Residents and law enforcement officials are reporting numerous large, unidentified drones flying at night over New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. Some of the fixed-wing devices are estimated to be roughly four-feet-wide, while others are believed to be as large as a car. And while officials including New Jersey governor Phil Murphy have stressed there is no evidence suggesting the drones pose a threat to public safety, at least one related incident may have delayed medevac transport of a seriously injured car wreck victim. As The New York Times noted over the weekend, sightings date as far back as November, and have occurred over residential areas, highways, railroads, reservoirs, and power lines. In most instances, the loud, blinking drones appear to be "significantly larger" than standard drones piloted by hobbyists. At least two events prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to temporarily ban drones at Donald Trump's Bedminster National Golf Club and Picatinny Arsenal, a 6,400-square-acre military research and manufacturing facility in Morris County, New Jersey.

Former U.S. ambassador to NATO provides insight on a potentially pivotal setback for Russia in its war on Ukraine on'The Story.' MSNBC contributor Barry R. McCaffrey, a retired four-star general, shared a video Monday of what he appeared to think was a Russian plane being shot down by Ukraine, but deleted the tweet after being informed it occurred in an animated video game. According to images of the original tweet, McCaffrey tweeted an animated image from the video game "Arma 3." MSNBC's Brian R. McCaffrey, a retired four star general, shared video of a Russian plane being shot down by Ukraine on Monday but deleted the tweet after being informed it occurred in an animated video game. McCaffrey wrote in the since-deleted tweet, "Russian aircraft getting nailed by UKR missile defense. Russians are losing large numbers of attack aircraft. UKR air defense becoming formidable," to accompany the animated image from the video game.

One of the challenges in scaling up meat production are issues of disease for the animals. Take bovine respiratory disease (BRD), for example. This contagious infection is responsible for nearly half of all feedlot deaths for cattle every year in North America. The industry's costs for managing the disease come close to $1 billion annually. Preventative measures could significantly decrease these costs, and a small team comprising a data scientist, a college student and two entrepreneurs spent the past weekend at the Forbes Under 30 Agtech Hackathon figuring out a concept for better managing the disease.

Jackson State, who hired Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders as its 21st head coach last week, will be the first HBCU football program to harness the power of artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, and advanced performance data to identify and objectively evaluate prospects to recruit, via RA's patent-pending platform. JSU Vice President and Director of Athletics Ashley Robinson is excited to bring data analytics to the Tigers' football program. "We are taking a data-driven approach to our recruiting efforts to help increase our hit rate, while becoming more efficient with the help of Recruiting Analytics," said Robinson. WATCH: We clocked Christian McCaffrey hitting a max speed of 22.0 MPH in only 4.7 seconds on this 84-yard TD #myRAmaxspeed Next Gen Stats clocked McCaffrey at 21.95 MPH on the same play#KeepPounding @Keep_Pounding pic.twitter.com/lexcWFkpyD RA Co-Founder and CEO Cory Yates is honored to support Sanders and his coaching staff.

One of the challenges in scaling up meat production are issues of disease for the animals. Take bovine respiratory disease (BRD), for example. This contagious infection is responsible for nearly half of all feedlot deaths for cattle every year in North America. The industry's costs for managing the disease come close to $1 billion annually. Preventative measures could significantly decrease these costs, and a small team comprising a data scientist, a college student and two entrepreneurs spent the past weekend at the Forbes Under 30 Agtech Hackathon figuring out a concept for better managing the disease.

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are the new hot career areas in IT and development organizations. Businesses are clamoring to hire talent in these areas, and there's a real shortage of qualified and skilled professionals in the market today. To fill the gap, many tech professionals are looking to augment their skills with technologies necessary for machine learning and AI -- learning languages such as Python, among others. Which ones are important to know, and which ones should you watch. There are many frameworks and libraries and they are always evolving, and new ones are always being developed.

No doubt you've heard (or read) quite a lot about artificial intelligence (AI) lately. Some herald it is as a business and technology revolution, while others, notably Elon Musk, view it as an existential threat to humanity. Of course, the truth lies somewhere in between, and most of us have yet to even experience AI in a substantive way. Last month at Interop ITX, we sat down with James McCaffrey, a senior research scientist at Microsoft Research and expert on neural networks, to talk about what exactly AI means and where it is heading. According to McCaffrey, AI and associated technologies like machine learning and deep learning are nothing new.

Dan McCaffrey has an ambitious goal: solving the world's looming food shortage. As vice president of data and analytics at The Climate Corporation (Climate), which is a subsidiary of Monsanto, McCaffrey leads a team of data scientists and engineers who are building an information platform that collects massive amounts of agricultural data and applies machine-learning techniques to discover new patterns. These analyses are then used to help farmers optimize their planting. "By 2050, the world is going to have too many people at the current rate of growth. And with shrinking amounts of farmland, we must find more efficient ways to feed them. So science is needed to help solve these things," McCaffrey explains. "The deeper we can go into providing recommendations on farming practices, the more value we can offer the farmer," McCaffrey adds.