Belleville, New Jersey mayor Michael Melham joins'Fox News Live' to discuss growing concern over mysterious drone sightings. Two Massachusetts men who flew a drone "dangerously close" to Logan International Airport in Boston are facing charges, police say. Robert Duffy, 42, of Boston's Charlestown neighborhood and Jeremy Folcik, 32, of Bridgewater were taken into custody late Saturday night on Long Island, which is located on the approach to the airport, according to the Boston Police Department. "The incident began earlier that evening, at 4:30 PM, when a Boston Police Officer specializing in real-time crime surveillance detected an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) operating dangerously close to Logan International Airport," police said in a statement. "Leveraging advanced UAS monitoring technology, the Officer identified the drone's location, altitude, flight history, and the operators' position on Long Island."

Using artificial intelligence and archival news articles, a teenager in Northern Virginia created a program to measure media biases – and in researching older news articles, she found that Black homicide victims were less likely to be humanized in news coverage. Emily Ocasio, an 18-year-old from Falls Church, Virginia, created an AI program that analyzed FBI homicide records between 1976 and 1984 and their corresponding coverage published in The Boston Globe to determine whether victims were presented in a humanizing or impersonal way. After analyzing 5,042 entries, the results showed that Black men under the age of 18 were 30% less likely to receive humanizing coverage than their White counterparts, Ocasio told CNN. Black women were 23% less likely to be humanized in news stories, Ocasio added. A news article was considered humanizing when it mentioned additional information about the victim and presented them "as a person, not just a statistic," Ocasio said in her project presentation.

For-profit companies have long sought to tap into the fears of consumers, offering pricey medical scans they can access without a doctor's recommendation, as long as they can pay the price out of pocket. Now, some of these ventures are trumpeting scans assisted by artificial intelligence, essentially cutting-edge computer technology they say can reveal hidden health problems, from cancer to obscure bone disorders, and analyze the results more quickly than those typically ordered by doctors. Researchers say artificial intelligence, known as AI, holds the promise of more precise diagnosis and also the ability to shorten waiting times for results. But are these new body scans for the "worried well" surging ahead of the current science on artificial intelligence? As the debate heats up, a California-based company is planning to open in Massachusetts.

A doctor can't tell if somebody is Black, Asian, or white, just by looking at their X-rays. The study found that an artificial intelligence program trained to read X-rays and CT scans could predict a person's race with 90 percent accuracy. But the scientists who conducted the study say they have no idea how the computer figures it out. "When my graduate students showed me some of the results that were in this paper, I actually thought it must be a mistake," said Marzyeh Ghassemi, an MIT assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and coauthor of the paper, which was published Wednesday in the medical journal The Lancet Digital Health. "I honestly thought my students were crazy when they told me."

Ryan Murphy has produced a six-part documentary series about Andy Warhol that premieres on Netflix on March 9. If you're interested in art, culture, or the American temperament, you'll probably find something in "The Andy Warhol Diaries," which is directed by Andrew Rossi. Among those interviewed: John Waters, Spike Lee, Rob Lowe, Julian Schnabel, and Debbie Harry. The series has constructed Warhol's voice with the help of artificial intelligence, and we will hear that voice reading passages from his diaries. Beginning in 1976 until days before his death in 1987, Warhol dictated his diary entries on the phone to journalist Pat Hackett, and they were published in 1989.

Cambridge startup AdeptID, formed last year to build an AI-backed talent-matching service for companies, announced a seed funding round on Thursday. The eight-person company raised $3.5 million in a deal led by Zeal Capital Partners and including Better Ventures, Boston nonprofit JFF's Employment Technology Fund, and other angel investors. AdeptID's software is designed to help companies find workers who have the proper skills for a job opening even if they lack the seemingly required experience or credentials, such as a college degree. Cofounders Fernando Rodriguez-Villa and Brian DeAngelis met at agriculture tech startup Indigo Ag, which acquired Rodriguez-Villa's previous startup, TellusLabs, in 2018. The pair both "had enough of a screw loose required to go and start something new," Rodriguez-Villa, now CEO of AdeptID, said.

The British grading algorithm fit a familiar pattern. Details of these algorithms are rarely made transparent to the public, even to so-called experts. These systems are routinely protected from scrutiny by claims of corporate secrecy and decisions by governments and institutions that limit access and transparency. What is known about them is often what's written by marketing departments and public relations representatives, presented to the public without evidence or verification. In Britain, government officials said the grading algorithm "was meant to make the system more fair," a line that makes good PR but gives us zero information about the suitability of the system for its task, nor even the definition of "fairness" they might be relying on.

As someone educated in science and engineering, I've always considered the pursuit of new technologies a higher calling. As someone raised Roman Catholic, I also tend to pay attention when another high call comes in -- like from the Vatican. Last year, the Vatican reached out to our company, IBM. Pope Francis was worried about technology's effects on society and families around the world and its potential to widen the gap between the rich and poor. How could the world harness AI for the greater good while reducing its potential to be a force for evil? The leader of the world's 1.3 billion Roman Catholics had directed his Pontifical Academy of Life to study the problem.

There's a new robot in the legion of automatons designed to change how restaurants prepare food. Cambridge-based Dexai Robotics on Thursday introduced a mechanized kitchen assistant, named "Alfred," that's intended to work in existing kitchens by using everyday utensils to assemble dishes. Its creators hope restaurants will see the product as an appliance that can help assemble meals like salads and poke bowls while reducing the need for humans to do repetitive tasks such as gather ingredients. Another startup, Spyce Food Co., has a restaurant in Downtown Crossing (currently closed for renovations) in which a wall-size apparatus prepares bowls of hot food, nearly from scratch. Dexai is going for a different market.

In 2018, Google unveiled Duplex, an artificial intelligence-powered assistant that sounds eerily human-like, complete with'umms' and'ahs' that are designed to make the conversation more natural. The demo had Duplex call a salon to schedule a haircut and then call a restaurant to make a reservation. As Google's CEO Sundar Pichai demonstrated, the system at Google's I/O (input/output) developer conference, the crowd cheered, hailing the technological achievement. Indeed, this represented a big leap toward developing AI voice assistants that can pass the "Turing Test," which requires machines to be able to hold conversations while being completely indistinguishable from humans. But not everyone was so enthusiastic.