For a few years now we have been waiting anxiously for the day that online retailers can send us our orders the same day using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Unfortunately, the years keep coming and going, and even though we are making progress, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) seems willing to allow it, we are not there yet.
At the same time, great progress is being made in the beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) arena, which many consider the holy grail of full deployment for drones and air taxis. So, it is safe to say that we are closer to receiving a pack of pencils that we ordered in the morning and that everyone working to make it happen is really busy trying.
But how about a pint of blood that is needed to save a life but is six miles away in a city with hours of delays on the ground because of traffic jams and incomprehensible road rules? The perspective changes when lives are at stake and the deployment of unmanned platforms can be the difference between life and death.
A few companies around the world are having great success with medical deliveries in developing countries and areas with uncrowded skies, such as Zipline in Africa. With almost 2.5 million deliveries of critical medical supplies to remote locations and over 19 million miles flown, Zipline’s business model seems scalable and is creating a rich database of pain points that need to be addressed before we move the processes and procedures to urban national airspaces with heavy concentration of commercial and general aviation flights.
Another company working to create a scalable, replicable business model in the medical delivery service is ORKID, which is beginning to take the first steps towards regular deliveries of medical supplies between corporate entities, such as wholesale and online pharmacies, urban hospitals, and regional health centers. We reached out to Santiago Pinzon, CEO and Co-founder of ORKID to discuss the generalities of the drone delivery industry and the particulars of his company and his chosen path to success.
“We looked at a large plethora of possibilities for our initial business model and selected medical supplies and the business to business (B2B) modality,” Santiago said with conviction. “In a country with a complicated topography, low rural road density, and high urban traffic, the ingredients were there to have a viable way of delivering life-saving supplies in short distances but over insurmountable obstacles if you are trying to deliver by conventional ground transportation.”  
Continue reading: https://www.commercialuavnews.com/drone-delivery/orkid-and-the-advancement-of-b2b-deliveries

Feeding the world’s population is in crisis. The number of people on the edge of famine has jumped to 44 million from 27 million in 2019, the UN's World Food Program said this month.
We need to produce 50% more food in the next ten years to feed the growing population, and the challenge is to do it with less electricity, water and tillable land. We are also running out of farm labor, 50% less than ten years ago. Can AI play a role in addressing this looming crisis?
Here's one scenario for AI and agriculture: a drone intelligently scans the land looking for promising spots for planting. It carries the seeds contained in a shell of fertilizer and plants them. I've heard one company claim that the seedling sprouts into a plant 90% of the time. Such a system can handle up to six drones, at once and do the work of 20 people, and locates viable spots in remote areas.
Once the seedlings are planted, they need water and pesticide. AI systems can use computer vision and only dispense where required, potentially using 50% less water and 90% less pesticide. Soil health sensors could give the farmer 10-12 measurements of moisture, humidity, chemistry, etc., to increase the yield and the cash flow for the farmers.
Vertical farming is also possible. Because the environment is closely controlled, the AI models can constantly adjust the pertinent factors. The yields per “acre” (the vertical farm's footprint, with the help of AI, can produce 10x the yield.
Harvesting - some products could be harvested all at once, others daily based on ripeness. John Deere is at the forefront of bulk harvesting, which I’ll cover below. For the smaller harvest, like picking fruit, the machines are probably too costly to break even at this point. There are quite a few harvester robot models, but their deployment is, at the moment, minimal.
Storage optimization - 99% of all produce goes into some kind of storage before it arrives at the grocery store, restaurant or institution. Almost 45% of all produce is lost or spoiled in the storage and transport. But, an AI system can monitor produce and predict when it will spoil, often weeks in advance, providing the opportunity to get it moving before it does.
We also hear a lot about smart refrigerators, but this has nothing to do with the world food crisis.
But how do wheat and grains fit in?
I see one thing wrong with these proposals. They are producing fruit and produce, not the basic staples needed to feed the world, except for AI-powered devices to ease the labor shortage. Some of the devices do demonstrate the ability to raise yields with less water and far less pesticide.
The world doesn’t need perfectly ripened strawberries; it needs wheat, corn, soybeans. With 175 million acres of arable land in the Midwest, farmers primarily produce wheat, corn, and soybeans. Corn and soybeans are two key products for the Midwest. Last year, corn production was 15.1 billion bushels with a yield of 177.0 bushels per acre, 40% of which was exported.
Continue reading: https://diginomica.com/can-ai-help-address-looming-global-food-crisis

