Britain is to develop new air defence weapons alongside the EU's four biggest military powers, deepening ties with the European defence sector. The project will invite manufacturers in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Poland to submit plans to build low-cost missiles and autonomous drones. The allies are pledging a speedy process to build the weapons together, inspired by Ukraine's development of cheap drones to counter attacks from Russia. The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) says the programme will prioritise a lightweight, affordable surface-to-air weapon, with the first project to be delivered by next year. The plan, announced at a meeting of the five countries' defence ministers in the Polish city of Krakow, marks a boost to UK-Europe ties after the failure of talks last year over UK participation in the EU's new €150bn (£130bn) defence fund.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Archaeologists in Scotland have excavated over 100 weapon projectiles, including cannon shot and lead musket balls from one of the country's most famous battlefields . With these new finds, experts say they can better contextualize the Battle of Culloden, as well as highlight some of the conflict's lesser known participants. In July 1745, Charles Stuart arrived in Scotland seeking to return his father to the British throne. For the next nine months, Stuart proceeded to lead thousands of supporters, militiamen, and conscripted soldiers in a military campaign now known as the Jacobite rising of 1745 .

Jim Pollard is bringing bison bones, fossilized mammoth poop, and more to Blue Earth's 3,000 residents. The Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History features fossils that range from 7,000 to 7 million years-old. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. When Jim Pollard first laid eyes on the small town of Blue Earth, Minnesota, he was out on a fossil digging trip with his sons. The town on the border of Iowa is surrounded by potential discovery sites -Quarry Hill Nature Center, Shadow Falls Park, and Lilydale Regional Park are all within a few hours drive away.

This paper presents a comparative analysis between the Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), two vital artificial intelligence algorithms, focusing on optimizing Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) parameters. These encompass the elliptic curve coefficients, prime number, generator point, group order, and cofactor. The study provides insights into which of the bio-inspired algorithms yields better optimization results for ECC configurations, examining performances under the same fitness function. This function incorporates methods to ensure robust ECC parameters, including assessing for singular or anomalous curves and applying Pollard's rho attack and Hasse's theorem for optimization precision. The optimized parameters generated by GA and PSO are tested in a simulated e-commerce environment, contrasting with well-known curves like secp256k1 during the transmission of order messages using Elliptic Curve-Diffie Hellman (ECDH) and Hash-based Message Authentication Code (HMAC). Focusing on traditional computing in the pre-quantum era, this research highlights the efficacy of GA and PSO in ECC optimization, with implications for enhancing cybersecurity in third-party e-commerce integrations. We recommend the immediate consideration of these findings before quantum computing's widespread adoption.

Lisa's smart room setup was designed by Davi Pollard to give her maximum autonomy on a small budget.David Pollard What would a workplace of the future really look like if it was inclusive, accessible and disability-friendly? If it is tough to picture what that means, you're not alone. The answer to all of these questions is yes. Still, research shows that many workplaces have a culture that is unfriendly and even toxic, particularly to people with mental health issues. Hiring people with disabilities is also proving to be good for business.

Emirates airline is using artificial intelligence for a chatbot that lies within display ads for its Emirates Vacations unit. The ads allow people to ask travel and trip questions and receive answers immediately within the ad unit. But the company believes AI can be impactful for another application: breaking down additional friction points when it comes to search. The chatbot will recommend destinations and vacation packages based on the context of users' questions, the content on the site it appears on and Emirates Vacations' inventory. For instance, if Emirates Vacations doesn't have a hotel in Toronto, the chatbot won't suggest a hotel in Toronto.

EVERYONE jokes about, or even fears, the idea of machines replacing humans. We all aren't out of a job yet, but signs increasingly point to the fact that automation can sometimes do things better and faster than humans, and they can operate 24-7 without coffee breaks, sick leave or holiday time off. The recent victory of computer program Alpha Go over top Go player Ke Jie confirmed that no one can sit back and ignore the encroachment of artificial intelligence. The financial services sector is no exception. Technology has been slowly replacing bank clerks since the first ATM was installed in London in 1967.

We propose a first data-driven tuning procedure for divide-and-conquer kernel ridge regression (Zhang et al., 2015). While the proposed criterion is computationally scalable for massive data sets, it is also shown to be asymptotically optimal under mild conditions. The effectiveness of our method is illustrated by extensive simulations and an application to Million Song Dataset. Some key words:Distributed GCV, divide-and-conquer, kernel ridge regression, optimal tuning.

We examine the class of languages that can be defined entirely in terms of provability in an extension of the sorted type theory (Ty_n) by embedding the logic of phonologies, without introduction of special types for syntactic entities. This class is proven to precisely coincide with the class of logically closed languages that may be thought of as functions from expressions to sets of logically equivalent Ty_n terms. For a specific sub-class of logically closed languages that are described by finite sets of rules or rule schemata, we find effective procedures for building a compact Ty_n representation, involving a finite number of axioms or axiom schemata. The proposed formalism is characterized by some useful features unavailable in a two-component architecture of a language model. A further specialization and extension of the formalism with a context type enable effective account of intensional and dynamic semantics.