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<p>RickeyKelson772: Created page with &quot;&lt;br&gt;LISBON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Portugal has set up a taskforce to come up with a COVID-19 vaccination strategy and hopes to be prepared to [http://www.broowaha.com/search/star...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>&lt;br&gt;LISBON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Portugal has set up a taskforce to come up with a COVID-19 vaccination strategy and hopes to be prepared to [http://www.broowaha.com/search/start%20distributing start distributing] shots as early as January, Health Minister Marta Temido said on Wednesday.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Temido said experts were working to decide which groups should get the vaccine first as well as distribution logistics from transport to storage.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;There's a possibility one of the first vaccines will arrive in January,&quot; Temido told reporters.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;What we want is for the country to be prepared to ensure storage, distribution and safe use.&quot;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Without elaborating, Temido said vaccines that could arrive in January were part of one of several agreements made between the European Commission and pharmaceutical companies.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna and Russia have all released interim data from trials of their potential vaccines showing more than 90% efficacy, [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html hoa tam giác mạch] buoying hopes that effective remedies against the respiratory pandemic may be ready for use soon.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Ae country of just over 10 million people, Portugal has recorded a comparatively low 246,015 coronavirus cases and 3,623 deaths but, like most European countries, infections have been rising and are putting the health system under [http://de.bab.la/woerterbuch/englisch-deutsch/pressure pressure].&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;A new record of 3,051 COVID-19 patients were in hospital on Wednesday, with 432 in intensive care units - more than the first wave peak of 271 in April.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Portugal's 14-day cumulative number of reported coronavirus cases per 100,000 people is now 785, higher than hard-hit Spain and United Kingdom, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;A nationwide state of emergency to combat the spread of the virus came into force last week, with measures including a night-time curfew and a half-day lockdown on weekend days, [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html kynghidongduong.vn] and is due to last until Nov.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;23, but is likely to be extended. A tiered system of coronavirus restrictions is also on the table. (Reporting by Catarina Demony and Patricia Vicente Rua Editing by Mark Heinrich)&lt;br&gt;</div>

RickeyKelson772 https://www.nmnwiki.com/index.php?title=Oculus_Founder_s_Ghost_4_Military_Drones_Use_AI_For_Surveillance_And_Attack&diff=21020 2020-12-30T11:10:24Z