The federal government has now thrown its support behind a unique new drone training program at Warren County Community College (Warren) that will provide students with skills to help farmers more efficiently evaluate their land and crops and treat and utilize them more effectively, according to Warren President Dr. Will Austin.
With the strong support of Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-7) at the request of Warren County Commissioners the college is receiving $750,000 in the 2022 federal budget for precision agriculture training, a relatively new area of study under the college’s fast-growing drone education program.
“This support will help us build another valuable program that trains students for good jobs in this exciting industry, while at the same time developing the technology and trained workforce that will allow farmers to have much better information about their property and their crops,” Dr. Austin said. “We appreciate the work Congressman Malinowski and our county officials have done to support this effort.”
Malinowski said after carefully considering a variety of projects he gave the Warren bid for the funding his full support because of its value to the agriculture industry, particularly smaller farms, and its potential to create careers for area students.
“I hope this is an incentive for young people to get training in this new technology and stay in the county and work in the vital field of agriculture producing greater crop yields and ensuring an enduring food supply for our nation,” he said. “I hope this is the start of something really important that serves Warren County in a number of ways.”
Continue reading: https://www.tapinto.net/towns/phillipsburg/categories/press-releases/articles/united-states-congress-and-administration-appropriate-750-000-to-cutting-edge-warren-drone-training-program-that-benefits-farmers

How to digitally break the bias and rise into leadership roles
How to digitally break the bias and rise into leadership roles
Research has shown the need to address the gender gap at leadership levels for the long-term profitability of organizations.   However, the need is not addressed primarily due to the existing bias against women employees and the missed opportunity to nurture them early on in their careers.  In this article, we elucidate how the current ‘digital’ ecosystem – the great leveler – provides a unique opportunity to break this status quo, especially for women in tech, so that they can rise into leadership roles by their own effort.
Some of you might remember the iconic Nike advertisement from the movie What Women Want which is wonderfully scripted to show how something as simple as ‘the road’ can enable gender equality.  Well, most of us might not have visited the road for a run during the pandemic, but we might have visited the other avenue that enables gender equality – social media.  
Social media became the tool of choice for women all over the world, to share their ideas and opinions, regardless of their background or nationality. And it still is!  
Unfortunately, the ‘digital’ medium – which is neither gated nor discriminates ideas based on gender – has been severely underutilized when it comes to career growth.  The LinkedIn Gender Insight Report indicates that “the professional network is more popular among males than females. 57% of all LinkedIn members are male, while females take up 43% of the total users”. And women’s participation is even lesser in developing countries. 
The potential of digital medium in women’s growth into leadership roles can be better appreciated by understanding the challenges that organizations face currently. 
Continue reading: https://www.dqindia.com/what-women-in-tech-want/

As an outsider looking in, the tech industry can be intimidating.
Do you need to become fluent in Silicon Valley jargon before you submit your resume to that startup? How many programming languages do you need to know? Will you need to leave your other interests behind?
These concerns can be especially pressing for women interested in going into tech because the industry features unique barriers that can prevent them from advancing. That may be part of the reason why women still hold only a quarter of professional computing occupations in the U.S., despite making up around half the workforce.
The barriers facing women in tech are real; but some conceptions they may have about the industry aren't. So, Techopedia sat down with Lucie Gattepaille, Chief Technology Officer at ALPHA10X, Krista Martin, VP of product and growth at Boardable, and Xinyi Zhang, Chief Product Officer at DecorMatters, to learn more about their careers. From our conversation, we deciphered three common myths about working in tech—and the truth behind them.
Here's what we learned:
Continue reading: https://www.techopedia.com/3-myths-about-women-working-in-tech-busted/2/34713

