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China aims to exert influence on Afghan mining sector via investments – ET Auto

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The Taliban ambassador to China, in a meeting with the Minister of Mines and Petroleum of the group, stated that China desires further investment in Afghanistan’s mines. Beijing , has notably, focused on the country’s vast mineral deposits since the Taliban gained control of Afghanistan.

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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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An Inconvenient Truth About AI

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This article is part of our special report on AI, “ The Great AI Reckoning.”. In the early 2010s, this wave gathered powerful new momentum with the rise of neural networks learning from massive data sets. Likewise search engines, also powered by AI, show us a list of choices so that we can skip over their mistakes with just a glance.

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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 along with Canada, as powerful crude, NGL, and natural gas producers is also a major concern for the Russian economy.

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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The story of the Baltimore Gun Club propelling themselves to the moon is about the extraordinary masculine power of the veteran, who doesn’t simply “overcome” his disability; he derives power and ambition from it. soldiers and 300 British soldiers lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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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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Will Human Soldiers Ever Trust Their Robot Comrades?

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Editor’s note: This article is adapted from the author’s book War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future (University of California Press, published in paperback April 2024). In a 2015 article , U.S. The blistering late-afternoon wind ripped across Camp Taji , a sprawling U.S. Mullen III/U.S.

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