AI & RoboticsNews

AI patent intelligence platform PatSnap secures $300M

March 17, 2021
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. PatSnap, which offers a patent and R&D platform and services, today announced that it raised $300 million in series E funding from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Tencent Investment. The Toronto-, Singapore-, and London-based company plans to use the funds to further develop its intelligence platform…
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DefenseNews

US Army prepping robotic combat vehicles for big test with soldiers in 2022

March 17, 2021
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has taken receipt of its light and medium Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) prototypes from industry teams and are putting them through the paces this year ahead of a major company-level soldier assessment in 2022. The service took delivery of the first of four RCV-Light vehicles from a QinetiQ North America and Pratt Miller team — which won the contract to produce…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Tesla is under scrutiny from feds again over crash with semi truck

March 17, 2021
Tesla is again under scrutiny from the US federal government over a Tesla vehicle that crashed into the trailer of a semi truck in Detroit. In 2016, 45-year-old Joshua Brown died in a collision with a truck while using the Autopilot of his Tesla Model S in Florida. The accident was highly publicized as the first fatal crash in a Tesla using Autopilot. Neither Brown nor Autopilot managed to…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Quick Charge Podcast: March 16, 2021

March 17, 2021
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
GamingNews

Activision Blizzard lays off about 50 in its esports division

March 17, 2021
Activision Blizzard has let go of about 50 employees in its esports division, as the Sports Business Journal first reported. The publisher blames the decision on the impact the pandemic has had on live events. Activision Blizzard had invested heavily in on-stage esports shows with crowds, including with the Overwatch League, which had Blizzard selling a premium for the right to own a team.
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