The criticality of getting corporate restructuring right is hard to overstate. As you may know, restructuring is normally carried out when an organization is not in the best financial health. A complete overhaul of existing working methods and the overall structure of an organization to avoid financial crises and stabilize business performance necessitates the proper extraction and use of data and resources. Corporate restructuring involves adhering to a robust business strategy while carrying out SWOT analysis, creating new strategies for the future, adding and eliminating operations and resources depending on financial requirements and launching a new brand language, if necessary, to turn the fortunes of a failing business around.
Corporate restructuring is a data-driven process. To successfully implement it, businesses need to accurately evaluate continually changing data such as quarterly revenue records, purchase trends, personnel performance statistics, capital and revenue expenditure and many more. Analyzing large volumes of such data is impossible for humans or even basic computers, necessitating the presence of AI in the mix. The use of enterprise AI in organizations is not a novel concept, with businesses already using the technology for various purposes.
Involving machine learning in corporate restructuring can improve the following aspects of the process:
By Facilitating Improved Business Strategies and Structures
Normally, business restructuring begins with finding the business problems that plague an organization. The problem could be related to a specific aspect of an organization's operations, such as poor customer experience and grievance redressal, high overhead expenses, issues with meeting regulatory compliances, frequent logistics-related issues such as procurement bottlenecks and others. Finding such problems lets organizations arrest their falling ROI and work towards renewed growth. As stated above, detecting these problems is only possible after an organization has scanned through thousands of physical or digital documents and records. Machine learning algorithms are trained to identify underlying patterns in such documents and provide valuable inferences to those tasked with overseeing the restructuring process. For example, an enterprise AI-powered application can check two separate, seemingly-unrelated records—say, compliance-related losses and records of cyber-attacks faced by an organization—before informing the restructuring officers that several expenses are incurred due to inadequate data security measures in place.
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/naveenjoshi/2022/03/28/3-ways-in-which-machine-learning-streamlines-corporate-restructuring/?sh=7946f8502a7a

Is artificial intelligence getting a bad rap?
Only half (50%) of consumers trust companies that use AI as much as they trust other companies, a survey of 19,504 people published by World Economic Forum finds. At the same time, the more familiar people are with AI, the greater their level of trust.
The likelihood to trust companies that use AI as much as other companies is highest among business decision-makers (62%) and business owners (61%), the WEF survey shows. Trust is also higher among the more affluent (57%) and those with a higher-education degree (56%). Trust is lowest among those are 50 and older (44%), those with no higher education (45%), and those who are not employed (45%).
What needs to be done to build greater trust in AI? The challenge is that there is a great deal of pressure to move quickly into AI initiatives, requiring a delicate balancing act of governance that won’t slow things down, says Spiros Margaris, leading venture capitalist in the fintech space. In a recent conversation between and Don Fancher, principal at Deloitte, he points out that companies are still early in the AI journey. “We’re seeing more adoption of AI solutions. In the fintech space, personalized service to customers would not be possible without AI.”
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2022/03/29/resolving-artificial-intelligences-trust-problem/?sh=20c74af373e9

Data science is applicable in every industry. It helps to monitor, manage and collect performance measures to improve decision-making. The application of data science can help businesses to gain customer insights, increase security, analyze finances, streamline manufacturing and predict future market trends.
Data scientists often write algorithms that can help to make sense of big data. They need to have technical data science skills as well as strong business acumen to discern problems that need to be solved. A data scientist can help your business to source, manage, and analyze large amounts of unstructured data.
Does My Early Stage Startup Need a Data Scientist?
An early stage startup may need someone to make sense of data, build proper data systems, and focus on cultivating a data-driven approach. However, data scientists don't come cheap so you need to know what's best for your startup right now. To determine whether your startup is ready to hire a data scientist, ask the following questions.
What type of startup is it?
Data scientists may find it easier to work with startups that have massive amounts of data. They often use a variety of techniques to collect, clean, and convert data into usable forms. If your startup is data-driven, then it may be worthwhile getting a data scientist on board from the beginning.
Regardless of the industry, every startup needs to analyze consumer data and trends. Instead of hiring a full-time data scientist, you can choose to employ another professional with similar skills. For example, a marketing startup can get a savvy digital marketing manager to analyze key metrics.
Can you afford a data scientist?
It often takes about two to three years for a startup business to become profitable. So you need to consider the cost of hiring a data scientist. If you have enough funding from angel investors or venture capitalists, then it may make sense to use data science to scale and grow your business.
Data scientists have a unique set of skills that are in high demand and they are expected to come with a hefty price tag. Glassdoor pegs the average data scientist's salary at $121,147 but it can go up to $160,000 for a senior data scientist with a master of science in data science degree.
Continue reading: https://techdayhq.com/community/articles/does-your-early-stage-startup-need-a-data-scientist

