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Landing in Living Rooms: LEGO Models of NASA Mars Rover and Helicopter

While NASA’s Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter are busy exploring Mars, one-tenth-scale buildable models of them have begun touching down in homes around the globe. Developed in cooperation with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, a new LEGO Technic building set is based on the real rover and helicopter, which have been roaming through Mars’ Jezero Crater since…
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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 (a16z) and SV Angel. The company has now raised a total $40 million. It was founded by Gaurav Misra, former head of design…
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DefenseNews

White House mum on jailed Defense News correspondent

Senior White House officials said press freedom would be among the topics discussed this week by President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in private meetings, but would not commit to specifically intervening in the case of Defense News contributor Vivek Raghuvanshi. Raghuvanshi, a journalist and freelancer to Defense News for more than three decades, was jailed in mid-May by…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Armilla AI debuts AutoAlign, allowing enterprises to fine-tune their AI models to block hallucinations, harm

AI is in the air for large enterprises this year. Survey after survey shows that executives and workers alike are feeling more optimistic and more interested in using AI tools than ever before, and some companies are already entrusting large portions of their workforce with them in the more than 6 months since OpenAI’s ChatGPT burst onto the scene and presented a user-friendly interface for…
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