Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A Star Wars-obsessed man who was encouraged by a chatbot "girlfriend" to slay Queen Elizabeth II was sentenced Thursday to nine years in prison for taking his plot to Windsor Castle, where he scaled the walls and was caught with a loaded crossbow on Christmas Day 2021. "I'm here to kill the queen," Jaswant Singh Chail, wearing a metal mask inspired by the dark force in the Star Wars movies, declared when he was encountered by a guard on the grounds of the castle in the early morning, according to the court. He then dropped the weapon and surrendered, and repeated his intent.

This week, David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon discuss Trump's announcement he expects to be arrested; what ChatGPT means for the world; and interview Rachel Donadio, contributing writer for The Atlantic, about the unrest in France. Here are some notes and references from this week's show: Rachel Donadio for The New York Times: "Macron May Keep the Presidency, But Le Pen Has Already Won" Here are this week's chatters: David: Blue Collar Cats; Andrea Sachs for The Washington Post: "'These Are Working Cats': Meet The Feral D.C. Felines Tasked With Hunting Rodents" Listener chatter from Alexandra Phelps: Kavitha Surana for ProPublica: "Doctors Warned Her Pregnancy Could Kill Her. For this week's Slate Plus bonus segment David, John, and Emily discuss how Iowa became so conservative.

AI took center stage in recently-announced updates to the Alexa virtual voice assistant, and in the charges this week from the European Commission that Amazon is breaking EU competition rules. During Amazon's Alexa Live event held in July, the company announced a major update to Alexa's developer toolkit that brings AI improvements. Since launching in 2014, Amazon's voice assistant has shipped hundreds of millions of units, which are targeted by a sizable developer community offering voice apps, called Skills, that extend the Alexa default feature set. Just as the Android and iOS large selections of third party applications differentiate those operating systems, so Skill plays an important role in Amazon's growth strategy for Alexa, according to a recent account in siliconAngle. Amazon added deep learning models for natural language understanding that the company said will enable Skills to recognize users' voice commands with 15% higher accuracy on average.

Autonomous vehicle design involves an almost incomprehensible combination of engineering tasks including sensor fusion, path planning, and predictive modeling of human behavior. But despite the best efforts to consider all possible real world outcomes, things can go awry. More than two and a half years ago, in Tempe, Arizona, an Uber "self-driving" car crashed into pedestrian Elaine Herzberg, killing her. In mid-September, the safety driver behind the wheel of that car, Rafaela Vasquez, was charged with negligent homicide. Uber's test vehicle was driving 39 mph when it struck Herzberg. Uber's sensors detected her six seconds before impact but determined that the object sensed was a false positive.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said in a recent annual report that drones are not often used to smuggle drugs from Mexico because they can only carry small loads, though it said they may become more common. In 2015, two people pleaded guilty to dropping 28 pounds (62 kilograms) of heroin from a drone in the border town of Calexico, California. That same year, Border Patrol agents in San Luis, Arizona, spotted a drone dropping bundles with 30 pounds (66 kilograms) of marijuana.

Listen in to this special episode of Charged Up!, taken from a live Facebook broadcast with Jason Schenker, who Bloomberg ranks as the world's foremost financial futurist. In this episode, we talk about Schenker's predictions, laid out in his 2017 book "Jobs for Robots: Between Robocalypse and Robotopia," and how the robot revolution will affect our jobs, our pay and our career prospects. Schenker talks about three industry sectors that are safest from being taken over by technology, what students should study if they're entering school now and what kind of skills will protect you from losing out to robots. So, get Charged Up! about learning how to survive the robot revolution! Jason Schenker: Thank you very much, Jenny. It's a real pleasure to be here. Hoff: So, we're going to talk today about your book, "Jobs for Robots" and this is a live broadcast on Facebook so we're also going to be taking questions from our listeners which I will then later translate for the podcast so we make sure that everybody can hear the questions. But first I want to talk a little bit about how did you get into being a futurist and then where did the interest in robots come from? Schenker: Sure, the most important thing is as a futurist there's three components to it: You're part historian because you need the historical perspective of where we've been.

Cleaning and preparing data is a critical first step in any machine learning project. In this blog post, Dataquest student Daniel Osei's takes us through examining a dataset, selecting columns for features, exploring the data visually and then encoding the features for machine learning. This post is based on a Dataquest'Monthly Challenge', where our students are given a free-form task to complete. After first reading about Machine Learning on Quora in 2015, Daniel became excited at the prospect of an area that could combine his love of Mathematics and Programming. After reading this article on how to learn data science, Daniel started following the steps, eventually joining Dataquest to learn Data Science with us in in April 2016. We'd like to thank Daniel for his hard work, and generously letting us publish this post.