Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., said after the House Intelligence Committee's classified briefing on New Jersey drones, she's not concerned about any threat and it's irresponsible to scare the public. Drones spotted flying over Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in Southern California over the past week posed no threat to operations at the installation, according to reports. James C. Sartain told The Warzone that between Dec. 9 and 15, "there were six instances of unmanned aerial systems (UAS)" seen entering the airspace over Camp Pendleton. Sartain also said the UAS did not pose any threat to installation operations. The publication also learned from base personnel that countermeasures to take out the drones were not necessary as air and ground operations were not impacted.

Anticipate massive issues to come back out of this newest operation from telecom big Verizon. A Verizon lengthy vary drone challenge is ready to advance ongoing testing -- this time on the Pendleton Unmanned Aerial Methods Vary. The drone vary in Pendleton, Oregon, is certainly one of only a small handful of Federal Aviation Administration-designated check ranges, and is positioned within the northeast nook of the state of Oregon. Verizon's drone arm, Skyward, relies in Portland, Oregon, which is a roughly 3-hour drive from Pendleton. On the Pendleton drone vary, Verizon Robotics (which is a division of the corporate most famously recognized for offering you with cell service) will check numerous proof-of-concept capabilities primarily round lengthy vary robotics.

We've covered Airbus's Vahana project, which is the aeronautical company's endeavor to build a self-flying taxi network, in detail before. Now, it looks as though Airbus has reached a major milestone. The company is ready to test its Vahana flying car after moving it from the company's headquarters to a dedicated hangar in Pendleton, Oregon, as the Vahana team details in a blog post. Preparing the aircraft for shipment meant disassembling it and loading it into a truck. Once it arrived in Pendleton, the team took Vahana's landing gear and towing provisions on its first real-world test.

Can the language used in movie reviews hold the tea leaves revealing the winners of the Academy Awards? That's the hypothesis of Luminoso Technologies, an artificial-intelligence startup that specializes in natural-language processing, which has already declared the likely best-picture winner of the 2017 Academy Awards before the nominations are even out: Pablo Larraín's biopic "Jackie," starring Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Here's the methodology: The company analyzed user movie reviews for 2013-15 in IMDb, focusing on the 50 most popular movies of each year, to see if there was a correlation behind the concepts that appeared in their language and the eventual Oscar nominees that year. Luminoso's software found certain specific concepts -- such as "cinematography," "masterpiece," "stunning," "visuals" and "experience" -- were highly correlated with films that received nominations. Concepts like "narrative" had less correlation with Oscar nods, and a few (like "CGI" and "horror") had negative correlation.