MobileNews

LG isn't giving up on smartphones

January 16, 2021
A recent report from Korean publication The Elec announced a dramatic development in tow for next week, namely that LG would announce its exit from the smartphone market. LG begs to differ, however. According to the company’s global communicator for consumer tech, Ken Hong, all of this is “completely false and without merit. I won’t even justify that rumor with a…
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DefenseNews

French Army orders 364 Serval armored vehicles

January 16, 2021
PARIS — The French Army is expected to receive 108 Serval armored vehicles in 2022 as part of an order from manufacturers Nexter and Texelis totaling 364. The contract was finalized through the DGA procurement agency on Dec. 23 but was not announced until Jan. 15. …
DefenseNews

US Army taps industry for autonomous drones to resupply troops

January 16, 2021
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army is tapping industry for drones that can deliver supplies to infantry brigade combat teams in the field, according to a request for information posted to the federal contracting website Beta.Sam.Gov on Jan. 13. Army Futures Command’s Sustainment Capabilities Development and Integration Directorate as well as the Marine Corps’ Capabilities Development and…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI Weekly: Meet the people trying to replicate and open-source OpenAI’s GPT-3

January 16, 2021
In June, OpenAI published a paper detailing GPT-3, a machine learning model that achieves strong results on a number of natural language benchmarks. At 175 billion parameters — the part of the model that has learned from historical training data — it’s one of the largest of its kind. It’s also among the most sophisticated, with the ability to make primitive analogies, write in the style of…
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GamingNews

Microsoft delayed production of the Xbox Series X and S consoles to get the full RDNA 2 feature set

January 16, 2021
Microsoft started manufacturing the Xbox Series X and S consoles a bit later than it would have liked, because it wanted all RDNA 2 features. This was revealed by Phil Spencer in an interview with The Verge. Microsoft started manufacturing the new consoles in late summer while Sony started earlier, opting not to wait for AMD to finalize the design of its new GPU architecture. According to the…
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