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Silicon Valley Think Tank Assists Smart City Initiative in Columbus, Ohio – Government Technology

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(TNS) -- Singularity University, a Silicon Valley think tank and business incubator, announced Monday it is sponsoring a Smart City Accelerator in Columbus.

The accelerator would be the first program of its kind and is in response to Columbus winning the U.S. Department of Transportation's Smart City Challenge.

The accelerator will help the businesses involved in the program by providing access to Singularity University faculty, and by identifying mentors from large companies and startups who will provide expertise on industry and technology.

Other sponsors will facilitate web services, legal support, financial services and tax planning for the chosen businesses.

After Columbus won the Smart City Challenge, Singularity University wanted to be part of the local entrepreneurial environment, said Nick Davis, Singularity University vice president of corporate innovation, in a statement. The Smart City Accelerator "will drive the next wave of innovation," with the ultimate goal of creating better functioning cities that transform how residents and communities work and live.

Last June, Columbus bested six other finalists in the U.S. Department of Transportation's Smart City competition to receive $50 million in grants from the federal government and Vulcan Inc. to develop the city into the nation's proving ground for intelligent transportation systems. The city also lined up about $90 million in local matching commitments, including $19 million in public money, giving Columbus a total of $140 million to upgrade its transportation network.

Singularity's Smart Cities Accelerator will choose 10 businesses focused on such things as mobility; connectivity; data and analytics; infrastructure and energy; and manufacturing and production.

Each selected business will be eligible to receive up to $100,000 in funding from Columbus-based venture capital firm NCT Ventures.

"The (Singularity) Smart City Accelerator will attract innovators from around the world and amplify the successes Columbus already has achieved in becoming recognized as a global center of technology and innovation," said Mayor Andrew J. Ginther in a statement. "I view the ... Smart Cities Accelerator as a mutually supportive partner and participant of Smart Columbus, and I look forward to working with Singularity University on this transformative initiative."

The program will be a "world-class accelerator," said Alex Fischer, president and CEO of the Columbus Partnership, which represents the region's business leadership and is leading the Smart Columbus effort alongside the city of Columbus. By giving the entrepreneurs who participate in the program "full access to our community as a living laboratory ... we can learn together what business models and technologies are going to make our cities better in the future for all people," Fischer said.

Singularity University was co-founded in 2008 by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil and Peter H. Diamandis, the entrepreneur best known for being the founder and chairman of the X Prize Foundation, the non-profit that encourage technological development to benefit mankind.

The benefits of the Smart City Accelerator program are expected to be so strong that American Electric Power is already planning to send a team through it, said AEP CEO Nick Akins.

"Bringing the Singularity University Smart City Accelerator to Columbus is a catalyst for innovation and technology in Columbus," Akins said in a statement. "The vision of Smart Columbus is for this community to be a center of innovation and entrepreneurship, and the Smart City Accelerator represents a significant step toward the realization of that vision."

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Smart City Accelerator to give Columbus ‘a huge leap forward on the international stage’ – Columbus Business First

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Columbus is inviting tech startups nationwide and globally to compete for slots in the Smart City Accelerator, and leaders say whether the resulting companies stay in Central Ohio or not, they'll benefit economic development and further establish the region as an innovation hub.

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Columbus is inviting tech startups nationwide and globally to compete for slots in the Smart City Accelerator and leaders say whether any resulting companies stay in Central Ohio or not, they'll benefit economic development and further establish the region as an innovation hub.

Silicon Valley-based Singularity University will operate the business accelerator program this fall for teams making industry-changing technology in energy, transportation, manufacturing and other aspects of urban life. Columbus venture capital firm NCT Ventures is investing up to $100,000 each in the 10 participants. They'll also have at their disposal a city-curated trove of data called the Smart City Sandbox.

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"By attracting the best startups from around the world to the region, we are taking a huge leap forward on the international stage," Nick Davis, Singularity vice president of corporate innovation, said via email.

Startups completing the business curriculum and refining their products in the accelerator could produce technology that benefits Central Ohio even if they leave the area after the program, said Michael Stevens, Columbus' chief innovation officer.

