This is the experience of hang gliding. The hang glider's wing, called a delta wing or Rogallo wing, is an outgrowth of NASA engineer Francis Rogallo's research on kites and parachutes in the 1960s. Rogallo had proposed the wing as a method of returning spacecraft to Earth. The ...
The Patriot missile has been in development by the U.S. army since the early 1960s. The Army activated its first Patriot missile battalion in May 1982. John Hamilton, Army The MIM-104 Patriot (Phased Array Tracking Radar to Intercept On Target) missile system is the U.S. Army's main...
Soon after Röntgen's discovery, a French scientist named Henri Becquerel attempted to figure out where X-rays came from, and in the process found that uranium emitted a powerful "ray." Marie Curie based her doctoral research on Becquerel's findings, which led to her discovery of radium [...
At the heart of every AI-driven chess system is a powerful chess engine. This engine is the combination of search algorithms, evaluation functions, and, in more advanced cases, machine learning techniques. Chess engines have become the ultimate players in the game, consistently outperforming even ...
Early February 24, 2022, most Ukrainians wake up to powerful explosions and the rumble of rockets, feeling of shaking ground and buildings’ walls, calling their relatives in a panic, and gathering their things. Social networks and pro-Russian media already wrote about the capitulation of Kyiv....
the Defense Production Act will force developers of powerful AI systems to send the government information about the results before the new version gets released to the general public. Number two, the government will hire more AI experts across federal agencies. Numbe...
E.g. deepfake satire heightens public awareness of the technology (Klingenmaier, 2020), criticizes the powerful, and contributes to public debate. Other prosocial uses include political activism and public awareness campaigns, educational deepfakes, e.g., in museums or schools, and political art (...
In 1918, the Bolshevik regime launched a state-sanctioned campaign of mass killings and detentions to silence political enemies—laying the foundation for decades of violence in the U.S.S.R.
the reality of losing over 50 percent of my household income overnight, and not really having a strong plan to deal with that. Then it becomes the emotional aspect of reintegrating with a family unit that has learned to live and operate without you and is functioni...
The Russian attempt to take Kyiv was defeated by a combination of factors including geography, the attackers’ blundering, Ukrainian ingenuity and modern arms — as well as smartphones: used for the first time in military history as weapons powerful in their own way as rockets and artillery. ...