U.S. Central Command said Sunday that Houthis launched an anti-ballistic missile toward a tanker ship that carries oil and chemicals in the Gulf of Aiden on Saturday, though it struck the water and did not cause damage to the ship or injuries to those on board. In a post on X, U.S. Central Command said the Iranian-backed Houthis were likely targeting the M/V Torm Thor, which is flagged and owned by a U.S. company. The ship was sailing in the Gulf of Aden at the time of the incident, which was reportedly at 11:45 p.m. local time. Central Command said a third UAV was also heading toward the area and crashed from what appeared to be an in-flight failure. A protestor holds a model of a Houthi missile during a protest held against the U.S.-led airstrikes and sanctions against the Houthi group in Sanaa, Yemen, Feb. 16, 2024.

U.S. Central Command announced Thursday that American aircraft and a coalition warship have shot down six Houthi one-way attack drones in the Red Sea. The unmanned aerial vehicles were identified as "likely targeting U.S. and coalition warships and were an imminent threat," it said, noting that the drones were taken out around 4:30 a.m. "Later, between 8:30 a.m. and 9:45 a.m., the Houthis fired two anti-ship ballistic missiles from southern Yemen into the Gulf of Aden," Central Command also wrote in a post on X. "The missiles impacted MV Islander, a Palau-flagged, U.K.-owned, cargo carrier causing one minor injury and damage. The ship is continuing its voyage." The attack comes after the Pentagon earlier this week confirmed that the Houthis shot down a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone off the coast of Yemen on Monday.

The Russian capital has been hit by a rare drone attack that has caused "minor" damage to buildings and no casualties, the city's mayor said. "This morning, at dawn, a drone attack caused minor damage to several buildings. All the city's emergency services are on the scene … No one has been seriously injured so far," Moscow's mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in a statement on Tuesday. Moscow, located more than 1,000km (620 miles) from Ukraine, has only rarely been the target of drone attacks since the start of the conflict in Ukraine, even though such attacks have become more common elsewhere in Russia. Andrei Vorobyov, governor of the Moscow region, said on the Telegram channel that several drones were shot down on their approach to Moscow. It was not immediately clear who launched the drones.

It is estimated that a foraging bee bumps into a flower about once per second, which damages its wings over time. Yet despite having many tiny rips or holes in their wings, bumblebees can still fly. Aerial robots, on the other hand, are not so resilient. Poke holes in the robot's wing motors or chop off part of its propellor, and odds are pretty good it will be grounded. Inspired by the hardiness of bumblebees, MIT researchers have developed repair techniques that enable a bug-sized aerial robot to sustain severe damage to the actuators, or artificial muscles, that power its wings -- but to still fly effectively.

Netanyahu spoke to Fox News Digital following the release of his new memoir, "Bibi: My Story." Officials in Israel say Iran is responsible for a drone strike that hit an Israel-associated, Liberian-flagged oil tanker off the coast of Oman on Tuesday. The tanker, the Pacific Zircon, sustained minor damage to its hull with no injuries or spillage of the gas oil cargo, Israeli-controlled Eastern Pacific Shipping said Wednesday, and an Israeli official said Iran was responsible. Three maritime sources told Reuters that a drone was suspected to have attacked the tanker. An Israeli official said Iran was responsible for the attack by using a Shahed-136 drone, the type it has been supplying to Russia for use in its war against Ukraine.

For a forthcoming book with Nitin Mittal of Deloitte, I've been researching companies that are "All In on AI," as the book will be titled. These are companies who have made substantial and long-term bets on the notion that AI will revolutionize the way they do business. In several of the companies, the CEOs have been heavily engaged in the AI-driven transformation process. One of them is Piyush Gupta, the CEO of Singapore-based DBS Bank, whom I have written about elsewhere as an AI leader. Another is Peter Ma, the founder and chairman of Ping An, which is the largest private-sector firm in China.

For a forthcoming book with Nitin Mittal of Deloitte, I've been researching companies that are "All In on AI," as the book will be titled. These are companies who have made substantial and long-term bets on the notion that AI will revolutionize the way they do business. In several of the companies, the CEOs have been heavily engaged in the AI-driven transformation process. One of them is Piyush Gupta, the CEO of Singapore-based DBS Bank, whom I have written about elsewhere as an AI leader. Another is Peter Ma, the founder and chairman of Ping An, which is the largest private-sector firm in China. Ping An makes extensive use of AI to drive its five ecosystems, and my sources tell me that Ma is heavily involved in the decisions around the technology.

File photo - An airplane flies over a drone during the Polar Bear Plunge on Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York Jan. 1, 2015. A video produced by the University of Dayton Research Institute shows in alarming detail what happens when a drone collides with a plane. The test, which mimicked a midair collision at 238 mph, launched a 2.1-pound DJI Phantom 2 quadcopter into the wing of a Mooney M20 aircraft. Experts from UDRI's Impact Physics group note that the drone did not shatter on impact, but tore open the wing's leading edge, damaging its main spar. "While the quadcopter broke apart, its energy and mass hung together to create significant damage to the wing," explained Kevin Poormon, group leader for impact physics at UDRI, in a statement.

WASHINGTON – A recreational drone operator was at fault in the first confirmed midair collision in the U.S. between a drone and a manned aircraft, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday The operator was unaware the Federal Aviation Administration had temporarily banned drone flights in New York when his small drone collided with an Army Blackhawk helicopter on Sept. 21, the board said in a report on the incident. The U.N. General Assembly was meeting in New York at the time. The helicopter suffered minor damage while the DJI Phantom 4 drone was destroyed, the report said. The operator flew the drone 2.5 miles away despite a long-standing FAA prohibition on drone flights beyond the sight of an operator, the report said. The operator saw the helicopter on the tablet he was using to direct the drone and tried to move the drone out of the way, but it was too late to avoid the collision, the report said.

Could this small robot piloting a drone be the next stage in artificial intelligence? An amusing video shows an Aldebaran Robotics Nao V5 asking its'papa' if it can play with the drone. The man agrees and the robot sets to its task but all does not go to plan as it proceeds to fly the drone far away out of sight. The drone is eventually brought back but only after crashing into trees, causing minor damage. The thrilling footage was shot in Duluth, Minnesota by local retired state trooper and freelance software developer Scott Blais.