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al_semenchenko

Chatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York | Technology | ... - 0 views

  • An artificial-intelligence lawyer chatbot has successfully contested 160,000 parking tickets across London and New York for free, showing that chatbots can actually be useful.
  • The bot was created by the self-taught coder after receiving 30 parking tickets at the age of 18 in and around London. The process for appealing the fines is relatively formulaic and perfectly suits AI, which is able to quickly drill down and give the appropriate advice without charging lawyers fees.
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    Digital lawers already here.
alexbelov

UK government invests £60 million in Skylon 'super-plane' that could cut Lond... - 0 views

  • UK government invests £60 million in Skylon 'super-plane' that could cut London to Sydney flights to just four hours
  • Its 'Sabre' engine - a hybrid rocket and jet propulsion system which theoretically allows travel anywhere on Earth in four hours or less - could become a reality in a decade.
  • A full ground-based engine test is currently planned for 2020.
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  • The super-plane will rely on cooling an incoming airstream from 1,000 degrees C to minus 150 C almost instantly, at close to 1/100th of a second.
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    Aerospace flight research aiming to speed up long-distance flights. However investment volume seems inadequate for such a huge project.
Maria Gurova

Russia Wants People to Road Trip from New York to London (via Moscow) - 1 views

  • Russian Railways wants to build one, as part of a massive road and rail project that would stretch from New York to London by way of Canada, Alaska, Russia, and continental Europe.
  • The plan is called the Trans-Eurasian Belt Development, and Russian Railway president Vladimir Yakunin proposed it earlier this year.
  • A 520 mile stretch of road would carry travelers — and, presumably, trade goods — west from the Canadian border, through Fairbanks and Nome, to the shores of the Seward Peninsula.
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  • On the other hand, Yakutin may be a plausible successor to Russian president Vladimir Putin, and the two are said to be close personal friends.
  • Even if the TEBD never breaks ground, the idea lends itself to all sorts of speculation. You could, in theory, one day make it from the northern tip of Scotland to the southern tip of Chile using a combination of roads and railways.
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    and when you look at the same subject from outside of Russia that might seem like a Transformative scenario rather then Market or Fortress 
evgeny lavrov

Holograms Are Coming To The Classroom | Fast Company | Business + Innovation - 1 views

  • an innovative new development by a pair of London doctors, which uses hologram models to demonstrate physical ailments.
  • The holograms could also be used as an aid for teaching surgery.
Anna Dubinina

Looking at supersonic airliners - 0 views

  • The latest new concept design is called Skreemr, which -- if developed -- supposedly would carry 75 passengers from London to New York in 30 minutes
  • unlike rockets, scramjet engines would burn oxygen from the atmosphere instead of having to carry heavy tanks full of oxygen
  • A hybrid rocket and jet engine is being developed by Reaction Engines with joint funding by the UK and BAE Systems, which could one day lead to a new supersonic airliner
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  • Aerion is developing a $110 million, 12-passenger business jet capable of hitting Mach 1.6 -- or close to 2,000 kilometers per hour
  • Expected delivery of this new supersonic plane: 2022.
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