Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to Lead Global CEO Group
By: The Hill August 1o, 2020 The Business Council, an association made up of global CEOs, announced Thursday that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will be its new board chairman. Nadella succeeds Nike CEO John Donahoe who was chairman for the 2019 to 2020 term. The council, which is based in Washington, D.C., is […]
How to Deal With Free Speech on Social Media
By: The Economist October 22, 2020 It is the biggest antitrust suit in two decades. On October 20th the Department of Justice (doj) alleged that Google ties up phone-makers, networks and browsers in deals that make it the default search engine. The department says this harms consumers, who are deprived of alternatives. The arrangement is […]
Engineers Create Nanoparticles that Deliver Gene-Editing Tools to Specific Tissues and Organs
By: Phys.org October 8, 2020 One of the most remarkable recent advances in biomedical research has been the development of highly targeted gene-editing methods such as CRISPR that can add, remove, or change a gene within a cell with great precision. The method is already being tested or used for the treatment of patients […]
NHS Using Drones to Deliver Coronavirus Kit Between Hospitals
By: The Guardian October 17, 2020 An NHS drone is being used to courier Covid-19 samples, blood tests and personal protective equipment between hospitals in England. It is hoped that the trials, backed by a £1.3m grant from the UK Space Agency, can establish a network of air corridors for electric drones to navigate using GPS. […]
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 […]