DefenseNews

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

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

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

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

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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AI & RoboticsNews

AI and big data analytics startup Noogata nets $12M

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Noogata, a startup developing products for designing, implementing, and deploying big data analytics models at scale, today announced that it raised $12 million. In addition to…
AI & RoboticsNews

Salesforce intros new AI-powered account-based marketing tools

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Salesforce today unveiled new AI-powered account-based marketing (ABM) capabilities within Salesforce Digital 360 designed to help sales teams scale their campaigns. Einstein Key Accounts Identification analyzes engagement-based buying signals and customer characteristics to identify the accounts most…
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