<p>RickeyKelson772: </p> <hr /> <div>id=&quot;article-body&quot; class=&quot;row&quot; section=&quot;article-body&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Anduril's Ghost 4 military drone is about 2 meters long and uses a helicopter-like design for lifting power and quiet operation.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Anduril Industries&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Palmer Luckey rose to tech fame for inventing the [ ], a virtual reality headset that helped [ ] in the technology. Now he's got a different type of tech product to show off: the Ghost 4 military drone.&lt;br&gt;Built by Luckey's new company, called [ Anduril Industries], the two-meter aircraft can be carried in a backpack and is designed to withstand the sand, mud and seawater of military operations. Anduril, which [ announced the drone] Thursday, [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html hoa tam giác mạch] said the Ghost 4 has a 100-minute flight time and can be autonomously or remotely piloted. It can carry cameras, radio-jamming systems or lasers to spotlight targets. And it can drop packages weighing as much as 35 pounds.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For more like this&lt;br&gt;Subscribe to the CNET Now newsletter for our editors' picks of the most important stories of the day.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Onboard artificial intelligence algorithms have been tuned to identify and track people, missiles and battlefield equipment. One Ghost 4 drone can join with other Ghost 4 drones to form a data-sharing swarm to relay information back to Lattice, Anduril's situation monitoring system.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;That versatility is by design, says Luckey, calling the Ghost 4 a &quot;Swiss Army knife that can do everything.&quot; Customers including the US Defense Department, [ Department of Homeland Security] and [ Customs and Border Protection] suggested improvements to Ghost 1, 2 and 3 designs that were used for military operations but not publicly detailed. That led to better ruggedness, weatherproofing and other features in the Ghost 4.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Luckey, who is 27 and the founder of Anduril, aims to marry the disruptive ethos of today's high-tech startups with the old-school defense business. That means bringing artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, robotics and sensor fusion to an organization historically more focused on tanks, battleships and [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html kynghidongduong.vn] fighter jets.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It also means going against the grain of a technology industry whose employees often have different views about making products for the military. More than 3,000 Googlers petitioned to [ ]'s Project Maven, which would have applied the company's [ ]. ([ ].) Similarly, Microsoft employees have [ objected] to a contract for [ ].&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Luckey says if the US doesn't modernize the military, the country will fall behind &quot;strategic adversaries,&quot; such as Russia and China. &quot;I don't think we can win an AI arms race by thinking it's not going to happen,&quot; he said.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Oculus and Anduril Founder [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Palmer%20Luckey Palmer Luckey] speaks during the Web Summit 2018 in Lisbon.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;NurPhoto&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[ Anduril is named after Aragorn's sword], also called the Flame of the West, in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Views on military preparedness aren't Luckey's only break with some of Big Tech's cultural norms. He was a prominent [ supporter of President Donald Trump] working in an industry that [ ] on subjects like immigration and [ ]. [ ], Luckey's first startup, for a whopping [ $3 billion] in 2014. But [ ] after his [ ] in an [ ] emerged during the 2016 campaign. Facebook said [ ] in his firing.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Luckey and Anduril have customers in the US government, but November's election could mean a new administration with different priorities. Luckey says he isn't worried if there's a change in administration. His sales pitch is aimed at the Pentagon, not the White House. And he sees bipartisan support for knowledge about what's happening along the US border, where the Ghost 4 will likely be deployed.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;The Department of Defense is a timeless machine,&quot; he said. &quot;It doesn't move under four-year presidential cycles.&quot;&lt;br&gt;Anduril's Ghost 4 drone&lt;br&gt;The term &quot;drone&quot; for years meant massive, expensive, remotely piloted aircraft, like the General Atomics' Predator used for surveillance and launching missiles in Pakistan, Afghanistan and other hot spots. But a civilian-focused high-tech industry appropriated the word for much smaller aircraft like the quadcopters real estate agents use to photograph houses for sale or the somewhat larger models [ ].&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;See also: [/news/best-drones-of-2020/ The best drones for 2020] &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Anduril's Ghost 4 is a hybrid of both ideas. It's small and battery-powered, but it's got military duties like zapping enemy sensors with lasers or sending targeting information after detecting an approaching cruise missile.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And it doesn't need a lot of babysitting &quot;One person can manage dozens of Ghosts,&quot; Luckey says. They can be programmed ahead of time to fly &quot;dark,&quot;monitoring a site or tracking subjects but sending and receiving no data until they return to base, to avoid radio signal detection.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And it can link with its fellow drones into a cooperative swarm. If one can't communicate with a base station because of wireless jamming, it'll try to shuttle data to a fellow drone that can, Luckey said.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Anduril's Ghost 4 drone can accept a variety of sensors to monitor a battlefield or protect a military base.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Anduril Industries&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The unusual helicopter-style design is quieter, more efficient and can carry more payload than a traditional quadcopter, he said. It competes with more traditional drones as well as fixed-wing drones, including some in use on the [ ].&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ghost 4 drones connect to [ Lattice, a system that ingests data from thousands of sensors]. That includes high-resolution video, imagery from infrared cameras and radio emissions from enemy equipment. It's all presented on a 3D map.&lt;br&gt;Luckey's vision of sci-fi warfare&lt;br&gt;For now, military customers use Lattice on laptops or phones. In the longer run, Luckey believes soldiers will tune in, too, wearing augmented reality headsets that overlay Lattice-supplied details with their real-world environment. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a [ 2018 talk], he spoke eagerly of soldiers becoming &quot;superheroes who have the power of perfect omniscience.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Technological superiority doesn't always win wars, though. Vietnamese soldiers withstood the US military's most advanced weaponry in the Vietnam War. But Luckey believes that Lattice will dispel some of the fog of war, helping keep track of who's friend or foe. &quot;If you can get rid of 90% to 95% of the uncertainty, that's a huge deal,&quot; he said.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And someday, his Oculus-inspired view of &quot;Call of Duty goggles,&quot; AR headsets named after the popular military video game, will come true on the battlefield, he believes. &quot;I know sounds like fantasy, but that's what I'm trying to build.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Now playing:&lt;br&gt;Watch this:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;See Boeing Australia's first prototype military drone,...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;3:32&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[#comments Comments]&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[/topics/sci-tech/ Sci-Tech]&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[/tags/oculus/ Oculus]&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[/tags/facebook/ Facebook]&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[/topics/drones/news/ Notification on Notification off Drones]</div>

