DefenseNews

Latest Chinook helo variant has excessive rotor blade vibrations heading into major test

January 28, 2021
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army is dealing with excessive rotor blade vibrations in its latest variant of the Boeing-manufactured Chinook cargo helicopter as it heads into a limited-user test during the first half of the calendar year, according to a report by the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester. The new Advanced Chinook Rotor Blade, or ACRB, on the CH-47F Block II aircraft “produces excessive…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Quick Charge Podcast: January 27, 2021

January 28, 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…
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Tesla had talks with other automakers about licensing its self-driving software, Elon Musk says

January 28, 2021
Tesla had “preliminary” discussions with other automakers about licensing its self-driving software, according to new comments by CEO Elon Musk. Tesla Licensing Software Today, Tesla released its Q4 2020 financial results and following the release, the automaker held its usual conference call with management. During the call, CEO Elon Musk was asked by an analyst about Tesla potentially…
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AI & RoboticsNews

MIT CSAIL claims its breast cancer prediction AI works equally well across demographic groups

January 28, 2021
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) say they’ve created a breast cancer risk-assessment algorithm that shows consistent performance across patients from the U.S., Europe, and Asia. This new algorithm captures the requirements of risk modeling, jointly learning a patient’s risk across multiple future time points and optionally drawing on…
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MobileNews

Apple crosses 1 billion active iPhone users for the first time as install base reaches new milestone

January 28, 2021
Billion is quickly becoming the theme of Apple’s holiday earnings quarter results. For starters, Apple has earned well over $100 billion in a single quarter for the first time in the company’s history. Apple has also hit new milestones with its active install base of devices. According to CEO Tim Cook, there are now more than 1 billion iPhones being used by customers around the world, and…
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