Predicting our emotions with Superman-like vision, flying cars, or AI But which technology will become part of our daily life? Of course, the most important thing in 2023 is AI The trend toward personalized AI is on the rise
This year too, various applications of digital technology starting from AI, AR are creating many surprises Although the high cost is a barrier at first, such technology can gradually reach more people 2024 is likely to see several innovations in technology
That is, the model trained based on your data will provide specific answers based on your lifestyle and needs All of that is becoming more accessible to more people Today most applications are available as cloud services However, companies now want to make it possible to use AI as an offline model on your device To make that possible, your smartphone or laptop must have a powerful chip with such AI capabilities Companies like Intel and Qualcomm are already working towards that goal Last year saw the introduction of generative AI This may be the rise of the so-called Emotion AI
That means AI can analyze your emotions and respond accordingly As silly as it sounds, this technology could revolutionize our relationship with devices For example, AI will analyze the driver’s emotions to suggest safety warnings and routes In that case driving will become safer That’s not the only change this year when it comes to the driving experience Autonomous driving technology could become even more advanced.
Autonomous taxi services are already in place in cities like Los Angeles or San Francisco, but recent accidents are raising concerns. As a result, public representatives may be more hesitant to grant licenses Will flying cars be seen in 2024? The answer is yes and no.
Several companies are expected to hand over the first commercial models to customers this year But the vehicle worth around five million euros will be within the means of very few people Air taxi may be cheaper than that For example, a German company wants to launch such a service at the Paris Olympics this year But the authorities have to decide on the licensing of that service In the middle of 2023,
the Apple company presented the headset called Vision Pro is coming to the market at the beginning of this year The combination of virtual reality and the real world is called AR or Augmented Reality In that case, the user can create digital apps in the real environment with the help of hand gestures But that device worth about 3 thousand 500 US dollars will not be within the reach of many people’s pockets.
High prices will remain a deterrent, at least initially Combining AI and AR can lead to something more interesting AR headsets with AI technology can help users learn more about their surroundings For example, when you think of a restaurant to eat while walking in the city, customer reviews will pop up next to the restaurant.
WhatsApp is coming with new features
WhatsApp, owned by Meta, always wants to stay ahead with new features. This new feature is being added to WhatsApp to protect users’ personal information.
WhatsApp, owned by Meta, has topped all messaging apps in popularity. According to the company, you can decide who can make stickers from your photos and use them. That means anyone can no longer turn your photo into a sticker.
It is known that initially this feature has been launched experimentally in the beta version of Android. Where stickers cannot be made with your photo without your green signal. As a result, users’ security will be protected, Mater claims.
Unicode 15.1 emojis are going to be added to the WhatsApp keyboard soon. As a result, more new emojis will be available. Mater also hopes to make chatting more fun.
However, it is not yet clear when Android and iPhone users will be able to use these emojis.
Recently Meta said that messages can soon be sent from WhatsApp to messaging apps like Telegram or Signal. In other words, WhatsApp is trying to expand its empire in various ways in the competitive market.
WiFi network on the moon!
Wi-Fi system has brought a radical change in internet services around the world. About 600 million people watched the first man’s walk on the moon on July 20, 1969. The video quality of that live broadcast was quite poor. The focus of that life was not right. Of course, it was not unusual for anyone then, because at that time technology was not as advanced as it is now.
But now technology has advanced a lot. As a result, people all over the world consider high-definition live streaming as normal. Therefore, their expectations for the next generation of astronauts will also be high. So this time the plan to install this network on the ground of the moon is going on. If this is successful, it will be possible to solve the problem as well as provide information to guide future Artemis missions. However, the launch of a WiFi network on the moon will bring about a big change in sending astronauts under Artemis.
“Nobody’s going to like the quality of the Apollo mission broadcast video anymore,” said Matt Cosby, chief technology officer at Gunhilly Earth Station in the UK. This station communicates with artificial satellites and spacecraft.
Gunhilly broadcast to the world a televised signal of the landing of US astronauts on the moon five decades ago. They also received the first signal from the recently sent U.S. Odysseus spacecraft to the moon.
After more than 50 years, the United States is now on the lunar mission again. Odysseus landed on the South Pole of the Moon on February 22.
Odysseus, built by Houston-based Intuitive Machine, was the first American spacecraft to land on the moon after the 1972 Apollo mission. Another significance is that it was the first privately owned spacecraft to land on the moon.
Matt Cosby said, “We’re expecting near-real-time 4K resolution video from the moon. Data will come in at up to 500 megabits per second, so the images will be 10 times better.”
He said, “Black and white pictures and videos from the lunar surface will not be acceptable in the present age of social media. So we have to get a higher frequency. It’s not a huge leap, but it needs to be done. It will, however, require a huge financial investment.”
That investment, however, is ongoing. During 2021-23, NASA’s LunarLites project is investigating the feasibility of deploying Earth’s 4G and 5G technologies in the lunar environment at its Glenn Research Center in Ohio, and two new projects are now underway.
NASA’s Lunar Surface Propagation (LSP) project is investigating how wireless communication systems would work in the lunar surface environment.
“The Apollo missions all landed near the mid-latitudes of the Moon and mostly near flat lava plains,” said Michael Zemba, principal investigator of NASA’s LSP. But the Artemis mission aims to explore the polar regions of the Moon.”
NASA’s Artemis program aims to send astronauts into lunar orbit by 2025. A year later, astronauts would land on the moon.
The south pole of the Moon receives long periods of sunlight, while deep craters in permanent shadow contain ice. They can be a potential source of water and fuel. But Earth’s only satellite also has the disadvantage of diverse terrain. A possible landing site known as Shackleton Crater is two miles deep and 12 miles wide.