The long-term benefit is you will see more companies coming here and continuing to invest here and provide jobs and opportunity, Stevens said.

Davis, who splits his time between Silicon Valley and Columbus, is a founding partner in a separate organization that operates startup accelerators. Hes had a few years to watch and participate in the maturing of Central Ohios entrepreneurial sector. Its at a point where it needs even more incubation and an acceleration program, he said, as well as sources of capital.

Over the last several years the local accelerators have gained in momentum and sophistication just like the overall startup ecosystem in Columbus, he said. As more quality startups are formed there is a relational increase in funding to support them.

What is great now is to see the variety of accelerators and multiple players in town delivering these valuable programs to startups and for the community, he said.

No funding from the city or the Smart City federal grant goes to the accelerator, although the 10 startups will be aligned with goals of the program, Stevens said. Columbus-based American Electric Power Company Inc. (NYSE:AEP) is the lead operations sponsor. Other entities are helping with mentors and business services.

Technologies sought for the program are ways to bring old-school industries like manufacturing and transportation into the future.

Those industries are still important, and weve got to make sure were adapting to the change thats coming fast, and make sure were not left behind, Stevens said.

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TMG 2010 rewriting original host headers when … – Extropy

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I found a strange behavior with TMG 2010 when publishing a website. It appears to rewrite URLs sent outbound to clients when the "send original host header is sent" under certain conditions. Here are those conditions:

Here is precisely what I encountered:

So by process of elimination I found that this appears to be TMG not affecting any host header inbound, nor affecting the alternate URLs outbound.This appears to affect only the main URL outbound, as TMG appears to be rewriting the protocol part of the header when the submitted form returns a redirect from http to https (changing https back to http).

Fixes: Uncheck the "send original host header..." flag and all functionality works correctly. I don't think this is as "clean", because it means that TMG touches every request and changes the host header to the internal host header, however on the IIS bright-side this means the web server will see the same host header no matter what clients request (normalization). The only caveat is that if you wanted to use an internal URL (instead of IP address) for the site that was the same as the external URL it would either not work, or would require a DNS trick on TMG to force it. Or, you could just change the internal URL to something else (not used).

TMG proxy background:

This isn't so much of a bug in TMG as a "feature". TMG is designed to allow external access to internal resources. I've found that it makes a powerful and flexible reverse proxy server, you just have to contend with a few "features". TMG's basic design-premise is based on rewriting URLs that are normally only internally visible, to URLs that are externally visible. This means that TMG errs towards the side of rewriting in exception cases, which this appears to be. This methodology appears to assume that the web servers are dumb, and don't know about external URLs. This premise is fine, except when it is necessary for the web server to perform some type of functionality that requires a complex redirect based on a user action (such as switching to https when a user logs in). TMG assumes that the redirect is internal in nature and blocks the redirect in favor of maintaining the original URL and same-protocol bridging (or more accurately not bridging). This appears to only be an issue when TMG is confused by using the external URL as the internal URL (same as listener and client requests). This shouldn't be an issue when you specify that TMG uses an IP address for the internal site, however it appears that MS has designed TMG to be "smarter" and "more helpful" by performing host header translation outbound, even when you request it no to do so...

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Ascension to flush out water system with chlorine burn – WBRZ

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ASCENSION Thousands of Ascension Parish residents could see some changes to their water as the parish is flushing out its system with chemicals.

Starting on Monday, the west side of Ascension Parish could see discoloration, a possible odor or maybe even a different taste in their water. It's all part of a chlorine burn.

"We are flushing the system with a disinfectant that we call free chlorine, and that's called the burn. The system is being flushed out, it's just a routine maintenance that we regularly do to provide the people with a level of service that they have grown accustomed to," Martin McConnell, Ascension Parish public information officer, said.

The burn is recommended every two years. The time span for the burn is expected to last for thirty days. Parish officials say the visual side effects of the burn can be easily eliminated.

"What we are recommending to them to do is if they do notice any of those things, just let the tap run for a little bit, and soon enough fresh water will be coming out," McConnell said.

