DefenseNews

US Navy halts deliveries of Freedom-class littoral combat ship

January 20, 2021
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy has halted deliveries of Lockheed Martin’s Freedom-class littoral combat ship, citing a design flaw with the ship’s transmission. In a statement to Defense News, the Navy pointed to “a material defect” with the ship’s combining gear, a complex transmission that transmits power generated by the ship’s engines to its waterjet propulsion system, and said it…
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GamingNews

Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning comes to Switch on March 16

January 19, 2021
THQ Nordic announced today that Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning will release for Switch on March 16. Kingdoms of Amalur first debuted in 2012. The action role-playing game had a fun open world and fast-paced combat, but it wasn’t able to sell enough copies to keep the Kurt Shilling-owned 38 Studios afloat. Amalur is expanding its borders and heading into the unkown territory of… Nintendo…
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AI & RoboticsNews

K Health raises $132 million to launch AI-powered telemedical pediatric service

January 19, 2021
New York City-based K Health today closed a $132 million series E funding round led by GGV Capital and Valor Equity Partners, bringing the company’s total raised to date to over $271 million. In conjunction with the round’s closure, K Health launched K for Parents, a program offering parents access to a pediatrician to remotely diagnose and treat children ages 3 to 17. The demand for triaging…
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NewsPhotography

These Photos of Underwater Flowers Look Like Paintings

January 19, 2021
Underwater photographer Barbara Cole is best known for her beautiful portraits of people—stunning creations that seem to walk the line between photography and painting. But her most recent project, Appearances, explores a different subject: flowers. Finding herself deprived of subjects in the midst of lockdown and social distancing, Cole “set out in search of connection during a time of…
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