DefenseNews

Lockheed, Rheinmetall pair up to build Europe-made rocket launcher

PARIS — Lockheed Martin and Rheinmetall are partnering to offer a European-made rocket launcher based on Lockheed’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) system to Germany and its neighbors. The GMARS system is envisioned as a wheeled artillery system replacing Berlin’s aging MARS 2 multiple launch rocket systems, Howard Bromberg, vice president and deputy for strategy and business…
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GamingNews

Gaming companies are showing off new products at VidCon 2023

Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don’t worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. This year’s VidCon event is taking place this week in Anaheim, and several of the larger content creators are in attendance. However, several game…
AI & RoboticsNews

Talent Select AI automatically screens job candidates’ for psychological & personality traits during interviews

If you’ve ever had to take what appears to be a personality assessment test when filling out a job application for a prospective employer, you’re not alone: “100 million workers worldwide take psychometric tests…designed to study personality and aptitude,” making for a $2 billion annual market, according to a recent article in The New York Times. Such tests are used by 80% of Fortune 500…
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GamingNews

Xbox Game Pass adds Need for Speed before price increase kicks in

Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don’t worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. Xbox announced this week the next wave of games coming to Game Pass in June, with this wave splashing over into the first week of July. While this cluster of games only contains one new launch, it also has a few major recent releases. This is the first announcement of new…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI video creation app Captions bags $25M from top VCs

Captions, an AI-powered video creation app for iOS that launched in 2021 and counted more than three million users to date, today announced a $25 million in Series B funding led by Kleiner Perkins, with additional funding provided by Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz…
AI & RoboticsNews

Toyota Research Institute unveils generative AI-powered vehicle design tool 

Toyota Research Institute (TRI) unveiled an innovative generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool that aims to enhance the creative process of vehicle designers. The tool enables designers to generate design sketches through text prompts, incorporating precise stylistic attributes such as “sleek,” “SUV-like” and “modern.” Additionally, designers can optimize quantitative performance…
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