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

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Early on a June morning in 2023, my colleagues and I drove down a bumpy dirt road north of Kyiv in Ukraine. While we were in Ukraine, we also demonstrated our technology for the State Special Transportation Service , a branch of the Ukrainian military responsible for keeping roads and bridges open. All our hard work paid off.

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The Portrait Artist

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It’s a rite of passage, a vital part of the process of being selected by IEEE as a Medal of Honor recipient. Then I start the more chronological part of the interview by asking about their parents and their careers, which makes me feel like I am starting to get to know them beyond their achievements,” she says. Education: B.A.,

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Tesla’s Optimus Bot hands may be a clue

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Elon has said several times that the Optimus Bot will become a valuable part of the company. I Stand With Ukraine (@TheJewbyrd7777) August 5, 2022. Whether or not this is a graphic or an actual image of the Optimus Bot’s hands turned into a graphic, Tesla’s AI Day part 2 will be very educational.

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Civilian AI Is Already Being Misused by the Bad Guys

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The most worrying part of the story, however, was how easy it was to develop that AI tool. This is a major gap in the conversation on responsible AI that must be filled. Authors’ note: This post was drafted as part of a joint SIPRI-UNODA initiative on Responsible Innovation in AI which is supported by the Republic of Korea.

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Can Autonomous Weapons Be Compatible With International Humanitarian Law?

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This article is part of our Autonomous Weapons Challenges series. This fuzziness can be challenging for any autonomous system navigating the uncertainty of a human world—such as Alexa reacting to the wrong conversations, or self-driving cars being stymied by. The real world is anything but binary. white trucks and orange traffic cones.

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Researcher Describes Conceptual Cold Fusion Battery, or Small Power Unit

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Once further optimized and energy conversion elements, such as thermoelectric converters, are added, the cell could produce electricity. It looks like it will have to be a thermal conversion—that makes it not quite as easy as if I could get a direct conversion to electricity. —Prof. Tadahiko Mizuno, Ph.D.,

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The Fall and Rise of Russian Electronic Warfare

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And now Ukraine, including by extension its intelligence partners in NATO, had a Krasukha-4 to dissect and analyze. After nearly a decade of owning the airwaves during a Moscow-backed insurgency in eastern Ukraine, EW was. At least three of Russia’s five electronic warfare brigades are engaged in Ukraine. informnapalm.org.

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