Amazon shows off latest delivery drone, plans liftoff in UK and Italy next year

Oct19
by on October 19, 2023 at 11:05 am
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From around this time next year, Amazon customers in the UK and Italy will have the option to get their packages delivered by drone, the retail giant announced Wednesday. While Amazon has been delivering small packages via drone in Texas and California for over a year now, this is the first time the company will roll out the service beyond US borders. Where exactly in the UK and Italy the service will begin has yet to be revealed. The announcement came the same day as Amazon showcased its next-generation delivery drone design —  the MK30. While it doesn’t improve on…

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New AI tool could make future vaccines ‘variant-proof,’ researchers say

Oct18
by on October 18, 2023 at 3:36 pm
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A new AI tool that predicts viral mutations could guide treatments for COVID-19 — and the next pandemic. The system, named EVEscape, was developed at Harvard Medical School and Oxford University. In tests, the tool accurately predicted the most concerning and frequent variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that emerged during the pandemic. A study published last week in Nature revealed an array of promising results. EVEscape’s forecasts proved more accurate than experimental approaches, while faster and more efficient than lab-based tests. The tool also successfully pinpointed therapies that would struggle to subdue new variants. The predictions are already informing pandemic monitoring efforts. For…

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Google and Qualcomm are building a RISC-V-based platform for wearables

Oct17
by on October 17, 2023 at 1:00 pm
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RISC-V, the upstart chip architecture, has stepped further into the market for processors. Semiconductor giant Qualcomm today announced that it’s building a RISC-V-based wearables platform for Wear OS, Google’s operating system for smartwatches. The system will expand Qualcomm’s lineup of Snapdragon Wear processors, which power the bulk of Wear OS products. According to Qualcomm, the new solution will reduce the time to market for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) when launching smartwatches. The company told TNW that RISC-V offers both performance and power advantages for wearable platforms. “Our Snapdragon Wear platform innovations will help the Wear OS ecosystem rapidly evolve and…

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UK plan to lead in generative AI ‘unrealistic,’ say Cambridge researchers

Oct16
by on October 16, 2023 at 2:20 pm
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The British government’s aim to turn the UK into a global leader in the development of generative AI is “unrealistic,” researchers at the University of Cambridge argue. According to the associated report, the country lacks both the necessary capital investment and computing power to build generative AI fast enough to compete with tech giants such as Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI. “The UK has no companies big enough to invest meaningfully in foundation model development,” said Sam Gilbert, co-author of the report. “State spending on technology is modest compared to China and the US, as we have seen in the UK…

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Google to pay €3.2M yearly fee to German news publishers

Oct13
by on October 13, 2023 at 1:49 pm
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Google has agreed to pay German publishers €3.2mn per year for publishing their content on its News search engine. The compensation is part of an interim agreement between the tech giant and Corint Media, pending a decision by the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA), which will determine the final (and potentially higher) amount. Corint Media is a European corporation that represents the rights of over 500 German and international media companies, including Axel Springer, Al Jazzeera, France 24, and CNBC Europe. The corporation has long been disputing Google’s “unlawful” use of press content without paying any compensation. Having initially…

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