Data governance refers to the people, practices, and programs involved in adequately managing that asset within an organization. Although a significant part of data governance is focused on data privacy and compliance, profitable business is supported by effective data governance responsible for storage, data architecture, data quality, data integration. Good data management technology ensures that the information available is consistent, trustworthy, and optimal for AI applications.
Artificial intelligence tools continue to evolve, providing ever-greater opportunities for complex calculations and the use of growing amounts of data – the jatapp.com breakthrough is a prime example of this. The role of data management in enabling the future of artificial intelligence is no longer science fiction but part of everyday life with constant recourse to GPS, smart texts, assistants, and more. Discussing the importance of AI in data management, The Data Administration Newsletter found that most enterprises view the impact of AI as the most significant of all technologies, as its inherent nature allows for the systematic consumption and creation of valuable data. Let’s look at four important opportunities that AI provides in data management.
Quick Sort Data
Most business giants accumulate a huge amount of dark information, leaving the importance of data management behind. However, AI combined with analytics can use machine learning to get information faster and easier. Together, these systems can engage various algorithms to sort documents, emails, images, videos, audio files, etc. You will store all data on individual servers. All that remains to be done is to enable the expert to analyze the recommendations for data classification in an automated process and, if necessary, customize it and implement it into business strategies. A significant part of this process is also related to the problem of data storage. Analytics and AI are helping to develop a set of recommendations for removing data from files.
Continue reading: https://infotechlead.com/artificial-intelligence/the-importance-and-role-of-ai-in-data-management-71762

During the second half of 2021, cybercriminals launched approximately 4.4 million Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, bringing the total number of DDoS attacks in 2021 to 9.75 million, a NETSCOUT report reveals. These attacks represent a 3% decrease from the record number set during the height of the pandemic but continue at a pace that’s 14% above pre-pandemic levels.
The report details how the second half of 2021 established high-powered botnet armies and rebalanced the scales between volumetric and direct-path (non-spoofed) attacks, creating more sophisticated operating procedures for attackers and adding new tactics, techniques, and methods to their arsenals.
“While it may be tempting to look at the decrease in overall attacks as threat actors scaling back their efforts, we saw significantly higher activity compared to pre-pandemic levels,” said Richard Hummel, threat intelligence lead, NETSCOUT.
“The reality is that attackers are constantly innovating and adapting new techniques, including the use of server-class botnets, DDoS-for-Hire services, and increased used direct-path attacks that continually perpetuate the advancement of the threat landscape.”
Continue reading: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/03/28/ddos-attacks-2021/

Cities, aviation authorities and large companies will gather in the RAI Amsterdam from Tuesday for a three-day conference on drones to discuss how drones can become better integrated into urban transport. Over 250 industry experts will gather at the event, called Amsterdam Drone Week.
Representatives of various cities and regions, including Amsterdam, Enschede, Stockholm, Madrid and Bavaria, will exchange ideas in the RAI for greater unity in the regulation of unmanned aviation in the city. The conference is organized by the European aviation authority EASA.
Zipline, an American start-up that is developing systems to help drones deliver medicine to difficult-to-reach areas in Ghana and Rwanda, will make an appearance. A drone for medical transport will also be on display. PostNL, KPN, the ANWB and Erasmus MC, among others, worked on this unmanned aircraft together with the Amsterdam developer of drones Avy. In the autumn of 2021, the Zwolle hospital Isala conducted test flights for the transport of blood for transfusions.
The number of unmanned aircraft in the Netherlands has doubled in the past seven years. A few years ago there were high expectations around drones, but now that the hype is over, they are increasingly being used by companies and organizations, according to Amsterdam Drone Week.
Continue reading: https://nltimes.nl/2022/03/27/experts-gather-amsterdam-promote-use-drones