The possible smell that residents may experience is strictly based on proximity, officials say.

"That smell is probably going to be stronger the closer you are to the production plant. As you get further out along the water system, the smell should dissipate, and virtually disappear," McConnell said.

All remnants of the burn should be gone by early June. Ascension Parish officials stressed the water is safe to drink, however if residents experience medical complications, they should consult a doctor.

The parish added that discoloring in laundry is also possible.

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"Casual"set-piece defense limiting Chicago Fire’s ascension in the East – MLSsoccer.com

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CARSON, Calif.The Chicago Fire, undefeated at home in 2017, have struggled away from the friendly confines of Toyota Park this season, one of six MLS clubs without an away victory. And in what could be an ascendent season, the Fire's success let alone on the road depends on improving set-piece defense.

At StubHub Center on Saturday against the LA Galaxy, Chicago scored two early first-half goals, and looked to be in total control of the match. But LA came roaring back in the second half, their increased intensity putting a relaxed Chicago back on its heels. LA equalized off two corner kicks, securing a point in the 2-2 draw.

In the second half, I think we came a little too casual in one of our strengths, which is our defensive set pieces, said Fire head coach Velkjo Paunovic.

Out of the 14 goals Chicago has given up so far this season, four have been off set pieces all on the road.

The Fire admittedly eased off the pedal, leaving room for miscues and blown assignments.

Maybe we thought the game was done, said Bastian Schweinsteiger. We spoke about it on half-time. That was not the case. We didnt find the free man, we rushed, we lost the ball too easy, then you lose a little bit of the control of the game.

Chicago will get a reprieve from the road, with only two matches away from Toyota Park in the next month. But they face both the Seattle Sounders and Orlando City in the next few weeks, and each of those teams has scored a significant percentage of their goals off set pieces.

Midfielder Juninho knows that Chicago has to take the lessons from Saturday night. And it starts with the obvious:

Unfortunately, we let in two goals from set pieces. Now, we just have to work hard and take it game-by-game.

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Nanotech ‘slingshot’ shoots drugs right where they’re needed – CBC.ca

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A group of Canadian and Italian scientists hasdeveloped a nano-scale "slingshot" that can shoot drugs directly to the part of the body that needs them, thereby speeding up recovery and reducing side-effects.

This idea addresses one of the most taxing problems in medicine: how to kill diseased cells while preserving healthy ones.

Scientists have for many years been working on improving therapies like chemo and radiation on that score, but most efforts have focused on modifying the chemistry rather than alteringthe delivery of the drug.

"It's all about tuning the concentration of the drug optimally in the body: high concentration where you want it to be active, and low concentration where you don't want to affect other healthy parts," says Prof. Alexis Valle-Blisleof the University of Montreal, co-author of the report published this week in Nature Communications.

"If you can increase the concentration of that drug at the specific location, that drug will be more efficient," he told CBC News in an interview.

Restricting the movement of the drug also reduces potentially harmful secondary effects on other parts of the body for instance, the hair loss that can result from toxic cancer treatments, or the loss of so-called good bacteria due to antibiotic use.

The idea of the slingshot is to home in on the target cells at a molecular level.

Valle-Blisle and his colleagues from U of M and the University of Rome Tor Vergata say they can build a synthetic strand of DNA just a few nanometres long (a nanometre is one-billionth of a metre) that will activate only when it binds to a specific disease marker it has been programmed to identify, like an antibody.

Alexis Valle-Blisle is a professor at the University of Montreal and heads up the school's Laboratory of Biosensors & Nanomachines. (University of Montreal)

The two ends of the strand anchor themselves to the antibody, stretching the strand taut and catapulting the drug to its target.

"Imagine our slingshot like a weapon, and this weapon is being used by our own antibody," said Valle-Blisle, who heads the Laboratory of Biosensors & Nanomachinesat U of M. "We design a specific weapon targeting, for example, HIV. We provide the weapon in the body with the bullet the drug. If the right solider is there, the soldier can use the weapon and shoot the problem."

