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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

Cars That Think

Many government agencies and nonprofit groups that work on land-mine detection and removal are beginning to integrate drones into their standard procedures. Afghanistan is still contaminated with many of these mines, left behind more than 40 years ago after the Soviet-Afghan War.

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Groundbreaking in Turkmenistan for major synthetic gasoline plant; first full-scale Haldor Topsøe TIGAS facility

Green Car Congress

The plant will be based on Haldor Topsøe’s TIGAS (Topsøe Improved Gasoline Synthesis) technology (earlier post ) and will become the first full-scale large commercial facility using this technology. Unlike DME, methanol and ethanol, synthetic gasoline meets existing gasoline standards so it can be used as a drop-in fuel.

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How the U.S. Army Is Turning Robots Into Team Players

Cars That Think

In a standard operations order for a mission, you have goals, constraints, a paragraph on the commander's intent—basically a narrative of the purpose of the mission—which provides contextual info that humans can interpret and gives them the structure for when they need to make decisions and when they need to improvise," Stump explains.

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My Cycling trip from Agra to Bikaner

Plug In India

Enterprising hunters in Afghanistan and Pakistan were the possible cause for a change in migration routes. He took us to the first floor of the Commercial Complex where chai bhai was located, to show us the Laxmangarh Fort, after which the town is named. But it took a long time to make this non standard dish.

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