Feb 10, 2021
The Army wants to expand its existing smart base transportation testbed at Fort Carson, Colo., to include smart traffic and weather artificial intelligence platforms.
Fort Carson’s testbed already includes a 4G/5G network, an autonomous vehicle shuttle for personnel and drone airfield services for debris detection and analysis. Now the Army plans to leverage the existing testbed and expand into the Colorado Springs local community with sensor deployment, data integration and the development of AI models and decision dashboards that integrate traffic and weather-related information.
The Army Corps of Engineers announced on Feb. 1 that it will be partnering with US Ignite in a follow-on contract to R&D work the nonprofit performed on the smart transportation platform. The initial project also gave the Army the opportunity to experiment with AI, data analytics and edge computing.
First Arab Nation: UAE Hope Orbiter Reaches Mars Published February 10th, 2021 - 12:42 GMT
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A United Arab Emirates spacecraft, the Mars orbiter Hope, successfully entered orbit around the Red Planet about 11 a.m. EST Tuesday.
The probe is the first since NASA s Insight lander in November 2018 to reach the planet. The successful arrival at Mars makes the UAE the fifth nation to reach Mars, following the United States, Russia, China and India.
After all of these years, it s been achieved, today, by the UAE, and it is just an incredible moment. It s such an honor to have such a moment, Fahad Al Mheiri, an executive director with the UAE Space Agency, said during a live broadcast.
The February 9 kickoff to Donald Trump Impeachment 2.0 at the U.S. Capitol the site of the deadly January 6 insurrection that prompted the current action against the former president was a blend of the profound and the embarrassing. Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin s heartbreakingly personal account of the attack, which took place the day after he buried his late son Tommy, was immensely moving, while the performance by Bruce Castor and David Schoen, Trump s legal team, was a clown-car crash.
But the appearance of Joe Neguse, the representative for Colorado s 2nd Congressional District, was particularly striking. As one of lead impeachment manager Raskin s chief lieutenants and an attorney by training, Neguse was tasked with presenting a rebuttal to utterly specious claims that Trump couldn t be put on trial by the U.S. Senate because he d already left office. And at the end of Neguse s presentation, one thing was abundantly clear: A new national political star had been bor
February 10, 2021, 7:01 pm
Scientists behind the project hope the technology could be used everyday wearables within five and 10 years (Xiao Lab/PA)
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Scientists have developed a mini-wearable device that is capable of charging up using heat from the human body.
The stretchy gadget can be worn as a ring or a bracelet, employing generators to convert the body’s internal temperature into electricity.
At the moment, the technology can only produce about one volt of energy for every square centimetre of skin space, which is less than what most existing batteries provide but could still be enough for small electronics such as a watch or fitness tracker.
In a move that will give chills to fans of the dystopian movie "The Matrix", scientists have developed a wearable device that could use the human body to replace batteries.