“Shackleton Trench is deeper than the Grand Canyon,” said Jemba. Some of these extreme conditions at the South Pole can hinder the deployment of wireless networks such as Wi-Fi and 5G.
“That’s why it’s important to have accurate and reliable models and simulation tools. In principle, it’s a lot like choosing a good spot for your Wi-Fi router in your home. But on the moon, it has to be done with a space like a crater bigger than Manhattan in mind.”
Besides, the dust layer several meters deep on the lunar surface can also be an obstacle in this case.
But Jemba said, “The sand layer of the lunar surface is better for radio waves than the hard terrain of Earth. Rather, invisible structures such as buried rocks and potholes may have greater constraints on communication system performance.”
As part of the simulation, NASA’s Desert Research and Technology Studies (DESERT RATS) team revisited a desert in Arizona in 2022. Preparations for the 1969 Apollo missions were also made at this location. Through this field test, it is possible to theoretically compare the reality of the moon on Earth. However, the geometry of the Moon’s orbit around Earth brings additional complications when considering the Moon’s immediate environment.
“Earth is visible from the Moon’s south pole for only two weeks each month,” Jemba said. Even when visible, it is always inclined at an angle of less than 10 degrees to the horizon.
“It can cause signals sent from the moon to be scrambled due to radio wave reflections. This phenomenon is called ‘multipath’. This issue also needs to be kept in mind.”
Meanwhile, NASA’s Lunar Third Generation Partnership (3GPP) is also researching how to deploy wireless technology on the Moon, alongside the Zember LSP project.
Raymond Wagner, lead researcher on the Lunar 3GPP project, said there are several fundamental barriers to wireless systems working on the lunar surface.
“Extreme temperature and radiation environments can cause all kinds of problems for commercial-grade electronics,” he says. 4-G and 5-G systems are already complex and powering them for the lunar surface is no easy task. “We also need to fully understand the radio frequency environment of the lunar surface.”
The Intuitive Machine company’s IM-1 mission is a major milestone in many ways. Their next mission in 2025, IM-2, will bring the first opportunity to wirelessly connect and collect data to the Moon.
“NASA is funding Nokia Bell Labs to establish a 4G link from the lander to the rover on that mission, which will be the first cellular network on the Moon and a great opportunity to both demonstrate the functionality and technology of the model,” Jemba said.
Once 4G and 5G are deployed on the Moon, any astronauts from the lunar surface will be able to communicate with their rovers, instruments, and fellow astronauts. Any data returned to Earth can then be sent over a link. This would be an effective way to communicate when large ground stations are busy.
Maintaining contact with the other surface of the Moon, which is not visible from Earth, is also a difficult task. The only way to do this is to establish communication through a relay satellite.
In 2018, China launched Queqiao-1, the world’s first relay satellite for the Moon. It was placed in Earth orbit for China’s Chang’e 4 mission to the Moon. The Chang’e 4 mission was the first human landing on the other side of the Moon. In the next few months, China will launch another relay satellite called Queqiao-2.
NASA is also launching relay satellites into lunar orbit as part of its Lunar Communications Relay and Navigation System project. The European Space Agency (ESA), the main partner of NASA’s Artemis mission, also has a Moonlight program.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is working with various companies to build a network of three or four communications and data-relay satellites for the Moon, similar to GPS used on Earth.
The first step will be the launch of the technology via the Lunar Pathfinder mission in 2025. Built and owned by the UK’s SSTL, the technology will be put into orbit by the commercial space transport company Firefly Aerospace. This will be part of the Blue Ghost 2 mission. The same mission will also include a NASA moon lander.
The European Space Agency (ESA) also flew a navigation payload for GPS signal generation. This would allow NASA to ride-share their equipment and use the Moon’s relay communications services.
“We’re taking a laser retroreflector from NASA,” said Charles Cranston, SSTL’s Lunar Pathfinder project manager.
It will help prove the concept of navigation by receiving data from satellites on the Moon by firing lasers from a ranging station on Earth to accurately measure the spacecraft’s distance and velocity.
“We’re also taking a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver, which will take the most distant GNSS measurements from Earth, to see if we can detect some weak signals there to get position measurements,” Cranston said.
It was developed by the Swiss company SpacePNT for the European Space Agency.
“Ultimately, we’ll have three points of location data, including our radio range, to see how the navigation system could potentially be applied to a project like Moonlight,” Cranston said. So we are laying the groundwork for future Moonlight gatherings.”
SSTL aims to become a commercial provider of communications for orbiting spacecraft and landers anywhere on the lunar surface.
“Currently, you have to use NASA’s Deep Space Network or ISRA’s ISTRAC network to get data,” Cranston said. The ISTRAC network is a global network of European spacecraft-tracking ground stations.
A new communications infrastructure for the Moon will be unveiled over the next few years by government space agencies and commercial companies.
“Lunanet is trying to replicate the terrestrial Internet around the moon and on the surface of the moon,” said Matt Cosby of Gunhilly.
He worked with the UK Space Agency and the international community to help define these new lunar communication standards.
NASA’s Artemis 3 mission in 2026 could provide the first opportunity for moon landers to test personal direct contact with Earth.
Jemba said, “Globally we have seen incredible advances in mobile communications in just the last 10 to 20 years. If we can precisely put those same facilities on the moon, we’ll see something great.”
“The analogy I’ve heard is Netflix on the moon,” says SSTL’s Cranston. That means pick your favorite streaming service and watch videos just like Netflix.”
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