the editor: I first learned to use cuss words when I joined the U.S. Army at the age of 20. It was during bayonet training when I was forcefully admonished by my drill sergeant that I wasn't being hateful enough when I thrust my bayonet into what was supposed to be the enemy. He said, "You can't kill anyone unless you hate their guts." That is when I learned to say unprintable words with venom in my voice. It took a while for me to learn how to hate.
Wipro and Vectra Networks Partner to deliver Automated 'Threat Hunting as- a- Service'
Wipro will leverage the Vectra automated threat management platform built with artificial intelligence-based on machine learning and behavioral analytics to detect attacker behaviors and user anomalies in the network. According to Gartner, "most enterprises have limited capabilities to detect and respond to breaches when they inevitably occur, resulting in longer'dwell times' and increased damage." We believe organizations these days incur significant fines because they do not have adequate solutions to detect breaches or cannot contain them in a reasonable period. Gartner also says that by 2020, 60% of enterprise information security budgets will be allocated to rapid detection and response approaches -- up from less than 10% in 2014.1 As threats became more intelligent and sophisticated, traditional security solutions will become inadequate over time because they will continue to make snap judgments based on incomplete information. Wipro's'Threat Hunting as- a- Service' offering, powered by Vectra Networks, provides enterprises with an automated threat hunting platform for real-time detection of threats.
Cognitive Systems: Cutting-Edge Tools for Disaster Management
Time and again, we have seen and read about many natural disasters that have caused great havoc in the world, killing thousands of people and destroying properties and livelihood. Despite the fact that the human race has made tremendous technological progress in various fields, predicting and preventing natural disasters is one area where we haven't been able to surpass the supremacy of Nature. Despite the technological and scientific advancements in this field, and ground breaking developments in weather forecast techniques, disasters at many times cannot be accurately predicted. Dark days for India Any Indian won't easily forget the destruction caused by the tsunami in Southern India which was triggered by a major earthquake in 2004 and the back-to-back floods in Uttarakhand and Kashmir in 2013 and 2104 respectively. Damages of these floods ranged from 7 billion to 15 billion, impacting more than 2 million Indians.
Innovation, safety sought in self-driving car guidelines
Saying they were doing something no other government has done, Obama administration officials rolled out a plan Tuesday they say will enable automakers to get self-driving cars onto the road without compromising safety. In drawing up 112 pages of guidelines, the government tried to be vague enough to allow innovation while at the same time making sure that car makers, tech companies and ride-hailing firms put safety first as the cars are developed. Only time will tell whether the mission was accomplished, but the document generally was praised by businesses and analysts as good guidance in a field that's evolving faster than anyone imagined just a few years ago. "How do you regulate a complex software system?" asked Timothy Carone, a Notre Dame University professor who has written about the future of automation. "They want to allow innovation, but they want to be very proscriptive in managing the risk side of this. In my mind, they're trying to manage the unknown."
Tesla Crash Victim's Family Seeks Court Probe
SHANGHAI--A Chinese man whose son was killed while driving a Tesla Motors Inc. TSLA -0.82 % vehicle applied to a local Beijing court to investigate whether the car's Autopilot driving system was engaged. In January, 23-year-old Gao Yaning died in a crash in the northeastern province of Hebei while driving a Tesla Model S. Six months later his father, Gao Jubin, filed a lawsuit accusing Tesla of exaggerating Autopilot's capabilities. At a court hearing Tuesday, he asked for an independent investigation of the cause of the crash. "The family insists the investigation should be done by a third party, rather than Tesla," said Cui Qiuna, a lawyer for the Gao family. The court will study the family's request.
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Wells Fargo CEO testifies, GoPro announces new drone, fast-food chain antibiotics report, and LAUSD considers starting school later. Wells Fargo CEO testifies, GoPro announces new drone, fast-food chain antibiotics report, and LAUSD considers starting school later. Warning, this video contains graphic content: Tulsa police released several police car and helicopter videos Sunday after Terence Crutcher, an unarmed 40-year-old black man, was fatally shot by a white police officer on Friday. Warning, this video contains graphic content: Tulsa police released several police car and helicopter videos Sunday after Terence Crutcher, an unarmed 40-year-old black man, was fatally shot by a white police officer on Friday.
California's proposed DMV rules for driverless cars could change in the wake of federal guidelines
For California state officials, the new federal guidelines on testing and deployment of driverless cars come as a bit of a relief. Until this week, the absence of U.S. government guidance had left the state Department of Motor Vehicles -- generally in charge of registering vehicles and issuing drivers' licenses -- to take the lead role in drafting regulations to ensure the safety of self-driving vehicles. Though the federal guidelines issued Tuesday are short on specifics, the Department of Transportation will take responsibility for regulating the driving hardware and software, and it has devised a model state policy that probably will take the pressure off individual state agencies. That policy, issued jointly by the Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, could result in changes to current California draft regulations on autonomous vehicles. "You can imagine how the California DMV would be struggling, with no technological background or engineers at their disposal, trying to figure out whether a particular autonomous vehicle is or is not safe enough to be deployed," said Robert Peterson, a law professor at Santa Clara University.
Stocks creep higher as Federal Reserve meeting starts
U.S. stocks inched higher Tuesday in another cautious day of trading as investors kept an eye on central banks in the U.S. and Japan. Healthcare and household goods companies led the way, while energy companies slipped. Major market indexes were higher all day but returned most of those gains at the close of trading. They rose just enough to cancel out Monday's small losses. Drug companies helped healthcare stocks make modest gains, while Exxon Mobil fell on reports that it's being investigated by securities regulators.