When survivors from January's wildfires in Los Angeles County apply to rebuild their homes, their first interaction might be with a robot. Artificial intelligence will aid city and county building officials in reviewing permit requests, an effort to speed up a process already being criticized as too slow. "The current pace of issuing permits locally is not meeting the magnitude of the challenge we face," Gov. Gavin Newsom said when announcing the AI deal in late April. Some 13,000 homes were lost or severely damaged in the Eaton and Palisades fires, and many families are eager to return as fast as they can. Just eight days after the fire began and while it was still burning, the city received its first home rebuilding application in Pacific Palisades.

Celebrity matchmaker Alessandra Conti told Fox News Digital that Garner and Affleck are incredible co-parents. Gwyneth Paltrow and Nikki Glaser are spilling the tea when it comes to their connections to Ben Affleck. During a recent episode of Paltrow's "Goop Podcast," the duo openly discussed Glaser's past history of using Raya, an exclusive dating app. While discussing her 2025 Golden Globe Awards opening monologue in which she joked about Affleck yelling the titles of movies "after he orgasms," Glaser said, "When I used to be on Raya and [Ben] would come across, [I would give him a] very concentrated check mark'yes' and, like, never [got] it back." GWYNETH PALTROW SAYS BEN AFFLECK WAS'EXCELLENT' IN BED COMPARED TO BRAD PITT Nikki Glaser told Gwyneth Paltrow she once tried to hook up with the actress' ex, Ben Affleck.

Earlier this year, two Berkut 540 aircraft -- codenamed Red 1 and Red 2 -- raced down the runway of Santa Monica Airport and climbed into the California skies. As the two planes flew over Ventura County, a KC-46 Pegasus Tanker came into the pilots' view. The tanker flew adjacent to Red 1, and the pilot navigated into position so the KC-46 could refuel the aircraft while Red 2 observed. However, anyone looking up from the ground would have only seen two planes in the sky. The third plane that "refueled" Red 1 wasn't real -- it was generated using augmented reality.

Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what's clicking today in entertainment. Even Drew Barrymore struggles in the dating world. The 45-year-old star welcomed comedian Nikki Glaser on her talk show on Monday and they talked about dating, which the actress said is "one of my favorite subjects ever to dissect." The two first chatted about dating apps, and Glaser explained that "guys do not come across great on dating apps."

These are tricky topics to navigate but ones which many journalists are increasingly grappling with as tech stories become more mainstream. There have been some teething issues though. The classic example in 2015 was when NPR mapped the most common job in every US state using data derived from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Truck drivers dominated the map. The issue is in the nuance of what'truck driver' means; the category includes anything from delivery drivers to those driving 16-wheel lorries.

If you remember being online in the late 1990s, then you recall when playing a video in those pre-YouTube days. Cut to today, and Real, which has been relatively quiet over the last decade, is back with what it says is its latest video viewing innovation: a facial recognition tool that can identity well-known people who appear in a video. This time around, the tool is via an extension for the Chrome browser, and a new updated media player, Real 20/20. The extension is available for Windows and Apple computers, but the player is Windows only. The extension, "StarSearch by Real," identifies celebrities streaming on YouTube and Netflix.

From developing drug treatments to predicting the next hotspot, artificial intelligence may help researchers, healthcare workers, and everyday people offset the impact of the coronavirus. As the worldwide fight against coronavirus COVID-19 continues, companies and governments around the world are pulling out all the stops in an effort to stave off the pandemic's worst impacts. One tool in that toolbox that might prove particularly useful is artificial intelligence (AI). Even though AI has been around since the 1960s, it's only been in the past few years that its adoption outside of science labs and research institutions has really taken off. Perhaps the most common application of AI people have come into contact with today are virtual assistants like Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa, which rely on natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to understand human speech.

Chemical process industries (CPI) companies are entering a critical stage in the movement toward digitalization (Industry 4.0), in which the majority of organizations are now initiating pilot projects aimed at improving operations with advanced digital tools. This includes a wide range of technologies, including data analytics, cloud computing, machine learning, artificial intelligence and many others. As the digitalization transformation of the CPI gains momentum, it has become clear that the movement is as much about people as it is about technology. The acceptance and involvement of workers is critical to the successful adoption and expansion of digital tools, as they are asked to adapt to new work practices. He emphasizes: "Companies don't adopt new technologies; people do."

Digital media software company RealNetworks has announced significant financial progress in the third quarter financial report, the company says in a press release. RealNetworks had already announced great success for its SAFR biometric facial recognition software in its Q2 2019 report that saw revenues of $44.2 million. According to current figures, the third quarter revenue rose to $45.0 million from just $17.6 million during the same timeframe last year. The SAFR live video artificial intelligence and biometric facial recognition platform was recently integrated with the Nvidia Metropolis Software Partner Program to improve technology deployment in smart city projects. In June, SAFR biometric facial recognition was rolled out in a museum in Europe on MOBOTIX cameras to provide live analytics.

Two classic science-fiction films -- "Blade Runner" and "The Running Man" -- are both set in 2019, and although the films envisioned a few details that aren't a reality right now, many of their themes nailed current modern life in America. "I call science fiction'reality ahead of schedule,'" Syd Mead, the celebrated designer behind "Blade Runner," tells The Post. Watch these films now, and you can see many parallels between their fictional worlds and the real one we're living in this very year. Ridley Scott's 1982 film "Blade Runner" told the story of a detective (Harrison Ford) tasked with hunting rogue humanoids known as "replicants," played by Daryl Hannah and Rutger Hauer. "The Running Man," which hit theaters in 1987, concerned a police officer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) falsely imprisoned by the totalitarian state and made to perform on a top-rated game show, which forces convicts to run from heavily armed pursuers through a dystopian maze. While the events of the films are too exaggerated to be real, the two movies are set in a world affected by climate change and technological upheaval, both of which can be seen today.