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Looking to bring lighter, more powerful and less expensive systems for various applications such as communications, radar or guidance systems, DARPA said this week it had recently demonstrated an all-silicon, microchip-sized system on a chip that runs at 94 GHz. DARPA claims that this chip is the first time a silicon-only package has achieved such a high frequency, which falls in the millimeter-wave range.
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coondoggie writes:
The FBI and Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) are warning businesses to be on the lookout for growing scam that tricks them into paying invoices from established that look legitimate but in fact are fraudulent.
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coondoggie writes:
While Video has become ubiquitous thanks mostly to smartphones it doesn’t mean you want to actually watch all of it. Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists say they have invented a video highlighting technique called LiveLight that can automatically pick out action in videos shot by smartphones, GoPro cameras or Google Glass users.
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coondoggie writes:
As more and more infotainment and crash avoidance technology gets stuffed to cars and trucks, the need for better, faster and more reliable in-car networking equipment grows. In theory at least. With an eye towards that concept the IEEE this week said it formed the 802.3 Single Twisted Pair 100 Mb/s Ethernet Study Group to explore the technological needs for a 100 Mb/s speed for Ethernet in automotive networking.
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coondoggie writes:
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence will next month hold a Proposers Day to explain one of its new projects it says could revolutionize machine intelligence by constructing algorithms that utilize the same data representations, transformations, and learning rules as those employed and implemented by the brain.
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coondoggie writes:
When you are on a 3 billion mile trip through the universe at over 34,000 mph, you might need a check-up or two to make sure everything is function right. That’s exactly what’s going on this week as NASA said it will soon update and checkout its Pluto-bound spacecraft known as New Horizons. Mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory will begin the spacecraft’s eighth check-up since the satellite launched in 2006. It will be the last before next year’s rendezvous with Pluto.
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coondoggie writes:
The Federal Trade Commission is taking its fight against robocallers to the upcoming DEFCON by challenging attendees of the conference to build the ultimate “honeypot” that would lure in and identify illegal phone spammers.
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coondoggie writes:
NASA took the next step in forming a large-scale, $3 million competition to build advanced propulsion and communications technologies for small, inexpensive satellite systems known as cubesats. The Cubesat Lunar Challenge will be broken up into two areas: propulsion and communication while in orbit around the moon. In Request For Information published this week, NASA said the two challenges would provide competitive opportunities for a variety of competition teams to deploy cubesats on a NASA or third-party provided launch.
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coondoggie writes:
This one sounds a little like something Wile E Coyote might order from the Acme Co. to stop the Roadrunner. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced that it is looking for information on the best way to build what it called a “ a compact system that can expand into a large structure, like a web, wall, blockade or barrier, without human intervention.
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coondoggie writes:
echnical, regulatory and social issues must be overcome if unmanned aircraft are to be successfully integrated into US public airspace. Those were the main conclusions in a report issued this week by the National Research Council. The 92-page report that identifies key barriers and provides research recommendations that could help answer the serious questions about how drones will be safely and efficiently integrated into the existing civil aviation structure.
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coondoggie writes:
The FBI today said it was making national a pilot program it tried out in 12 locations earlier this year that offers up to a $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of anyone who intentionally aims a laser at an aircraft. The FBI says that in the pilot locations there has been a 19% decrease in the number of reported laser-to-aircraft incidents. Those locations included Albuquerque, Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City and Philadelphia.
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coondoggie writes:
NASA wants to send ever-heavier spacecraft – along with humans at some point – to Mars and to make that feasible it will need a system that can slow down that equipment for a safe landing. Taking some of the first step to develop that system will be a distinctly flying saucer-like test vehicle that will some time in the next two week blast off from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii for what NASA calls its first engineering shakeout flight.
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coondoggie writes:
It seems likely most people would know if they had done something that would warrant their arrest but that apparently isn't stopping scammers from trying. The US Federal Court System today issued a warning about scammers using the threat of arrest unless of course you pay them off. The fake arrest warrants have been reported across the country, including in the District Courts for the Southern District of Ohio, Southern District of Illinois, New Mexico, Western District of Kentucky, Utah, the District of Columbia, and throughout Florida. Anyone demanding or obtaining money or anything of value while impersonating an officer or employee of the United States may be fined and/or imprisoned up to three years.
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coondoggie writes:
When satellites die or malfunction they typically begin tumbling in space to a certain death. But no one seems to know why. The European Space Agency has launched a study to figure out this death tumble as part of its effort to clean up orbital debris.
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coondoggie writes:
Google is using machine learning technology to forecast — with an astounding 99.6% accuracy — the energy usage in its data centers and automatically shift power to certain sites when needed.