Online orders accounted for nearly 80% of Domino's total global sales during the 2022 half-year financial results -- and the company only expects this number to grow further.
Domino's, which operates in 10 markets globally, has signed a deal with Macquarie Telecom to roll out NBN, VoIP, and SD-WAN with 4G back-up services to more than 720 Domino's stores across Australia to accommodate for the expected continued growth online.
"We want a telco infrastructure solution that's going to be capable not just for now, with a large percentage of online sales … [but] will grow to the future, that will be reliable for up and downstream for data, and also smarter stores be it technology in-store or out of store that needs to return to base," Domino's group chief digital and experience officer Michael Gillespie told ZDNet.
The upgrade has been rolled out at 400 sites within five months, with the remaining 320 sites expected to be completed in the next four months.
The decision by Domino's to upgrade its network is also ahead of potential plans by the pizza delivery company to bring drone deliveries to Australia.
"We're not just investing for a telco solution now; we're looking at the future. We obviously know with a clearer picture where we're heading … and we're validating that what we're doing is allowing a more convenient store over time," Gillespie said.
This year, the company said it will be relaunching trials in New Zealand in partnership with SkyDrop, formerly known as Flirtey. The pair first teamed up in 2016 and completed what they claimed was a world-first pizza drone delivery.
"Working with Flirtey, and now SkyDrop, we realised we practically could deliver [using drones] but the actual volume we could deliver in size of order, compared to what the consumers were ordering and moving to in New Zealand, there was a discrepancy," Gillespie said.
"So, we needed to go back and say, okay, how can we work with them on a drone that can carry more and have a few other advances to get a higher commercial volume.
"We've let SkyDrop do what they do best and now they've returned with us to say we're going to get back into trialling in New Zealand. That's an exciting message and shows that what we're doing in this space really is a focus, but we're not going to do it without the opportunity of validating, 'Can we get to scale?'."
Continue reading: https://www.zdnet.com/article/dominos-upgrades-store-network-ahead-of-more-online-orders-and-drone-delivered-pizzas/

Agricultural transformation is a crucial aspect for every developing nation. Primarily because almost every country aspires to reach high-income status, and agricultural development is an important aspect contributing towards the same. Particularly in countries like India, where at least 60% of the population depends on agriculture as their primary source of income, sustainable development in this sector plays a pivotal role. At present, the agriculture sector contributes 18% of India’s GDP (according to Statista, a German database company). And one of the biggest reasons why it has been able to continue contributing significantly to India’s economic growth is because of its ever-evolving technological adoption. 
The biggest benefactor in almost every industry today, including agriculture, is technology. The fruitful amalgamation of agriculture values and technological innovations is paving the path for a greener, productive, and sustainable future. One such technological invention is drone technology. Officially known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and Unmanned Aircraft Systems, drones are particularly helpful in boosting crop production, crop assessment, risk management, setting-up forewarning systems with respect to forecasting disasters, and conserving forests, fisheries, and wildlife. 
It is pertinent to note that in January this year, the Indian government told the Supreme Court that no state had reported starvation deaths. However, independent organizations have highlighted that a considerable section of India’s population cannot afford three square meals. They also accentuated that the highest undernourished population resides in India. The question is how as a nation can we ensure the end of hunger and malnutrition while also guaranteeing economic growth? The answer is simple and straightforward, acknowledging and promoting the growth of agritech initiatives. 
Against this backdrop, here are a few ways drone technology is assisting the growth of agricultural outputs by evaluating yield predictions, crop monitoring / assessment, reducing crop-related risks, forecasting disasters and optimizing costs: 

1. Drones used for Yield Estimation:  With help of Multispectral and hyperspectral payloads drones helps in higher accuracy towards yield analysis. Conducting effective and efficient yield analysis can give farmers and other stakeholders much-needed insights to determine the crop and farmers income / loss. Government and private institutions who deal directly with farmers can benefit the farmers largely by accurate yield predictions and ultimately help in increasing the income of the farmer. By leveraging modernistic drones, one can get real-time information about crop signatures and crop health. 
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   Continue reading: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/how-drone-assisted-technology-is-shaping-the-modern-day-agricultural-ecosystem/

Cryptocurrency has become a boogeyman in conservation circles, but a growing corner of the industry is claiming to have a solution to the climate crisis: crypto carbon credits.
In the coming years, companies from Procter & Gamble (PG) to Nestlé (NSRGY) are vowing to go “carbon neutral,” a feel-good moniker signaling they will prevent as much carbon from entering the atmosphere elsewhere as they emit.
One of the ways these companies aim to achieve their emission goals is by purchasing carbon credits – certificates representing carbon dioxide that’s been kept out of the atmosphere by some act of conservation or removal.
While some point to carbon credits as a pragmatic solution to the planet’s climate woes, others say they make the problem worse – giving polluters free rein to emit more than they would otherwise.
Still, with leaf-green logos and websites emblazoned with pictures of the lush Amazon rainforest, a new cohort of crypto projects is embracing carbon credits.
Projects like Toucan, Regen and Moss say on-chain carbon credits will increase transparency and improve accessibility to the carbon credit market.
Another project, KlimaDAO, aims to bump up the price of carbon credits by tapping into a corner of crypto where memes are gospel, Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk is king and everyone is on the hunt for sky-high returns. Klima’s pseudonymous founders present Discord-dwelling degens with a question: What if you can save the environment by holding crypto?
From carbon industry veterans and environmental scientists to retail investors and accountants, a diverse group of voices has found its way into crypto’s regenerative finance, or ReFi, movement, with seemingly everyone evincing a different view as to how – and to what degree – crypto can be leveraged to solve the defining crisis of our time.
Continue reading: https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/miningweek/2022/03/27/crypto-carbon-can-blockchain-networks-fix-carbon-offsets/