Equally important: if the wrong soldier is present, the weapon won't be deployed.

So rather than delay treatment for an unidentified infection that could be either viral or bacterial, a patient could receive the medicationfor both and their body would only use the one it needed.

The approach could work with a wide range of drugs aimed at a variety of diseases antibodies are produced in response to many different conditions, including viral and bacterial infections, allergy, cancer and autoimmune diseases like Type 1 diabetes and lupus.

And it can be adapted for other types of disease markers.

But Valle-Blisle and his team are chemists, not clinicians, and their development is so far only a "proof of principle." They intendto work with doctors and other researchers to figure out which diseases to target and which drugs might work best using this delivery system.

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DNA sequencing in zero gravity with handheld nanotech – Cosmos

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Nanotechnology. When American engineer Eric Drexler coined this futuristic term in 1981, he had in mind molecule-sized machines that would do useful tasks. The idea was to copy natures own machines muscle proteins that exert force, for instance, or enzymes that carry out chemical reactions. But engineering at the nanometre scale is tough. We are talking about working with individual atoms. A silicon atom is 0.2 nanometres across. A muscle protein filament is as little as 7 nanometres in diameter.

For decades, we let human engineers off the hook, allowing a bevy of prosaic items from paints to plastics to claim the title of nanotechnology. To qualify, these products just had to involve particles smaller than 100 nanometres and display novel properties.

But finally, last year, a man-made machine claimed the title in the way Drexler imagined. It also made it into the top 10 list of Science magazines breakthroughs of the year.

This nano machine made by Oxford Nanopore Technologies mimics nature to achieve the feat of reading the sequence of the letters of the DNA code.

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Delightfully, this nano machine made by Oxford Nanopore Technologies mimics nature to achieve the feat of reading the sequence of the letters of the DNA code, the chemical bases guanine, adenine, thymine and cytosine.

The machine is the size of a mobile phone and, unlike traditional sequencers which are desktop-sized and require the DNA to be pre-cut into short segments, it can handle DNA as it comes: double-stranded, long threads.

This pocket sequencer promises to make DNA sequencing cheaper and more accessible. It has already been used to identify the Ebola virus in a matter of hours and to read the sequence of soil microbes aboard the International Space Station.

Heres a nutshell description of how the sequencer works.

The machine is a nanopore, a large single molecule pierced by a hollow channel a couple of nanometres in diameter. If you embed this nanopore in an ultrathin membrane bathed in an ionic solution and apply a small voltage, a tiny current will flow.

(As an aside, the reason I am so tickled by this achievement is that our brain cells also communicate via tiny currents flowing through the pores of proteins called ion channels; I spent the major part of my working career designing and manufacturing sensitive amplifiers to measure these currents.)

The simple idea behind the nanopore is that as a strand of DNA is threaded through, it partially blocks the current flow. Since the degree of blockage depends on the particular DNA letter, the fluctuations in the current pattern reflect the sequence of letters on the DNA strand as it slithers through the nanopore.

Sounds simple but, as always, the devil is in the detail.

The nanopore has two modules. The first grabs double-stranded DNA, cleaves away one of the strands, then ratchets the remaining single strand into and through the hole. It holds each base for a hundred microseconds or more before allowing it to proceed, thereby giving the detection system time to make its measurements.

The second component is the pore. Shaped like a thin hourglass, at its narrowest it is a mere 1.2 nanometres in diameter. This narrowing is the sensing region where the electrical resistance changes as each base squeezes through.

A complication is that neighbouring bases on the DNA strand can partially block the constriction. Accuracy is restored by reading the DNA strand multiple times.

Ingenious, but it took 25 years to master these devilish details. The implausible idea for nanopore sequencing was conceived in 1989 by David Deamer from the University of California at Santa Cruz; but it was way ahead of its time.

Years later I was delighted to learn that Deamer and his colleagues, in their early experiments to detect the resistance fluctuations, used a patch clamp amplifier made by my former company, Axon Instruments.

How does Oxford make the nanopores? It programs bacteria to do the work. Now scientists there and elsewhere are trying to develop next-generation nanopores that will be directly fabricated from silicon nitride or graphene molecules. If they succeed, that will truly be Eric Drexlers dream fulfilled.

