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Scientists eavesdrop on dolphins using AI

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Scientists have developed an algorithm to monitor the underwater chatter of dolphins with the help of machine learning. Using autonomous underwater sensors, researchers working in the Gulf of Mexico spent two years making recordings of dolphin echolocation clicks. The result was a data set of 52 million click noises. To sort through this vast amount of information, the scientists employed an "unsupervised" algorithm that automatically classified the noises into categories. Without being "taught" to recognise patterns that were already known, the algorithm was able to seek original patterns in the data and identify types of click.


Episode two Blue Planet II gives glimpse into the deep

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Episode two of Blue Planet II could be one of Sir David Attenborough's scariest shows yet - giving us a glimpse of life in total darkness that we are only just starting to explore. The episode also looks at peculiar gardens that are thriving in the pitch black as well as species of coral that have never been seen in shallower waters. The fangtooth (pictured) has the largest teeth relative to body size for any fish in the entire ocean. The filming of Blue Planet involved around 1,000 people from producers to deep sea divers, researchers to scientists, camera crews to helicopter pilots and drone operators. Some 125 expeditions were undertaken across every ocean, with 1,500 days spent at sea and 6,000 hours underwater.


Experts find graveyard of 60 preserved ancient shipwrecks

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Dozens of perfectly preserved ancient shipwrecks have been found at the bottom of the Black Sea. A total of 60 wrecks were discovered dating back as far as 2,500 years, including galleys from the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires. Scientists stumbled upon the graveyard while using underwater robots to survey the effects of climate change along the Bulgarian coast. Because the Black Sea contains almost no light or oxygen, little life can survive, meaning the wrecks are in excellent condition. Researchers say their discovery is'truly unrivalled'.


The top 20 industrial IoT applications

@machinelearnbot

The term "industrial Internet of Things" has a more muted-sounding promise of driving operational efficiencies through automation, connectivity and analytics. But the focus of IIoT -- on industry at large -- is broader. Here, we take a comprehensive view, rounding up 20 IIoT leaders and pioneers, drawing on the feedback from industry analysts and consultants. The focus here is not on vendors offering, say, a cloud-based platform for monitoring industrial machines but on the companies that themselves are using IIoT technology to drive their business forward. For the sake of this feature, we focus on organizations that use connected technology in tandem with cloud-based analytics to drive efficiencies and launch new business models.


Why GPS Spoofing Is a Threat to Companies, Countries

Communications of the ACM

When the crew of an $80-million super-yacht in the Ionian Sea checked its computer, they realized they were drifting slightly off course, likely as a result of strong currents buffeting their ship. The crew made adjustments and went back to work--without realizing they were now taking directions from a hacker. In the bowels of the ship, Todd Humphreys, an associate professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin, worked with his team to feed the super-yacht's crew false navigation data using a few thousand dollars worth of hardware and software. The crew was completely unaware they were now piloting in a direction of Humphreys' choosing. Thankfully, it was all an experiment that took place with the yacht owner's blessing.


AI is coming to war, regardless of Elon Musk's well-meaning concern

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Participants run ahead of Puerto de San Lorenzo's fighting bulls during the third bull run of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain. Each day at 8:00 am hundreds of people race with six bulls, charging along a winding, 848.6-metre (more than half a mile) course through narrow streets to the city's bull ring, where the animals are killed in a bullfight or corrida, during this festival, immortalised in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises" and dating back to medieval times and also featuring religious processions, folk dancing, concerts and round-the-clock drinking. Iraqi women, who fled the fighting between government forces and Islamic State (IS) group jihadists in the Old City of Mosul, cry as they stand in the city's western industrial district awaiting to be relocated


Asteroid could have thrust Earth into darkness for 2 YEARS

Daily Mail - Science & tech

After roaming the planet for 165 million years, it is thought the dinosaurs were wiped off the face of the planet when an asteroid crashed into Earth 66 million years ago. The impact of the asteroid would have thrown up huge amounts of debris, and new computer simulations have revealed the extent to which this affected our planet. The findings suggest that Earth would have been plunged into darkness for as long as two years. The impact of the asteroid would have thrown up huge amounts of debris, and new computer simulations have revealed the extent to which this affected our planet (artist's impression) The team used computers to model what Earth might have looked at the end of the Cretaceous Period, after a large asteroid struck what is now the Yucatรกn Peninsula, beneath the gulf of Mexico. The simulations found 15,000 million tons of soot would have been sent into the atmosphere after the asteroid hit, forming a barrier between the Earth and sunlight.


Big Lizzie is outmanoeuvred by a ยฃ300 drone

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Costing ยฃ3.1billion and weighing 65,000 tonnes, she's Britain's biggest and most advanced warship ever built. But HMS Queen Elizabeth has been outmanoevred by a ยฃ300 drone which landed on the deck completely unchallenged. The drone pilot, who wanted to remain anonymous, made the daring flight while the aircraft carrier was docked at Invergordon, Scotland in July. He flew over the carrier before touching down on the four-acre deck and then taking off again unchecked. Princess Diana's driver: Her death'stirred things within me' The flight may now be discussed in Scotland's Parliament by MSPs concerned about security flaws.


Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon

New Scientist

Reports of satellite navigation problems in the Black Sea suggest that Russia may be testing a new system for spoofing GPS, New Scientist has learned. This could be the first hint of a new form of electronic warfare available to everyone from rogue nation states to petty criminals. On 22 June, the US Maritime Administration filed a seemingly bland incident report. The master of a ship off the Russian port of Novorossiysk had discovered his GPS put him in the wrong spot โ€“ more than 32 kilometres inland, at Gelendzhik Airport. After checking the navigation equipment was working properly, the captain contacted other nearby ships. Their AIS traces โ€“ signals from the automatic identification system used to track vessels โ€“ placed them all at the same airport.