We Deserve Better: GNSS for the 21st Century  – EE Times

We Deserve Better: GNSS for the 21st Century  – EE Times

//php echo do_shortcode('[responsivevoice_button voice="US English Male" buttontext="Listen to Post"]') ?> Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technology is essential for modern society, as it plays a vital role in the global economy, critical industries, and emergency response services.   However, this technology that is in everything from smartphones, to cars, to airplanes, and more was first invented more than 50 years ago and is easily susceptible to jamming and interference – making this 20th-century technology obsolete in the 21st century.  While this might sound trivial, unreliable GNSS is a much bigger issue than the map in your smartphone being off by a…
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CEOs of Microsoft, Nvidia and other tech giants join federal AI advisory board – SiliconANGLE

CEOs of Microsoft, Nvidia and other tech giants join federal AI advisory board – SiliconANGLE

A group of prominent tech executives will join the Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board, a panel tasked with advising the federal government on the use of AI in critical infrastructure. The Wall Street Journal reported the development today. According to the paper, the panel comprises not only representatives of the tech industry but also academics, civil rights leaders and the chief executives of several critical infrastructure companies. In all, the Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board will have nearly two dozen members.  Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Satya Nadella, Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang and OpenAI’s San Altman are among…
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Social Impact Using Data and AI: Revealing the 2024 Finalists for the Data For Good Award

Social Impact Using Data and AI: Revealing the 2024 Finalists for the Data For Good Award

The annual Data Team Awards celebrate the critical contributions of data teams to various sectors, spotlighting their role in driving progress and positive change within their organizations.This year, we've seen an exceptional number of more than 200 nominations from around the world, emphasizing the widespread impact of innovation in both data science and artificial intelligence. With the Data + AI Summit around the corner, we are excited to feature the innovators in our six award categories and highlight their remarkable journeys to data-led breakthroughs.The Data for Good Award honors teams that have harnessed the power of data, analytics, and AI…
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Issue 46 of AWS Cloud Security Weekly

Issue 46 of AWS Cloud Security Weekly

(This is just the highlight of Issue 46 of AWS Cloud Security weekly @ https://aws-cloudsec.com/p/issue-46 << Subscribe to receive the full version in your inbox weekly). What happened in AWS CloudSecurity & CyberSecurity last week May 22-May 28, 2024? AWS Billing and Cost Management console now offers a streamlined, console-based migration process for policies with retired IAM actions (aws-portal). Customers who have not yet transitioned to fine-grained IAM actions can initiate this process by selecting the Update IAM Policies recommended action on the Billing and Cost Management home page. This feature identifies affected policies, recommends equivalent new actions to maintain…
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GitHub Accelerator fuels open source AI revolution, empowering startups to democratize access

GitHub Accelerator fuels open source AI revolution, empowering startups to democratize access

Time's almost up! There's only one week left to request an invite to The AI Impact Tour on June 5th. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to explore various methods for auditing AI models. Find out how you can attend here. GitHub has officially launched its 2024 Accelerator program, aiming to support and promote open source projects that are reshaping the technology landscape. The program, designed to provide financial backing, mentorship, and community-building opportunities, is already generating significant buzz among developers and enterprises alike. Stormy Peters, GitHub’s VP of Communities, emphasized the importance of the initiative in an exclusive…
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Celoxis: Project Management Software Is Changing Due to Complexity and New Ways of Working

Celoxis: Project Management Software Is Changing Due to Complexity and New Ways of Working

Project management systems have become cornerstone tools for organisations in APAC to navigate the fast pace of business changes. Whether it’s a cloud migration or a system implementation, IT teams in particular desperately need PM systems to get things done. APAC-headquartered Celoxis is one project portfolio management software firm that is seeing this change. Head of Customer Success at Celoxis Ratnakar Gore said project management is dealing with challenges that include more complex projects, remote working teams and a shift to agile working. He said project management systems like Celoxis are changing with these developments through measures like integrating team…
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Google Caught Manually Taking Down Bizarre AI Answers

Google Caught Manually Taking Down Bizarre AI Answers

This is just embarrassing.Control-Alt-DeleteGoogle manually removed AI-powered search results from pages where it was caught giving bizarre and incorrect information to search users, The Verge reports.Last week, on the heels of Google's all-in-on-AI I/O conference, netizens and journalists alike took to social media in droves to share screenshots of Google's new "AI Overview" — in short, a new AI function tacked to the top of Google search pages that gobbles up search results and paraphrases what it finds — spitting out head-scratching, false, and in some cases downright conspiratorial answers to search queries.Case in point, the AI feature was caught telling…
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How 3D printers can give robots a soft touch

How 3D printers can give robots a soft touch

Soft skin coverings and touch sensors have emerged as a promising feature for robots that are both safer and more intuitive for human interaction, but they are expensive and difficult to make. A recent study demonstrates that soft skin pads doubling as sensors made from thermoplastic urethane can be efficiently manufactured using 3D printers. "Robotic hardware can involve large forces and torques, so it needs to be made quite safe if it's going to either directly interact with humans or be used in human environments," said project lead Joohyung Kim, a professor of electrical & computer engineering at the University…
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