In hacker spaces and at their homes, creative protesters are laser-cutting and 3D-printing tools to resist an occupation. As the US government's immigration crackdown expands across the country, anxious residents have mobilized to look out for each other. One way they're doing that is by finding ways to build the tools they need to be resilient against the surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents empowered to kill with impunity . All over the country, makers are 3D-printing thousands of whistles to help people on the ground alert others to nearby ICE activity. But the whistles are far from the only tools being used to respond to the surge of federal agents.

In media news today, NBC fact-checks Anthony Fauci's COVID superspreader comments, Jon Stewart says the media is making a'mistake' casting Trump as a'supervillain,' and CNN's Brian Stelter frets that Katie Couric's editing scandal further damages the media's reputation Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., told Axios that he favored cognitive tests for aging government leaders in order to make sure their ability to serve the American people remained intact. On Sunday's "Axios on HBO," Cassidy cited past U.S. Senators he said were senile by the end of their times in office to argue a cognitive test applying across all three branches of government would be "a reasonable plan." "The Speaker of the House is 81. Wisdom comes with age, but the science is also clear that we aren't who we were, that we do lose things with age. As a medical professional, is that something we should be thinking about?"

AWS is pleased to announce a new feature in Amazon Polly called Brand Voice, a capability in which you can work with the Amazon Polly team of AI research scientists and linguists to build an exclusive, high-quality, Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voice that represents your brand's persona. Brand Voice allows you to differentiate your brand by incorporating a unique vocal identity into your products and services. Amazon Polly has been working with Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Canada and National Australia Bank (NAB) to create two unique Brand Voices, using the same deep learning technology that powers the voice of Alexa. The Amazon Polly team has built a voice for KFC Canada in a Southern US English accent for the iconic Colonel Sanders to voice KFC's latest Alexa skill. The voice-activated skill available through any Alexa-enabled Amazon device allows KFC lovers in Canada to chat all things chicken with Colonel Sanders himself, including re-ordering their favorite KFC.

Making liquid biopsy and artificial intelligence technologies work together could help doctors make faster decisions to treat cancer on time. Philip talked to the CEO of Cambridge Cancer Genomics to find out what this approach can mean for the treatment of cancer. Although much progress has been made in recent years, cancer remains one of the most dreaded diagnosis. For many types of cancer, current treatment options only alleviate symptoms or stop working after a while, only delaying the inevitable for a few months. One of the biggest challenges to treating cancer is its ability to rapidly mutate.

Reuters is building an AI tool to help journalists analyse data, suggest story ideas, and even write some sentences, aiming not to replace reporters but instead augment them with a digital data scientist-cum-copywriting assistant. Called Lynx Insight, it has been trialled by dozens of journalists since the summer, and will now be rolled out across Reuters newsrooms. Reg Chua, executive editor of editorial operations, data and innovation at Reuters, says the aim is to divvy up editorial work into what machines do best (such as chew through data and spot patterns), and what human editorial staff excel at (such as asking questions, judging importance, understanding context and -- presumably -- drinking excessive amounts of coffee). That differs from previous editorial tech efforts that sought to train AI to write entire stories, such as snippets about local sports teams or earthquake warnings. Reuters already tried that with financial stories, and that work has "informed" the new aim to build a "cybernetic newsroom", rather than a fully automated one, says Chua. "The real value is using machines to do what they're good at and then presenting that to humans -- that's the best of both worlds."

While there are many parts of a marketer's job that can be automated, content creation is not one of them. Still, there are aspects of the content workflow that technology can augment and strengthen. Peter Cassidy, founder and chief product officer of social media content aggregation platform Stackla, spoke with eMarketer's Maria Minsker about the role machine learning will play in the future of content marketing. Peter Cassidy: The biggest challenge is the lack of content to fuel the technology investments that companies have made, which makes it difficult for them to see a return on those investments. For example, marketers are investing in web personalization technology to tell a targeted story to every individual customer, but they don't have the volume of content needed to make that personalization worthwhile.