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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. Our resulting model correctly detected 92 percent of PFM-1s in these environments, on average. In light of those conversations, we developed a user-friendly Web application called SpotlightAI.

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MIT team finds lead levels higher in Indian Ocean than northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans

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They are presenting their results this week at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Montreal. Today, 185 countries have stopped using leaded gasoline; six others, including Afghanistan, Iraq and North Korea, plan to phase it out in the next two years.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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As director of technology integration at Lockheed Martin , in Grand Prairie, Texas, he leads a team that is actively pursuing breakthroughs designed to, among other things, allow life-saving missions to be performed in hazardous environments without putting humans at risk. My grades took off right after he showed up.”

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