DefenseNews

US Army refreshes competition for short-range laser

April 1, 2024
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The U.S. Army is evaluating additional 50-kilowatt platforms as it seeks to buy short-range air defense laser weapons, even as its initial four prototypes deploy in U.S. Central Command’s area of operations, a service official told Defense News. Three of the Army’s Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense systems, or DE M-SHORAD, are in Iraq so the service can…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

EPA finalizes strongest-ever truck rule to save billions in health & fuel costs

April 1, 2024
EPA’s Heavy Duty “Phase 3” truck rule has been finalized, and surprisingly enough it comes in stronger (albeit slightly) than the rule that was originally proposed last year. The final rule has just come out, so there’s plenty to comb through, but the EPA went over some key points in a press call yesterday. Transportation is the largest-polluting sector in America, and heavy duty vehicles…
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CryptoNews

Solana Foundation Asserts Core Network Should Be Permissionless Regarding Offensive Meme Coin Issues

April 1, 2024
The Solana Foundation has given its take on the offensive meme coin issue that originates on the Solana blockchain. Austin Federa, head of strategy at the Solana Foundation, sustained that the core components of Solana should be permissionless while blocking some of these offensive assets should be left to individual applications. Solana Unlikely to Deal With Offensive Meme Coin Issues at the Core…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI21 Labs juices up gen AI transformers with Jamba

March 29, 2024
Ever since the groundbreaking research paper “Attention is All You Need” debuted in 2017, the concept of transformers has dominated the generative AI landscape. Transformers however are not the only path forward with generative AI. A new approach from AI21 Labs dubbed “Jamba” looks to go beyond transformers. Jamba combines the Mamba model, which is based on the Structured State Space model…
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