ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. Navy and the submarine sector hope in 2024 they can begin reliably delivering two attack submarines annually, following work disruptions that threw off plans to do so this year.
Industry delivered one attack sub, the Hyman G. Rickover, this calendar year and will send a second, the New Jersey, to sea trials in December ahead of delivery early next year.
Rear Adm. Jon…
Quick Charge Podcast: November 9, 2023
November 10, 2023
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…
New Jersey is going to get a nearly $1B power grid upgrade
November 10, 2023
Jersey Central Power and Light (JCP&L), which serves over 1 million customers in central and northern New Jersey, is going to make its largest power grid upgrade in company history.
JCP&L said today that it’s filing a new infrastructure improvement program with…
Mercedes-Benz announced a new partnership with Buc-ee’s, known for operating the “world’s largest convenience store,” to expand its premium EV charging network.
Buc-ee’s is the self-proclaimed “world’s most-loved travel center,” with a massive assortment of food, clothes, gifts, and just about anything else you could think of.
Initially launched in Texas, Buc-ee’s has…
NASA’s Juno Finds Jupiter’s Winds Penetrate in Cylindrical Layers
November 10, 2023
Gravity data collected by NASA’s Juno mission indicates Jupiter’s atmospheric winds penetrate the planet in a cylindrical manner, parallel to its spin axis. A paper on the findings was recently published in the journal Nature Astronomy.
The violent nature of Jupiter’s…
NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope is beginning to look much like it will when it arrives in Earth orbit and starts mapping the entire sky. Short for Specto-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer, SPHEREx resembles a bullhorn…
Tech leaders and automation: 4 ways AI is changing the game
November 10, 2023
AI has been under the gun lately. Skeptics are out in droves, and there are genuine ethical questions that need answered as humankind develops this era-defining technology. When it comes to new tech, it’s crucial to harness the good without unleashing the bad.
Luckily, there are already great examples of the positive effects of AI in the workplace. Here are a few of the ways that automation and…
Behind the scenes: How Cvent built an entire webinar using ChatGPT
November 10, 2023
Presented by Cvent
Can a webinar be built with ChatGPT? This VB Spotlight is the true story of one marketing team’s quest to find out. From concept brainstorming to content generation and marketing, best practices to biggest fails and more, see how generative AI…
Gong, the revenue/sales team software company that recently introduced its own AI-powered audio/video call summarization and insights generator, Call Spotlight, is continuing to bolster its offerings with new AI features.
Today, the eight-year-old company headquartered in…
DeepInfra emerges from stealth with $8M to make running AI inferences more affordable
November 10, 2023
Ok, let’s say you’re one of the company leaders or IT decision-makers who has heard enough about all this generative AI stuff — you’re finally ready to take the plunge and offer a large language model (LLM) chatbot to your employees or customers. The problem is: how do you actually launch it and how much should you pay to run it?
DeepInfra, a new company founded by former engineers at IMO…