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• For many air vehicle flights, the military relies on the Global Positioning System (GPS) for navigation, risking exposure to electronic jamming in contested environments.
• ImageNav provides accurate navigation, without GPS, for a range of systems, including weapons, aircraft, and uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS).
• "ImageNav is an innovative, compact solution that helps air vehicles generate accurate position fixes in the most challenging environments," said Tom Frost, Senior VP of the Products Division at Scientific Systems.
• Scientific Systems has multiple efforts underway to integrate ImageNav onto GPS-guided munitions and UASs, enabling them to operate in GPS-denied environments.

• Consuming and sharing foreign media in North Korea can be punishable by death.
• However, North Korea closed its borders during the COVID pandemic, and since then the steady flow of escapees has slowed considerably.
• This has prompted North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, to adopt increasingly harsh measures to combat access to illegal media.

Crackdown

• Shortly after inheriting the leadership in 2011, Kim tried a number of relatively soft approaches to controlling foreign media access, alongside continued punitive measures.
• This law sets out specific punishments for both viewers and distributors of foreign media, going further than the existing criminal code.
• At the same time, Kim has publicly condemned K-Pop (pop music originating in South Korea) as a “vicious cancer” permeating North Korean society.

Changing hearts and minds

• North Korean escapees have also reported paying keen attention to the settings they saw in films and dramas.
• Modern streets, cars and homes, with people displaying relative freedom of choice, expression and movement, all offer North Koreans a glimpse into life under capitalism.
• A similar campaign condemns young North Koreans for showing affection in public and mimicking “western style” dating culture.

Building social bonds

• It also unsettles the government’s ability to maintain a culture of suspicion and mistrust between citizens.
• This could potentially generate social change.

• Foreign diplomats, humanitarian aid workers and tourists are not yet allowed back into North Korea following the pandemic.
• So, combined with many fewer escapees arriving in the South, it is difficult to know whether foreign media access and consumption has declined since 2020.

Sarah A. Son does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

• One way his mother did this, he says, was to send them to extra drama lessons.
• To make sure they “didn’t speak with accents”, and instead would be able to “speak properly”.
• It is hard to criticise Mrs Sunak for wanting to do what’s best for her children.
• She was aware of an injustice that her children were facing, and so she did what she could to minimise that injustice.

What does ‘to speak without an accent’ mean?

• In fact, the right accent does such a good job of going unnoticed, that it ceases to be seen as an accent at all.
• And like all accents, its use can give us insights into who somebody is, or who somebody is trying to be.
• The way we speak is inextricably linked to who we are, to our sense of identity.
• But it is not the fault of the parents in encouraging their children to speak in ways that erase their background.
• Surely we should work to change the way we listen, not force others to change the way they speak.

Rob Drummond has previously received funding from The Arts and Humanities Research Council, The Leverhulme Trust, and The British Council

• Today, the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), a global standards body advancing transparency online through certifying the provenance of digital content, announced that Google has joined C2PA as a steering committee member.
• Google joining the C2PA marks a significant moment for bringing more transparency to digital content.
• Alongside other steering committee members including Adobe, BBC, Intel, Microsoft, Publicis Groupe, Sony and Truepic, Google will collaborate to further develop the C2PA’s technical standard for digital content provenance.
• “This is why we are excited to join the committee and incorporate the latest version of the C2PA standard.