A Justice Ministry statement said Wednesday that after an almost yearlong investigation the State Attorney's office summoned top Aeronautics Ltd. officials, including its chief executive, for a hearing pending indictment.

International Business Machines Corp. ( IBM) has filed for a patent with the U.S. Patent Office for "coffee-delivery drones" that are also capable of predicting when an individual will need a drink and how it should be made. The patent titled "Drone delivery of coffee based on a cognitive state of an individual" lists the possibility of harnessing the combination of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) with biometric readings of an individual to deliver the best possible preparation of the necessary beverage.

Drones have been a part of the modern lifestyle for a while now and are commonly used for aerial photography for sports and other events professionally. With the rise of lightweight and hence portable drones that come with cameras in the market, these gadgets have gained popularity for personal use as well. While anyone can buy and work with drones, using them in cities and certain areas may need discretion. As our government prepares to allow remotely flying vehicles from December, 2018; check out these brands that you can purchase drones from- Image source: www.dji.com DJI Mavic Air is loved for amazing portability, with its fold-able body that you can carry for your trekking and hiking trip to the mountains.

The huge fire that gutted a historic Building in Belfast city centre has been filmed from the air.

How much time did you spend looking at your smartphone this weekend? In fact, recent research found that our constant smartphone use is having an effect on our kids. Don't worry because this roundup of last week's tech news will get you all caught up with plenty of time left to get outside and enjoy the summer sun. Your children will thank you for reading it. This week, we're talking about the latest round of fake accounts banned from Facebook (and what you can do about them), our increasingly complicated relationship with digital assistants, and whether or not ergonomic gadgets can actually fix the damage from years of sitting and staring at screens.

Your next barista could be a coffee-delivering drone. IBM has filed a patent for an unmanned aerial vehicle that's capable of dropping off a cup of coffee to employees or café customers before they even ask for one. The drone would use sensors to determine when someone wants a drink, by looking for specific hand gestures, or by assessing their'pre-determined cognitive state.' IBM has filed a patent for an unmanned aerial vehicle that's capable of dropping off a cup of coffee to employees or café customers before they even ask for one It would then fly over to the person, with the drink attached to the device via a drink holder, such as a plastic bag, and deliver the coffee. In one example, coffee is shown as being dispensed directly from the drone and into a person's mug.

Autonomous aerial cinematography has the potential to enable automatic capture of aesthetically pleasing videos without requiring human intervention, empowering individuals with the capability of high-end film studios. Current approaches either only handle off-line trajectory generation, or offer strategies that reason over short time horizons and simplistic representations for obstacles, which result in jerky movement and low real-life applicability. In this work we develop a method for aerial filming that is able to trade off shot smoothness, occlusion, and cinematography guidelines in a principled manner, even under noisy actor predictions. We present a novel algorithm for real-time covariant gradient descent that we use to efficiently find the desired trajectories by optimizing a set of cost functions. Experimental results show that our approach creates attractive shots, avoiding obstacles and occlusion 65 times over 1.25 hours of flight time, re-planning at 5 Hz with a 10 s time horizon. We robustly film human actors, cars and bicycles performing different motion among obstacles, using various shot types.

By rendering artificial cognition to computers, AI has broadened the scope of application for machines. Machines are, as a result, not only performing tasks, they're making decisions. Applications like data aggregation from nation-wide databases, practice tools for training troops, bioinformatics, and the security options that AI technology offers can be optimized with these intelligent computers. It is due to this competency the technology offers, that scientists have started applying AI in the defense sector to make up for the limitations that humans have. With giant leaps in the domains of AI and robotics, drones, robots, and intensive hacking systems for a country's defense are no longer limited to sci-fi movies.

The leader of an ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan who was responsible for a spate of recent bombings that left hundreds of civilians dead was killed in an American drone strike, U.S. officials told Fox News on Sunday. The deputy spokesperson for Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani announced the death of ISIS-K leader, Abu Sayeed Orakzai, a U.S. military spokesman said. Next weekend, a new U.S. military commander will be taking over in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. Scott Miller, the former head of Joint Special Operations Command which oversees the elite commando units Delta Force, SEAL Team 6 and the 75th Ranger Regiment. The U.S. military has doubled its air strikes in Afghanistan over the past year and increased them fivefold over 2016 levels.

Very rare drone footage from Amazonas, Brazil shows members of a tribe walking through their jungle camp. Remarkable drone footage offers a rare glimpse of an isolated tribe in the Brazilian Amazon. In the 51-second clip released by FUNAI, the Brazilian government's Indian Affairs department, tribespeople are shown moving through a deforested area in the jungle and one tribe member appears to be carrying a bow and arrow. The agency said it captured the drone shots during an expedition last year to monitor isolated communities, but only released them on Tuesday to protect their study. FUNAI also released still images showing the tribespeople's existence in the remote region.