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The Space Race is Back on - and tycoons are eager to cash in on the final frontier
The Space Race is back on — and tycoons are eager to cash in on the final frontier. Shane Cashman dives into the new wild west of explorers and entrepreneurs commercializing the great unknown. Watch any congressional hearing where a crusty congressman tries to keep pace with Silicon Valley’s top “autists” if you need further evidence.
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Read more at The Spectator World
The Marines Need a Fusion Center to Accelerate Acquisition
Fusion Center, located at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, allows for discussions about what technology is mature enough to use versus what is useful to the Corps. With this Fusion Center in place, the team is expected to ensure it’s using money to develop the technologies that will fill the most critical capability gaps. But in trying to achieve rapid acquisition, trade-offs are often required.
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Read more at Defense News
Dime Community Bancshares, Inc.
Dime is expanding its Commercial Online Banking platform to enable clients to initiate international wires in USD and foreign currency. This upgrade also offers real time requests for foreign currency rates. Dime will be an active member of the SWIFT Network.
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Read more at Yahoo Finance
The Rise of Edge Computing
AI, including Generative AI (GenAI), has emerged as a transformative technology, revolutionizing how machines learn, create, and adapt. IDC forecast shows that enterprise spending (which includes GenAI software, as well as related infrastructure hardware and IT/business services), is expected to more than double in 2024 and reach $151.1 billion in 2027 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 86.1% over the 2023-2027 forecast period. In applications where real-time responsiveness is critical,
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Read more at CIO
KT Parnaik: Science and Technology Needed for Planning and Governance
Governor Lt. General KT Parnaik called on scientists and officers of Planning, Science & Technology and Information Technology departments to ensure use of available technologies on the ground. he said that the state would benefit when decision makers take informed decisions with the help of scientific data for planning and governance. He advised them to make their scientific data usable for project tp make them permanent and sustainable.
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Read more at Arunachal Observer
Top 10 Tech Conferences for May 2024
Spiceworks News & Insights brings top tech conferences and a single point of curated conference catalog for May 2024. The industry is now seeing a resurgence, thanks to generative AI driving IT development needs across multiple sectors. RSA Conference 2024 This premier cybersecurity conference is back in the first week of May. Microsoft Build Microsoft Build is taking Red Hat Summit to Denver for the first time.
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Read more at Spiceworks News and Insights
Mercedes-Benz G 580 With EQ Technology
Mercedes-Benz unveils the highly anticipated G 580 with EQ Technology. Retaining the hallmark characteristics of its predecessors, this electrified iteration remains true to its roots with a rugged ladder-frame concept and a LOW RANGE off-road gear reduction system. At the heart of the G580 lies a formidable 116 kWh high-voltage lithium-ion battery seamlessly integrated into the chassis.
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Read more at eMercedesBenz
Moleaer Announces Debut in Car Wash Industry
Moleaer’s technology harnesses the power of nanobubbles to address top priorities for carwash operators including chemical reduction, increase and improve water reuse, odor control, drying improvements and more. The company is eager to engage with all stakeholders within the carwash industry, offering seamless product integration, distribution channels and end-user solutions, according to the release.
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Read more at Carwash Online
Chinese Brain-Computer Interfaces vying With the West
Brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, collect and analyze brain signals, often to allow direct control of an external device, such as a robotic arm, keyboard, or smartphone. In the US, a cadre of startups are aiming to commercialize the technology.
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Read more at WIRED
How Much Is Too Much AI?
Google, Microsoft, and Meta’s earnings reports last week put a spotlight on the hundreds of billions of dollars Big Tech will pour into AI by the end of 2024. In this quarter alone, Google said its capital expenditures were $12 billion, nearly double the amount from a year earlier. Meanwhile, Microsoft is reportedly increasing its spending faster than its revenue, but it still doesn’t have enough data center infrastructure to deploy and run its AI models. And many deep-pocketed startups like OpenAI, Anthropic
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Read more at Fortune