DefenseNews

DoD inspector general: Air Force mismanagement led to $100M KC-46 boom redesign

WASHINGTON — A new report from the Pentagon’s inspector general asserts there were years of accumulating signs that should have prompted the Air Force to take a closer look at the KC-46′s refueling boom, on which the service is now spending $100 million to redesign. In the years leading up to 2018 — when the service tested the full functionality of the KC-46 boom and found it could not…
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GamingNews

Sonic Origins compiles Sonic 1, 2, 3 & Knuckles, and CD

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Sega announced a new compilation, Sonic Origins, during its Sonic Central event today. It is coming to the “latest platforms.” The package will include Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles, and Sonic CD. These titles helped make Sonic one of the most recognizable characters in…
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GamingNews

Sonic Team teases its next Sonic game

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Sonic Team gave us our first look at its next game during Sega’s Sonic Central event today. We didn’t see much, just a short teaser of Sonic running through a forest and creating a mysterious…
AI & RoboticsNews

Baidu debuts updated AI framework and R&D initiative

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. At Wave Summit, Baidu’s bi-annual deep learning conference, the company announced version 2.1 of PaddlePaddle, its framework for AI and machine learning model development. Among the highlights are a large-scale graph query engine; four pretrained models; and PaddleFlow, a cloud-based suite of machine learning developer…
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MobileNews

PlayStation franchise games could come to iOS devices as soon as next year

After Nintendo’s successful games on mobile devices, it’s time for Sony to bring PlayStation franchise games to iOS. The company’s president and CEO said Sony intends to bring some of its “iconic IP” to mobile as soon as March 2022. According to a report by VideoGamesChronicle, Sony CEO Jim Ryan wants Playstation franchise games on mobile following its “very successful” first steps…
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