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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. Part of a continuing series looking at photographs of historical artifacts that embrace the boundless potential of technology.

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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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Serving My Country – My Patriotic Duty

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On this Veteran’s Day 2013 I honor my father-in-law, Bob Bushweit for his service starting at the age of 18 in World War II where he fought as a member of Patton’s Third Army across Africa and Europe and actually did preserve our freedom and our democracy as part of the greatest generation. .

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

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What’s more, the scale of the problem makes artificial intelligence a compelling part of the solution. Afghanistan is still contaminated with many of these mines, left behind more than 40 years ago after the Soviet-Afghan War. Maybe we’ll eventually have separate models for places such as Angola, Iraq, and Laos.

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Department of Defense releases new operational energy strategy; more fight, less fuel

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aircraft over Afghanistan, 8 Dec 2010. Whether deploying and sustaining forces at the front, or powering mission-critical facilities they depend on in the rear, everything we do, every mission we perform, requires significant amounts of energy. Forty bundles of fuel fall from a USAF Globemaster III. The aircraft is assigned to the.

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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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along with Canada, as powerful crude, NGL, and natural gas producers is also a major concern for the Russian economy. It would also force foreign suppliers to seek other markets for all or part of the exports they previously sent to the U.S. Death by Energy. The emergence of the U.S., This has transformed the U.S. Wary of U.S.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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Marine Corps used the autonomous K-Max helicopters for resupply missions in Afghanistan. As part of the job, in Oghara, Nigeria, then a small fishing village along the Niger River, he collected fares and directed passengers on and off the bus. With no traffic cops or traffic lights, there often was chaos at major intersections. “The

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