Alexandra Stepanova & Ivan Bukin who is blind perform a special tribute to his mom. Tango selection by Astor Piazzolla. Ivan, also known as Babo became blind after a tragic fire in his family home where his mom who was a famous ice skater jumped from the 7th floor and died while Babo became blin…
St. Petersburg Gala 2024 truly embodied its theme, ‘Let’s Get Loud’! raising over one million dollars. Two special awards were given to Dr Bob Wallace Medical Director of “The Golden Rule, Inc” serving St Pete, and Caprice Edmond, member of the board of Pinellas County Schools. The vibrant ener…
The Secret File is a compilation of photographs that have been circulated in the internet through viral marketing. It seems that the photos emerged from secret files of governments and agencies from around the world. They have been compiled here not only for pleasure and enjoyment, but to makes u…
In this twenty-eighth installment of contemporary and ballet male dancers we present a unique artificial intelligence produced Hercules dance as well as three performances by James Waddell & Ilya Manayenkov of “HUMAN;” Alexei Pomytkin from Russian ballet and Antonio Casalinho from Portugal perform
Look up into the skies today at a passing aeroplane and the view is not that much different to the one you would have seen 60 years ago. Then and now, most airliners have two wings, a cigar-shaped fuselage and a trio of vertical and horizontal stabilizers at the tail. If it isn’t broke, the mantra has been, why fix it, particularly when your design needs to travel through the air at several hundred miles an hour packed with people. Boom Supersonic is transforming air travel with Overture, the world’s fastest airliner, optimized for speed, safety, and sustainability. Serving both civil and government markets, Overture will fly at twice the speed of today’s airliners and is designed to run on 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Overture’s order book, including purchases and options from American Airlines, United Airlines, and Japan Airlines stands at 130 aircraft.
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer. He was an important contributor to the birth of commercial electricity, and is best known for his many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Tesla’s patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current (AC) electric power systems. His goal was to develop free electricity.
Hedy Lamarr (Nov 9, 1914 – Jan 19, 2000) Hollywood is a place where folks are often recognized more for their looks than their talent – and actress Hedy Lamarr was no exception. But it’s what she invented in her spare time – to help end that war – that has history turning a kinder eye, linking her to a bombshell of a whole different sort.
Solano County sits at the crossroads of Northern California. Nestled between Sacramento, the Delta, San Francisco, and Napa Valley, Solano perfectly captures the diversity of California’s landscapes and its people. It is the home of agriculture and green energy industries that sustainably feed and power our state, strong middle-class communities, and our nation’s busiest Air Force base. Eastern Solano County is also an area ready for a new community. We’re excited to tell our story.
From SIRI to self-driving cars, artificial intelligence (AI) is progressing rapidly. While science fiction often portrays AI as robots with human-like characteristics, AI can encompass anything from Google’s search algorithms to IBM’s Watson to autonomous weapons. Artificial intelligence today is properly known as narrow AI (or weak AI), in that it is designed to perform a narrow task (e.g. only facial recognition or only internet searches or only driving a car). However, the long-term goal of many researchers is to create general AI (AGI or strong AI). While narrow AI may outperform humans at whatever its specific task is, like playing chess or solving equations, AGI would outperform humans at nearly every cognitive task.
The latest global arms race has gone hypersonic. Capable of flying faster than 5000km/h without losing manoeuvrability and lower in the atmosphere than traditional ballistic missiles, hypersonic weapons will offer clear advantages in penetrating missile defences — once they’ve actually been perfected. Though still in development by nations around the world, once fully operational, the missiles are expected to be capable of destroying targets anywhere on the planet within an hour of getting data and permission to launch. The weapons will also lessen the timelines for a response by a nation under attack.
