article thumbnail

Ukraine Is the First “Hackers’ War”

Cars That Think

Rapid and resourceful technological improvisation has long been a mainstay of warfare, but the war in Ukraine is taking it to a new level. Weaponized civilian first-person-view (FPV) drones began dramatically reshaping the landscape of the war in the summer of 2023.

Ukraine 141
article thumbnail

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

Cars That Think

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.

Ukraine 78
article thumbnail

Rosneft touts major light oil find from “northernmost well in the world” in the Arctic

Green Car Congress

However, US sanctions against Russia over Ukraine gave American companies until 26 September 26 to cease all operations with blacklisted Russian companies—including Rosneft. The license recognizes the need to protect the safety of the individuals involved in these operations as well as the risk to the environment.

Oil 231
article thumbnail

The Heart and the Chip: What Could Go Wrong?

Cars That Think

At the start of its war against Ukraine, Russia limited its citizens’ access to unbiased news and information in hopes of controlling and shaping the narrative around the conflict. We cannot and should not trust machine intelligences to make decisions about whether to inflict harm on a person or group of people on their own.

MIT 97
article thumbnail

IEEE President's Note: Focusing on Members in Uncertain Times

Cars That Think

We are open, diverse, and inclusive, and we hold our fellow members personally accountable for their behavior, and not for the actions of others. IEEE is committed to enabling an environment of international cooperation and the sharing of our members’ wealth of knowledge to drive innovation.

IDEA 88
article thumbnail

Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

Cars That Think

His lab is best known for developing extremely agile drones that can autonomously navigate through complex environments at very high speeds. They might have some context from a clue that came up earlier in the case or something about the environment or something about the weather.

article thumbnail

IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023

Cars That Think

On the one hand, stories about Russia’s satellite jamming operations in Ukraine and stumbling 5G performance around the world attracted a lot of attention from our visitors in 2023. Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice? IEEE Spectrum ‘s readers gravitated to the extremes in the kinds of telecom stories they read this year.

Google 93