The International Space Station got a special two-ton delivery earlier today, as SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft capsule arrived at the station as it hung in orbit some 250 miles above the Great Lakes. The cargo included a space station docking port, needed for future rocket ships coming to the station. The port's arrival at the ISS has been a long time coming – a year ago similar docking rings were destroyed in a SpaceX launch accident. Scientists aboard the station eagerly received the latest shipment, using a robot arm. "We've captured us a Dragon," said astronaut Jeffrey Williams, the Associated Press reported.

We have been hearing predictions for decades of a takeover of the world by artificial intelligence. In 1957, Herbert A. Simon predicted that within 10 years a digital computer would be the world's chess champion. That didn't happen until 1996. And despite Marvin Minsky's 1970 prediction that "in from three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being," we still consider that a feat of science fiction. The pioneers of artificial intelligence were surely off on the timing, but they weren't wrong; AI is coming.

DARPA's done ironing out the details for its next Grand Challenge, which revolves around the development of AI-powered radios that work with each other to avoid wireless congestion. The contest will apparently be divided into three year-long phases, starting in 2017. Teams that make it through the preliminary phase will advance to the next stages, ending with a championship event in 2019. The team that comes out on top will take home a 2 million cash prize and could also get into a funded contract with the agency. Teams that finish second and third will get something out of the deal, as well, in the form of 1 million and 750,000 cash prizes, respectively.

Each chiplet would perform a specific function like data storage, computing and signal processing. Those could then be assembled in a mosaic configuration on an "interposer," or tiny circuit board, to perform specific functions. In addition to making it easier to design and add logic to robots, drones and other machines, the devices would potentially be faster and more efficient, since the overall circuit size is smaller. Another problem DARPA's trying to solve is the cost and complexity of intellectual property (IP). Using a standard circuit board often requires the manufacturer to buy multiple patent licenses for unneeded functions.

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 19, 2016 -- BAE Systems has received a 9.4 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop and integrate a machine learning tool that works to support space situational awareness efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The Defense Department said Friday BAE Systems Inc. will also utilize analytics, high-performance computing and reasoning visualization technologies to build the platform. About Executive Mosaic: Founded in 2002, Executive Mosaic is a leadership organization and media company. It provides its members an opportunity to learn from peer business executives and government thought leaders while providing an interactive forum to develop key business and partnering relationships. Executive Mosaic offers highly coveted executive events, breaking business news on the Government Contracting industry, and delivers robust and reliable content through seven influential websites and four consequential E-newswires.

Kickstarter's Mine Kafon Drone campaign wants to use drones to wipe out landmines. A Netherlands-based Kicktstarter campaign wants to use drones to get rid of landmines in the next decade. The Mine Kafon Drone is an aerial vehicle that can map landmine-rich environments, do effective sweeping searches with metal detectors, and plant detonators before escaping to a safe distance--all without a single living foot touching the ground. It's a drone that could potentially save thousands of lives, with the body and chassis of something reminiscent of an Imperial Probe Droid. Still, the world would be a better place with a few hundred of these running around.

If Gabe Otte '11 hadn't had a Cornell advisor who steered him down a more challenging path and hadn't had some chance conversations with Nobel Prize-winning chemist Roald Hoffman, he might be squirreled away in a lab somewhere. Instead, he's the CEO of Freenome, a start-up just awarded 5.5 million in venture capital for its product, a data-driven blood test that can detect various types of cancers in their earliest stages and recommend the best treatments. Otte came to Cornell planning to study computer science, but a freshman-year advisor encouraged him to choose another major. "I had been coding and programming since I was nine years old," Otte said, so he elected to study chemistry and computational biology, using his knack for computer science to do his homework. "I fell in love with chemistry when I took organic chemistry," he said, adding that he developed his own computer program to do computations related to the synthesis of molecules.

Recently, the federal office of Science and Technology Policy issued a request for public feedback on "overarching questions in [Artificial Intelligence], including AI research and the tools, technologies, and training that are needed to answer these questions." OSTP is in the process of co-hosting four public workshops in 2016 on topics in AI in order to spur public dialogue on these topics and to identify challenges and opportunities related to this emerging technology. These topics include the legal and governance issues for AI, AI for public good, safety and control for AI, and the social and economic implications of AI. The Request for Information lists 10 specific topics on which the government would appreciate feedback, including "the use of AI for public good" and "the most pressing, fundamental questions in AI research, common to most or all scientific fields." One of the academics who answered the request for information is Shannon Vallor, who is the William J. Rewak Professor at Santa Clara University, and one of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics' faculty scholars.