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There’s a giant contradiction in the middle of the Arizona desert: an experimental city designed for thousands that now contains only a few dozen inhabitants.

For nearly five decades, a group called the Cosanti Foundation has been working to build a city that would inspire a new future of urban design. Today, the project is only 5 percent complete.

Called Arcosanti, the city was envisioned by Italian architect Paolo Soleri, whose dream was to create an advanced urban laboratory where everyday activities could be powered by Earth’s natural resources.

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Ai-Da will reveal AI-made artwork at an exhibition in Oxford.

Dutch national carrier KLM will help fund the development of the Flying-V, a plane that would carry passengers in the wings and increase efficiency.

Learn more about image processing, human body detection, image processing under water, underwater vision system Computer Vision Toolbox.

Forensic anthropologist Amy Mundorff measures the depth of a grave as the remote sensing research project gets underway.

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Mundorff knew from her own searches for buried murder victims in the United States that investigators often fail locate hidden graves, but she didn’t expect it to be so difficult in Bosnia-Herzegovina: The country is smaller than Louisiana, and the whereabouts of 8,000 people remain unknown.

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“While we are on watch, we will not have a repeat of 9/11 or any terrorist incident inside our transportation system in the United States,” said the TSA’s administrator.

Keele University researchers published a review which sets out best practice when it comes to finding bodies on land, including ground penetrating radar methods to image the subsurface.

Futuristic rifles may decide who to shoot.

Target acquired.

“The technology is similar to weapons and drugs…creation of a super-baby should be banned forever.”

The scientist behind the tech is calling for a ban.