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Boeing and Kitty Hawk form strategic partnership on electric urban air mobility

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Boeing and start-up Kitty Hawk Corporation have entered a strategic partnership to collaborate on future efforts to advance safe urban air mobility. The company’s portfolio of vehicles includes Cora, a two-person air taxi and Flyer, a vehicle for personalized flight.

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Report: Uber to invest $500M in global mapping project

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The Financial Times reports that Uber will invest $500 million into a global mapping project in an effort to decrease its dependence on Google Maps and to prepare for autonomous driving. The FT cited “ a person familiar with Uber’s plans ” as the source. —Brian McClendon. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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IEEE Honors Pioneering Engineers

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Meet the recipients of the 2022 IEEE medals, service awards, honorary membership, and corporate recognition. MADNI University of California, Los Angeles “For pioneering contributions to the development and commercialization of innovative sensing and systems technologies, and for distinguished research leadership.” IEEE THEODORE W.

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When AI Unplugs, All Bets Are Off

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Personalized, private AI so seamless you might forget it’s “AI” at all. Fifty percent of edge is now seeing AI as a workload,” says Pallavi Mahajan , corporate vice president of Intel’s Network and Edge Group. Local inference acts as a gatekeeper for something that’s likely to become key for all personalized AI assistants: privacy. “If

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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The two had been exchanging ideas in person and via email and reviewing the work of others who were trying to solve similar issues. The networks couldn’t be changed and couldn’t know that they were part of the Internet, because they already existed,” Cerf recalls recently in an interview at his office at Google, in Reston, Va.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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Corporate Cash The idea of private digital currencies goes back to at least 1994, when the late Edward de Bono wrote of the “IBM dollar.” In de Bono’s vision, “large manufacturing corporations” should create their own currencies, which could be used to buy their products. Netflix is AWS’s largest customer.

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Sony invests in Cogitai; collaborating on R&D for next wave of artificial intelligence

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Sony Corporation has teamed with Cogitai , an artificial intelligence (AI) start-up focused on next generation technologies. In fact, the power of deep reinforcement learning was demonstrated by the recent success of AlphaGo, an AI Go playing system from Google DeepMind.

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