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Poland is pioneering new road signs that combine an array of sensors to monitor road traffic and conditions to warn drivers of hazards on the road ahead. Researchers are building ‘intelligent’ motorway signs to track traffic volume and alert drivers in real time to potential dangers as part of a national project called INZNAK. The … Read more
Britain’s oldest surviving female WWII veteran, 103, told top brass ‘I haven’t come from Jamaica to be a typist’ before becoming first black woman radar operator defending UK’s coast Ena Collymore-Woodstock objected to being given a clerical job at War Office Volunteered for Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) and was trained in military drill Many of the … Read more
Over a crackling maritime radio comes the voice of the captain of the small French warship Aramis as it cruises the English Channel. In heavily accented but precise English, he instructs P&O’s Pride of Kent ferry to move out of his way so he can shepherd a boat full of migrants floundering off the French … Read more
Dinner time! Thousands of bats are captured on weather radar as they fly into the night looking for insects in Arizona The National Weather Service captured a massive colony of bats on radar Thousands of creatures were captured before dusk in Arizona Sunday The radar shows what looks like fireworks bursting over the area Officials … Read more
On December 17, 1903, in a field outside Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright showed the world that fixed-wing powered flight of a heavier-than-air craft was possible – and changed warfare forever. Just eight years later in October 1911 the Italian army used planes in its battles with Ottoman Turkey which prompted Britain to … Read more
Wentworth cast are told to ‘stay under the radar’ as the prison drama continues filming despite Victoria’s lockdown By Mary Mrad For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:55 BST, 5 August 2020 | Updated: 05:55 BST, 5 August 2020 The cast of Wentworth have reportedly been told to downplay the fact that production is still going … Read more
These stunning pictures reveal the boom in air travel over Europe today as hundreds of planes take to the skies in response to loosening coronavirus restrictions. Live data recorded more than a thousand planes over the continent this afternoon – compared with just a few hundred at the height of the pandemic in April. It … Read more
Google may kill off hand-gestured controls in its upcoming Pixel phone by removing the device’s motion-sensing radar chip Google may remove one of its biggest features in the Pixel 4 Sources tell 9to5Google that the company may do away with hand gestures The move would nix Google’s motion-sensing radar chip It could reduce cost and … Read more
Iran paraded a device this week which it claims can detect coronavirus cases from 100 yards away – but the contraption looks remarkably similar to a fake bomb detection gadget once flogged by a British fraudster. Iranian Revolutionary Guard chief Hossein Salami boasted that ‘local scientists’ had invented the ‘state-of-the-art’ device to detect virus cases ‘remotely’ … Read more
Radar pictures show skies across the world starting to empty as the number of travel bans increases. Most recent figures from flightradar24 show that as of yesterday there were 132,135 flights worldwide. On Monday March 16 there were 167,279 flights worldwide, a month before on Monday February 17, the number was 172,520. The biggest impact … Read more