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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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This Engineer’s Job Is to Keep Arkansas Nuclear One Safe

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Her work at the plant, her academic research, and her involvement in IEEE have helped Ansari build her community within the global nuclear industry. I was amazed at the safety precautions the company takes, especially for the employees’ personal safety,” she says. The project is expected to take more than a year to complete.

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How EV adoption is soaring in unlikely circumstances, and what could make it better

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Rivian was forced to push prices upward due to materials costs soaring after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and these examples are just two of many. It does not take a genius to figure out that the average person will choose an affordable car over an expensive one, even if the expensive one will not require weekly stops at the pump.

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

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Our activity in IEEE demonstrates the ability of technologists to work together for the greater global public good without boundaries. IEEE does not suspend our commitment to support this global scientific community in challenging times. Maintaining high ideals. Protecting freedoms. These freedoms are challenged in many countries.

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

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So for example, in a search and rescue mission, a person might have— a search and rescue worker might have very particular context on where somebody is likely to be stuck or maybe be hiding or something that would be very difficult to encode into a drone. So I read in the news that Skydio donated 300K of equivalent of drones to Ukraine.

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UN: world population is expected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050 and could peak at nearly 11 billion around 2100

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The world’s population is expected to increase by 2 billion persons in the next 30 years, from 7.7 The global fertility rate, which fell from 3.2 years behind the global average, due largely to persistently high levels of child and maternal mortality, as well as violence, conflict and the continuing impact of the HIV epidemic.

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Whatever Happened to the Population Bomb?

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Just a few years after this preposterous doomsday alarm, the annual growth of global population peaked at about 2.1 population projections for 2050 ( released in 2019) show continued global growth, mainly because African TFRs are still mostly above 3. percent and immediately began to decline. The latest U.N. SOURCE: U.N.

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