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Lees meerSomething for rocket fans and rocket financiers to chew on Small-satellite flinger Rocket Lab today confirmed a merger with Vector Acquisition Corporation, as well as plans for a considerably heftier launcher.…
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Lees meerAnd managed to pull it at speed, despite the menace of quantum noise Researchers at the Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) claim they've invented the first high-speed quantum random number generator built on realistic quantum d…
Lees meerCEO Jensen Huang admitted his wunder-biz is 'constrained' Nvidia continues to grow and beat Wall Street's expectations amid a global chip shortage. On Wednesday, it revealed bumper figures for the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2021, the three months …
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Lees meerIn 'Woven City' human-driven cars aren't allowed, 'personal mobility devices' get their own roads and sensors tell robots when you need help Toyota on Tuesday broke ground on "Woven City", a smart city project in Japan that doesn't permit private ca…
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Lees meerPlus: IBM reportedly trying to sell Watson AI Health, and more In brief Google has finished its probe into the controversial ousting of Timnit Gebru, co-leader of its Ethical AI unit. The ad giant promised to implement new procedures around “potent…
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Lees meerMove follows ousting of ethics expert Timnit Gebru Google has reshuffled the management team overseeing its Ethical AI group months after it ousted one its star researchers, a controversial move that sparked public anger and internal revolt.…
Lees meerEverything will be anonymised, promises vendor In a sign that interest in process mining is heating up, vendor FortressIQ is launching an analytics platform with a novel approach to understanding how users really work – it "videos" their on-screen a…
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