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  Ottawa (AFP) Nov 12, 2018 Douglas Rain, the Canadian actor who voiced vengeful supercomputer HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," a precursor of artificial intelligence in smartphones, has died. He was 90. According to the Stratford Festival, a repertory theatre festival of which he was a founding member, Rain died in hospital near Toronto of natural causes Sunday morning. "Canadian theatre has lost one of its greatest talents and a guiding light in its development," the festival's artistic director Ant ... read more |
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First Angara A5V Heavy-Class Rocket Launch to Take Place in 2026 - RoscosmosMoscow (Sputnik) Nov 13, 2018 The first heavy-lift Angara A5V carrier rocket equipped with a hydrogen space tug will be launched from the Vostochny space center in Russia's Far East in 2026, Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said o ... more  
China releases smart solution for verifying reliability of space equipment componentsBeijing (XNA) Nov 13, 2018 The Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a smart solution for verifying the operational reliability of space equipment compone ... more  
Raytheon tapped for SM-3 Block IIA missile guidance systemsWashington (UPI) Nov 9, 2018 Raytheon Missile Systems is being awarded $74.8 million for procurement of guidance systems for the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA anti-ballistic missile interceptor. ... more  
Batteryless smart devices closer to realityWaterloo, Canada (SPX) Nov 08, 2018 Researchers at the University of Waterloo have taken a huge step towards making smart devices that do not use batteries or require charging. These battery-free objects, which feature an IP add ... more |
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Autonomous vehicles could shape the future of urban tourismGuildford UK (SPX) Nov 08, 2018 In the first study of its kind, published in the Annals of Tourism Research, academics from the University of Surrey and the University of Oxford have examined how Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) may have ... more 
From Quantum Optics to Increased Risk Posture: Student Innovations at NASAGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 08, 2018 Throughout space, hundreds of satellites are orbiting Earth and other celestial planets, continuously collecting data about the vast universe. Communicating with these satellites is a complex and ev ... more 
DARPA, Army select companies to develop hypersonic missile propulsionWashington (UPI) Nov 12, 2018 A joint program by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency and U.S. Army Operational Fires has selected three companies to develop and demonstrate a ground-launched propulsion system for hypersonic missiles. ... more  
'Autonomous Warrior': UK Army Conducts its Largest Test of Battlefield RobotsLondon, UK (Sputnik) Nov 13, 2018 The exercises are but the latest in a series of noticeable efforts by the British military establishment to increase know-how in the realm of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotic weapons technol ... more 
Rocket Lab reaches orbit again, deploys more satellitesAuckland, New Zealand (SPX) Nov 11, 2018 Rocket Lab has continued the success of its 2018 orbital launch program with the launch of seven payloads to orbit today. The mission, named 'It's Business Time,' marks Rocket Lab's second successfu ... more |
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 World's first 'Quantum' compass will supersede GPS 
Fleet Space Technologies' first satellites launched by Rocket LabMahia Peninsula, New Zealand (SPX) Nov 11, 2018 Fleet Space Technologies' first two satellites, Proxima I and II, were launched todau onboard Rocket Lab's manifest, It's Business Time. This launch marks Australia's first ever commercial CubeSats ... more  |
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Tunisia to host 2nd forum on China-Arab BeiDou cooperationBeijing (XNA) Nov 12, 2018 The second forum on BeiDou cooperation between China and Arab countries will be held in the first half of 2019 in Tunisia, sources at the 13th Meeting of the International Committee on Global Naviga ... more 
Air Force taps Rockwell for jam-resistant GPS navigation systemsWashington (UPI) Nov 12, 2018 The U.S. Air Force has selected Rockwell Collins to provide the Digital GPS Anti-Jam Receiver for Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve F-16 fighter aircraft. ... more 
Finnish PM: Jammed GPS signals may be work of RussiaHelsinki (AFP) Nov 12, 2018 Russia denied Monday being behind the recent disruption to GPS signals across Lapland which put civil aviation at risk, after Finland's prime minister said the interference was "almost certainly deliberate". ... more  
US fighter jet crashes off Japan's Okinawa, crew rescuedTokyo (AFP) Nov 12, 2018 A US navy fighter jet crashed into the sea off Japan's southern island of Okinawa on Monday and its two crew members were rescued alive, Japan's defence ministry said. ... more 
Gripen E fighter successfully test fires Meteor missileWashington (UPI) Nov 12, 2018 A Gripen E air superiority fighter successfully completed a test launch of Meteor Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile for the first time. ... more |
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 Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Nov 12, 2018 
Researchers at the Center for Quantum Nanoscience (QNS) within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) achieved a major breakthrough in shielding the quantum properties of single atoms on a surface. The scientists used the magnetism of single atoms, known as spin, as a basic building block for quantum information processing. The researchers could show that by packing two atoms closely together the ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 7, 2018 
The National Security Agency has granted Harris Corporation Type-1 certification for its AN/PRC-163 handheld networked encrypted radio approved for transmitting top secret classified information.