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Aligarh Muslim University’s answer to minority tag is nanotech, solar research – Economic Times

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ALIGARH: The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), a nearly 100-year-old institution born out of the independence movement and the quest to modernise Muslim education, has often been a victim of minority politics that attracted negative media attention. But what is little known is the kind of path-breaking research the institution is doing in the areas of nanotechnology and solar energy.

The AMU has taken up fresh scientific research projects, including on how to solve the water crisis using nanotechnology and recycle waste water using an eco-friendly and low-cost methods.

And its outgoing Vice Chancellor, Lt. Gen. Zameer Uddin Shah, a former deputy chief of the Indian Army, hopes the it will be "among the top 200 universities in the world by 2020" when it celebrates its centenary.

"The AMU has a very bright future," the retired general, the elder brother of Bollywood veteran Naseeruddin Shah, told IANS in a wide-ranging interview at his office, speaking about the university, how it is striving to be at par with modern educational institutions and, of course, allegations of financial impropriety against him.

"We need to encourage good quality research in applied sciences as well as the social science and we are doing that," Shah said.

He said the university has taken up a project on desalinating sea water or brackish water using nanotechnology that would bring a "sea change in Indian coastal cities" and provide low-cost drinking water.

"The project will ensure India has sufficient resources of quality and quantity of potable water," he said.

He said AMU scientists have achieved "significant success" in recycling waste water by using the novel concept of plant technology, also called "anaerobic digestion" -- a process of using micro-organisms to break down biodegradable material substances.

The Safeguarding Water resources in India with Green and Sustainable technologies -- Swings -- project is financed under the joint EU-India research funding to find low-cost and sustainable solutions for waste water treatment.

The university has successfully piloted the project on its campus and has built a plant that treats the wastewater generated on the campus.

Shah said the university's? scientists were also involved in harnessing solar energy for automobiles and the "purpose is to reduce dependence on fossil fuels".

"They are doing research on solar power for automobiles. Once the project is complete, we will be able to charge your car (a hybrid or electric) battery in 20 minutes which otherwise takes six hours," said Shah, whose term ends in the middle of this month.

While the thrust in its image makeover is on good scientific research, the Vice Chancellor said the management has also been trying to "battle a misconception" that AMU breeds fundamentalism.

"To a large extent, perceptions have changed but we are also proud of our Muslim ethos," he said about the varsity that has an exclusive Olympic-sized swimming pool for women students, as also a separate horse riding club for them.

For those Muslim men and women who pass out from madrassas, the university has introduced a concept of a bridge course to enable their admission in regular university courses and integrate them into the mainstream with modern education.

"Earlier, they were admitted only in theology, Arabic, Persian and Urdu. But we wanted them to get admitted to any course.

"We made them do this one-year bridge course. People later qualified for Mass Communications, English Honours and other subjects because of the solid potential these guys gain from memorising the Quran in madrassas," said Shah, himself a madrassa pass-out.

"I felt madrassas were being demonised all over the world and in our country also you hear a lot of rubbish about them. After all, these are educational institutions."

The university is facing another challenge in a legal battle on its minority character, challenged by the government in the Supreme Court. It is feared this may close the doors of modern liberal education for thousands of poor Muslims.

Shah said AMU, which has "contributed a great deal towards the empowerment of Muslims in India, must stay as a minority institution...till the situation of Muslims is corrected".

"At the moment, Muslims in India are the worst off, worse than the Dalits. We don't need reservations. We need your affirmative actions in education.

"Because of poor schooling, Muslim children kind of fall behind. They have bread and butter issues, so they don't qualify for institutions of higher education."

Shah's tenure ends on May 16 and the battles at the university, which has 1,400 teachers and 2,000 non-teaching staff, has been "tougher" than those he fought as a soldier in the Indian Army.

"Here you have everyone posing as a friend but there are only a few real friends," he said, lamenting how he was accused of financial, administrative and academic irregularities.

