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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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Beginning in the mid-1960s, the USDA had worked with NASA and labs at Purdue University and the University of Michigan to develop new ways to identify crops from high-altitude aircraft and satellites. An abridged version of this article appears in the July 2022 print issue as “Pictures of a Planet.".

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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. But there are often better ways.”.

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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.

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