by Yuan Gu | Jul 8, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Bill Graham had just boarded a United Airlines flight to Boston at Washington Dulles International Airport when United experienced an airline-wide computer glitch, grounding 3,500 flights nationwide. “We were sitting on the plane and the technology went...
by Yuan Gu | Jul 7, 2015 | National Security, Topics
ARLINGTON, Va. — After 64 years, Army Sgt. Joseph M. Snock, who went missing in action during the Korean War, was buried at Arlington National Cemetery Monday. “He was 21 years old when he was wounded, captured and died,” said KathleenBaker, niece of Sgt....
by Yuan Gu | Jul 2, 2015 | Living
With the help of Lego master builders, visitors to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. had the chance to help build a roughly 9-by-13 feet American flag — out of Legos! Published in conjunction with
by Yuan Gu | Jul 2, 2015 | Science + Technology, Topics
WASHINGTON – Recent movies, such as Ex Machina, may not be too far off in raising concerns about progress in creating superintelligent computers that could threaten humans by thinking faster, some top scientists said Tuesday. “If the system is better than you at...
by Yuan Gu | Jun 26, 2015 | Washington Watchdogs
WASHINGTON – For 40 years, the United States has sent Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) into orbit, where they are producing images every 15 minutes in geosynchronous orbit, approximately 22,300 miles above Earth. They provide cloud, land, and...
