AI & RoboticsNews

Healthcare supply chain gets a boost with Vamstar’s AI-driven platform

We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 – 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Vamstar has taken on a rather challenging job since its launch in 2019: To be the healthcare industry’s go-to supply chain management app for some 86,000 medical facilities and hundreds of thousands…
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GamingNews

Meta, Microsoft, Epic Games and others join forces to develop metaverse standards

A group of companies, including some of the biggest names in tech and the internet, have banded together to develop interoperability standards needed to achieve an open metaverse. The organization is called Metaverse Standards Forum, and its founding members include Meta, Microsoft, Huawei, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Epic Games, Unity and Adobe. As Reuters notes, one company…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

XPeng suspends P5 reservations in Europe citing issues with export timeline

Chinese EV automaker XPeng Motors announced it has suspended all P5 reservations and pre-orders in the four countries in Europe it currently has a presence. The decision comes just months after the company opened reservations for the P5 overseas. Citing foreseen export timeline issues, XPeng will shift its focus to the P7 sedan. XPeng Motors ($XPEV) made an initial splash in China last summer…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Microsoft will phase out facial recognition AI that could detect emotions

Microsoft is keenly aware of the mounting backlash toward facial recognition, and it’s shuttering a significant project in response. The company has revealed it will “retire” facial recognition technology that it said could infer emotions as well as characteristics like age, gender and hair. The AI raised privacy questions, Microsoft said, and offering a framework created the…
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