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The Lithuanian government has decided to temporarily close two border crossing points with Belarus starting August 18. On August 16, the government decided to temporarily close the checkpoints near the villages of Šumskas and Tvereciūs. Currently, mostly passenger cars and empty trucks pass through these points. Earlier, the head of the customs department, Darius Zvironas, […]
OpenAI believes that GPT-4 can replace tens of thousands of moderators and still be almost as accurate and more consistent. The developers claim that they are already using the language model to create and refine their own policies, label content, and make decisions. OpenAI described three main advantages over traditional approaches to content moderation. First, […]
The Mercedes-Benz EQE Saloon electric sedan with a new equipment package is now ready for highly automated operation and self-parking. From now on, the driver of the Mercedes-Benz EQE Saloon can pull into a parking lot, get out of the car and send it to a pre-booked parking space using his smartphone. This not only […]
Engineers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a humanoid robot that can fly an airplane without the need to modify the cockpit. The Pibot robot can move its arms and fingers to operate the flight instruments on the airplane. External cameras allow Pibot to monitor the condition of the […]
The Sirius strike drone developed by the Russian company Kronstadt made its first flight. This was reported to TASS by the developers of the aircraft. Later, a video of the first flight of an attack drone was posted online. Details “Sirius is the successor to Orion. Its model was first shown to the general public […]
On August 11, around 23:00, ten unmanned Cruise cars paralyzed traffic in the central part of San Francisco. The incident occurred just after the California authorities allowed the company to expand the use of robot cars in the city. Traffic was stopped for at least 15 minutes. According to the company, the failure occurred due […]
The US military has received a long-range tool by combining an unmanned vehicle and a launcher from a destroyer At the end of July 2023, the US Marine Corps revealed that it had received a remotely controlled Long Range Fires Launcher (LRFL) for Tomahawk cruise missiles. It was a historic event in some ways, because […]
On August 14, the UK Ministry of Defense announced the interception of two Russian strategic aircraft. They flew near the Shetland Islands in search of American and British nuclear submarines. What is known The Royal Air Force of Great Britain used Eurofighter Typhoon fighters for the interception. The Russian planes turned out to be a […]
On August 15, Warsaw hosts a major military parade dedicated to the Day of the Polish Army, featuring new and modernized models of equipment This was reported by Espresso journalist Maria Chernyakhivska. “The military parade has already started. The Polish military band is already playing, and the first persons of the state are already being […]
The Russian L-39 crashed during a scheduled training flight, with Colonel Vadim Gurov and senior flight instructor Mikhail Lipatkin on board. The Russian army has lost its L-39 training aircraft. Yesterday, August 14, propaganda media, citing the Russian Defense Ministry, reported that a Russian plane had crashed. As noted, the L-39 crashed near an airfield […]