Drones could be used for NHS-related missions in remote areas, inspecting offshore wind turbines and supplying oil rigs by 2026 as part of a new regulatory regime in the UK. David Willetts, the head of a new government unit helping to deploy new technologies in Britain, said there were obvious situations where drones could be used if the changes go ahead next year. Ministers announced plans this month to allow drones to fly long distances without their operators seeing them. Drones cannot be flown "beyond visual line of sight" under current regulations, making their use for lengthy journeys impossible. In an interview with the Guardian, Lord Willetts, chair of the Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO), said the changes could come as soon as 2026, but that they would apply in "atypical" aviation environments at first, which would mean remote areas and over open water. Referring to the NHS, Willetts said there was potentially a huge market for drone operators.

Understanding how linguistic knowledge is encoded in language models is crucial for improving their generalisation capabilities. In this paper, we investigate the processing of morphosyntactic phenomena, by leveraging a recently proposed method for probing language models via Shapley Head Values (SHVs). Using the English language BLiMP dataset, we test our approach on two widely used models, BERT and RoBERTa, and compare how linguistic constructions such as anaphor agreement and filler-gap dependencies are handled. Through quantitative pruning and qualitative clustering analysis, we demonstrate that attention heads responsible for processing related linguistic phenomena cluster together. Our results show that SHV-based attributions reveal distinct patterns across both models, providing insights into how language models organize and process linguistic information. These findings support the hypothesis that language models learn subnetworks corresponding to linguistic theory, with potential implications for cross-linguistic model analysis and interpretability in Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Dynamic gestures enable the transfer of directive information to a robot. Moreover, the ability of a robot to recognize them from a long distance makes communication more effective and practical. However, current state-of-the-art models for dynamic gestures exhibit limitations in recognition distance, typically achieving effective performance only within a few meters. In this work, we propose a model for recognizing dynamic gestures from a long distance of up to 20 meters. The model integrates the SlowFast and Transformer architectures (SFT) to effectively process and classify complex gesture sequences captured in video frames. SFT demonstrates superior performance over existing models.

The idea of a hotel room on wheels might sound like a concept from the latest science fiction blockbuster. But it could soon become a reality, if the latest concept is anything to go by. Researchers from Xoio aim to make long, boring car journeys a thing of the past with the'Swift Pod'. The futuristic concept vehicle features a large sleeping pod where two travellers can snooze as they're chauffeured on their journey. And if you're in the mood for a midnight snack, there's no need to stop off at the services - the car will even provide snacks and drinks!

An autonomous drone with wheels can roll along the ground, only flying when needed to clear obstacles, which helps its battery last seven times longer, according to its developers. Rolling robots are efficient and can travel long distances, but cannot traverse big obstacles, while flying drones can get past large obstructions, but have limited range.

How does the latest Echo compare to other top smart speakers? The newest thing about the 2020 Echo is its round design. In the box, we find the ball speaker and a power adapter. As with all Echo speakers, you don't need any substantial directions to get it up and running. Just plug it in, open the Alexa app, and follow the prompts when, after a few seconds, the new speaker is detected and a pop-up appears asking whether to set the speaker up.

Edge computing is transforming the way data is being handled, processed, and delivered from millions of devices around the world. The explosive growth of internet-connected devices – the IoT – along with new applications that require real-time computing power, continues to drive edge-computing systems. Faster networking technologies, such as 5G wireless, are allowing for edge computing systems to accelerate the creation or support of real-time applications, such as video processing and analytics, self-driving cars, artificial intelligence and robotics, to name a few. While early goals of edge computing were to address the costs of bandwidth for data traveling long distances because of the growth of IoT-generated data, the rise of real-time applications that need processing at the edge will drive the technology ahead. Gartner defines edge computing as "a part of a distributed computing topology in which information processing is located close to the edge – where things and people produce or consume that information."

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

New owners of 4K TVs sometimes wonder if they need to buy a new HDMI cable to go with it. The very fast answer is: Probably not. Here's how to tell if the final call is a yes or a no. An HDMI cable is just a conduit between your TV and media device, be it DVD, Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray player; a media streamer; a video game console; or a PC. Different types of HDMI cables do exist, but their designations indicate how much data they can carry.

Microsoft is working on an autonomous aircraft that can fly for long periods of time without any power. Rather than a motor, the glider relies on artificial intelligence that mimics how birds fly, autonomously finding thermals, or invisible columns of air that rise due to heat, to carry it for long distances. A recent test of the 16.5-foot aircraft - called a sailplane - conducted in the middle of the desert in Hawthorne, Nevada proved successful - the algorithms researchers developed to help it predict where thermals would appear next worked and kept it aloft. Microsoft is working on an autonomous aircraft that can fly for long periods of time without any power. 'Birds do this seamlessly, and all they're doing is harnessing nature,' Ashish Kapoor, a principal researcher at Microsoft, said.