Tesla is Morphing Into More Than a Car Maker
By: Fox News November 18, 2020 Elon Musk’s Tesla is way more than just an electric-car maker, according to Morgan Stanley. That’s why the firm says the stock can continue to climb, building on its 428% advance this year, as it transforms to a software/connected vehicle services provider — the “entry ticket” to a much larger business. […]
Google’s Parent Company Is Building a Farming Robot
By: Futurism October 13, 2020 X, the moonshot project incubator run by Google’s parent company Alphabet, is working on prototype robots designed to help grow everthing from strawberries to soy beans. In a blog post, X project lead Elliot Grant discusses a new project he’s working on called “Mineral” — a suite of hardware […]
‘Attacking at Speed’: Army Project Convergence and Breakthrough Lightning-Fast War
By: Fox News September 27, 2020 The U.S. military recently conducted a live-fire full combat replication with unmanned-to-unmanned teaming guiding attacks, small reconnaissance drones, satellites sending target coordinates to ground artillery and high-speed, AI-enabled “networked” warfare. This exercise was a part of the Army’s Project Convergence 2020, a weapons and platform combat experiment which, service leaders say, […]
Pentagon Pursues ‘Hack Proof’ Fighter Jets and Armored War Vehicles
By: Fox News November 18, 2020 What if an armored combat vehicle was rapidly moving to enemy contact through rigorous terrain while facing enemy fire, when its navigational and targeting systems were suddenly given false, wrong or misleading information … thus derailing the mission? What if its on-board data flow was instantly jammed, denied […]
The Plan to Turn Scrapped Rockets Into Space Stations
By: Wired November 11, 2020 IN EARLY OCTOBER, a dead Soviet satellite and the abandoned upper stage of a Chinese rocket narrowly avoided a collision in low Earth orbit. If the objects had crashed, the impact would have blown them to bits and created thousands of new pieces of dangerous space debris. Only a few days […]
Robot Soldiers Could Make Up Quarter of British Army by 2030s
By: The Guardian November 8, 2020 Thirty thousand “robot soldiers” could form an integral part of the British army in the 2030s, working alongside humans in and around the frontline, the head of the armed forces said in a television interview on Sunday. Gen Sir Nick Carter said the armed forces needed “to […]
US Companies Rewrite Bonus Plans to Prop up Executive Pay
By: FT October 12, 2020 Companies are rewriting bonus plans, switching performance metrics and ignoring missed targets so that executives do not suffer a big drop in pay as a result of the Covid-19 crisis — changes that could become controversial with shareholders in the months ahead. While many executives are set to […]
Robotic Dog Aims To Help Police Take A Bite Out Of Crime
By: NPR December 16, 2019 A new robotic police dog is being used in Massachusetts. While police robotics aren’t new, they are raising questions about oversight and whether they could be weaponized. Read More
The Great Uncoupling: One Supply Chain for China, One for Everywhere Else
By: FT October 6, 2020 Earlier this year, four dozen lawyers, accountants and bankers from all over Latin America piled into a conference room in an office tower on Miami Waterfront. They listened spellbound as Nicholas Chen, an energetic lawyer who had come all the way from Taiwan, told them about an exodus of manufacturing from […]