Fox News Flash top headlines for Dec. 29 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com At least their house was clean. A North Carolina homeowner called police claiming an intruder was inside his house in the middle of the night, a published report said. The red-faced homeowners were a bit hasty in their assessment, however, when the suspected burglar turned out to be a rogue robot vacuum cleaner, USA Today reported.

Several police officers stormed into a home in North Carolina after the startled homeowners called to report an intruder in the middle of the night. The suspected burglar turned out to be a rogue robot vacuum cleaner. Over the holidays, Thomas Milam and his wife Elisa were watching a movie just after midnight when they heard a series of noises coming from downstairs. "We both were alarmed, we paused the movie and I had Elisa go to a safe place," Milam said in a notice shared by the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office. "I immediately grabbed my gun, went to Elisa and we stayed there silently waiting to see if we heard more noises. Someone was definitely downstairs rummaging through things, and it sounded close to us." Milam told his wife to call 911 and pointed his gun at the bedroom door.

To help you fine-tune your Google Cloud environment, we offer a family of'recommenders' that suggest ways to optimize how you configure your infrastructure and security settings. But unlike many other recommendation engines, which use policy-based rules, some Google Cloud recommenders use machine learning (ML) to generate their suggestions. In this blog post, we'll take a look at one of our recommendation engines, the Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) Recommender, and take you on a behind-the-scenes look at the ML that powers its functionality. IAM Recommender helps security professionals enforce the principle of least privilege by identifying and removing unwanted access to GCP resources. It does this by using machine learning to help determine what users actually need by analyzing their permission usage over a 90 day period.

On Articial Intelligence Day on 13 December 2017, 600 artificial intelligence experts and enthusiasts gathered in Dipoli, Aalto University's newly-renovated main building. The organiser, the new Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI established by Aalto University and the University of Helsinki, wished to promote matchmaking, information sharing and cross-border collaboration with the event. Representatives of over 180 companies were offered matchmaking opportunities during pitching, demo and poster sessions. One of the large Finnish companies present was Elisa, who's vice president in business development Kimmo Pentikäinen met up with Samuel Kaski, Professor at Aalto University and Head of FCAI, in the AI Day networking area. They discussed the needs of Elisa as an eager partner for research institutions.

Science-fiction film costume designers create sartorial future worlds and, if they get it right, can influence current trends along the way. Here, we ask a few forward-looking costume designers to describe their favorite piece from each of their current films and, interestingly, the choices were anything but outrageously fantastical -- they ranged from the lovely and nostalgic to the manly and the fussy. Luis Sequeira's favorite costume is Elisa's (Sally Hawkins) enchanting dream-sequence dress. Set against the film's lush, dark, moody world of the early '60s, the black-and-white dream sequence "is pure light and love," says Sequeira. "It was amazing to create something so opposite to the rest of the film."

"The Shape of Water" is a wonder to behold. Magical, thrilling and romantic to the core, a sensual and fantastical fairy tale with moral overtones, it's a film that plays by all the rules and none of them, going its own way with fierce abandon. More than that, "Shape of Water" is both grounded in the fertile soil of genre filmmaking and elevated to unexpected heights by the transcendent imagination of director and co-writer Guillermo del Toro. Del Toro works well in many genres, from horror to science fiction to gothic melodrama, but as 2006's brilliant "Pan's Labyrinth" made clear, his facility as modern cinema's most accomplished fantasy filmmaker trumps everything else. "Shape of Water," which took home the Golden Lion at Venice, is more than that film's equal, it echoes its legendary predecessor, Jean Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast," in its ability to simultaneously call forth a spectacular imaginary world and make it heartbreakingly believable.

Too often, machine learning requires a massive investment of time and terabytes of data before it can deliver meaningful insights. But that doesn't have to be the case. A well-configured machine learning analytics tool can rapidly provide initial results -- a key advantage for developers who can then start using those results to create value. To understand this dynamic, companies have to start taking a data approach that embraces the fact that what is driving companies in today's connected world is not data, but insight. And the volume of data being created in today's connected world is not just what powers this insight…but also blocks you from finding it.

"I don't know how much longer I can take this.", Elisa would have muttered those words only to herself were it not for her virtual buddy, Peter. Peter was her tag along. Everywhere she went, she made sure Peter followed. Elisa found Peter many months earlier while rummaging through an old, long abandoned robotics workshop. Elisa was a clever and brilliant woman, so it was only a matter of short time before she had figured out how to activate Peter through the embedded controls of the otherwise ordinary pair of glasses. Peter was an artificial intelligence whose only visible body was that of the glasses that were now a semi-permanent fixture settled on the bridge of Elisa's nose. Peter responded to her complaint through the tiny ear wire that was bent in place around her ear from the back of her computerized spectacles, "I assume you are referring to the heat.". It paused for a moment before continuing, "Your vitals show the onset of heat exhaustion. You need to take a break, Elisa". Elisa wiped her quivering hand across the slick, damp surface of her heated forehead. Beads of sweat raced down the sides of her face and across the wetlands of her body. The sun was scorching, mocking her as its relentless onslaught of ultra-violet rays bombarded her.