Innovative cities across America are racing to become the next hot spot for cryptocurrency and blockchain adoption. Miami was the first city to adopt its own part of CityCoins last year, allowing it to implement its own cryptocurrency called “MiamiCoin” to be used for civic engagement. 
New York City has also made a name for itself as a crypto-friendly city by implementing educational initiatives and with Mayor Eric Adams receiving his paycheck in Bitcoin (BTC) in January this year. 
Austin takes a strong stance 
Most recently, Austin — the state capital of Texas that goes by the slogan “Keep Austin Weird” — has taken a strong interest in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. While Texas’ desire to lead the way for crypto innovation was established about a year ago when Governor Greg Abbot tweeted that he is a “crypto law proposal supporter,” the city of Austin has taken additional measures to ensure the acceptance of cryptocurrency for city services.
On March 9, 2022, Austin city council member Mackenzie Kelly put forth a resolution to direct the Austin city manager to explore possible use cases of cryptocurrency to benefit Austin and its residents. The resolution specifically asks for the city manager to examine how the city could adopt Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for financial transactions.
Kelly told Cointelegraph that her resolution directs the city manager to conduct a fact-finding study to determine what would be required for the city to accept Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency payments for city services:
Continue reading: https://cointelegraph.com/news/is-austin-the-next-us-crypto-hub-officials-approve-blockchain-resolutions

New-age technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be used for early resolution of matters, including insolvency cases, National Company Law Tribunal President Justice Ramalingam Sudhakar said. While addressing a national-level colloquium of NCLT, Justice Sudhakar suggested that AI can be used in case of resolution, especially in the admission of cases, a statement issued by NCLT said.
“One aspect for early resolution is the development of Artificial Intelligence technology, he said. We are focusing on leveraging artificial intelligence and standardization of processes. This will help in reducing delays. We are also focused on evolving a code of best practices so that there is certainty in decision making, said Justice Sudhakar. According to Justice Sudhakar, India was envisioning a multi-trillion dollar economy.
“The bedrock in a nation’s economy is industry and commerce, which is governed by Company Law besides other laws, he said. NCLT President stated that the government has come out with a code to resolve corporate issues to enable corporates of India to compete with the world.
Continue reading: https://www.news18.com/news/tech/artificial-intelligence-could-be-used-for-early-resolution-of-matters-nclt-president-4913927.html

What – and where – is no-code AI?
A code-free system that empowers companies using artificial intelligence (AI) to perform various activities such as, but not limited to, data classification and analysis, “No-code” solutions enable users to create application functionality without writing programming code
When placed into the context of AI, machine learning (ML), and data science, the overall objective of no-code AI is to democratize data analytics and data insights.
The power of no-code AI lies within its potential to enable less “technical” folks – product managers, sales, store owners – to have a more intimate relationship and interaction with their data. By leveraging no-code AI, those disinclined toward the complexities of coding can directly explore, analyze, test hypotheses, and make predictions out of their valuable data. All without having to dive deep into data science, or rely on a team of data scientists to execute tasks that achieve their goals.
I think about how J.A.R.V.I.S. from the Marvel movies, functions as Tony Stark’s AI assistant, running and taking care of all the internal systems of Stark’s buildings and the Iron Man suits, but we are a long way from that in the real world.
Continue reading: https://technative.io/the-evolution-of-no-code-ai/