RickeyKelson772 https://www.nmnwiki.com/index.php?title=Apos;We_Need_Support_apos;_-_Portuguese_Restaurant_Owners_Stage_Lockdown...&diff=17709 2020-12-30T06:30:39Z

<p>RickeyKelson772: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;br&gt;LISBON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Nine restaurant, bar and nightclub owners began a fifth day of hunger strike on Tuesday outside Portugal's parliament in protest against coronavirus restrictions.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;We need support ... to keep our heads above water,&quot; said Alberto Cabral, who runs a nightclub.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The protesters - camping outside parliament and living off water, tea and coffee donated by their supporters - say they will not eat until they are met by the prime minister and economy minister.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;One more business owner joined their strike on Sunday.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Bars and nightclubs have been closed since March and while restaurants were allowed to reopen in May, a curfew and weekend lockdown in place across most of the country since Nov.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;8 has angered restaurateurs, who say many of their businesses will not survive the year.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;It's just insolvencies, insolvencies,&quot; restaurant owner Joao Sotto Mayor said. &quot;Many businesses depend on this time ... it's incredibly important that next weekend we return to normal opening hours.&quot;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;An online petition by the movement behind the strike is gathering steam, with nearly 45,000 signatures so far and gaining several thousand each hour.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;In compensation for weekend lockdowns, [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html kynghidongduong.vn] the government offered restaurants 20% of their average revenue between January and October of this year.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Owners say this is nowhere near enough.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;How can we sustain a company that isn't earning any money but has to pay taxes, pay for light, water?&quot; asked Jose Gouveia, [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html hoa tam giác mạch] a nightclub owner and spokesman for the movement.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The number of people registered as [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unemployed unemployed] jumped 34.5% in October from last year's figures with around 72% of the newly unemployed working in restaurants or retail, according to government data.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;Everything is dying here in Portugal,&quot; Gouveia said.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;(Reporting by Miguel Pereira, Pedro Nunes, Writing by Victoria Waldersee; Editing by Ingrid Melander and Janet Lawrence)&lt;br&gt;</div>

RickeyKelson772 https://www.nmnwiki.com/index.php?title=Bruno_Fernandes:_My_Style_Is_apos;close_apos;_To_Man_United_Legend_Paul_Scholes&diff=16808 2020-12-30T03:45:31Z

