There are aspects of effective airplane security strategy that can be replicated with School, public education and hospital security. Reinforced cockpit doors and secondary barriers are one of the most cost effective and effective measures for deterring and foiling hijackings. There are companies offering military grade security doors that designed to look like ordinary doors. …
Robin Hanson and Scott Aaronson (Quantum Computer Professor and Expert) debate AI Safety. Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He is known for his work on idea futures and markets, and he was involved in the …
The recent major human exploitable flaws found in the AI Go programs show several things about the nature of the neural net AI. 1. The complex patterns and dynamics in the numeric weights are very useful. They can go beyond human capabilities on many and maybe most tasks. 2. There is no actual understanding of …
The National Transportation Safety Board issued Monday the preliminary report for its ongoing investigation of the fatal, April 17, 2021, crash of a 2019 Tesla Model S near Spring, Texas. Human Driver in Crash Footage from the owner’s home security cameras show the owner entering the driver’s seat and the passenger entering the front passenger …
Drexler and the Oxford Future of Humanity Institute proposing that artificial intelligence is mainly emerging as cloud-based AI services and a 210-page paper analyzes how AI is developing today. AI development is developing automation of many tasks and automation of AI research and development will enable acceleration of AI improvement. Accelerated AI improvement would mean …
AirMap is the world’s leading airspace management platform for drones, supporting more than 100,000 drone flights per day. The only platform that powers millions of flights today with APIs and SDKs built for tomorrow. Millions of drones, hundreds of drone manufacturers and developers, and hundreds of airspace managers and stakeholders rely on AirMap’s airspace intelligence …
The U-Battery consortium, led by Urenco, has registered its micro-modular reactor technology for pre-licensing vendor design review with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC). U-Battery is a ‘micro’ nuclear reactor which will be able to produce local power and heat for a range of energy needs, mainly targeting the markets for industrial power units and …
Space Adventures has sent seven people to the international space station NASA pays the Russian space agency Roscosmos about $81 million and change for a round-trip ticket in a Soyuz capsule. The latest five seats NASA bought in bulk were a little cheaper, about $74.7 million per seat. NASA estimates that a round-trip ticket to …
A UN report outlines how the increasing use of industrial automation is impacting jobs in developing countries, and what strategies may help in overcoming the problem. Advanced countries, China and developing countries all have to add more automation and robots and the supporting infrastructure and education in order to enable lower manufacturing costs Key points …
The United States military had problems in the Vietnam war but introduced precision guided weapons in the first Gulf war. Russia’s air force cannot match the United States in terms of the number of 5th generation planes. This primarily matters in terms of a WW3 or pre-WW3 showdown. However, Russia’s nuclear weapons and conventional capability …
The first production HondaJet achieved its initial flight, marking another milestone toward aircraft certification and entry into service in 2015. The event took place at the company’s world headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina. “With this first flight, the HondaJet program has entered the next exciting phase as we prepare for delivery,” said Honda Aircraft Company …