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Falconhell writes:
Two hikers who veered off a walking track in Kosciuszko national park have been found within five hours using a drone powered by artificial intelligence, a first-of-its-kind mission, Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) has said.
https://www.theguardian.com/au...
The two men, aged in their 20s, were reported missing at 7pm on Tuesday evening after they failed to return to a rendezvous point on time.
FRNSW’s remote air piloted system was put into the air, and was able to use thermal imaging to find the hikers who had been walking the Dead Horse Gap track, about 35km south-west of Jindabyne.
At the same time, the hikers used a red light on a mobile phone to attract the drone in the dark.
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Falconhell writes:
The Gaurdian reports on a document leak from Russian cyber “security” company Vulkan.
“ Inside the six-storey building, a new generation is helping Russian military operations. Its weapons are more advanced than those of Peter the Great’s era: not pikes and halberds, but hacking and disinformation tools.
The software engineers behind these systems are employees of NTC Vulkan. On the surface, it looks like a run-of-the-mill cybersecurity consultancy. However, a leak of secret files from the company has exposed its work bolstering Vladimir Putin’s cyberwarfare capabilities.”
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Falconhell writes:
The Guardian article shows despite the best efforts of medical science, it seems Dogs are better than testing at detecting Covid.
“ Trained canines detected Covid in 97% of symptomatic cases and nearly 100% of asymptomatic cases”
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
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Falconhell writes:
An interesting new approach to help target Tumour destroying virus.
https://www.theguardian.com/sc...
‘’ Scientists are developing magnetically guided microscopic projectiles that can be injected into patients’ blood to attack breast, prostate and other tumours.
The project – led by researchers at Sheffield University – builds on progress in two key medical fields. The first involves viruses that specifically attack tumours. The second focuses on soil bacteria that manufacture magnets which they use to align themselves in the Earth’s magnetic field.
“The essence of this approach is straightforward: we are using bugs as drugs,” said Dr Munitta Muthana, one of the project’s leaders. “We are taking a class of viruses that naturally target tumours and are developing ways to help them reach internal tumours by exploiting bacteria that make magnets. It’s a twin approach and it has a lot of promise, we believe.”
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Falconhell writes:
In an ironic turn of events, Boeing wants to skip some phisical certification tests and use only simulations.
Given their current situation, this seems a rather controversial move. https://www.reuters.com/articl...
https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
