DefenseNews

To Defeat Enemy Drone Swarms, Troops May Have to Take a Back Seat to Machines, General Says

January 26, 2021
Sgt. Nicholas Maxim, acting as a member of the opposing force, builds and launches a simulated drone swarm during Exercise Dynamic Front 18 at the Joint Multinational Simulation Center, Grafenwoehr, Germany, in March, 2018. (U.S. Army/Staff Sgt. Kathleen V. Polanco, 7th Army Training Command) The Army‘s top modernization official said Monday that the Pentagon may have to relax its rules on…
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NewsPhotography

This Mirror Lens Filter Lets Models See Their Own Poses

January 26, 2021
Inexperienced models often struggle in front of the camera because they lack insight into their own appearance. While we all can look our best in front of a mirror, it’s because we can see ourselves. This filter aims to bring that ease of posing to photography. While…
DefenseNews

Newest Bradley fielding delayed as Army works to fix battery problem

January 26, 2021
WASHINGTON — The Army is testing a solution to address overheating and toxic gas production in the newest version of the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle’s turret battery, but its release has been delayed by almost a year, the service’s program office told Defense News. The problem was discovered during the Army Test and Evaluation Command-run Full Operational Test and Evaluation at Fort…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Quick Charge Podcast: January 25, 2021

January 26, 2021
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
MobileNews

Google Lens for Android rolling out offline translate capability

January 26, 2021
Since last year, Google has been working on letting you perform translations in its visual search tool without an internet connection. Google Lens is now rolling out offline translate on Android. Open the Translate filter and click the ‘pairing’ pill underneath “Google Lens” to open a “Select language” screen. On first launch, you’ll notice a “Tap to download” prompt…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Researchers propose LEAF, a frontend for developing AI classification algorithms

January 26, 2021
In machine learning, mel-filterbanks — fixed, hand-engineered representations of sound — are often used to train algorithms that classify sound. Decades after the design of mel-filterbanks, research shows that they exhibit desirable mathematical properties for representation learning; in other words, they represent strong audio features. But the design of mel-filterbanks is also flawed by…
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