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Afghanistan to power electric cars?

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Afghanistan could become the ‘Saudi Arabia of lithium’ an internal memo from the US Pentagon hints after new research revealed that the country has vast reserves of the valuable mineral. Tags: Electric cars Afghanistan lithium U.S

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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As part of its War on Drugs, the CIA used Landsat imagery to reveal an increase of acreage committed to poppy in Afghanistan in 1985 and the resulting expanded opium trade. SSPL/Getty Images Government contracts ended up saving the Landsat program, and perhaps unsurprisingly, they came from the intelligence and military sectors.

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An Inconvenient Truth About AI

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In the early 2010s, this wave gathered powerful new momentum with the rise of neural networks learning from massive data sets. 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.

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

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Afghanistan is still contaminated with many of these mines, left behind more than 40 years ago after the Soviet-Afghan War. AWS allows us to utilize extremely powerful computers on demand to process thousands of images a day through our machine learning model to meet the needs of deminers in Ukraine.

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US Military going green

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There you will find soldiers in plywood cubicles working on computers powered by solar panels; plug-in cars shuttling troops across the vast expanses; and tents lined with insulating foam that provide a cool retreat during the red hot days. per cent of its power from alternative sources and is looking to expand this number.

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Heard At The Show: Snippets from SAE 2009 World Congress

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Only 22% remains to power the vehicle. Paul Taylor, Chief Economist for the National Automotive Dealers Association, had the following observations: At $4/gallon gas people looked at more economical versions of the same vehicle rather than going down in vehicle size—they continue to buy cars that meet their needs.

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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.