DefenseNews

After Washington’s refueling woes, US Navy eyes new plans for carriers

WASHINGTON — With the aircraft carrier George Washington back at sea — albeit two years behind schedule — the U.S. Navy is combing through lessons learned from the delay in order to apply them to two other ships. The ship’s midlife refueling and modernization effort was plagued by the pandemic, industrial base challenges and unexpected repair work related to years worth of deployments. The…
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DefenseNews

US Army taps RTX for $117 million infrared sensor deal

WASHINGTON — RTX, until recently known as Raytheon Technologies, won a contract to manufacture forward-looking infrared packages for installation aboard U.S. Army tanks and other vehicles. The low-rate initial production deal for 3rd Generation FLIR B-Kit sensors is worth…
AI & RoboticsNews

Magicave announces Beneath The Six game with an AI narrator

Magicave has teamed up with generative voice pioneers ElevenLabs and actor Tom Canton to develop an AI narrator for its upcoming game, Beneath The Six. The single and multiplayer turn-based roguelike game combines exploration, character progression, magic, and combat. Players can create unique characters using collectible digital dice with different traits. United Kingdom-based Magicave said the…
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AI & RoboticsNews

VB Transform opens with generative AI heavy-hitters from AWS and Google

AI is transformatively intelligent — but it also can be dumb as a stump. Generative AI is a spectacular example of that. While it offers inventive, sometimes ingenious results, its tendency to hallucinate (or confidently produce false information) offers enterprises not only huge opportunity and tremendous potential, but also some work-stoppingly serious challenges. How can business leaders…
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MobileNews

Bluesky begins offering custom domains in its bid to remain ad-free

The Jack Dorsey-backed decentralized social network Bluesky has launched a paid domain service in partnership with Namecheap as a way for users to verify their identity. In a post discussing its plans to make Bluesky sustainable, the team said “users become the product” when a company relies on ads. Since Bluesky set out to “build a protocol where users can own their data,&#8221…
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