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Swarms of insects will destroy crops across Europe and America by 2050 due to global warming

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Crop losses at the hands of swarms of hungry insects could double by 2050 as bug populations thrive in the warmer temperatures brought about by climate change. The crops set to be hit hardest include wheat, maize and rice - particularly in northern climates - say scientists behind the shocking new study. The research predicts that pest-induced crop losses will rise by between 10 and 25 per cent for every 1 F (0.55 C) the planet's surface warms. Farmers should begin grow heat- and insect-resistant produce now in order to prepare for the crop-hungry bugs, scientists warned. The research, from an international team of scientists, used computer models to predict increases in insect populations in a warmer world.


Emerging scientific technologies help defend human rights

Science

AAAS analyst assists a human rights organization in gathering data during an exhumation. Against a backdrop of summer heat and a constant roar of distant howler monkeys, a scientific analyst piloted a drone to collect data from a hillside in northern Guatemala. At his side, anthropologists affiliated with a regional human rights group painstakingly cleared soil and roots from human remains in a mass grave. "Remains contorted, overlapping, interlaced, a cruel, tragic mashup of Hieronymus Bosch and H.R. Giger," noted Jonathan Drake, senior program associate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Geospatial Technologies Project, summoning images from 15th- and 20th-century artists to describe the nightmarish remnants of an atrocity estimated to have occurred sometime after 1980, during Guatemala's lengthy civil war. Clothing with burnt edges stuck to the bones of some.


Dyson invests in electric car market with £200million UK test track

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Household appliance-maker Dyson today (Thursday) announced it is accelerating plans to develop electric cars in Britain – with a £200 million investment in track-testing facilities at its new UK research centre. The firm, which is branching out from its vacuum cleaners and hair driers to take on car giants with a new generation of high-tech electric vehicles, said the move would create'more high-skilled jobs for Britain'. It is being viewed as another vote of confidence in the United Kingdom in the run up to Brexit next Spring. Cleaning up in the electric car market: This artist's impression shows how Dyson's new campus at Hullavington Airfield in Wiltshire could look as it ramps up efforts to produce a range of new electric cars Dyson is currently recruiting an additional 300 automotive engineers on top of the 400 already in place and has said the electric car project could see the firm's present UK workforce nearly double to around 8,000. The battery-powered electric cars are being designed and developed in the UK, however lower labour costs mean final assembly is likely to be in South East Asia where much of the firm's wider electronic and hi-tech production already takes place.


The robot you WEAR: LG unveils its new AI-powered CLOi SuitBot

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Workers of the future could be given a boost thanks to a wearable robotic suit developed by LG. Dubbed CLOi SuitBot, the AI-powered robotic suit boosts the leg movements of its wearer, letting them undertake tasks they normally wouldn't be equipped to handle. The firm says it could to help warehouse workers who have to lift heavy objects. The CLOi SuitBot can communicate with other service robots built by LG to become part of a'smart working network' to co-ordinate around the factory floor. A concept version of the technology was unveiled at a media launch during the annual IFA tech conference, which is held in Berlin from August 31 to September 5. Workers of the future could be given a boost thanks to a wearable robotic suit being developed by LG. SuitBot was designed in collaboration with fellow South Korean firm, SG Robotics.


'Hey Google, ¿Hablas Español?' 'Mais Oui.'

WIRED

Most people on Earth can speak two or more languages, but voice-operated virtual assistants have always forced them to pick and use just one--at least until today. Google Assistant is now the first multilingual virtual assistant. Users can specify that they want listening done in two languages in the app's settings on their phone or Google Home smart speaker. Then, a person can call out requests or commands in either language. Yell "Hey Google, turn off the hallway light!" as you walk out the house, and darkness will fall.


Harish Kashyap K, Machine Learning @ Mysuru Consulting Group

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Opportunities created by AI outweigh imminent threats

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Artificial Intelligence is in the headlines. The immediate future of AI is a lot more complicated -- and promising. AI is either considered to be a giant leap towards modernization or a catalyst for massive unemployment. For the foreseeable future, it will be neither. AI will gradually affect everything we do; it will create more jobs than it destroys, and it will improve everything from customer experience to patient care. It all depends what we do with it.


Big data is reshaping humanity, says Yuval Noah Harari

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Upgrade your inbox and get our Daily Dispatch and Editor's Picks. YUVAL NOAH HARARI may be the first global public intellectual to be native to the 21st century. Where other authors are carpetbaggers, hauling their 20th-century thinking into the new millennium, Mr Harari is its local boy done good. He comes with all the accoutrements of the modern pop thinker: a posh education (Oxford, followed by a teaching gig at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem), two bestsellers and the obligatory TED talk. And he is armed with a big idea: that human beings will change more in the next hundred years than they have in all of their previous existence.


Battlefield V release date delayed as game looks to avoid Red Dead 2 and Call of Duty

The Independent - Tech

Battlefield V is being delayed, and won't come out until 20 November. Developer DICE said that the extra time would allow the game to be improved, and for late feedback to be integrated within the game. But rumours have swirled around other problems for the release. The game was running right into the launch date of the new Call of Duty and Red Dead Redemption 2, a fact that had been blamed for reported low sales of the second world war game. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph.


Dyson reveals plans to test out its electric cars on real roads

The Independent - Tech

Dyson has unveiled plans for a huge test track that will allow it to test out its new electric cars on real roads. The company has long been known to be working on a battery-powered vehicle that it is aiming to launch in 2021. It will have spent billions of pounds on the plan when it is released. That openness stands in contrast with rivals like Apple, which has long been rumoured to be working on its own vehicle but has refused to address any of those rumours. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph.