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Blue Origin to SpaceX, NASA partners 7 space companies for commercial and govt needs

16Jun

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Blue Origin to SpaceX, NASA partners 7 space companies for commercial and govt needs

[ad_1] US space agency NASA is taking collaboration with private agencies to the next level to meet its growing commercial and government requirements and for that it has roped in and tied-up with as many as 7 companies. Among them are Jeff Bezos led Blue Origin and Elon Musk led SpaceX. The ultimate goal, as per NASA is to benefit human spaceflight and the US commercial low Earth orbit economy.Notably, these Space Act Agreements are unfunded. Also, the second Collaborations for Commercial Space Capabilities-2 initiative (CCSC-2) is designed to advance commercial space-related efforts. This will be done by NASA sharing of technical expertise, assessments, technologies, and data in ways that will expend minimal government resources. However, it will foster development of capabilities to ...

“I have just turned everyone into a programmer,” says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

30May

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“I have just turned everyone into a programmer,” says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

[ad_1] Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of chip phenom Nvidia Corp., is getting the kind of treatment usually reserved for celebrities and sports stars during a trip to Taiwan.The 60-year-old was followed around a local night market as he picked up food over the weekend, and has been mobbed constantly by fans and media as he walked the hallways at the Computex trade show. On Tuesday, dozens of people crowded in next to him for selfies, while photographers tried to get clear shots. The day marked Huang's fifth public appearance in seven days, this time for a roundable where he fielded questions on topics from artificial-intelligence regulation to how the technology would be used in places like China. Huang made the case that AI will spill over the boundaries of the tech industry int...

23May

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China Is Jumping at Digital Shadows

[ad_1] “Survival is an infinite capacity for suspicion,” goes the line from John Le Carre's classic Cold War-era novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. And right now, in the technology realm, China is fighting hard just to stay in the game.Three brief paragraphs posted by the Cyberspace Administration of China to its website on Sunday night outlined the latest round of digital paranoia between Beijing and Washington, with Boise-based Micron Technology Inc. the most-recent victim. “Micron products have relatively serious potential network security issues,” the CAC said without elaborating. “Operators of national critical information infrastructure should stop purchasing Micron products.” We ought not to make too much of Beijing's decision to keep details of its security review under wraps; ...

AI in Washington’s crosshairs but consensus far from certain

16May

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AI in Washington’s crosshairs but consensus far from certain

[ad_1] U.S. lawmakers are grappling with what guardrails to put around burgeoning artificial intelligence, but months after ChatGPT got Washington's attention, consensus is far from certain. Interviews with a U.S. senator, congressional staffers, AI companies and interest groups show there are a number of options under discussion. The debate will be in focus on Tuesday when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman makes his first appearance before a Senate panel. Some proposals focus on AI that may put people's lives or livelihoods at risk, like in medicine and finance. Other possibilities include rules to ensure AI isn't used to discriminate or violate someone's civil rights. Another debate is whether to regulate the developer of AI or the company that uses it to interact with consumers. And OpenAI, th...

Confusion as Elon Musk’s Twitter yanks blue ticks from agencies

23Apr

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Confusion as Elon Musk’s Twitter yanks blue ticks from agencies

[ad_1] Twitter has long been a way for people to keep track of tornado watches, train delays, news alerts or the latest crime warnings from their local police department.But when the Elon Musk-owned platform started stripping blue verification checkmarks this week from accounts that don't pay a monthly fee, it left public agencies and other organizations around the world scrambling to figure out a way to show they're trustworthy and avoid impersonators. High-profile users who lost their blue checks Thursday included Beyonce, Pope Francis, Oprah Winfrey and former President Donald Trump. But checks were also removed from accounts for major transit systems from San Francisco to Paris, national parks like Yosemite, official weather trackers and some elected officials. Twitter had about 300...