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Shield AI and Taiwan's NCSIST team up on AI drones
Taiwan's National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology and American
defense company Shield A-I have signed a contract to advance the development
of AI-piloted unmanned systems.
The systems are reportedly capable of continuing operations in compromised
communications environments.
According to Shield AI President Brandon Tseng, the partnership will enable
(?…??) drone forces being produced in Taiwan to include cutting-edge AI
pilots that will allow the U-A-V's to operate while G-P-S and communications
are jammed.
Shield AI last year announced a teaming agreement with Taiwan's state-backed
Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation and opened a new office at the
Taipei 101.
CDC reporting first measles case this year after Vietnam trip
The Centers for Disease Control is reporting Taiwan's first measles case of
this year.
According to the C-D-C, the case involves an eight-month-old baby boy who
lives in northern Taiwan, who traveled with his family to Vietnam and
returned in late January.
The boy developed a fever, a persistent (???) cough and other symptoms in
early February and was hospitalized last Friday after developing a rash.
The C-D-C says the infant's family members and 395 others suspected contacts
are now being monitored.
They will continue to be monitored until February 28.
The C-D-C has issued measles travel alerts for Vietnam, Indonesia, India,
Angora, Mexico, Yemen and Pakistan, and placed 30 other countries on its
watch list.
Health authorities are advising parents to ensure their young children
receive their measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.
US Trump Administration to Wind Down Immigration Surge in Minnesota
The Trump administration says it will end its immigration enforcement (??)
operation in the state of Minnesota, claiming the state is now safer because
of their work.
This comes after the deaths of at least two people, both shot by immigration
or federal border agents.
Mitch McCann reports:
UNICEF: Haiti Armed Groups Increasingly Recruiting Children
UNICEF says that the recruitment of children by armed groups in Haiti tripled
last year as poverty and violence deepens across the troubled Caribbean
country.
The surge reported Thursday comes as gang violence displaces a record 1.4
million people across Haiti.
More than half of t
