ExaVibes AI-driven robot Mayflower recreates historic voyage

 

News Hub: a ship with no crew or passengers but a robotic captain driven by artificial intelligence to navigate the vessel the autonomous ship is set to embark on a transatlantic voyage retracing the formers of the famous voyage by the mayflower board about 400 years ago our next support tells you more 400 years ago mayflower made a famous voyage across the Atlantic carrying pilgrim settlers to America and making history

now its namesake a sleek robotic vessel is aiming to recreate the Atlantic crossing only with a modern twist the ship will be captained by a robot trained by IBM designed artificial intelligence the one million pound ship could become the largest ever autonomous vessel to cross it's the ocean as ready

 as it's going to be from a mechanical and electrical and a power and propulsion perspective and now we just want to continue to implement the autonomy and stress it and test it and throw things at it that it didn't see before make sure it's all working validate it and then yeah I think we're getting close everything seems to be working right now so armed with state-of-the-art tech vessel

 will be able to independently scan the horizon for possible hazards make informed decisions and change its course based on a matrix of live data warning hazard detected rather than having so many scientists on board trying to do lots of different jobs you can compress that down into a small payload like

this it really takes the stress off the scientists they can get focused on actually analyzing the data back in a comfy warm office whereas this is expendable it can go out there you can swap it out for different payloads later on if you want to and it's also you

 could you could cover far greater areas you could make lots and lots of these boxes and do lots of lots of experiments on many different ships whereas you've only got one scientist you can only do one thing at a time the creators of the ship are confident that the vessel could herald a new era of automated research ships we really need a huge amount of data to be able to actually

 understand what's going on with with the world's oceans and that's that's so important and using just traditional methods alone isn't going to allow us to actually really scale up how we do that so so together those traditional methods and the more recent innovations are really going to help enable us and give our scientists the information they need to really do those important tasks of around research and scientific breakthrough here after completing the six months of sea trials ibm's mayflower is all set to sail from the UK to the united states around april 19th on a course closely echoing the 1620 crossing bureau report we on world is one

coronavirus:How to clean your smartphone safely

coronavirus:smartphone safely 

while washing your hands is vital if you're worried about germs on your phone you can clean it effectively with simple soap and water hi I'm dr. Linus Eric I'm a microbiologist at University College London and I'm gonna show you how to clean your brain unplug your phone turn it off and remove the case all the manger phone makers warned against using chemicals hand gels and abrasive wipes on your device as this can damage the screens protective coating dampen a microfiber cloth with water and simple household soap gently rub the surfaces of the phone with the damp cloth take care not to get moisture in 

any of the openings because even water-resistant phones lose their protection over time finally dry your phone with a clean microfiber cloth even just using soap and water can effectively remove bacteria and viruses from your phone and we can test that by using this little device and these swaps the device gives a reading of relative light units or RL use and that's a measure of the microbial activity on your phone so the higher the number the more germs are present we tested all of these phones and their cases before and after cleaning with soapy water and they were all significantly cleaner afterwards on a surgical surface we'd want to get a figure of 50 or less and all of our phones and cases had readings lower than that if you have an iPhone Apple says you can safely clean it with 70% isopropyl alcohol wipes these are the ones that you can get from computer shops or online there are also devices that you can use to sterilize your phone using ultraviolet UVC radiation these shouldn't harm your device but some phones or cases could be discolored over time just remember with all of these methods as soon as you touch your phone you're going to get germs back onto it so make sure that you keep washing your hands regularly and thoroughly you