What is artificial intelligence and how can we use it to detect fraud activities
What is artificial intelligence and Fraud activities?
Artificial Intelligence is knowledge shown by machines, rather than normal insight shown by creatures including people. AI is a wide term that alludes to the utilization of specific sorts of investigation to follow through with responsibilities from driving a vehicle to fraud detection.
Previously, fraud detection has been done by rules-based calculations which are regularly convoluted and not generally extremely difficult to evade. These strategies risk missing a lot of fraud activities or proceeding to have exorbitant measures of bogus up-sides, where client’s cards get declined because of misidentified and dubious ways of behaving. Customary models are likewise entirely unyielding which is an issue in an application where fraudulent are continually tracking down better approaches to sneak by the radar.
After the spread of the COVID-19 disaster and with lockdowns implemented, for the time being, organizations and instructive foundations had to proceed with their activities from a distance. This peculiarity prompted an inescapable flood in the reception of advances for everyday work. Accordingly, the nation saw expanded endeavors and occurrences of computerized blackmail. Since the start of the flare-up in March 2020, the incidence of fraud activities rose by more than 28% between March 2020 and 2021 contrasted with the earlier year.
Continue reading: https://www.analyticsinsight.net/how-artificial-intelligence-is-used-in-fraud-detection/

If you fly a drone for business, you’ll soon have to register it with Washington state.
The Washington Department of Transportation says all commercial drones have to be registered with its Aviation Division beginning April 1st, 2022.
State lawmakers passed a bill in 2021 requiring the department to create and manage a commercial drone registration program.
There’s a $15 registration fee that will go toward the department’s efforts to integrate emerging technologies.
Continue reading: https://kgmi.com/news/007700-deadline-approaching-for-commercial-drone-registration-in-washington-state/

Scientists have begun surveying the Isle of Man's territorial seas for plants which store carbon as part of wider efforts to reduce emissions.
Drones with infrared cameras are being used to build a detailed picture of the 3970 sq km (1533 sq-mile) area.
Swansea University and the National Oceanography Centre are working with the Manx government on the year-long project to document "blue carbon".
Michelle Haywood MHK said the survey would establish a "useful baseline".
The project would enhance understanding of how much carbon is stored in the seas surrounding the island, manage any "damaging practices" that release it, and restore plants in certain areas, she added.
Under the "blue carbon project", scientists from the Southampton-based National Oceanographic Centre have started surveying Manx territorial waters to identify key storage areas, with samples to be taken in the coming months.
A spokesman for the Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture said the aim was to understand the ability of plants to store carbon underwater.
Once the information has been gathered, a marine management plan would be developed over the following two years, he added.
Continue reading: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-60840628

Telecommunications giant Telstra is starting its own carbon farm, growing trees to reduce its emissions.
Big polluters that want to move towards net zero emissions need to buy carbon credits to offset what they put into the atmosphere.
But not enough carbon credits exist in Australia, so Telstra boss Andy Penn is becoming a farmer.
"A carbon farmer," he laughed.
The telecommunications company – more used to data farms storing information – is getting into the business of dirt, using internet-linked drones to plant and maintain 158,000 native trees in a 240-hectare trial site at Yarrowyck in northern NSW.
The project will take carbon out of the atmosphere, help improve sensors, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) technology in the field, and set the company up to take advantage of the growing carbon abatement industry.
"What sparked this was feedback from my team, that we were seeing challenges in getting access to carbon credits on a reliable basis to meet our commitment to be a carbon-neutral company, which we are," Mr Penn said.
The problem behind that is there are not enough projects either avoiding carbon emissions or getting carbon out of the atmosphere, at a scale that meets the needs of big corporate emitters like Telstra – one of largest companies listed on the Australian stock market.

"It is a trial. But we have done a lot of work and, if we are successful at it, we would love to scale it up."

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Tiffin University has announced the opening of its Drone Academy in response to the growing and expanding drone industry.
The Academy has become a place of learning, research and achievement for the advancement of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), commonly referred to as drones. Featuring academic classes, training seminars, community outreach programs, certification opportunities and recreational activities like Community Fly Days, the Drone Academy provides theoretical and applied learning for the technological and operational aspects of the industry.
According to Dr. Peter J. Holbrook, Tiffin University Provost and Chief Academic Officer, this development will be an advantage to students regardless of their chosen majors. “With almost every field of study offered at TU, drone technology is becoming central to the functions of various commercial industries, businesses, and governmental organizations. In short, drones are a transformative technology.”
The Academy has been designated to participate in the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Collegiate Training Initiative (UAS-CTI) by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and allows the Academy and University to collaborate with the FAA, in order to provide aid to students pursuing a career in aviation. The designation also provides the opportunity to partner with industry professionals, local government officials, members of law enforcement and other organizations to provide enrolled students with the industry-skills needed to ensure success.
The University also has plans to establish a minor in UAS that will be available to all undergraduate seated students, regardless of their major. The minor will introduce UAS technology to students that can be utilized in many different professions. There will also be a new concentration in UAS for the Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree that will offer students the ability to explore various UAS platforms and be able to master the concepts of programming for UAS Technologies.
Continue reading: https://go.tiffinohio.net/2022/03/tiffin-university-launches-drone-academy/

