The Auto'Mate technologies were tested on several DT-25 target drones, and during almost six hours of flight testing, the four successively launched receivers were sequentially controlled and commanded without human interaction. These cutting-edge technologies demonstrate a significant breakthrough for future aerial operations involving manned and unmanned assets, and could reduce crew fatigue, minimize crew-training costs, and provide more effective operations. A second campaign is planned towards the end of 2023, which will explore the use of navigation sensors based on artificial intelligence and enhanced algorithms for autonomous formation flight. This groundbreaking achievement is a significant step towards autonomous formation flight and autonomous air-to-air refueling (A4R), and holds great potential for future aerial operations involving both manned and unmanned assets. "The success of this first flight-test campaign paves the way for developing autonomous and unmanned air-to-air refuelling technologies," said Jean Brice Dumont, Head of Military Air Systems at Airbus Defence and Space.

Being alive and on the internet in 2023 suddenly means seeing hyperrealistic images of famous people doing weird, funny, shocking, and possibly disturbing things that never actually happened. In just the past week, the AI art tool Midjourney rendered two separate convincing, photographlike images of celebrities that both went viral. Last week, it imagined Donald Trump's arrest and eventual escape from jail. Over the weekend, Pope Francis got his turn in Midjourney's maw when an AI-generated image of the pontiff wearing a stylish white puffy jacket blew up on Reddit and Twitter. But the fake Trump arrest and the pope's Balenciaga renderings have one meaningful difference: While most people were quick to disbelieve the images of Trump, the pope's puffer duped even the most discerning internet dwellers. This distinction clarifies how synthetic media--already treated as a fake-news bogeyman by some--will and won't shape our perceptions of reality.

San Diego, California, March 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HUMBL, Inc. (OTCQB: HMBL) HUMBL announced today the launch of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automated Machine Learning initiatives across its consumer, commercial and Latin America business units. On the commercial side, HUMBL kicked off its AI / Automated Machine Learning initiatives with the announcement of its first commercial sales contract in its HUMBL Latin America subsidiary, with the sale of AI / Automated Machine Learning services for a leading IT / Telecommunications provider in the Latin America region in the form of a $60,000 (USD) contract for initial deliverables and a total contract value of $195,000 (USD) over three years, pending the achievement of milestones by HUMBL Latin America. "Artificial Intelligence is an accelerant to the principles of web3," said Brian Foote, CEO of HUMBL. "The use of public data sets to create more autonomous, intelligent outcomes for consumers, as well as the corporations and governments that serve them, is an excellent use of automated machine learning technologies," continued Foote. "The use of AI can help our clients model for more predictive outcomes around things like credit scoring, default rates, churn rates, healthcare patterns and more; driving more tailored experiences for consumers, while driving revenues and improved efficiencies for corporations and governments."

Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition software used by at least 3,100 law enforcement agencies across the US, has scrapped more than 30 billion images from social media platforms like Facebook. CEO Hoan Ton-That shared the statistic in a recent interview with BBC News (via Gizmodo) where he also said the company had run nearly 1 million searches for US police. Last March, Clearview disclosed its database featured more than 20 billion "publicly available" images, meaning the platform has grown by a staggering 50 percent over the past year. While Engadget cannot confirm those figures, they suggest the company, despite recent setbacks at the hands of groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and legal threats from platform holders, has found no shortage of interest for its services. In a rare admission, the Miami Police Department revealed it uses Clearview AI to investigate all manner of crimes, including everything from theft to murder.

And as synthetic media gets more believable, the question becomes: What happens when people can no longer trust their own eyes and ears? Inside campaigns, artificial intelligence is expected to soon help perform mundane tasks that previously required fleets of interns. Republican and Democratic engineers alike are racing to develop tools to harness A.I. to make advertising more efficient, to engage in predictive analysis of public behavior, to write more and more personalized copy and to discover new patterns in mountains of voter data. The technology is evolving so fast that most predict a profound impact, even if specific ways in which it will upend the political system are more speculation than science. "It's an iPhone moment -- that's the only corollary that everybody will appreciate," said Dan Woods, the chief technology officer on Mr. Biden's 2020 campaign.

Sen. Tom Cotton, R.-Ark., reviews President Biden's call for an assault weapons ban following the Nashville school shooting on'Special Report.' Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., on Tuesday accused Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin of withholding information from Congress about a military incident in Syria in order to avoid influencing a vote to end two congressional authorization for use of military force overseas. At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Cotton confronted Austin about claims that the Biden administration failed to inform lawmakers of last week's Iranian-linked drone attack that killed one American and wounded five members of the U.S. military in Syria until more than 12 hours after it occurred. Cotton claimed the delay was a "conscious decision" to influence the Senate as it was voting on repealing the 1991 and 2002 authorizations for use of military force (AUMFs) in Iraq. Cotton implied that because the Biden administration wants to revoke the AUMFs, it wanted to delay news that might give lawmakers a reason to maintain them.

In 2025, astronauts will begin returning to the moon, eventually building bases and space stations, putting robotic landers and rovers to work, and mining for resources. In this bustling new era of lunar activity, they'll need to synchronize with each other. But so far there is no agreed-upon time system or zones, and there's neither GPS nor internet on the moon. Setting those up will require developing new technologies on Earth to be deployed 239,000 miles away. Javier Ventura-Traveset, an engineer at the European Space Agency, is leading this work with a project called Moonlight, which aims to design satellites for astronauts and robotic explorers.

One of Europe's largest ammunition manufacturers has said efforts to meet surging demand from the war in Ukraine have been stymied by a new TikTok data centre that is monopolising electricity in the region close to its biggest factory. The chief executive of Nammo, which is co-owned by the Norwegian government, said a planned expansion of its largest factory in central Norway hit a roadblock due to a lack of surplus energy, with the construction of TikTok's new data centre using up electricity in the local area. "We are concerned because we see our future growth is challenged by the storage of cat videos," Morten Brandtzæg told the Financial Times. Demand for artillery rounds is 15 times higher than normal and Europe's munitions industry needs to invest €2bn in new factories to keep up with Ukraine's needs, according to Brandtzæg. By some estimates, Ukraine is firing 6,000 to 7,000 artillery shells a day and is facing ammunition shortages after more than a year of war.

XDR, or Extended Detection and Response, is an emerging security technology that is rapidly gaining popularity in the cybersecurity industry. It is a comprehensive security solution that offers a unified approach to threat detection, investigation, and response across multiple endpoints, networks, and cloud environments. In today's digital age, cyber threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated and diverse, making it difficult for organizations to detect and respond to them in a timely and effective manner. Traditional security solutions, such as antivirus software, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems, are no longer sufficient to protect against the complex and evolving threat landscape. It collects and correlates data from various sources, including endpoints, network devices, and cloud platforms, and applies advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms to identify suspicious activity and potential threats.

To use, or not to use, Bard? That is the Shakespearean question an Associated Press reporter sought to answer while testing out Google's artificially intelligent chatbot. The recently rolled-out bot dubbed Bard is the internet search giant's answer to the ChatGPT tool that Microsoft has been melding into its Bing search engine and other software. During several hours of interaction, the AP learned Bard is quite forthcoming about its unreliability and other shortcomings, including its potential for mischief in next year's US presidential election. Even as it occasionally warned of the problems it could unleash, Bard repeatedly emphasized its belief that it will blossom into a force for good.