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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Rachelle Abbott

View to an AI kill: Robot software deployed by British Army

Artificial Intelligence has been used by the British Army for the first time during a live-firing drill in Estonia.

Soldiers from the 20th Armoured Infantry Brigade used an AI engine during Exercise Spring Storm, as part of Operation Cabrit.

The Ministry of Defence says the tech can be used via the cloud or operate independently to crunch masses of data for analysis of terrain and environment.

Up to 1,500 businesses around the world are feared to have been affected by a global ransomware hack targeting U.S. IT outsourcing services firm Kaseya.

In Sweden, hundreds of supermarkets had to close because their cash registers were inoperative.

Ancient diamonds show Earth was primed for life at least 2.7 billion years ago.

Researchers say volatile gases conserved in diamonds found in rocks were present in similar proportions to those found in the Earth’s mantle – which lies between the planet’s core and crust.

Israel sees a drop in Pfizer vaccine protection against infections, but insists it’s still preventing serious illness, why Twitter has lost immunity in India over user-generated content, mini-submarines will hunt for Antarctic explorer Shackleton’s doomed Endurance ship, and, the AIfoam that can help injured robots fix their ‘skin.

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