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Microsoft Edge, Apple’s Safari, and Firefox have no plans to adopt Google’s FLoC initiative

April 20, 2021
After Google started rolling out FLoC to some Chrome users as a replacement for third-party cookies, the technology has become rather controversial. Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari, and Mozilla Firefox have confirmed they don’t have immediate plans to adopt FLoC. Google is positioning FLoC, or Federated Learning of Cohorts, as a new standard for the web. That’s an idea that privacy-focused…
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DefenseNews

Japan’s first Global Hawk begins flying at Northrop’s California drone hub

April 20, 2021
MELBOURNE, Australia – The first Northrop-Grumman RQ-4B Global Hawk unmanned aircraft destined for Japan took its maiden flight in the United States last week, as the Asian country ramps up its intelligence gathering capability to monitor North Korean and Chinese military activities. In a news release, Northrop-Grumman said the high-altitude, long endurance drone conducted its maiden flight…
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DefenseNews

US Army picks 5 innovators to help increase its howitzer firing rate

April 20, 2021
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has picked five small business innovators to build prototypes intended to help increase the rate of fire of self-propelled howitzers as well as in future systems, Brig. Gen. John Rafferty, who is in charge of the service’s Long-Range Precision Fires modernization efforts, told Defense News on April 15. The SPARTN Fire Faster project is one of three lines of effort…
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MobileNews

Google Doodle celebrates 70th birthday of Luther Vandross, ‘The Velvet Voice’ [Video]

April 20, 2021
Google is honoring soul singer Luther Vandross, on what would be his 70th birthday, with a video Google Doodle. Life of Luther Vandross Luther Ronzoni Vandross, Jr. was born on April 20, 1951, in Manhattan, as the fourth child in his family. Inspired by musical greats like Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, and Patti LaBelle, Vandross found himself learning how to play piano by ear at a young age…
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