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WATCH LIVE: State Department holds briefing following alleged Ukraine drone strikes inside Russia

PBS NewsHour

State Department spokesman Ned Price will hold a briefing Tuesday afternoon after drones struck inside Russia's border with Ukraine in the second day of attacks. The briefing is scheduled to begin at 1:45 p.m. ET. Watch the event live in the player above. Ukrainian officials did not formally confirm carrying out drone strikes inside Russia, and they have maintained ambiguity over previous high-profile attacks. But Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhail Podolyak taunted Moscow in comments on Twitter, and Britain's Defense Ministry said Russia was likely to consider the attacks on Russian bases more than 500 kilometers (300 miles) from the border with Ukraine as "some of the most strategically significant failures of force protection since its invasion of Ukraine."


WATCH LIVE: Senate Judiciary committee holds hearing on U.S. military drone strikes

PBS NewsHour

The Senate Judiciary committee holds a hearing on Wednesday on U.S. military drone strikes. The event is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. This is a developing story and will be updated.


WATCH LIVE: Drone video shows first shooting by Rittenhouse as trial continues - Day 6

PBS NewsHour

The jury at Kyle Rittenhouse's murder trial Tuesday watched drone video that showed Rittenhouse wheeling around and shooting Joseph Rosenbaum at close range during a night of turbulent protests on the streets of Kenosha. The video, zoomed in and slowed down by a forensic imaging specialist, was played as the prosecution's case appeared to be winding down after a week of testimony in which some of its own witnesses often bolstered Rittenhouse's claim of self-defense. The footage showed Rosenbaum following Rittenhouse before Rittenhouse suddenly spins around and fires his rifle at him. Rosenbaum falls, and Rittenhouse runs around a car. Dr. Doug Kelley, a forensic pathologist with the Milwaukee County medical examiner's office, said Rosenbaum was shot by someone who was within 4 feet of him.


'Cyber seed' that 'grows like a plant' could revolutionise how we design vehicles, medical equipment, and more

The Independent - Tech

A'cyber seed' that grows'like a plant' to design structures using material from the local environment has been developed by researchers. The'seed' is composed of hundreds of pieces of information, digitally encoded, that includes data on necessary materials, properties, and other parameters such as weight, height, colour, and density. Simple seeds could have 50 lines of information, with six pieces of information per line. This seed, algorithmically, then attempts to grow into a particular design set out by researchers from Queen's University Belfast, Loughborough University and the University of York. Starting off from a single cell in a CAD (computer-aided design) program, the seed will grow in a certain direction until it reaches the limit of the parameter it has been programmed with.


Watch Live as IBM's A.I. Mayflower Ship Crosses the Atlantic

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"Seagulls," said Andy Stanford-Clark, excitedly. In fact, you can totally ignore them." Stanford-Clark, the chief technology officer for IBM in the U.K. and Ireland, was exuding nervous energy. It was the afternoon before the morning when, at 4 a.m. British Summer Time, IBM's Mayflower Autonomous Ship -- a crewless, fully autonomous trimaran piloted entirely by IBM's A.I., and built by non-profit ocean research company ProMare -- was set to commence its voyage from Plymouth, England. to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. And now, after countless tests and hundreds of thousands of hours of simulation training, it was about to set sail for real. Stanford-Clark was running through the potential risks. Seagulls, he pointed out, were something of a false alarm. From an image-recognition perspective, they were a challenge because they had a tendency of getting right up in the camera lens so that they looked like enormous winged obstacles that needed to be avoided at all costs. But they had a tendency ...


Russia is building its own space station as Nasa replaces Roscosmos with SpaceX

The Independent - Tech

Russia is building its own $6 billion space station that it plans to launch in 2030, the head of the country's Roscosmos space agency has said. "If in 2030, in accordance with our plans, we can put it into orbit, it will be a colossal breakthrough," Interfax news agency quoted Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin as saying, as reported by Reuters. "The will is there to take a new step in world manned space exploration." The Russian station is likely to be manned by robots with artificial intelligence, while human cosmonauts would periodically visit the craft. This is because the Russian station's orbit path would expose it to higher radiation. Deputy prime minister Yuri Borisov reportedly saying that Russia will give notice to its international partners in 2025.




Watch live: EA Play 2021 to showcase new games, services

Washington Post - Technology News

The livestream format follows the cancellation of numerous in-person video game events due to covid-19. On June 11, Sony Interactive Entertainment hosted a similar event, unveiling the PlayStation 5 and showing off a slate of games that would appear on the console.


Watch Live: NASA OSIRIS-REx Arrives at Asteroid Bennu

WIRED

Two years and two months after it launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, NASA's $800-million mission to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter will reach a pivotal moment Monday, when the agency's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is slated to rendezvous with its scientific target: a dark, round, carbon-rich asteroid named Bennu. At fewer than 500 meters in diameter, Bennu is a small solar-system body with big scientific potential: Astronomers suspect the asteroid's rocky composition has remained more or less unchanged since it formed some 4.5 billion years ago. Collecting and analyzing a sample of the asteroid could tell scientists a lot about the origins of our solar system, its planets, and the source of organic molecules that may have given rise to life on Earth. But before anyone can sift through a sample from Bennu, NASA must first collect and retrieve it. Doing so will require several major steps, the first of which is slated to kick off Monday, at around 9:00 am PT, when OSIRIS-REx (short for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) will arrive at Bennu and begin its months-long process of surveying the asteroid's surface.