The U.S. Air Force is expanding its embrace of predictive analytics tools to keep pace with maintenance demands for its huge fleet of fighters, bombers, tankers, transports and helicopters. There is no shortage of U.S. military aircraft, with estimates ranging as high as 5,400 for the Air Force alone. The problem has been keeping that ...Full article
The Oscar-nominated animators at Laika are practitioners of a grueling art. The 15-year-old movie studio – which has so far released Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings and Missing Link – works in stop motion animation, requiring the use of physical puppetry and real-world lighting, painstakingly adjusted frame-by-frame. Even for these animators, ...Full article
An oft overlooked virtue of virtual machines is the replacement of IT infrastructure like servers with a more energy-efficient abstracted version of hardware. That advance has contributed to sustainability gains over the last decade. Datacenters running huge numbers of machine learning workloads threaten to offset those gains, prompting the National Science Foundation (NSF) and virtualization ...Full article
The Pentagon’s top research agency is extending its technology chops with the appointment of a new director with extensive industry experience in strategic sectors ranging from AI to underlying microelectronics. The Defense Department announced Monday (Aug. 31) that Victoria Coleman has been named the new director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Coleman arrives ...Full article
China’s patent office accounted for nearly two-thirds of all AI applications received over the past two years, underscoring how Beijing has become a fierce defender of intellectual property linked to what planners consider a strategic technology. As Chinese and Korea technology giants significantly increase their filing of AI patent applications, U.S. companies still lead in ...Full article
The booming graphics processor market is not immune to pandemic uncertainty, with forecasting metrics such as “seasonality” becoming increasingly problematic. For instance, graphics board shipments jumped 6.6 percent sequentially in the second quarter, up 36.7 percent year-on-year, according to GPU market analyst Jon Peddie. In a normal year, those gains would likely have shown up ...Full article
Global spending on artificial intelligence technologies will double to $110 billion by 2024 as AI use grows to bolster the competitiveness and digital transformations of more businesses and other organizations. That’s the conclusion of a new IDC Worldwide Artificial Intelligence Guide, which examines AI use, trends and markets over the next four years. AI spending ...Full article
A blockchain-based effort expected to be launched next month is intended to do nothing less than decentralize and disrupt the highly-concentrated cloud storage market. The Filecoin Network is promoted as bypassing incumbent cloud storage providers and their business model that involves bundling relatively cheap, scalable data storage with costly and proprietary software, application interfaces, servers ...Full article
Artificial intelligence presents tremendous business opportunity, and organizations are increasingly investing in this technology to experience the value it can deliver. One survey of leading companies shows that the vast majority (91.6%) of global companies are increasing the pace of their AI investments, with 91.7% saying investment is “required to transform into agile and competitive ...Full article
AI research by the National Science Foundation will expand to a broader range of businesses across the U.S. economy through five new NSF AI institutes being created at a cost of $100 million. The new initiatives, which were unveiled Aug. 26 by the agency, will deepen the NSF’s artificial intelligence research to expand the nation’s ...Full article
Among a lengthy list of U.S. technology initiatives included in pending budget legislation is a proposed National Artificial Intelligence Initiative that would be managed across several science agencies. The AI initiative is incorporated into the House version of the fiscal 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), one of the few budget bills approved by Congress ...Full article
Pure Storage released the second generation of its all-flash array this week, positioning it as an enterprise-grade storage platform for “capacity-oriented” workloads. The company (NYSE: PSTG) also claimed its storage platform is the first all-QLC storage array, as in quad-level cell technology. QLC stores 4 bits of data on a single cell, and is promoted ...Full article
In the computing sphere, the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) may be most well-known for its massive weather and climate models, which predominantly run on correspondingly massive supercomputers and clusters. With the advent of machine learning and artificial intelligence, however, lighter-weight applications are offering serious deliverables – and receiving considerable funding. Now, ...Full article
Arm Ltd. is expanding its partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to provide greater access to its semiconductor intellectual property portfolio under an umbrella DARPA microelectronics initiative. The U.K chip vendor has been a key supplier on several chip development efforts managed by DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office, including efforts to embed security features ...Full article
Momentum is building to pull apart and expose 5G network interfaces in hopes of developing open source software for key components like radio access networks, or RANs. Among the goals is expanding the ecosystem of 5G developers as the race heats up to deploy the low-latency broadband pipes for emerging enterprise applications. The latest push ...Full article
AMD and Google Cloud are collaborating on a “confidential VM” security effort that uses encrypted virtualization to secure data “in use”. The confidential cloud computing effort is based on AMD’s latest EPYC processors incorporating hardware-based encryption in the chip makers’ latest “Zen 2” Core architecture, billed as the first high-performance x86 processor using 7-nm process ...Full article
Dataiku, the enterprise AI platform vendor, again made the case this week its collaborative approach to data science is gaining enterprise adherents, announcing a $100 million funding round. The Series D funding round announced Monday (Aug. 24) was led by Stripes, the growth equity firm heavily focused on software developers. New York-based Dataiku said Tiger ...Full article
The low-code development movement is getting another boost with the recent introduction on the Microsoft-owned GitHub repository of a new code editor dubbed Codespaces billed as running entirely on a web browser. Codespaces is built on the same code as Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VS Code) editor that has been gaining traction among data science ...Full article
NASA is expanding its HPC-driven aeronautical research with an all-electric experimental aircraft dubbed the X-57 “Maxwell,” using its Pleiades HPC cluster to model and simulate critical aerodynamic flight characteristics. So far, the X-57 exists only as a visualization rendered by a supercomputer. The experimental flying machine includes 14 battery-powered motors and propellers. A dozen would ...Full article
The demand for computer vision technologies is growing rapidly as companies employ new AI and automation strategies to stay competitive and provide an excellent customer experience. As the adoption of computer vision platforms continues to soar, it is on track to become a $17.4 billion dollar industry by 2024. Computer vision is proving to be exceptionally valuable ...Full article
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