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BAE agrees to buy space technology firm Ball Aerospace for $5.6bn | BAE Systems

BAE agrees to buy space technology firm Ball Aerospace for $5.6bn | BAE Systems

Britain’s biggest weapons manufacturer, BAE Systems, has agreed to buy the US space technology company Ball Aerospace for $5.6bn (£4.4bn), in one of the largest takeovers by a UK company this year.

The FTSE 100 defence company said the purchase of the Colorado-based business would help it to expand in technologies that were US defence priorities.

The deal comes amid a surge in spending on global military and spying technology prompted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It also follows the US setting up a separate arm of the military, space command, to try to keep up with China. Both have prompted western allies to recommit to bigger military budgets, to the delight of weapons manufacturers that have received huge orders.

Ball Aerospace’s parent company, Ball Corporation, traces its roots back to making paint cans and glass jars in the 1880s in Buffalo, New York, and it now makes beer cans

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Game-changing hearing aid technology has arrived in the Sault

Game-changing hearing aid technology has arrived in the Sault

Celebrate Better Hearing Month with customized hearing tech that incorporates AI and 4D sensors

What if your hearing aids were able to recognize what you most want to listen to? What if they could focus in on that while at the same time downplaying competing noise?

The latest technology in hearing aids does just that. It’s an important development for several reasons. For one, people who have untreated hearing loss can get used to it over time. They learn to live with it, unaware that this can have a detrimental impact on their overall wellbeing. 

“Treating a hearing loss not only improves the communication of those with hearing loss, it also has a positive impact on their psychological and physical well-being,” says Katie Koebel, Audiologist and Senior Manager, Audiology, at HearingLife Canada. 

A new, ground-breaking product called Oticon Intent™ takes the benefits of treating hearing loss a step further,

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Is technology making it harder or easier for new music artists?

Is technology making it harder or easier for new music artists?

The last 100 years have been revolutionary for music but is technology still bringing positive change for the industry?

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The music industry has evolved enormously over the past century. When we look back at the technology that has emerged in that time – electric guitars, synths, amplification, records, tapes, CDs, mp3s – it’s all been for good in the long run.

Even the technologies that haven’t stuck around – minidisk, I’m looking at you – didn’t really have a negative effect on the industry.

But is the future quite so positive?

It seems unlikely that we’ll see the invention of anything as ground-breaking and physical as an electric guitar. Today’s technological advancements are much more software based. 

Euronews Culture spoke to Niall Doorley, founder of the Future Music Forum in Barcelona to discuss whether the intersection between technology and music will continue to be a helping hand for artists.

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How scientists discovered 7,000 humpback whale deaths using AI technology: Study

How scientists discovered 7,000 humpback whale deaths using AI technology: Study

The intersection of marine biology and artificial intelligence technology has led to a startling humpback whale population discovery.

Approximately 7,000 humpback whales in the North Pacific Ocean died between 2012 and 2021 after the damaging effects of a yearslong marine heatwave, according to a study published Wednesday by Royal Society Open Science. It represented a 20% decline during this period.

The marine heatwave began in 2013 and lasted until 2021, steeply raising water temperatures and decreasing ocean productivity worldwide.

In the North Pacific, the study found the humpback whale population dwindled from 33,500 in 2012 to 26,500 by 2021.

View of the tail of a Humpback whale at the Gerlache Strait in Antarctica, Jan. 19, 2024.

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The massive, international study gathered data and images from 46 organizations and 4,292 community science contributors and used AI technology to match and identify humpback whales around the

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First Look: The Aper KOMPace Has “Rising Pivot Technology”

First Look: The Aper KOMPace Has “Rising Pivot Technology”

High-pivot bikes continue to prove popular, but most only provide a truly rearward axle path (their main selling point) during the first part of the travel. As the suspension gets deeper into its stroke, the axle starts to move vertically, and then often forwards slightly towards bottom-out. In theory, this reduces the ability to absorb square edge hits when already deep in the travel.

Aper is a startup bike brand from Greece, founded by two mechanical engineers, Nikos Lamprou and Giorgos Kostopoulos. Aper is Latin for wild boar, which roam the Erymanthus mountains in Greece near where the company is based. Their first bike, the KOMPace, is a 160 mm travel enduro bike with something they call “rising pivot technology”.

Suspension

The axle moves up and backwards throughout the whole travel range, thanks to a virtual pivot point that moves upwards and back as the suspension compresses. One of the

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