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Inside the Falcon Factory: Musk posts amazing drone tour

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Elon Musk has shared a glimpse at what goes on inside the Falcon Factory, where SpaceX's powerful rockets are born. A stunning flythrough video shows different stages of work on the massive boosters, revealing a look at everything from the Merlin engines to what it's like inside the cavity of an unfinished Falcon 9. The footage comes just days after Musk announced the aggressive timeline for the completion and launch of a Falcon Heavy rocket, and the steady hum of machinery can be heard as employees work to bring the firm's space-faring visions to life. Elon Musk has shared a glimpse at what goes on inside the Falcon Factory, where SpaceX's powerful rockets are born. Musk shared the video on Instagram this week, writing, 'Flying through the Falcon Factory.' Components from several Falcon 9 rockets can be seen, with numerous first stage cylinders seen lying throughout the factory floor.


US military shoots down Iranian-made drone in southern Syria

Associated Press

The spokesman of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Ramazan Sharif speaks with media members at the conclusion of his press conference in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, June 20, 2017. Sharif, said all six ballistic missiles it launched on Syria hit their targets, according to "local sources and drone films." Iran fired ballistic missiles at IS targets in eastern Syria, in the province of Deir el-Zour, later on Sunday. The spokesman of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Ramazan Sharif speaks with media members at the conclusion of his press conference in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, June 20, 2017. Sharif, said all six ballistic missiles it launched on Syria hit their targets, according to "local sources and drone films."


Machine Learning with a Purpose

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As people wonder whether artificial intelligence (AI) will steal their jobs, the news from the Future of Go Summit in the town of Wuzhen, China, in May shares that Google's AlphaGo beat Chinese wunderkind Ke Jie, the world's top-ranked Go player. Luckily, you are not a Go player, but a developer. Hmm… Wait a second, it seems that AI can write coding too. So how do you see it, as a threat or benefit? Machine learning, AI's most successful approach, actually frees workforces from repetitive work so they can devote more time to innovative work.


Officials: Pakistan Shoots Down Iranian Drone Near Border

U.S. News

Iran, in recent months, has expressed concern over militants operating along the Pakistani border. Iran's army chief recently warned that the country was willing to strike militants inside Pakistan -- remarks that drew a strong protest from Islamabad.


53% of Marketers Plan To Adopt Artificial Intelligence In Two Years

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These and many other insights are from the Salesforce Fourth Annual State of Marketing - Marketing Embraces the AI Revolution published last week. The report is available for download here (50 pp., PDF, no opt-in). The survey is based on interviews with 3,500 marketers worldwide conducted by Salesforce Research through a third-party survey firm in April 2017. The 3,500 respondents are full-time marketing leaders in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, U.K., Ireland and U.S. Respondents were segmented into high-performing, moderate-performing or under-performing groups. High-performing organizations are defined as those who are "extremely satisfied" with the current outcomes realized as a direct result of their company's marketing investment.


Summer 2017's best video games: from Uncharte to Splatoon 2 and Tacoma

The Guardian

For aficionados, 2006's Final Fantasy XII was a high point in the three-decades-old series. Part-directed by Yasumi Matsuno, whose intricate stories remain some of Japan's best, it involves directing your squadron of fighters like a football manager, specifying tactics and parameters of behaviour from the sidelines. This HD remaster of the original includes not only higher resolution artwork, but also a rerecorded soundtrack and, most enticingly of all, an overhauled management system, via which you grow your team according to strategy or whim. Splatoon was a surprise, breakout hit for Nintendo: a competitive sports game from a young team of designers that bespeaks philosophical changes at the 127-year-old Japanese company. Two sides compete to cover the majority of the pitch in paint of their team's colour.


Drones 'a huge game changer' for aviation

Daily Mail - Science & tech

The head of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration says the boom in drone popularity is'a huge game changer' similar'to powered flight or jet engines.' In an Associated Press interview Tuesday, Michael Huerta said'the growth of this industry and how it's evolving is something that all of us in aviation need to pay a lot of attention to.' Huerta spoke on the sidelines of the Paris Air Show, where drones of all kinds were being displayed. Michael Herta, the head of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, speaks at the Paris Air Show on Tuesday, June 20, 2017. In an Associated Press interview, Huerta called the rapid development of the drone industry'a huge game-changer' for aviation. For the industry, their popularity begs a vital question: how do you make sure that swarms of new machines don't endanger each other, other users of the skies and people on the ground as they do everything from patrolling traffic blackspots to, possibly, delivering your burger and fries?


DARK SKIES OVER SYRIA US takes out armed Iranian drone as it moves on coalition troops

FOX News

A U.S. aircraft shot down an armed Iranian drone advancing on coalition forces in southern Syria on Tuesday, Fox News confirmed. The armed pro-regime Shaheed-129 UAV was shot down by a U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle about 12:30 a.m. after it displayed hostile intent and advanced on Coalition forces. This is the second the U.S. shot down an Iranian drone in less than a month. The coalition forces were manning an established combat outpost to the northeast of At Tanf where they are training and advising partner ground forces in the fight against ISIS. This is the same location where another pro-regime UAV dropped munitions near Coalition forces before it was shot down on June 8. The F-15E intercepted the armed UAV after it was observed advancing on the coalition position.


DNA variants that are bad for health may also make you stupid

New Scientist

What makes some people smarter than others? A genetic analysis of families in Scotland, UK, hints that brainer people have fewer DNA mutations that impair intelligence and general health, rather than having more genetic variants that make them smarter. "This is one of the most exciting studies on the genetics of intelligence I've seen for a while," says Steve Stewart-Williams of the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, who was not involved in the work. One implication is that using gene editing to fix the hundreds of mutations that slightly damage people's health would make them smarter as well as healthier. "I think this strengthens the moral case for pursuing genome editing technologies," says ethicist Christopher Gyngell of the University of Oxford.


US Says It Shot Down Iranian-Made Drone in Syria

U.S. News

A defense official says the drone was approaching a military camp near the Syria-Jordan border. That is where U.S. forces have been training and advising local Syrian Arabs for the fight against Islamic State militants.