Tag: Technology

VA Aims To Reduce Administrative Tasks With AI, Machine Learning (Alexandra Kelley, Nextgov)

Officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs are looking to increase efficiency and optimize their clinicians’ professional capabilities, featuring advanced artificial intelligence and machine...

The Future of 5G: Not There Yet, But Getting Closer, Officials Say (Patience Wait, Nextgov)

For several years now, the telecommunications industry has been promoting 5G and its immense potential to turbocharge business and citizen activities. During the Nextgov 5G...

Anduril boss: In an era of strategic competition, we need artificially intelligent systems (Brian Schimpf, Defense News)

With the resurgence of great power competition has come the resurgence of defense technology. Conflict with a near-peer competitor would look nothing like our...

Huntington Ingalls CEO: Prepare for the next generation of national defense innovators (Mike Petters, Defense News)

Nearly a decade ago, the Council on Foreign Relations made a statement that became etched in my mind: that human capital will determine power...

Report: Government Inaction on 6G Risks Ceding More Tech Ground to China (Alexandra Kelley, Nextgov)

As the Biden administration looks to improve the nation’s telecommunications networks and expand access to internet services to reduce the digital divide in the...

Robot With Bird Feet Can Perch and Grab (Taylor Kubota, Nextgov)

Like snowflakes, no two branches are alike. They can differ in size, shape, and texture; some might be wet or moss-covered or bursting with...

The Internet Is Not the Enemy (Andrew Sullivan, Project-Syndicate)

We live in an age of wonder in which half the world now has access to a technology – the internet – that supports...

Samsung Announces $17 Billion Semiconductor Fab in Taylor, Texas: Company Confirms (IndustryWeek)

Samsung, the global electronics and appliances manufacturer, is expanding its stateside semiconductor operations. The Korean conglomerate will build a new $17 billion semiconductor fabricator,...

The Whys Behind the ‘Astonishing Drop’ in Lithium Ion Battery Costs (MIT News, IndustryWeek)

Lithium-ion batteries, those marvels of lightweight power that have made possible today’s age of handheld electronics and electric vehicles, have plunged in cost since...

ESA accelerates 5G digital transformation (ESA)

ESA is working with Eureka, an international organisation for research and development funding and coordination, and its Celtic-Next cluster, which is developing next-generation communications...

Can Twitter warnings actually curb hate speech? A new study says yes (Issie Lapowsky, Protocol)

Twitter in May said it would begin prompting users who are about to tweet something nasty to either revise or delete the message before sending. The...

Job Shortages, Pandemic Drive Record-Breaking North American Robot Orders (John P. Mello Jr., TechNewsWorld)

Industrial robots are hot, with North American orders for the first nine months of 2021 valued at US$1.48 billion, breaking a record set in...

AI, automazione, container, sovranità dei dati e mercato del lavoro: le previsioni di Veeam per il 2022 (ImpresaCity)

A poco più di un mese dalla fine dell’anno, cominciano ad arrivare le prime previsioni su come sarà il 2022. Per quanto riguarda lo scenario...

IDC: i trend dell’innovazione digitale (ImpresaCity)

La pandemia Covid-19 ha cambiato gli scenari quasi ovunque, ma per quanto riguarda l'innovazione digitale in particolare - spiega IDC - il suo impatto maggiore sta nel fatto...

5 Qs for John Myers, co-founder and CTO of Gretel.ai (Gillian Diebold, Center for Data Innovation)

The Center for Data Innovation spoke to John Myers, chief technology officer of Gretel.ai, a San Diego-based startup that helps developers use data efficiently while...

AI Promotes Preventive Care For At-Risk Atrial Fibrillation Patients (Erin McNemar, MPA, Health IT Analytics)

Massachusetts General Hospital, the Broad Institute of MIT, and Harvard researchers created an artificial intelligence-based approach to identifying patients at risk of developing atrial...