Our congested cities are in desperate need of a breather and relief may come from the air as opposed to the roads. Plans for a different kind of transport hub – one for delivery drones and electric air-taxis – are becoming a reality, with the first Urban Air Portreceiving funding from the UK government.
It’s being built in Coventry. The hub will be a pilot scheme and hopefully a proof of concept for the company behind it. Powered completely off-grid by a hydrogen generator, the idea is to remove the need for as many delivery vans and personal cars on our roads, replacing them with a clean alternative in the form of a new type of small aircraft, with designs being developed by Huyundai and Airbus, amongst others.
Infrastructure is going to be important. Organisations like the Civil Aviation Authority are looking into the establishment of air corridors that might link a city centre with a local airport or distribution centre.
Cut off a flatworm’s head, and it’ll grow a new one. Cut it in half, and you’ll have two new worms. Fire some radiation at it, and it’ll repair itself. Scientists have wanted to work out the mechanisms involved for some time, but the secret has eluded them. Enter an AI coded at Tufts University, Massachusetts. By analysing and simulating countless scenarios, the computer was able to solve the mystery of the flatworm’s regeneration in just 42 hours. In the end it produced a comprehensive model of how the flatworm’s genes allow it to regenerate.
Although humans still need to feed the AI with information, the machine in this experiment was able to create a new, abstract theory independently – a huge step towards the development of a conscious computer, and potentially a landmark step in the way we carry out research.
"The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians, because they are ignorant of the whole. For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.” Plato
Michael Haak, 60, alitoa nguo mbele ya rubani mwenzake wa kike ndani ya chumba cha marubani huku akitazama filamu za ngono (ponografia) kwenye kompyuta yake ndogo, waendesha mashtaka walisema.
Wakati ndege ya shirika la Southwest Airlines ikiendelea na safari, Haak aliendelea kufanya" kitendo kisichokuwa na staha " katika chumba cha marubani.
Tukio hilo lilitokea wakati ndege ilipokuwa safiri kutoka Uwanja wa Kimataifa wa ndege wa Philadelphia kuelekea uwanja wa ndege wa kimataifa wa Orlando mnamo Agosti 10 mwaka 2020, mahakama ilifahamishwa.
Wakati ndege iliposhika mkondo wa safari, Haak aliondoka katika kiti cha rubani, "kimakusudi" na kuanza kutazama filamu ya ngono kwenye kompyuta yake ndogo.
Wakili msaidizi Michael Cunningham alisema rubani mwenzake "alikuwa na haki ya kutofanyiwa kitendo kama hicho, bila kujali ni nini kingechochea au kilisababisha kitendo hicho", Associated Press iliripoti.
Haak alishtakiwa Maryland kwasababu ndege ilikuwa ikipaa katika anga za jimbo hilo wakati wa tukio hilo. Alikiri kufanya hatia hiyo kimakusudi, hadharani.