Most mapping is done from the ground level, but Apple is taking to the air. According to a report from Bloomberg, the Cupertino company will utilize drones to improve its Maps service. According to the report, Apple is in the process of assembling a team of experts in the fields of robotics and data collection who will be tapped to lead the drone initiative. The group will use the unmanned aircrafts to capture landscape and road information from above. Apple plans to use the drones to pick up additional details like street signs.

Just Eat has today laid claim to delivering the first takeaway meal by autonomous robot. The online ordering company has been working with Starship Technologies since July, testing the latter's "last-mile" delivery robots in Greenwich, London. But these tamperproof, pavement-pounding boxes on wheels are now in active service in the area, after the first, apparently unknowing customer successfully received their falafel and lamb cutlets from a local Turkish eatery. While customers are not be able to actively choose robot as their preferred delivery option yet, Just Eat says Greenwich "will increasingly be serviced by the technology," ahead of plans to expand the rollout (no pun intended) to more parts of London next year. We're not sure Just Eat can really claim a world first here, though.

The autonomous vehicles could join the firm's fleet of mapping vans Drones would track road changes and send data to central team Maps service would then be updated as quickly as possible Apple also said to be introducing'indoor mapping view' for large buildings like airports and museums The autonomous vehicles could join the firm's fleet of mapping vans Apple also said to be introducing'indoor mapping view' for large buildings like airports and museums Apple plans to use drones to Seattle to improve its Maps service, according to new reports. This data would then be sent to Apple's navigation team so that user maps could be updated as quickly as possible. Just Eat completes the'world¿s first' takeaway delivery by... Sorry Simon: More young people are now watching Planet Earth... Would you live on this UFO-shaped houseboat? Futuristic... Death Valley's'secret' fossil canyon could finally be... Just Eat completes the'world¿s first' takeaway delivery by... Sorry Simon: More young people are now watching Planet Earth... Would you live on this UFO-shaped houseboat? Futuristic... Death Valley's'secret' fossil canyon could finally be... Augmented reality in Apple's camera could enrich a live view of a city street with a map for directions, facts about nearby buildings, or add an animated video game character to the scene.

Apple is putting a team together that will capture mapping data using drones to supplement its camera-equipped minivans, Bloomberg says. While its Maps app is no longer the butt of jokes, Apple reportedly wants to better the quality of Google Maps, an app that's still more widely used on all platforms. The team may use UAVs from companies like DJI and Aibotix to keep maps up-to-date with construction, new roads and other info. Apple is also trying to improve car and indoor navigation, according to unnamed company sources. The latter isn't too much of a surprise, as Apple recently bought an indoor tracking company called Indoor.io last year, and purchased WiFiSlam back in 2013.

Apple Maps has gotten much better since its 2012 launch, but it still isn't quite as built out as Google's rival Google Maps. According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple is said to be using the aerial robots as well as some indoor navigation tech to improve its app to better compete with Google. Apple, like Google and Microsoft's Bing, currently uses cars equipped with cameras and sensors to travel and record mapping data. By switching to drones the company could conceivably record this data faster and thus more quickly update and improve Maps. More specifically, Apple is said to want to use the drones to examine street signs, monitor road changes as well as see if areas are under construction, according to the report.

On a vast lot in Cupertino, California, Apple is building an immaculate world. Campus 2, the massive expansion of the tech giant's offices is a tremendous work of engineering, a planned facility dedicated to creating and sustaining the success of the most valuable company in the world. So what does it look like when a company tries to build a bridge to the future, within the constraints of the present? It looks like a massive, 20,000-car garage, covered in solar panels, that's what.

COLUMBUS, OHIO – A Somali-born student who carried out a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University might have been inspired by the Islamic State group and a former al-Qaida leader, investigators said Wednesday. Law enforcement officials said that it's too soon to say the rampage that hurt 11 people on Monday was terrorism. They said they aren't aware of any direct contact between the Islamic State group and the attacker, Ohio State student Abdul Razak Ali Artan. "We only believe he may have been inspired" by the group, said Angela Byers, the top FBI agent overseeing federal investigations in the southern half of Ohio. Artan also might have been influenced by Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric who took a leadership role in al-Qaida before being killed in a 2011 U.S. drone strike in Yemen, Byers said.

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Machine learning--the process by which computers can get better at performing tasks through exposure to data, rather than through explicit programming--requires massive computational power, the kind usually found in clusters of energy-guzzling, cloud-based computer servers outfitted with specialized processors. But an emerging trend promises to bring the power of machine learning to mobile devices that may lack or have only intermittent online connectivity. This will give rise to machines that sense, perceive, learn from, and respond to their environment and their users, enabling the emergence of new product categories, reshaping how businesses engage with customers, and transforming how work gets done across industries. Google has introduced language translation software, using small neural networks optimized for mobile phones, which can perform well without an Internet connection.1 Lenovo announced a mobile phone that uses multiple sensors, high-speed image processing hardware, and specialized Google software to support capabilities such as indoor wayfinding, precision measuring, and augmented reality even when offline.2 NVIDIA, a maker of graphics processing technology, introduced an embeddable module for computer vision applications in devices such as drones and autonomous vehicles that the company says consumes one-tenth the power of a competing offering.3 Qualcomm introduced a new processor and software platform that support machine learning tasks such as image classification, speech recognition, and anomaly detection without a connection to a network.4

Government agencies, airport operators and law enforcement agencies looking to ground drones can now put the flying devices in their crosshairs. A company called DroneShield has introduced a 13-pound, rifle-shaped jammer that it says can take down drones from a distance as far as 1.2 miles away. The DroneGun isn't meant for drone hobbyists or their vengeful neighbors. The company says it could thwart drones carrying explosives intended to carry out a civilian or military attack, or stop those that venture illegally into restricted airspace or onto prohibited property. The gun's effect is not exactly obvious.