Andrew Forrest is throwing a few million dollars at a competition launched in Washington DC that detects wildfires earlier.
| Billionaire Andrew Forrest is chipping in “millions of dollars” in prize money to a global competition rewarding anyone who can come up with
Andrew Forrest is donating “millions” to the XPrize Wildfire competition in the hope of detecting bushfires early.Launching in Washington on Friday , the XPrize Wildfire competition will reward winners with $US11 million to develop technology that can detect a fire from a low orbit satellite in space.
“We don’t want false alarms or false positives. It’s a challenge, it’s a hard problem. But we’re hoping that this XPrize can mobilise anywhere from 50 to 100 of the best and brightest around the world to solve the problem.”Technology already used by the US government which can, for example, detect Russian tanks moving across the Ukraine border, does not yet have the capability of identifying fires through cloud, smoke or atmospheric noise.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Dozens of firearms to be banned in Washington state, including AR-15s, AK-47sA new law has passed that would block the sale, distribution, manufacture and importation of more than 50 firearm models, including AK-47s and similar rifles.
Read more »
‘Brain teaser’ of ‘what is a woman’ claims yet another victimSky News host James Morrow says the 'notorious brain teaser' of 'what is a woman' has claimed yet another victim. The Biden administration's Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona recently refused to answer the question during an exchange with US Representative Andrew Clyde.
Read more »
Not many MPs have undergone the ‘unusual experience’ of staying 24 hours in a submarineNot many members of parliament have undergone the “unusual experience” of staying 24 hours in a submarine travelling far down in depth, says Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles. “I don’t think there are many – if there are others who have done it, I mean I think people have been on a submarine but to actually spend 24 hours and go out to sea on one and go down in depth as we did off the coast of Fremantle,” he told Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell. “I think that is a pretty unusual experience.”
Read more »
‘I have a high regard for Paul Keating’: Richard Marles on Keating’s AUKUS commentaryDeputy Prime Minister Richard Marles says he has a “high regard” for Former prime minister Paul Keating despite Mr Keating’s negative comments on the AUKUS deal. “I have a high regard for Paul Keating and I’ve been keen to keeping abreast with the thinking of the government and the direction in which we’re going,” he told Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell. “In terms of the capability that we need in the future and making sure that it matches if you like the capability that came from – has been with the Collins-class submarine the submarine, which evolved from the Hawke-Keating years and we saw the beginning of the commissioning of the Collins-class in the late 90s through to the early 2000s.”
Read more »