Is tracking your adult children OK or should parents learn to let go? Is it caring or overbearing? Many parents are turning to their phones to keep tabs on their adult children - but is this OK (if they agree to it) or is it a sign of mums and dads struggling to let go? Dad-of-two Steven Medway, 53, has his whole family set up on a tracking app and couldn't understand why it was such a divisive subject among fellow parents. He said it became particularly useful when his daughter Martha moved 100 miles away from home for university.

"The Agency" star Katherine Waterston admitted she finds AI generally "terrifying" for Hollywood and beyond. Screenwriter Paul Schrader, known for his critically acclaimed works like "Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull" and "First Reformed," surprised fans when he shared his apparent approval of artificial intelligence. In a series of posts last week, the Oscar-nominee marveled at AI and ChatGPT's capabilities when it came to his profession. "I've just come to realize AI is smarter than I am. Has better ideas, has more efficient ways to execute them," he wrote on Jan 16. "Taxi Driver" screenwriter and director Paul Schrader surprised fans with his interest in artificial intelligence.

Clarity: The main paper is mostly written fairly well, the Appendix less so (lots of typos at least). The work nevertheless lacks clarity because several relevant details are moved to the Supplementary part, and some aspects are not mentioned at all (at least in the main paper). The Appendix even contains a section regarding categorical features that is not even hinted at in the main paper. Clarification is needed, e.g., at the following points: - p.2, l.70-73 is too vague, the meaning is unclear - pls. clarify - p.2, l. 85f: clarify what "[...] i enters leaf node l " means (i.e., that data pt. If \hat{y}_i denotes a predicted label, then why is it real-valued and not in [Y]? (Also regarding the description on p.3, l.96f: why should y_i - \hat{y}_i \geq 1 here -- \hat{y}_i is in R, so couldn't it be, say, y_i - delta for some small delta?) - p.3, l.92: perhaps clarify "tree sparsity" -- actually here this means sparsity of the decision hyperplanes, no the tree itself - The 1-norm is used in the MIP (1) and several times in the text later called "linear" (e.g., p.4, l.136), but this is technically incorrect.

Nearly a mile above Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County, a hacked drone soared through restricted airspace for roughly an hour. The lightweight drone photographed sensitive areas of the military facility on Nov. 30, including a complex used by SpaceX, according to federal investigators. The drone then descended back to the ground, where the pilot and another man waited at a nearby park. Four security officers from the military base arrived on the scene and asked the men if they had seen a drone flying through the area, unaware that one of them had tucked the drone under his jacket. Authorities identified that man as 39-year-old Yinpiao Zhou, a Chinese citizen and a lawful permanent resident of the U.S.

Once upon a time, "reinstalling Windows" was an often recommended remedy for all sorts of computer problems. Windows 95 and XP were notorious for becoming less stable over time, with "crap in the machine" in the form of settings left in the Registry, traces of uninstalled programs that had not been properly removed, and other things that lurked. Indeed, many people chose to reinstall from time to time even if the computer showed no symptoms, as part of regular maintenance. Windows 10 and 11 are much better at keeping order and cleaning up automatically. Today, frequent reinstallations are not something we at PCWorld or any other experts recommend.

Ronald Reagan's daughter, Patti Davis, weighed in on the age issue at the forefront of the 2024 election on Sunday and said presidential candidates probably should face cognitive tests while running for office. Before President Biden was elected, Reagan was the oldest person to be elected president, at the age of 69. "Now, obviously, the president is in his 80s, former President Trump, the frontrunner, is in his late 70s. Do you think there should be cognitive tests for people running for the highest office in the land?" And just what we know about what age can do, it doesn't always do that, but it would probably be a good idea.

With polls showing voters' concerns over Biden's age, there are growing calls for him to prove his mental fitness ahead of a rematch with Trump.Michael Reynolds/EFE/ZUMA The daughter of the once-oldest president, Ronald Reagan, who was 77 when he took office, thinks cognitive tests for presidential candidates would be "a good idea," she said in an interview that aired Sunday. "Just what we know about what age can do, it doesn't always do that, but it would probably be a good idea," Patti Davis said on NBC's Meet the Press, in response to a question from host Kristen Welker about whether she agreed with the prospect. WATCH: When Ronald Reagan was elected at 69, he was the oldest person ever to be elected president. Now his daughter, Patti Davis, says cognitive tests would be a "good idea." Davis: "My father was 77 when he left office after two terms. It seems so young now, doesn't it?"

Socially assistive robots (SARs) have shown great promise in supplementing and augmenting interventions to support the physical and mental well-being of older adults. However, past work has not yet explored the potential of applying SAR to lower the barriers of long-term low vision rehabilitation (LVR) interventions for older adults. In this work, we present a user-informed design process to validate the motivation and identify major design principles for developing SAR for long-term LVR. To evaluate user-perceived usefulness and acceptance of SAR in this novel domain, we performed a two-phase study through user surveys. First, a group (n=38) of older adults with LV completed a mailed-in survey. Next, a new group (n=13) of older adults with LV saw an in-clinic SAR demo and then completed the survey. The study participants reported that SARs would be useful, trustworthy, easy to use, and enjoyable while providing socio-emotional support to augment LVR interventions. The in-clinic demo group reported significantly more positive opinions of the SAR's capabilities than did the baseline survey group that used mailed-in forms without the SAR demo.

New York City's police department has added K5, a crime-fighting machine that is supposed to make the subway safer. Riders on the subway in New York City might have noticed a new addition to the transit system: a robot named K5. K5 is a crime-fighting machine that is supposed to make the subway safer and more secure. But is it really a good idea to have a robot watching over us? CLICK TO GET KURT'S FREE CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH SECURITY ALERTS, QUICK VIDEO TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, AND EASY HOW-TO'S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER K5 is 64.5" tall and weighs in at 420 pounds.

The title of this column series is "AI in Action," and there has indeed been a lot of action over the past year. Judging from the 11th annual NewVantage Partners survey of senior data and analytics executives, some trends are moving in the right direction. For example, more companies are creating senior roles to focus on data and analytics. The chief data officer role has quickly become much more common over time and across more industries; in the survey, 83% of companies have appointed a CDO or chief data and analytics officer (CDAO). An increasing number of companies (69% in this year's survey) are officially incorporating analytics and AI into the CDO role, and we think that's a good idea.