The South Korean National Police Agency plans to create the police of the future.

The project is called "Police Future Vision 2050" and by 2050 it is planned to equip the police forces with the latest technologies: autonomous robots, unmanned vehicles, exoskeletons and introduce AI into the work. And also to expand the powers of law enforcement to the metaverses.

The coldest city in the world is Oymyakon.

It is also the Pole of Cold, as well as the coldest place on Earth, where there is a permanent population.

Interesting facts about clouds.

Clouds permanently cover about 60% of the Earth. The average cloud weighs about 500 tons, the same weight as 80 elephants.

Toyota, Volkswagen and Mercedes are among the top 10 global companies with the largest debts.

The list, which includes 900 global companies in the world, lists only the largest, and under the debt means only net debt. In other words, these are those that will remain if you “minus” the available cash and liquid assets that can be quickly sold. Toyota topped the list with debts of $186 billion, Volkswagen AG almost caught up with colleagues ($185 billion), Mercedes-Benz AG - $109 billion. At the same time, at the beginning of the year, Toyota was named the most expensive auto brand in the world and ranked 12th in the top 500 most valuable companies.

Video game fans make decisions faster and more accurately than others.

The sensorimotor decision-making skills of gamers are higher than those who play little or no games. These conclusions were made by scientists from the University of Georgia during a study involving 47 students, 28 of them are gamers, 19 are not. The study showed that computer games in the future can be used for cognitive decision-making training.

Extinct blue macaws have returned to the forests of Brazil.

A month ago, ornithologists released eight blue macaws into the forests of Brazil, all of them survived. These parrots were considered extinct in the wild for more than 20 years, only a few dozen individuals remained in private collections. Now the population will recover - the birds will be able to start breeding in their natural environment next spring.

US greenhouse emissions from 1990 to 2014 caused the rest of the world $2 trillion in damage.

This is a global income lost due to heatwaves, crop failures and other effects of pollution. Developing countries were mostly affected. In terms of damage caused, the United States has overtaken China, Russia, India and Brazil. Together, the top five polluting countries caused $6 trillion in harm - 11% of world GDP in a year. The developed countries in the northern latitudes have made the greatest contribution to the development of the climate crisis. At the same time, their economies have suffered less from global warming than in the poor countries of the south.

The airport's smart scoreboard displays information for a specific passenger.

At the airport in Detroit, a scoreboard appeared that displays flight information for 100 passengers at a time. They can all look at the same screen and see different information. The scoreboard screen, called Parallel Reality, is made up of pixels that project millions of light rays in different directions. The facial recognition system "directs" these rays to a specific person and displays information about his flight. The creators of the device say they wanted to make waiting for a flight more convenient - so that people do not feel lost and can instantly find their way without a smartphone.

American rodents for the sake of a well-fed life learned to cultivate crops.

Rodents from the gopher family have learned to cultivate the roots of plants. They do it purposefully, so that later they can enjoy the harvest. This behavior is unique to humans, ants, beetles, and termites. That is, gophers are the second mammals to have demonstrated farming skills.

In the heat, men gain weight.

Men are more likely to gain weight in the summer because heat and sunlight cause the "hunger hormone" ghrelin to be released from the skin. Estrogen interferes with its release, so women's appetite does not change. These conclusions were reached by Israeli scientists during a two-year study involving three thousand people and experiments on mice.

A team of illusionists Augmented Magic has converted a miniature drone into an umbrella called Dronebrella.

The self-guided flying umbrella is controlled by your smartphone and has an automatic "follow master" mode that will follow you around while protecting you from the rain.

BMW started selling subscriptions for heated seats.

The company has begun selling options for its vehicles by subscription, a method already implemented in South Korea, the UK, Germany, New Zealand and South Africa. Many items are offered, including heated seats, steering wheel, Apple CarPlay, high beam assistant and more. You pay - and within a certain period the opportunity to use the selected function opens. A month costs $18. You can take a discount for a year for $180.

In the USA they released whiskey on crab broth.

In New Hampshire, the Tamworth Distilling distillery has released a new brand of whiskey - Crab Trapper ("Crab Catcher"). It is made with a bourbon base, distilled shellfish broth flavored with mustard seeds, coriander and cinnamon. So the alcohol industry is fighting the overpopulation of the invasive green crab. Crab Trapper is a whiskey to be sipped slowly, exploring your senses with your sense of smell. One bottle takes about 450 grams of peeled and cooked green crabs.

What a greeting!

Australian Aborigines - warriors, instead of the usual handshake for us, demonstrate friendliness with a slightly different gesture, namely, by touching the penis of their interlocutor.

Now that would be a beard!

Hair on the chin grows faster than on any other part of a man's body. If he had not shaved all his life, the length of his beard would have reached 9 meters.

Scientists have created a neural network that distinguishes seals by their faces.

SealNet developers trained a neural network to distinguish between harbor seals using photographs of 406 different individuals. They then tested the software and found that SealNet could correctly identify the animal 85% of the time based on distinctive facial features. According to scientists, this is necessary to track the movements of seals. The team's tests showed that some seals return to the same places year after year. However, other seals appeared in other places. An accurate understanding of how seals move can help to more accurately identify areas of their habitat that need to be protected from poachers.

Japanese scientists have created the world's first cloned mice from dried skin cells.

The breakthrough could help revive dwindling populations of endangered species. However, the new method also has disadvantages. Due to the fact that freeze-drying damages DNA, the probability of having healthy cubs is only 0.2 to 5.4%. For example, in some cells, the Y chromosome was lost, which led to the birth of female mice from cells obtained from male animals.

Xiaomi unmanned vehicle spotted in China.

The company is systematically moving towards its goal of releasing a branded electric car. Eyewitnesses have already spotted a branded car from a Chinese company driving around city streets to test autonomous driving features. At the moment, there is no exact information about what kind of car is captured in the photo. This can be either a prototype of Xiaomi itself, or a model from another company used to test different systems. A huge module with lidar and other sensors is installed on the roof. Xiaomi has already created two companies that will be involved in the production of branded vehicles. Earlier it was reported that the company invested about 1.5 billion dollars in development and intends to spend about 10 billion more. The release of the debut electric car of the Chinese company is scheduled for the first half of 2024.

Smart fabric.

MIT has created a smart fabric with a 99% probability of determining what the user is doing. Special threads are woven into ordinary fabric, which melt a little when exposed to heat. Thanks to this, firstly, shoes and clothing made from such materials will ideally fit the surface. And secondly, by throwing sensors and neural networks here, you can safely determine the person’s posture and even pressure on certain areas of the surface. This is great for athletes and those in need of physical therapy.

Gold of the oceans.

If you extract all the gold from the world ocean, then each person on Earth will get about 4 kg of gold. Not bad, right? The only question is how to extract it...