The certification, announced Tuesday by Harris, permits the radio to transmit voice and data including full motion video up to top secret level on both channels for VHF/UHF line of sight, SATCO ... more |
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 Helsinki (AFP) Nov 12, 2018 
Russia denied Monday being behind the recent disruption to GPS signals across Lapland which put civil aviation at risk, after Finland's prime minister said the interference was "almost certainly deliberate".
Finnish prime minister Juha Sipila told state broadcaster YLE on Sunday that "civil air safety has been endangered" by the GPS interference.
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 Tokyo (AFP) Nov 12, 2018 
A US navy fighter jet crashed into the sea off Japan's southern island of Okinawa on Monday and its two crew members were rescued alive, Japan's defence ministry said.
The fighter jet crashed some 250 kilometres (156 miles) east-southeast of Okinawa's capital city Naha at around 11:45 am (0245 GMT), said Osamu Kosakai, spokesman for the ministry's Okinawa defence bureau.
Its two crew mem ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 05, 2018 
Parallelism - or the act of several processors simultaneously executing on an application or computation - has been increasingly embraced by the microelectronics industry as a way of sustaining demand for increased system performance.
Today, parallel computing architectures have become pervasive across all application domains and system scales - from multicore processing units in consumer ... more |
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 Guildford, UK (SPX) Nov 13, 2018 
Optical Surfaces Ltd. has received an order from Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) for two high precision reference mirrors to accelerate the precise alignment and testing of their Earth Observation Satellite Telescopes.
Based in Guildford, UK, Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) manufacture and operate small to medium sized satellites, covering a range of use cases, from tele ... more |
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 New Delhi (AFP) Nov 8, 2018 
Indian police arrested hundreds of revellers after a frenzied night of festival fireworks turned city air toxic nationwide on Thursday despite a preemptive court ban on the smog-fuelling party.
More than 300 people were arrested in Delhi, the world's most polluted major city, where the Supreme Court had restricted public fireworks to two hours in the evening and insisted on use of cleaner "g ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 13, 2018 
The Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a smart solution for verifying the operational reliability of space equipment components on Friday.
The selection of space equipment components involves reliability verification, data collection, transmission and comparison.
The smart solution will help shorten the time to ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 2, 2018 
U.S. Army has signed a deal to supply the Romanian government with three Raytheon defense systems.
Romania will use the new Patriot Air and Missile Defense Systems - the country's second order of the systems in the last two years - to deter any any threats to its borders.
The Patriot is a surface-to-air missile provides the "backbone" to the missile defense capabilities used by ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 9, 2018 
Raytheon Missile Systems is being awarded $74.8 million for procurement of guidance systems for the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA anti-ballistic missile interceptor.
The modification to an existing contract for the SM-3 IIA, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, will provide for Guidance Electronics Unit,or GEU, Phase III procurement along with testing,qualification and integr ... more |
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 Edinburgh UK (SPX) Nov 12, 2018 
An inexpensive way to make products incorporating nanoparticles - such as high-performance energy devices or sophisticated diagnostic tests - has been developed by researchers.
The process could speed the commercial development of devices, materials and technologies that exploit the physical properties of nanoparticles, which are thousands of times thinner than a human hair.
The part ... more |
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 London, UK (Sputnik) Nov 13, 2018 
The exercises are but the latest in a series of noticeable efforts by the British military establishment to increase know-how in the realm of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotic weapons technologies.
The British Army has started an unprecedentedly large testing of battlefield robots, according to the Daily Mail.
The event, dubbed the 'Autonomous Warrior 2018,' will last for abou ... more |
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 Guildford UK (SPX) Nov 08, 2018 
In the first study of its kind, published in the Annals of Tourism Research, academics from the University of Surrey and the University of Oxford have examined how Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) may have a substantial impact on the future of urban tourism.
When we think of automated vehicles it seems to be a topic that sits firmly in science fiction, from cars with character in The Love Bug (19 ... more |
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