Machines now outperform humans in face recognition and object recognition and are in the process of revolutionizing numerous vision-based tasks such as driving, security monitoring, and so on. Machine vision is now superhuman. These modified pictures are called adversarial images, and they are a significant threat. “An adversarial example for the face recognition domain might …
Tesla CEO Elon Musk claims that about half of the approximately one million people globally who died in auto accidents last year would have been saved if the Tesla Autopilot was universally available. There was one fatal crash on May 7, 2016 with a person using the Tesla autopilot. Up until mid-May, 2016 Tesla reported …
Sterling Anderson, lead of development for Tesla’s self-driving Autopilot technology, said that Tesla eschews the concept of model years used by other automakers. When new features are ready, they are put straight into the models already in production, he said. “Our vehicles will receive the latest technology when we have it,” said Anderson. “Models S …
GA has committed more than USD50 million of internal funding to develop its next railgun weapon system GA hopes that its successful development will increase US Navy and US Army interest General Atomics (GA) told IHS Jane’s that it will have committed significant company funds to develop its 10 megajoule (MJ) Multimission Medium Range Railgun …
The GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is a U.S. Air Force, precision-guided, 30,000-pound (14,000 kg) “bunker buster” bomb. This is substantially larger than the deepest penetrating bunker busters previously available, the 5,000-pound (2,300 kg) GBU-28 and GBU-37. In 2012, the Pentagon requested $82 million to develop greater penetration power for the existing weapon. A 2013 …
The GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is a U.S. Air Force, precision-guided, 30,000-pound (14,000 kg) “bunker buster” bomb. This is substantially larger than the deepest penetrating bunker busters previously available, the 5,000-pound (2,300 kg) GBU-28 and GBU-37. In 2012, the Pentagon requested $82 million to develop greater penetration power for the existing weapon. A 2013 …
A startup company called Hyperloop Technologies is trying to develop Elon Musks Hyperloop transportation system. They aveg $100 million of venture capital. Josh Giegel, vice president of design and analysis at Hyperloop Tech indicates they have developed a tube, robots, a length of track, and various pieces of the electromagnetic propulsion system. A couple of …
Production of the Lockheed Martin F22 Raptor stealth fighter jet was stopped in 2011 because it was considered too expensive. There have not been any controversies about the combat capabilities of the F-22. This is unlike the F-35 which is expensive and where requirements for a US Marine version with vertical takeoff capability made a …
Doctors implanted a chip in Mr. Burkhart’s (24 year old with a 5 year old neck injury) brain two years ago. Seated in a lab with the implant connected through a computer to a sleeve on his arm, he was able to learn by repetition and arduous practice to focus his thoughts to make his …
Terrestrial Energy announced that it is submitting its Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) design to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) for Phase I of its pre-licensing Vendor Design Review. During the course of this review, which is an optional feedback process offered by the CNSC, Terrestrial Energy will be demonstrating that the design meets …
Lightbridge Corporation has received final regulatory approval for irradiation testing of its metallic fuel at Norway’s Halden research reactor. The company has also entered an agreement with US fabricator BWXT Nuclear Energy to evaluate the possible fabrication of fuel samples at BWXT’s US facilities. Reston, Virginia-based Lightbridge announced on 12 January that the operator of …