The Kremlin has said Patriot missile defence systems would be a legitimate target if sent to Ukraine to intercept the barrage of incoming Russian missiles that have crippled the war-torn country's power infrastructure. Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday warned NATO against equipping Kyiv with Patriot missile batteries. It is likely the Kremlin will view the move as an escalation. The comments come as Moscow said no "Christmas ceasefire" was on the cards after nearly 10 months of the war in Ukraine, even as the release of dozens more prisoners, including a United States national, showed some contact between the two sides remained. Russia and Ukraine are not currently engaged in talks to end the fighting, which is raging in Ukraine's east and south while Moscow has carried out missile and drone strikes on power and water facilities across the country, including the capital city Kyiv.

The world is in a state of economic collapse due to the rise of automation, leaving millions of people unemployed and desperate. 'Enter the tech billionaire, Dr Milton Ross. He has developed a revolutionary new type of artificial intelligence that promises to revolutionise the world. His AI, which he calls Neo, is capable of replacing humans in virtually any job. 'Ross begins to roll out Neo to large corporations, who eagerly accept it.

Did you know that in 2021: • A patent application named an Artificial Intelligence (AI) as the inventor and in at least 1 country- it is listed as an inventor; • AI is being used by the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) to aid in the patent search process; and • a case involving a monkey that took a selfie may guide us in statutory construction? It's a brave new world and Darin Klemchuk is here to walk us through it. Darin is the managing partner and founder of the law firm, Klemchuk, LLP. He has handled more than 500 intellectual property disputes, including over 40 patent infringement cases and hundreds of IP enforcement actions. Darin represents Fortune 500 corporations, growing companies that benefit from broad intellectual property counseling, and startup companies with disruptive technologies. Additionally at the end of the podcast at the 36:04 mark, the ILS gives a tribute to one of our own, Tom Wilson.

Fox News correspondent Jeff Paul has the latest from Kyiv, Ukraine, on'America Reports.' Russia launched 13 Iranian-made Shahed drones into Kyiv Wednesday, in one of the largest attempted strikes of its kind on the Ukraine capital, Fox News Digital was told. All 13 drones were apparently targeting energy infrastructure but were downed before they reached their targets and no military or civilian casualties have been reported, city administrative and defense officials said. Air raid sirens rang out shortly before 6 a.m. Rescuers and police experts examine remains of a drone following a strike on an administrative building in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Dec. 14, 2022. One source told Fox News Digital that Russia was looking to hit the city's energy infrastructure and in a Telegram post city officials said, "once again [Russia] targeted the critical infrastructure of the region and the capital."

Welcome to insideBIGDATA's annual technology predictions round-up! The big data industry has significant inertia moving into 2023. In order to give our valued readers a pulse on important new trends leading into next year, we here at insideBIGDATA heard from all our friends across the vendor ecosystem to get their insights, reflections and predictions for what may be coming. We were very encouraged to hear such exciting perspectives. Even if only half actually come true, Big Data in the next year is destined to be quite an exciting ride. There are many reasons why a customer would choose to implement their architecture on multiple clouds whether it's technology, market, or business-driven. When this happens, many times this leads to transactional and operational data being stored on multiple cloud platforms. The challenge this brings is how to gain insight into these without resorting to implementing multiple disparate data platforms. Historically data virtualization tools have been ...

The EU's Renewed Social Agenda, a comprehensive program began in 2008 to improve Europe's economy, fight climate crisis, and generally provide greater overall quality of life for all Europeans, was a landmark initiative. At its core lies the idea of "social innovation," a modality involving the creation of new social services and models that are applicable in a multinational paradigm. Examples of "social innovation" include public libraries, open universities, and worker's rights movements. But there's more to it than just bringing people together to solve problems or attempting to create an atmosphere of equality. A social service that's successful in affluent urban areas could be completely useless in a rural setting, and vice versa. Taking into account the human factor, how climate crisis and other environmental factors affect different communities, and the difficulties faced by minorities and refugees, the challenge of serving the EU's agenda across national lines becomes exponentially more difficult.

MIT senior Rachel Chae and alumnus Sihao Huang '22 have been selected to join the 2023 class of Marshall Scholars and will begin graduate studies in the U.K. next fall. Funded by the British government, the Marshall Scholarship provides up to 50 scholarships for exceptional American students to pursue advanced study in any field at any university in the U.K. MIT's endorsed Marshall candidates are advised and supported by the distinguished fellowships team, led by Associate Dean Kim Benard in Career Advising and Professional Development. They are also mentored by the MIT Presidential Committee on Distinguished Fellowships, co-chaired by professors Will Broadhead and Tamar Schapiro. "Working with this year's Marshall applicants has been as rewarding and humbling as ever," says Broadhead. "These amazing students engage in a months-long exercise in critical introspection and personal growth, supported by the expert mentorship provided by Kim Benard and her team in the Distinguished Fellowships Office and by the dedicated faculty, staff, and graduate students who serve on the Distinguished Fellowships Committee. We on the committee have been inspired by all of this year's fellowship applicants and are especially pleased to congratulate Rachel and Sihao, whose wisdom, good humor, and future-minded optimism will serve them well as they take their richly deserved places in this year's class of Marshall Scholars."

Earlier this year, two Berkut 540 aircraft -- codenamed Red 1 and Red 2 -- raced down the runway of Santa Monica Airport and climbed into the California skies. As the two planes flew over Ventura County, a KC-46 Pegasus Tanker came into the pilots' view. The tanker flew adjacent to Red 1, and the pilot navigated into position so the KC-46 could refuel the aircraft while Red 2 observed. However, anyone looking up from the ground would have only seen two planes in the sky. The third plane that "refueled" Red 1 wasn't real -- it was generated using augmented reality.

Ukrainian forces said Wednesday they had shot down an entire swarm of Iranian-made drones launched at the capital by Russian troops in their latest attack on Kyiv. Explosions rang out over a central neighbourhood in the early hours of Wednesday, the mayor said, and AFP journalists saw law enforcement and emergency service workers inspecting metal fragments at a snow-covered impact site. "The terrorists started this morning with 13 Shaheds," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, referring to the Iran-made weapons. "According to the preliminary information, all 13 were shot down by our Ukrainian air defence systems." He added that residents of the capital, which has now been subjected to nearly ten months of air raid sirens and frequent aerial attacks since Russia invaded the country in February, should stay alert to government warnings of incoming attacks.

Photo By Brian Feeney Members of the DEVCOM CBC Deep Green Challenge team, Dr. Thomas Ingersol, Edward Emm,...... read more read more Photo By Brian Feeney Members of the DEVCOM CBC Deep Green Challenge team, Dr. Thomas Ingersol, Edward Emm, Julie Jenner, Dr. Samir Deshpande and Matt Browe, gather to work on improving their AI perception model for unmanned ground vehicles to navigate across land. DEVCOM Chemical Biological Center Places Third in Machine Learning Challenge By Dr. Brian B. Feeney Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD -- "None of us is as smart as all of us," is an old saying in business management, and it held true for a team of six U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center (DEVCOM CBC) researchers, all with different technical backgrounds, when they placed third in a U.S. Army machine learning contest. The Army's Office of Business Transformation joined up with the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory to create the Deep Green Challenge in 2021. Its purpose is to improve Army organizations' skill in applying artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to their technology development programs. For 2022, the challenge was to build AI perception models to solve the real-world challenge of getting unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) to navigate over land. UGVs have to be able to distinguish between an obstacle that requires rerouting such as a lake or a fallen tree from non-obstacles such as a puddle or fallen branch.