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White House correspondent Peter Doocy reports on how the White House push for Ukraine spending may be jeopardized after McCarthy ouster on'Special Report.' Russian military officials claim they fended off a massive Ukrainian drone attack overnight Wednesday, which would be the largest single cross-border drone assault reported by Moscow since it first invaded Ukraine 20 months ago. The Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday its national air defenses shot down 31 Ukrainian drones launched by Kyiv's forces on border regions, but there were no immediate reports of any damage or casualties. The Russian Defense Ministry didn't provide any evidence for its claims about intercepting Ukrainian drones nor any details about any damage or casualties. Moscow also said Russian aircraft thwarted a Ukrainian attempt to deploy soldiers on Russian-annexed Crimea.

For all the focus manufacturers have been placing on digitisation, and especially on intelligent automation technologies, AI has yet to have a significant impact on the factory floor. This is about to change, believes Harald Bauer of McKinsey. "Until now, AI has been applied in a few niche areas by some, though by no means all, manufacturers," he says. "The enablers are in place, however, to allow more manufacturers to apply AI in a wide range of uses, and at scale." These enablers include high existing levels of digitisation and automation, the availability of voluminous data and access to the enormous computing power existing in the cloud.

Parameter identification and comparison of dynamical systems is a challenging task in many fields. Bayesian approaches based on Gaussian process regression over time-series data have been successfully applied to infer the parameters of a dynamical system without explicitly solving it. While the benefits in computational cost are well established, a rigorous mathematical framework has been missing. We offer a novel interpretation which leads to a better understanding and improvements in state-of-the-art performance in terms of accuracy for nonlinear dynamical systems.

Watching a tarantula move can make a person's skin crawl -- especially when the arachnid is crawling out of its own skin. More accurately, tarantulas have what's known as an exoskeleton, the stiff outer structure housing the spider's internal organs similar to how human skin protects internal organs. To grow larger, tarantulas must form a new exoskeleton and shed their previous, smaller coverings in a process called molting. This time-lapse video shows a female Mexican Red Knee tarantula molting, an event that takes more than three hours but that is compressed here into a minute. To wriggle out of its old exoskeleton, the spider lies on its side and slowly pulls out its legs, like someone peeling off a tight pair of jeans.

The internet of things, artificial intelligence, networked production, smart homes - these are the magic words of digital transformation. While the big technology companies are already equipping their products and production with artificial intelligence - all parts of the chain of values added are to supply data in the future -, German medium-sized companies are not succumbing to its spell. Scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) help companies implement Industry 4.0. Most of the small and medium-sized companies consider the increasing use of digital technology an opportunity, but where to start? According to a survey of Germany's digital association Bitcom, 90% of the small and medium-sized companies consider digital transformation an opportunity.

Machine learning is cresting the fresh wave of 2017 HR trends. Gartner research predicts algorithms will positively alter the behavior of over one billion global workers by 2020, while over 3 million people can look forward to "roboboss" supervisors. Yvonne Bauer, Head of Predictive Analytics at SAP SuccessFactors, sees machine learning becoming more widespread this year as part of HR's steady progression from art to data-driven science. "More companies will look into machine learning, moving from individual projects to actual products built into HCM suites," she said. "Conversational interfaces like chat bots and natural language processing will emerge this year, allowing companies to change how workers interact with the system and derive insights from those activities, including what people are working on and how engaged they are."

Machine learning is cresting the fresh wave of 2017 HR trends. Gartner research predicts algorithms will positively alter the behavior of over one billion global workers by 2020, while over 3 million people can look forward to "roboboss" supervisors. Yvonne Bauer, Head of Predictive Analytics at SAP SuccessFactors, sees machine learning becoming more widespread this year as part of HR's steady progression from art to data-driven science. "More companies will look into machine learning, moving from individual projects to actual products built into HCM suites," she said. "Conversational interfaces like chat bots and natural language processing will emerge this year, allowing companies to change how workers interact with the system and derive insights from those activities, including what people are working on and how engaged they are."

The year Jojo and I started eighth grade, the power plant officially cut electricity to two hours a day. We'd already been through years of brownouts, of flickering lights, blinking monitors, older ag drones without artificial neural networks rebooting in their stations and randomly launching to spray the fields again or overfeed the chickens. So when Public Works & Electric issued a message to all our devices telling us about its irregular hours of operation, no one was surprised. The message was full of obfuscating language, but anyone with a tide chart could spot the correlation. Anyone driving down the causeway to the airport, past the power plant, could see through its chain-link fence the turbines standing silent, tense as raised shoulders; the grounds swamped in seawater, the ebbing tide dragging out an iridescent Rorschach of petroleum.

Dr. Scot Refsland didn't know he was standing on hallowed ground in the aviation world. He was just looking for a scenic backdrop (and more importantly a legal area) to hold the U.S. National Drone Racing Championships in New York City. His journey eventually took him to the picnic point on Governors Island, with the Statue of Liberty to the left and the Manhattan skyline to the right, painting a picture-perfect postcard of the city. The National Drone Racing Championships were held on Governors Island in New York City the first weekend of August as the best pilots in the country dueled for the right to represent Team USA in the world championships in Hawaii this October. What Refsland didn't know at the time was that this was the same location where Wilbur Wright (of Wright brothers fame) built the first aerial canoe in 1909.