Harry Shum Executive Vice President, Artificial Intelligence and Research Group, Microsoft Democratization of AI He is talking about the State of AI. Microsoft AI has reached or exceeded human capabilities with speech, reading and writing from 2016 to today. He talked about XiaoIce a social Chatbot that released a pop album and recites and narrates …
Brian Wang of Nextbigfuture will be live blogging the MIT Technology Review EmTech Digital 2019 event at the St. Regis in San Francisco. The focus is on the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence. It is a two-day event. Gideon Lichfield, Editor in Chief, MIT Technology Review, will be providing 15 minutes of opening remarks. AI …
Today Rocket Labs is counting down to launch a DARPA called Radio Frequency Risk Reduction Deployment Demonstration (R3D2) that will test technologies for deployable antennas. Once in orbit, R3D2 will deploy a Kapton membrane that will expand to a diameter of 2.25 meters to demonstrate the ability to small satellites to carry large deployable antennas …
In the next two years, the US Navy wants to deploy a 60-kilowatt Helios combat laser aboard a guided-missile destroyer. In 2021, they will install a High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical-dazzler with Surveillance weapon system aboard a West Coast Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA destroyer. Above – the 20-kilowatt laser that installed 5 years ago …
The Sikorsky-Boeing #SB1 DEFIANT™ helicopter completed its first flight on March 21, 2019. This next generation vehicle will have twice the speed and twice the range of helicopters. Its two coaxial main rotors and a rear mounted pusher propulsor, DEFIANT is unlike production rotorcraft available today. It represents a leap forward in technology to achieve …
In 2020, the US military will spend nearly a quarter of trillion dollars to buy military weapons and hardware. The Navy will get the most at about $70 billion, then the air force at $57 billion. SOURCES- DOD Budget Written by Brian Wang Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science …
The goal of Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Mike Griffin, is making megawatt lasers, hypersonic weapons and directed energy weapons. Griffin wants * megawatt lasers in space for space control * 75 kilowatts on top of the Stryker armored vehicles * 100 kilowatts on the Littoral Combat Ship * a couple of …
The picture above is California Highway sign is from the quarterly Metro Transportation Commission report. I have personally never seen the digital sign mention the Flex Fastrak transponder. You will see below the large highway sign a tiny 2 foot tall by one-foot wide sign. The bottom half of that sign mentions that Flex Fastrack …
Stanford has a new measurement technique for quantum dots. Uncertainty about the quality of quantum dots are holding back the use of quantum dots. Above – A close-up artist’s rendering of quantum dots emitting light they’ve absorbed. (Image credit: Ella Marushchenko) Quantum dots are strikingly defect-tolerant. The measurement technique is the first to firmly resolve …
Verizon is launching 5G in Chicago and Minneapolis and then they will follow with 30 more US cities. The Verizon 5G will only be available in a few parts of those first cities. Service will start April 11, 2019. The 5G service will be $10 per month on top of a regular unlimited data plan. …
Russia has modernized 35 brigades (over 80,000 soldiers) active military combat personnel with new body armor and weapons. Russia calls this equipment Ratnik-2. Russia is promising to develop Ratnik-3 which would be advanced combat exoskeletons, UAVs and combat robots. The US has also been developing combat exoskeletons. Russia and the USA have had small field …