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The Chinese company Poly Technologies has demonstrated the Silent Hunter laser defense system at the Defence Services Asia (DSA) 2024 exhibition. It is installed on a military truck, Defence News reports. This system is called an improved version of the 30-kilowatt Low Altitude Laser Assault System (LASS) and is available in both stationary and mobile […]
The company that developed ChatGPT and DALL-E has created a tool for recognizing images generated by artificial intelligence. Currently, the classifier works only with the results created by OpenAI’s own DALL-E 3 image generator – but with high accuracy. During internal testing, the tool correctly identified “artificial” images in 98% of cases. The classifier is […]
Mayman Aerospace has unveiled the first full-scale model of its new Razor P100 vertical takeoff and landing drone. The Razor P100 drone is capable of carrying a payload of up to 45 kg. Following this model, Mayman plans to introduce the P500, designed for a payload of 220 kg and potentially scalable to a payload […]
The Romanian government is ready to discuss with its partners the transfer of Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine. This was announced by Romanian President Klaus Iohannis during a briefing with journalists after a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden on May 7. “President Biden mentioned this … during our meeting, and I said I […]
Engineers from Corning (maker of Gorilla Glass), the Spanish Catalan Institute of Research (ICREA), and the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) have developed a new coating for smartphone glass that can kill bacteria on its own. The invention is called “transparent nanostructured copper surface” (TANCS). Science has long known about the antibacterial properties of copper. […]
The army of the occupiers continues to build up “sheds” based on T-72s with more and more diverse designs. One of the latest versions of this pepelats, discovered in the enemy’s ranks, in addition to a solid protective structure made of metal sheets, received a “nawar” of anti-drone grill grates. Such “tricks” of the aggressor’s […]
Microsoft is working on a new language model of artificial intelligence called MAI-1, which could potentially compete with the most advanced models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI. This is the first time Microsoft has developed its own AI model of this scale after investing more than $10 billion in OpenAI. GPT-4 works not only in […]
All of this is especially important in a context where there are more and more drones in the sky, and it is all the more difficult to distinguish between your own and the one that needs to be “landed” Lieutenant Colonel Michael Pruden, an officer of the US Marine Corps, told reporters during the annual […]
Poland will continue to pay for the Starlink terminals it provided to Ukraine. This was agreed upon by the ministers of the two countries during a meeting, Fedorov writes. Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Federov and Deputy Prime Minister of Poland Krzysztof Gawkowski have agreed on a strategic partnership on digitalization. Poland, which has provided […]
The occupiers showed footage of the interception of a Ukrainian maritime drone with R-73 anti-aircraft missiles that attacked Russian aircraft in the Black Sea. The video was published by Russian media. In the video, a Ukrainian maritime drone performs maneuvers to evade fire from a Russian Ka-29 helicopter. An important aspect of this event is […]