NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover sealed the tube containing its 20th rock core sample on June 23 (the 832nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission), and the mission’s science team is excited about its potential. That’s because this sample was drilled by the rover from an outcrop composed of tiny chunks of other rocks that were carried from elsewhere by a river in the distant past and deposited…
Xbox Game Pass adds Celeste, Venba in late July wave
July 20, 2023
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Xbox announced today which games are coming to Game Pass in the second wave of July. The new games only include one launch day release, but otherwise…
AI21 Labs, the Tel Aviv-based NLP major behind the Wordtune editor, has announced the launch of a plug-and-play generative AI engine to help enterprises drive value from their data assets.
Dubbed Contextual Answers, the offering comes as a dedicated API that can be directly…
Researchers at Stanford University and University of California-Berkeley have published an unreviewed paper on the open access journal arXiv.org, which found that the “performance and behavior” of OpenAI’s ChatGPT large language models (LLMs) have changed between March and June 2023. The researchers concluded that their tests revealed “performance on some tasks have gotten substantially…
'Babylon 5' is finally coming to Blu-ray
July 20, 2023
The good news keeps coming for all Babylon 5 fans: The entire series is coming to Blu-ray just a few months after sharing that an animated feature-length film is in the works. The 30th-anniversary release will include all 110 episodes of its five-season run and its pilot TV…
STUTTGART, Germany — The French Navy has taken delivery of the LSS Jacques Chevallier, the first of a new class of supply ships meant to replace the service’s aging fleet tankers.
The Chevallier – named for the French engineer who pioneered the nation’s naval nuclear…
WASHINGTON — Problems with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s newest upgrades will cause the aircraft’s manufacturer to miss its 2023 delivery goal by up to roughly 50 jets, Lockheed Martin officials said Tuesday.
The delays could bring down Lockheed’s revenue for 2023 by hundreds of millions of dollars.
Lockheed originally planned to deliver between 147 and 153 fighters this year. But…
Canon EOS R8: Advanced Full-Frame Mirrorless Camera
July 19, 2023
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The Canon EOS R8 is an entry-level full-frame mirrorless camera, featuring the 24.2MP CMOS sensor from the EOS R6 II. It brings Canon’s latest AF capabilities and much improved video to the same…
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Microsoft has agreed to extend the deadline for its $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard by three months to October 18, 2023.
The deal has…
Netflix’s AI legacy lives on: Outerbounds applies streaming giant’s lessons to enterprise AI
July 19, 2023
Outerbounds, a machine learning infrastructure startup, today announced new product capabilities to help enterprises prepare for and adopt generative AI models like ChatGPT.
The company’s cofounders, CEO Ville Tuulos and CTO Savin Goyal, both former Netflix data scientists, aim to position Outerbounds as a leading provider of ML infrastructure as businesses increasingly look to leverage large…
