Submarine and Missile Sensors to be used in Mitsubishi Self-Driving Cars

Mitsubishi is a titan of Japanese industry, a manufacturer of everything from space rockets to rice cookers. Mitsubishi is also one of Japan’s key defense contractors, building the Type 10 main battle tank and Soryu-class attack submarine. Its AAM-4B medium range air-to-air missile was the first with an advanced electronically scanned array radar, making it …

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Paul Allen expanding Institute for Artificial Intelligence

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a sister company to Paul Allen’s Institute for Brain Science, plans to hire 25 people in the next year as it prepares to take its Aristo technology to the eighth grade, moving on from teaching it fourth-grade science. Artificial intelligence has been all over the news lately, and this …

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Who Has Nuclear Weapons, And How Many Do They Have?

The Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation, estimates there are more than 15,000 nuclear weapons around the world; the U.S. and Russia possess 93 percent of them. The exact number of nuclear weapons in each country’s arsenal is often a closely guarded secret Israel about 80 but capable of promptly making 100-200 more Although the …

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