DefenseNews

Lockheed’s F-35 topples competition in Swiss fighter contest

WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has emerged victorious in Switzerland’s $6.5 billion fighter competition, beating out entrants from Eurofighter, Dassault and Boeing. Over the course of the program, Switzerland plans to spend up to 6 billion Swiss francs (U.S. $6.5 billion) to buy 36 F-35A conventional-takeoff-and-landing models to replace its aging Hornet fleet…
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NewsPhotography

Nikon Stops Including Charging Cable Due to Chip Shortage

The semiconductor shortage is hitting the camera market in unexpected ways. According to an official notice published to Nikon Japan, the company says that it doesn’t have the parts necessary to include the adapter that allows Z7 or Z7 II cameras to charge a battery in-camera. The company has announced that it will stop including the AC adapter EH-7P with new Nikon Z7 and Z7 II cameras starting…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Facebook updates Habitat environment to train ’embodied AI’

Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. In 2019, Facebook open-sourced AI Habitat, a simulator that can train AI systems embodying things like a home robot to operate in environments meant to mimic real-world settings, like apartments and offices. Today Facebook announced that it’s extended the capabilities of Habitat to make it “orders of…
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MobileNews

Samsung Galaxy Watch4 series to have a Classic variant

Samsung is expected to bring at least four Galaxy Watch4 wearables, each with different size and battery capacity. Two of the wearables with model codes SM-R885F and SM-R895F have been certified in Thailand under the name Galaxy Watch4 Classic, meaning this is the third different variant we’ve seen after the vanilla Watch4 and the sporty Watch4 Active. Samsung Galaxy Watch4 and Watch4…
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