On 17th January, Fine Art, a Go playing computer made by Tencent, defeated human Go Champion Ke Jie 9P in 77 moves after giving two stones handicap on Foxweiqi. Ke Jie admitted that Fine Art’s was as strong as him after giving two stones handicap. After level-up on 10th January, Fine Art has played 34 …
Cosco Shipping Ports and China Merchants Port Holdings have gone on a buying cargo terminals in the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic rim. In January 2018, Cosco finalized the takeover of the terminal in Zeebrugge, Belgium’s second-biggest port, marking the Chinese firm’s first bridgehead in northwestern Europe. Belt and Road project funding …
US Army, marines and special forces will be getting improved training through virtual reality and improved real-world drills and new drones for scouting and air support. In the 1970s there was a revolution in shoulder-launched missiles to kill tanks and planes. Today, the breakthrough lies in small unmanned systems — miniature drones in the near …
Kitty Hawk is a flying car funded by Google co-founder Larry Page and it will begin the regulatory approval process required for launching its autonomous passenger-drone system in New Zealand. The firm’s two-person craft, called Cora, is a 12-rotor plane-drone hybrid that can take off vertically like a drone, but then uses a propeller at …
ICON has built the first permitted 3D printed home in America. ICON is one of the first new businesses to launch from the Saturn Five startup studio, based in Austin, TX. The home was unveiled in March 2018 in Austin, TX and was built using a prototype of the mobile printer ICON is creating for …
Billionaire-turned-explorer Paul Allen has discovered the missing wreck of the World War II carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) at the bottom of the Coral Sea. The crew of his personal research ship R/V Petrel found the missing ship two miles below the surface and about 500 miles off the eastern coast of Australia, he announced on …
Elon Musk said at SXSW that the first SpaceX BFR that could travel to Mars is now in production. He hopes it will be able to do short, “up and down” flights in the first half of 2019. Jeff Bezos indicates that he is the process of converting some of his Amazon shares (lottery winnings) …
Commercial drones in the U.S. are expected to begin limited package deliveries within months, according to federal regulators and industry officials. According to a Federal Aviation Association official at the FAA Symposium, there are 10 times more drones registered in the US than manned aircraft. FAA’s websit describes the Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) …
China had listed numerous AI and industrial goals in a set of nationwide plans at the end of 2017. By 2020, one the goals is to develop a home-grown 600 kilometer per hour (373 mph) maglev train. China laid out other goals in a 12-page summary plan. Other goals by 2020, the level of intelligent …
The US Missile Defense Agency needs orbiting sensors to track hypersonic threats. Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves told the McAleese/Credit Suisse conference that satellites would use mature technology and could perform other surveillance missions to help justify their cost. ICBMs have followed smooth ballistic path trajectories which are easy to track. Increasing use of countermeasures on …
The automation of production is accelerating around the world: 74 robot units per 10,000 employees is the new average of global robot density in the manufacturing industries (2015: 66 units). By regions, the average robot density in Europe is 99 units, in the Americas 84 and in Asia 63 units. Between 2010 and 2016, the …