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An Inconvenient Truth About AI

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This article is part of our special report on AI, “ The Great AI Reckoning.”. That same year we started deploying the first of thousands of robots in Afghanistan and then Iraq to be used to help troops disable improvised explosive devices. This article appears in the October 2021 print issue as "A Human in the Loop.".

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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As the historian Brian Jirout argues in his 2017 article “ Farming from Space: Landsat and the Development of Agricultural Surveillance During the Cold War ,” the Soviet grain deal created the urgency and anxiety necessary for the USDA to propose the Large Area Crop Inventory Experiment, to predict both domestic and foreign crop yields.

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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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According to the IMF’s 2015 Article IV Consultation-Press Release and Staff Report , published August 3, oil and natural gas exports constituted 65 percent of exports, 52 percent of the Federal government budget, and 14.5 And this, given the Soviet experience in Afghanistan and Putin’s experience in eastern Ukraine, is far from certain.

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

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This article is part of our special report on AI, “ The Great AI Reckoning. ” "I should probably not be standing this close," I think to myself, as the robot slowly approaches a large tree branch on the floor in front of me. This article appears in the October 2021 print issue as "Deep Learning Goes to Boot Camp.".

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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soldiers and 300 British soldiers lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. This recent investment is not, however, a result of a disproportionately large number of amputations in military conflict: Around 1,500 U.S. Limb loss in the general population dwarfs those figures.