"I was alleged to have bungled 120 crore (of rupees)," he said, adding he has replied to all the allegations that were made by a "set of people" who were upset because he wanted to discipline them.

"There were some teachers who were never taught and indulged in politics," he said, alleging that they were behind the campaign against him.

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Nanotech Security Corp (NTSFF) Needle Moving 3.74% – The Times

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Nanotech Security Corp (NTSFF) shares are moving today onvolatility3.74% or $0.034 from the open.TheOTC listed companysaw a recent bid of0.9430 and30000shares have traded hands in the session.

Now letstake a look at how the fundamentals are stacking up for Nanotech Security Corp (NTSFF). Fundamental analysis takes into consideration market, industry and stock conditions to help determine if the shares are correctly valued. Nanotech Security Corp currently has a yearly EPS of -0.15. This number is derived from the total net income divided by shares outstanding. In other words, EPS reveals how profitable a company is on a share owner basis.

Another key indicator that can help investors determine if a stock might be a quality investment is the Return on Equity or ROE. Nanotech Security Corp (NTSFF) currently has Return on Equity of -44.10. ROE is a ratio that measures profits generated from the investments received from shareholders.

In other words, the ratio reveals how effective the firm is at turning shareholder investment into company profits. A company with high ROE typically reflects well on management and how well a company is run at a high level. A firm with a lower ROE might encourage potential investors to dig further to see why profits arent being generated from shareholder money.

Another ratio we can look at is the Return on Invested Capital or more commonly referred to as ROIC. Nanotech Security Corp (NTSFF) has a current ROIC of -37.02. ROIC is calculated by dividing Net Income Dividends by Total Capital Invested.

Similar to ROE, ROIC measures how effectively company management is using invested capital to generate company income. A high ROIC number typically reflects positively on company management while a low number typically reflects the opposite.

Turning to Return on Assets or ROA, Nanotech Security Corp (NTSFF) has a current ROA of -32.64. This is a profitability ratio that measures net income generated from total company assets during a given period. This ratio reveals how quick a company can turn its assets into profits. In other words, the ratio provides insight into the profitability of a firms assets. The ratio is calculated by dividing total net income by the average total assets.

A higher ROA compared to peers in the same industry, would suggest that company management is able to effectively generate profits from their assets. Similar to the other ratios, a lower number might raise red flags about managements ability when compared to other companies in a similar sector.

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Iran blasts high-speed torpedo as WW3 tensions with Donald Trump soar – Express.co.uk

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Tehran fired off a Hoot missile, not tested for two years, as World War III tensions continue into 2017.

On the Korean peninsula US and Japanese warships have gathered to prevent nuclear missile and missile testing.

Kim Jong-un has said he has the right to develop weapons to protect his country, and that he is reacting aggression from Donald Trump.

While China attempted to cool global tempers Iran has reignited the flame by starting up again with its own missile tests.

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The launch of the super fast torpedo is not against international law - but comes directly as the world is trying to convince North Korea to calm down.

Three senior defence officials confirmed to US media the test on Sunday had been carried out, but refused to say whether it was successful.

It is claimed the high-speed torpedo was sent out near the Strait of Hormuz.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects the defence detachment on Jangjae Islet and the Hero Defence Detachment on Mu Islet located in the southernmost part of the waters off the southwest front, in this undated photo released by North Korea's KCNA

Once operational the Hoot should be able to travel about 12,000 yards at about 250 miles per hour.

Each official interviewed by NBC did not believe there was any immediate risk to the USS George HW Bush strike group in the Gulf.

There has been rising tension between the US and Iran since the inauguration of MrTrump.

Last week Iran attempted to launch a cruise missile from a submarine in the Strait of Hormuz, it was reported.

There has been no confirmation of the test from Tehran.

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The missile was tested after threats from Iran to destroy Saudi Arabia.

A Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman said there was no space for dialogue with rival Iran due to its Shiite ambitions "to control the Islamic world.

But Iranian defence minister, Hossein Dehghan warned: "If the Saudis do anything ignorant, we will leave no area untouched except Mecca and Medina."

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