Alynix, a lenexa-based drone technology company announced Thursday it plans to host students from Operation Breakthrough’s Ignition Lab at their office headquarters.
The company says it will be showing teenagers career opportunities in the drone technology space on March 24, 2022.
“We are excited to work with Operation Breakthrough on their efforts to prepare the next generation for careers in automation and geospatial science.” Alynix President Ben Lindner said.
The company says Operation Breakthrough will be working to help teach Kansas City high school students about drone technology careers. Alynix says partnership is a great opportunity for both organizations to promote S.T.E.M. careers within the community.
The first event will take place at the Alynix Lenexa headquarters and will focus on drones and how remote sensing impacts the world. Students will have hands-on learning opportunities with both drone pilots and geospatial data scientists. Certified pilots will be answering questions to help the students pass their commercial drone exam.
Continue reading: https://www.kmbc.com/article/drone-company-operation-breakthrough/39527526#

Before the middle of this century when you're looking up and airplane passengers are looking down scooting across the sky are likely to be crowds of unmanned aircraft in what could become low altitude traffic jams.
With that in mind, Japanese drone and air mobility technology company Terra Drone Corp. announced Tuesday it has raised $70 million (8 billion Japanese yen) in Series B funding as use of unmanned aircraft is poised to sharply proliferate in the next two decades.
With a total of $83 million raised since its 2016 start the Tokyo-based company not only plans to expand its drone-based aerial inspection business and open operations in the U.S. this year, but accelerate development of an air traffic control system for unmanned aircraft known as Unmanned Traffic Management or UTM.
“In the coming drone and air mobility-based society there's no infrastructure in the sky so that's what we are making, developing with the government,” Terra Drone COO Teppei Seki told Forbes.com in an interview.
Terra Drone has been working with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to coordinate flight management of both crewed and uncrewed aircraft.
In announcing this latest round of funding, Terra Drone founder and CEO Toru Tokushige, stressed the growing urgency for development and adoption of UTM.
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/edgarsten/2022/03/22/terra-drone-wins-major-new-investments-to-develop-air-traffic-control-system-for-unmanned-aircraft-expansion/?sh=3e18c5702a11

FILMING A TOP-LEVEL backcountry snowboarding event presents distinct technical challenges. The action moves all over the mountain; riders navigate through groups of trees, sail over jumps, and carve around obstacles, all the while making split-second adjustments to their speed and direction. The unpredictable and fast-paced nature of the competition can leave even the most talented camera operators struggling to keep up.
For Travis Rice and Liam Griffin, the organizers of the Natural Selection Tour, this issue was compounded by the fact that they wanted to broadcast their event live. The annual three-stop jamboree sees a hand-picked field of the world’s top snowboarders (eight women and 16 men) compete at specially selected courses in Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Alaska; and British Columbia.
So when it came to finding a broadcast solution for the snowboarding event, the team decided to ditch the traditional methods for shooting backcountry action and instead focus on a completely new approach: a modified racing drone specially outfitted with cameras and transmitters to capture live images of some the world’s best athletes. (Disclosure: The author has served on the selection committee that picks the riders who get invited.)
Natural Selection COO Liam Griffin explains that snowboarding footage is traditionally captured by a camera using a long-angle lens set up on an opposing mountain range, or from helicopters. “But this means the cameras—and hence the viewers—are fundamentally far away from the action,” he says.
Instead, Rice and Griffin wanted to place the camera as close as possible to the action, enabling the viewer to “be there” alongside each rider as they take their runs.
“We wanted to make the event more immersive and easier to understand for anybody watching,” Griffin says. “For most people, even seasoned snowboarders, it can be really difficult to comprehend.”
Filming the action with either a racing drone or a camera drone was one obvious solution. But as Travis Rice, himself one of the world’s most decorated professional snowboarders, explains, “the drone technology didn’t yet exist” to follow a competitor down the whole course at close range in the way the pair envisioned.
Continue reading: https://www.wired.com/story/natural-selection-snowboarding-custom-drone/