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China plans to open its space station to tourism within a decade
China plans to open its new space station up to'tourism' within the next decade - sparking what the country hopes is a race to compete with the likes of private American space tourists such as Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Richard Branson. China launched its Tiangong space station in 2021 - its first long-term space station project - with the final modules set to launch later this year. The country's announcement also comes as China continues to produce new billionaires at a blistering pace - much faster than any other nation on Earth. While there were no specific details included to determine what the future of space tourism in China will look like, officials have said it is likely that people without formal astronaut training could be launched into orbit'relatively soon.' Yang Liwei, who became the first Chinese astronaut back in 2003, said tourists visiting Tiangong'is not a matter of technology but of demand.' China is also thought to be working on a more tourist-friendly reusable spacecraft that could take up to seven astronauts at a time into space.
Combating online relationship abuse requires multipronged approach
The Douglass Society founder Rob Smith tells'The Next Revolution' the administration has been a'failure on every single level.' The Violence Against Women Act, which President Biden reauthorized last week, should lead to significant strides in combating online abuse including cyberstalking and the nonconsensual distribution of sexually explicit images, but leaders should explore additional opportunities to reduce the odds that online relationship abuse occurs in the first place through preventative education, rather than just providing redress for victims, according to One Love. "While it's a crime to pull your pants down in the streets -- a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by a fine or jail time -- there was nothing stopping anyone from exposing themselves in your DMs, texts, or even via AirDrop, a disturbing trend," Bumble said. In 2018, a representative study of its users found one in three women reported receiving unsolicited lewd photos, otherwise known as cyberflashing, with 96% not happy to receive them, per their website. President Joe Biden responds to a question about Russian President Vladimir Putin in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, March 16, 2022, in Washington.
Artificial intelligence gets scarier and scarier
Readers beware: Halloween comes early this year. This is a scary column. It is impossible to overestimate the importance of artificial intelligence. It's "world altering," concluded the U.S. National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence last year, since it is an enabling technology akin to Thomas Edison's description of electricity: "a field of fields … it holds the secrets which will reorganize the life of the world." While the commission also noted that "No comfortable historical reference captures the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on national security," it's rapidly becoming clear that those ramifications are far more extensive -- and alarming -- than experts had imagined.
Why 2022 is only the beginning for AI regulation
Did you miss a session at the Data Summit? As the world becomes increasingly dependent on technology to communicate, attend school, do our work, buy groceries and more, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) play a bigger role in our lives. Living through the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic has shown the value of technology and AI. It has also revealed a dangerous side and regulators have responded accordingly. In 2021, across the world, governing bodies have been working to regulate how AI and ML systems are used.
'Your World' on Ukraine war, China's Russian dilemma
John Herbst expresses offense at American reluctance to provide MiGs to Ukraine on'Your World.' This is a rush transcript from "Your World," March 18, 2022. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. NEIL CAVUTO, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: All right, Vladimir Putin defending his invasion of Ukraine and maybe wincing at all the global notoriety the Ukrainian president is getting, when he never leaves Ukraine, talking to one major legislative body after another of the greatest powers on Earth, as Vladimir Putin tries to explain to a packed crowd in a Moscow stadium that he means no harm, that he is doing good, that he is fighting the good fight, even as that good fight is turning awfully deadly and getting awfully close to a NATO country. In Lviv today, in the western part of the country, a mere 40 miles from the Polish border, the missiles were flying and people were dying. MIKE TOBIN, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Well, Neil, as you mentioned, for the first time, the -- first time in several days, the relative peace of the western part of the country was shattered, as cruise missiles rained down here perilously close to NATO's eastern flank. What they were after was the Lviv state aircraft repair. What that facility does is customize MiG-29s, so they can be used by the Ukrainian air force. Maxim Kozytskyy, the regional administrator of Lviv says the airstrikes were launched from long-range bombers over the Black Sea. Six of the missiles were launched. Four of them got through. Two of them were intercepted by Ukrainian air defenses. The Ukrainian air force says one of the reasons the cruisers was way able to get through is because they flew so low. They are the Russian X-55s, with a price tag of about a million apiece. South of here, the town of Mariupol, the situation is quite desperate. You know that theater that was being used as a bomb shelter took a direct hit from a Russian aircraft.
Israeli law green-lights driverless cars
The Knesset has passed legislation that will allow companies to pilot autonomous shared transportation, like taxis, with passengers in the vehicle but without a safety driver on Israeli roads. The bill, proposed by the Ministry of Transportation and Road Safety, passed in second and third readings in the plenum and paves the way for Mobileye, Intel's autonomous driving subsidiary, to move ahead with plans to roll out "robo-taxis" and ride-hailing services in Tel Aviv this year. Russian company Yandex has also been testing self-driving cars in Israel since late 2018, as global carmakers like Ford, Toyota, and Hyundai invest in models with self-driving systems. The Israeli legislation allows companies and vehicle operators to obtain special licenses from the Ministry of Transportation and to conduct trials with autonomous cars "including for the purpose of transporting paying passengers" and "where an independent driving system replaces the driver," according to the announcement. This bill offers regulation on issues like insurance and different permits and establishes supervisory bodies as well as an advisory committee with representatives from relevant stakeholders.
AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours
It took less than six hours for drug-developing AI to invent 40,000 potentially lethal molecules. Researchers put AI normally used to search for helpful drugs into a kind of "bad actor" mode to show how easily it could be abused at a biological arms control conference. All the researchers had to do was tweak their methodology to seek out, rather than weed out toxicity. The AI came up with tens of thousands of new substances, some of which are similar to VX, the most potent nerve agent ever developed. Shaken, they published their findings this month in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence. The paper had us at The Verge a little shook, too.
Verizon lengthy vary drone challenge set to launch in Oregon - Channel969
Anticipate massive issues to come back out of this newest operation from telecom big Verizon. A Verizon lengthy vary drone challenge is ready to advance ongoing testing -- this time on the Pendleton Unmanned Aerial Methods Vary. The drone vary in Pendleton, Oregon, is certainly one of only a small handful of Federal Aviation Administration-designated check ranges, and is positioned within the northeast nook of the state of Oregon. Verizon's drone arm, Skyward, relies in Portland, Oregon, which is a roughly 3-hour drive from Pendleton. On the Pendleton drone vary, Verizon Robotics (which is a division of the corporate most famously recognized for offering you with cell service) will check numerous proof-of-concept capabilities primarily round lengthy vary robotics.
Two schools of thoughts for Responsible AI: which one you subscribe ?
There are two schools of thoughts on how AI could be more responsible. Let us understand both and see what do I recommend. The Regulatory School of thought is one of the largest political economics schools. Its origins date back to the early 1970s in France, when the economy was a wreck and there was a great deal of economic instability. Its founder, Destanne de Bernis, coined the term regulation, and his goal was to use the concept as a systems theory to update Marx's economics.