San Francisco is preparing for robots with guns 

The San Francisco Police Department has prepared a draft policy which would explicitly allow robots to be able to be armed with guns or explosives to be used when the risk to human life is too great. Today most of the robots in their fleet are for bomb disposal but some can be equipped with weapons. They say that deploying a robot like this would be a rare and exceptional circumstance. 

Apple's new emergency satellite service has officially saved a person 

A man traveling in Alaska on a snow-machine had become stranded at 2am. He used the SOS feature, and the Apple Emergency Response team sent the coordinates to local first responders who arranged for a search team to be sent. 

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