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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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Stories of the War in Ukraine: Volodymyr

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Over the past week, The Institute has made contact with some of the 400 members of the IEEE Ukraine Section to help them share their experiences during the war. This personal account was written by Volodymyr Pyliavskyi , a senior researcher at the Odessa National Telecommunications Academy in Odessa, Ukraine.

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Ukrainian Volunteers Use 3D Printers to Save Lives

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One month into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a group of more than 100 makers from all over Ukraine manufactured and supplied a number of 3D-printed products to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Territorial Defense Force, and the Air Forces. For security reasons, this group does not disclose most of their work.

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SpaceX to launch the Euclid Space Telescope for the European Space Agency

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rocket, Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine forced the ESA’s hand to change launch providers, then in October 2022, selected a SpaceX Falcon 9 to launch the telescope. Euclid will be used to create a 3D map of the universe, using time as the 3rd dimension. Originally meant to launch on a Russian Soyuz 2.1

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Portable Life-Support Device Provides Critical Care in Conflict and Disaster Zones

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Dr. Joe Fisher is devoted to the light side of human ingenuity, medicine. His research at Toronto’s University Health Network has made major breakthroughs in understanding the absorption and use of oxygen by the body. On the one side, it innovates to wound and kill, on the other it heals and saves lives.

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Ford, Volkswagen, and GM Explore EV-Powered Houses

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These V2H/V2G-enabled vehicles offer some three to 10 days powering the fridge and lights in case the power goes down. In case of power outage at home, the DC pins in the charger can send juice back into the house, keeping the lights on. The Ukraine war is playing havoc with energy pricing and market stability.

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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The light from the mirror passed through filters and onto the 24-element array of detectors—six for each of the MSS’s four spectral bands—yielding 24 channels of video data. A multiplexer processed this data, and an analog-to-digital converter changed it to a pulse-code modulated signal.

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