WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden nominated Lt. Gen. James Mingus to become the Army’s next vice chief of staff, according to a notice in the Congressional Record.
Mingus, who will pin on a fourth star if confirmed by the U.S. Senate, comes from the Pentagon’s Joint Staff, where he has served as director since June 2022. He joined the staff in October 2020 as director for operations.
Over the…
From our cosmic backyard in the solar system to distant galaxies near the dawn of time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered on its promise of revealing the universe like never before in its first year of science operations. To celebrate the completion of a…
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Xbox announced today that it’s testing a new safety feature for users to report inappropriate voice chats they receive in-game. Specifically…
Vendict emerges with $9.5M in funding to automate security compliance with generative AI
July 12, 2023
Today, enterprise software vendors must often fill out questionnaires proving they are compliant with the security requirements of the customers they seek to service — a highly manual, technical and time-consuming process.
Vendict wants to change all that. The Israeli startup is emerging from stealth today with $9.5 million in funding led by NFX, Disruptive AI and Cardumen Capital and joined by…
Powered by Advanced Micro Devices chips, the LUMI supercomputer – recently ranked as the fastest supercomputer in Europe as well as one of the most energy efficient – has enabled the TurkuNLP Group to create new models quickly.
This kind of thing will fuel interest in…
Futureverse is launching its AI League “smart” soccer game on iOS today in partnership with the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023 tournament.
New Zealand-based Futureverse previously launched its “smart football” game in an open beta on…
We still have a lot to figure out. That was my impression of a panel at our Transform 2023 event yesterday that drilled into the ethics of generative AI.
The panel was moderated by Philip Lawson, AI policy lead at the Armilla AI | Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society. It included Jen Carter, global head of technology at Google.org, and Ravi Jain, chair of the Association for…
This year’s VentureBeat Transform event focused on generative AI, the technology that has been causing massive change, excitement and concern over the past few months. VentureBeat CEO Matt Marshall opened the event with an observation that is becoming important for the…
The Xbox Series X is $50 off right now
July 12, 2023
After a couple years of Xbox and PlayStation stock shortages, it’s now fairly easy to get your hands on a current gaming console. Now might be the ideal time to snap up the Xbox Series X, Microsoft’s most powerful console, as it’s on sale. You can pick up…
Were you hoping to score a good deal on a laptop for Prime Day? Apple’s 2020 MacBook Air is currently on sale for $750 — a record low for the computer, which typically goes for $999. It’s powered by the company’s M1 chip with an 8-core CPU, and while Apple has since come out with an M2 MacBook Air, we found the older version’s performance to be impressive when we reviewed…
