WASHINGTON — Boeing conducted its first manned-unmanned teaming test of the MQ-25A Stingray paired with U.S. Navy aircraft, demonstrating the unmanned tanker can take commands from pilots midair and adjust as the mission changes.
The MQ-25 was designed to primarily communicate with a ground-based air vehicle operator, or AVO — likely located on an aircraft carrier — but that could change…
In addition to first-party apps, Google Workspace wants to integrate third-party tools into a user’s existing workflow. Google Meet will get another another whiteboarding option with Miro next year.
Miro offers a collaborative whiteboard that already integrates with…
After latest flight test failure, US Air Force hopes to keep first hypersonic missile on track for production
August 5, 2021
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force is in the process of determining the root cause of last week’s failed hypersonic missile test, but the program still has time to push through flight testing and begin production of the new, cutting-edge weapon by the end of fiscal 2022, a…
Chrome OS to add Google Calendar to quick settings
August 5, 2021
Chrome OS is preparing to offer access to the calendar from the quick settings area, complete with your Google Calendar events.
On Chrome OS today, there’s no easy way to look at a calendar, beyond opening a web app or Android app. Meanwhile, most modern operating systems have a built-in calendar app that’s usually visible through the system tray.
Recently, Google played with the idea of…
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Planetarium said its decentralized role-playing game Nine Chronicles, which uses nonfungible tokens (NFTs) so players can own and make their game assets, has raised $2.6 million.
NFT gaming…
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C. Light Technologies has raised an investment from the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) for its AI technology that spots changes in eye motion to detect the earliest stage of…
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Conversational AI platform provider Yellow.ai today announced the close of an over $78.15 million series C round led by WestBridge Capital with participation from Sapphire Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing the company’s total funding to more than $102.15 million. Yellow.ai says…
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Spell today unveiled an operations platform that provides the tooling needed to train AI models based on deep learning algorithms.
The platforms currently employed to train AI models are optimized…
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Sensorium Galaxy is an upcoming virtual world that will blend human and AI characters so that people can have unscripted conversations with virtual beings. And it’s showing off some of those AI…
IDC: AI spending will reach $342B in 2021
August 4, 2021
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Companies could spend nearly $342 billion on AI software, hardware, and services in 2021. That’s according to the latest edition of IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Artificial Intelligence Tracker, which forecast that the AI market will accelerate in 2022, with 18.8% growth, and remain on track to break the $500 billion…
