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US throws three billion dollars at Afghan bombsKabul (AFP) July 8, 2010 The United States is set to deliver three billion dollars worth of equipment to Afghanistan aimed at countering Taliban-made crude bombs used in the war, a US official said Thursday. Improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, have become the main weapon used against international and Afghan forces fighting to end an insurgency increasingly seen as bogged down in favour of the Taliban. The equipment was "at least doubling" current counter-IED capacity as forces did not have all they needed to take on ... read more |
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London, UK (SPX) Jun 28, 2010A British-led initiative by clean tech company Ultra Green International (UGI) to rescue the Gulf of Mexico from the effects of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster will announce its six week plan to capture the majority of the floating BP oil spill by combining innovative technology with grass roots action. UGI believes that, unlike other clean-up proposals, if necessary its scheme can b ... more  
New York (UPI) Jun 25, 2010 Devices that can understand people, using a technology known as speech recognition, are becoming a common feature of everyday life, researchers say. From people telling their cellphones to dial a number to doctors using speech recognition software to record and transcribe patient visits, speech recognition is making inroads into all areas of human activity, The New York Times reported F ... more  
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) June 24, 2010BP resumed full siphoning operations from the ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well Thursday, but Florida was forced to close down popular tourist beaches at the height of the summer season as more crude washed ashore. The vast slick has already soiled the coastlines of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, but could spell disaster for Florida, one of the world's top tourist destinations with more ... more |
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Intelligent 3D Simulation Robots To Compete In Robocup 2010Coral Gables FL (SPX) Jun 22, 2010 A University of Miami (UM) researcher will be presenting his work on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the 14th annual RoboCup World Championship and Symposium, an international robotic event whose goal is to advance AI and intelligent robotics research. Ubbo Visser, research associate professor of computer science at UM College of Arts and Sciences and team leader for the UM robotics team RoboCanes, will describe the architecture of the multiagent system (MAS) and discuss motion captur ... read more |
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