by crissly | Mar 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
A Russian “suicide drone” that boasts the ability to identify targets using artificial intelligence has been spotted in images of the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.Photographs showing what appears to be the KUB-BLA, a type of lethal drone known as a “loitering munition”... 
by crissly | Feb 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
The inside of a tokamak—the doughnut-shaped vessel designed to contain a nuclear fusion reaction—presents a special kind of chaos. Hydrogen atoms are smashed together at unfathomably high temperatures, creating a whirling, roiling plasma that’s hotter than the surface... 
by crissly | Jan 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
The character of conflict between nations has fundamentally changed. Governments and militaries now fight on our behalf in the “gray zone,” where the boundaries between peace and war are blurred. They must navigate a complex web of ambiguous and deeply interconnected... 
by crissly | Jan 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
Deere & Co. helped mechanize agriculture in 1837 with the first commercially successful steel plow. On Tuesday, the company unveiled a machine that could prove just as transformative: a fully autonomous tractor.John Deere’s new 8R tractor uses six pairs of stereo... 
by crissly | Sep 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
In the past decade, autonomous driving has gone from “maybe possible” to “definitely possible” to “inevitable” to “how did anyone ever think this wasn’t inevitable?” to “now commercially available.” In December 2018, Waymo, the company that emerged from... 