Amazon's latest deal makes it easier to secure your home without breaking the bank. The Labor Day sale includes 35 percent off the company's Blink Video Doorbell (reduced to $39 from its original $60). You can also order a bundle including the doorbell and one Blink Mini module to use as a chime for $64 (30 percent off its typically $95). In addition, Amazon has standalone Blink Mini deals starting at $25, and you can snag the Blink Wired Floodlight for $60 (40 percent off). Most of the deals approach Prime Day lows.

Extreme heat that exhausted California's overworked electric grid on Labor Day had knocked out one of Twitter's main data centers in Sacramento, according to a report. While Twitter avoided a shutdown on Sept. 5 by leaning on its other data centers in Portland, Ore., and Atlanta during the outage to keep its systems running, a company executive warned that if another center were lost, some users would have been unable to access the social media platform, according to an internal memo obtained by CNN. Temperatures in Sacramento on Labor Day broke a daily record of 114 degrees, punching thermometers up to 116 by the afternoon. To power their online services to users, tech companies such as Twitter, Google, or Meta lean on data centers that can demand heavy loads of power and often generate large amounts of heat, requiring cooling systems to keep things running. As climate change continues to heat the planet, Twitter's outage underscores how such extreme weather impacts the online systems that billions of people rely on daily.

Using publicly available traffic camera data in New York City, we quantify time-dependent patterns in aggregate pedestrian foot traffic. These patterns exhibit repeatable diurnal behaviors that differ for weekdays and weekends but are broadly consistent across neighborhoods in the borough of Manhattan. Weekday patterns contain a characteristic 3-peak structure with increased foot traffic around 9:00am, 12:00-1:00pm, and 5:00pm aligned with the "9-to-5" work day in which pedestrians are on the street during their morning commute, during lunch hour, and then during their evening commute. Weekend days do not show a peaked structure, but rather increase steadily until sunset. Our study period of June 28, 2017 to September 11, 2017 contains two holidays, the 4th of July and Labor Day, and their foot traffic patterns are quantitatively similar to weekend days despite the fact that they fell on weekdays. Projecting all days in our study period onto the weekday/weekend phase space (by regressing against the average weekday and weekend day) we find that Friday foot traffic can be represented as a mixture of both the 3-peak weekday structure and non-peaked weekend structure. We also show that anomalies in the foot traffic patterns can be used for detection of events and network-level disruptions. Finally, we show that clustering of foot traffic time series generates associations between cameras that are spatially aligned with Manhattan neighborhood boundaries indicating that foot traffic dynamics encode information about neighborhood character.

Self-Driving cars is hot technology trend, as is using adversarial methods for training machine learning. For the summer barbecue season, we revisit our cartoon which looks at what happens when the latest Deep Learning technology is combined with the traditional summer pastime of grilling. "This is Jim's Hobby Project: A self-driving grill, but he accidentally programmed an adversarial grill, so now he cannot catch it!" This cartoon was ably drawn by Jon Carter. If you find it funny, congratulations - you know enough about Deep Learning and adversarial networks.

Fox News Flash top headlines for September 1 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com As Americans celebrate Labor Day 2019, robots are stealing their jobs, as are immigrants, as are cheap imports from China. The first puzzle is: if all of these nefarious forces of free markets are stealing jobs, how is it that there are more Americans employed than ever before? Today, there are over 151 million workers on U.S. payrolls.

This Sunday, find great deals on fun and useful items for your home and life. If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue. However, our picks and opinions are independent from USA Today's newsroom and any business incentives. Labor Day weekend is an amazing time to shop because pretty much everyone has a good sale going, and that, shockingly, includes Amazon. Instead, if you want to find a good deal from the online giant, you have to do some digging.

A lot has changed in the more than 100 years since Labor Day was first celebrated. To most of us, Labor Day's origins and meaning are long forgotten. In the context of our modern society, on the cusp of a Fourth Industrial Revolution, what does Labor Day mean now? The Labor Day holiday we celebrate has its origins in the violent struggle between industrial workers and industrialists/capitalists in the late 1800s, during the 2nd Industrial Revolution. This was a period of workers and skilled craftsmen (small business owners) being replaced by machines via mass production.

The company enlisted the name of the smartest person ever to brand its new platform-wide layer of artificial intelligence. While computer intelligence is not foreign to parts of Salesforce's clouds, this massive commitment means that advanced computer intelligence will now be embedded throughout the company's tools. And the company has made a major commitment to pushing the envelope. It is setting up an R&D lab, and it recently purchased pioneer BeyondCore, a data analysis platform so smart that it tells you the best questions to ask before answering them. Although Salesforce's announcement represents the biggest commitment thus far among marketing/sales tools, it is only part of the wave.

At the end of 2014, Stanford announced it was going to play host to a 100-year-long study, proposed by computer scientist Eric Horvitz, on the effects of artificial intelligence on society and how those effects "will ripple through every aspect of how people work, live and play." The study, nicknamed AI100, is mostly carried out by having a panel of experts produce a report every five years. On Thursday the first report came out, produced by 17 people, most of whom are professors in various AI-related disciplines, with a couple from companies like Microsoft of Google X. The experts break down the different effects of AI into eight different broad categories, ranging from transport to entertainment. In honor of labor day, let's focus on the area they dub "Employment and Workplace."

Labor Day is the one day every year when we come together as a nation to celebrate the achievements of the American worker and the history of the labor movement in this country. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will join President Obama (who spent the weekend meeting with G20 leaders issued a Labor Day message on September 1) as well as a variety of politicians and public officials from across the country, in commemorating the day. You can bet that their lofty rhetoric will be accompanied by a promise to restore the nation to its manufacturing heyday. At the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia, for instance, Clinton promised to push policies that will help foster a "manufacturing renaissance." Not to be outdone, Donald Trump has long said he will be "the greatest job-producing president in American history."