<p>RickeyKelson772: Created page with &quot;[/sport/bruno-fernandes/index.html Bruno Fernandes] has paid tribute to [/sport/teampages/manchester-united.html Manchester United] club legends Paul Scholes and [/sport/crist...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>[/sport/bruno-fernandes/index.html Bruno Fernandes] has paid tribute to [/sport/teampages/manchester-united.html Manchester United] club legends Paul Scholes and [/sport/cristianoronaldo/index.html Cristiano Ronaldo] after a stellar start to life at Old Trafford. &lt;br&gt;The attacking midfielder is one of the first names on the Red Devils team sheet after being a regular goalscorer in his first 10 months at Old Trafford following his £67million from Sporting Lisbon in January - starring once again on Tuesday night as he scored twice in their 4-1 Champions League victory over Istanbul Basaksehir. &lt;br&gt;The 26-year-old claims that his own goalscoring exploits remind him of United legend Paul Scholes, who also wore the number 18 shirt for the [/sport/premierleague/index.html Premier League] giants during his playing days.  &lt;br&gt; Manchester United's Bruno Fernandes has paid tribute to Paul Scholes and Cristiano Ronaldo&lt;br&gt; Fernandes claims he is a similar player to Scholes (above) who also wore the number 18 shirt&lt;br&gt; RELATED ARTICLES [# Previous] [# 1] [# Next] [/sport/football/article-8952103/Paul-Pogba-admits-season-Manchester-United-difficult-career.html Paul Pogba admits this season has been the most 'difficult'...] [/sport/football/article-8949965/Bruno-Fernandes-reveals-hes-tempted-ask-Fred-play-like-coach-Michael-Carrick.html 'It's unbelievable how fresh and sharp he is': Manchester...] [/sport/football/article-8949567/PAUL-TISDALE-Manchester-United-losing-way.html PAUL TISDALE: Manchester United are losing their way... Ole...] [/sport/football/article-8929091/Why-Manchester-United-without-Fred-Scott-McTominay.html Fred was once seen as a £52m flop and Scott McTominay's...] &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Share this article&lt;br&gt;Share&lt;br&gt;3.8k shares&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Fernandes told the [ ]: 'For me, maybe I'm closer to Paul Scholes. (He) was a guy who likes to be in the box, who likes to give an assist, who likes to score a lot of goals. &lt;br&gt;'I think Scholes was one of the best midfielders in the world. For England, a lot of people talk about Frank Lampard because he scored a lot of goals of course, one of the best in England too, you have Steven Gerrard too.&lt;br&gt;'But I think Scholes is the one who makes more difference than anyone else. In the last generation, those three were the three best ones, and for [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html hoa tam giác mạch] me Scholes was best.'&lt;br&gt; Fernandes thinks Scholes (above) was better than Steven Gerrard and [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html kynghidongduong.vn] Frank Lampard&lt;br&gt;Since moving from Portugal to Manchester, Fernandes has scored 18 goals in 33 matches for the Red Devils - including six goals in eleven matches during this campaign. &lt;br&gt;The midfielder is the latest in a long line of Portuguese stars to have played in the red half of Manchester, the most famous being current Juventus and Portugal national team forward Cristiano Ronaldo. &lt;br&gt;During his six-year stay at Manchester United, Ronaldo scored 118 goals in 292 matches, including 42 successful strikes in the 2007-08 season as United won the Premier League and Champions League titles. &lt;br&gt; The United midfielder also hailed Cristiano Ronaldo (above) as his favourite player&lt;br&gt; Fernandes (left) has the opportunity to play with Ronaldo (right) at national team level&lt;br&gt;Fernandes, who now plays with Ronaldo in the Portuguese national team, claims that he has tried to copy the striker's mentality over his career. &lt;br&gt;The midfielder added: 'Everyone knows Cristiano was my favourite player. I think it was a little bit of everything.&lt;br&gt;'It was the way he worked every day, the [http://www.ajaxtime.com/?s=mentality mentality] he had, the [http://sportsrants.com/?s=capacity capacity] he had to give 100 per cent in every game at a high level. For me it was like a motivation, like you always have to do better. &lt;br&gt;'He was scoring goals every game, but he was still trying to improve. My mentality comes a little bit from understanding what sort of player you want to be.'&lt;br&gt; RELATED ARTICLES [# Previous] [# 1] [# Next] [/sport/football/article-8952103/Paul-Pogba-admits-season-Manchester-United-difficult-career.html Paul Pogba admits this season has been the most 'difficult'...] [/sport/football/article-8949965/Bruno-Fernandes-reveals-hes-tempted-ask-Fred-play-like-coach-Michael-Carrick.html 'It's unbelievable how fresh and sharp he is': Manchester...] [/sport/football/article-8949567/PAUL-TISDALE-Manchester-United-losing-way.html PAUL TISDALE: Manchester United are losing their way... 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<p>RickeyKelson772: Created page with &quot;I'm Rickey and I live in a seaside city in northern Australia, Risdon Park. I'm 26 and I'm will soon finish my study at Journalism.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;My homepage - [https://kynghidongduo...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>I'm Rickey and I live in a seaside city in northern Australia, Risdon Park. I'm 26 and I'm will soon finish my study at Journalism.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;My homepage - [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html hoa tam giác mạch]</div>

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