Day: March 11, 2020

Blasting Airplane With Lasers Makes It Harder For Ice to Stick

Posted on by Robin Edgar

researchers from Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS, aircraft manufacturer Airbus, and the Dresden University of Technology in Germany have co-developed a better way to keep planes free of ice and snow. It uses a technology called Direct Laser Interference Patterning (DLIP), where a laser is split into multiple beams that overlap each Read more about Blasting Airplane With Lasers Makes It Harder For Ice to Stick[…]

Banjo, the company that will use an AI to spy on all of Utah through all their cams Used a Secret Company and Fake Apps to Scrape Social Media

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Banjo, an artificial intelligence firm that works with police used a shadow company to create an array of Android and iOS apps that looked innocuous but were specifically designed to secretly scrape social media, Motherboard has learned. The news signifies an abuse of data by a government contractor, with Banjo going far beyond what companies Read more about Banjo, the company that will use an AI to spy on all of Utah through all their cams Used a Secret Company and Fake Apps to Scrape Social Media[…]

US Navy flies two EA-18G Growlers autonomously; third Growler used as controller

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The US Navy (USN) flew two Boeing EA-18G Growlers as autonomous unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), using a third Growler as a flight controller. In total, four flights were conducted at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, with tests starting in September 2019, says manufacturer Boeing on 4 February. The aircraft demonstrated 21 missions during flights that Read more about US Navy flies two EA-18G Growlers autonomously; third Growler used as controller[…]