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Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

 
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Creating Images from Text using GPT-3
DALL·E is a 12-billion parameter version of GPT-3 trained to generate images from text descriptions, using a dataset of text–image pairs. It has a diverse set of capabilities, including creating anthropomorphized versions of animals and objects, combining unrelated concepts in plausible ways, rendering text, and applying transformations to existing images. In short it is phenomenal!

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Mercedes Dashboard with AI
Mercedes Benz aims to impress with their new EQS dashboard that sports a full-width display for the driver and the passenger combined. AI is used to adapt the dashboard content based on context and user requirements. Watch the video below for their full, high production-value, presentation. “Visually impressive, radically easy to operate and extremely eager to learn: the MBUX Hyperscreen is one of the highlights in the EQS. It represents the emotional intelligence of the all-electric upper-class model: The...

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Mat's Farewell | The Truth Has Not...
Damn. I ran out of time there. What went wrong? Should I have gone for the Xbox Series X instead of the PS5? Maybe there was some angle on The Last of Us Part 2 that I missed? Did I path PAX East 2020 incorrectly? Where’d the run fall apart? I kid, of course. Sad as it is, I know full-well why our time at USgamer is coming to an end, and I know it doesn’t have a thing...

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Eric's Farewell | Off to Find a...
There are few things as rewarding in work as doing it alongside the best. There’s a lot of pride to be had in personal victories, but when a team wins, a team celebrates together; when a team loses, they can soften the blow for each other. I may not have been here at USgamer long, but it took very little time for this place to feel like a natural office to me. We logged in remotely, across the continent...

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USgamer Staff Past and Present Say Goodbye
With USgamer ceasing publication today, we invited team members past and present to say a few final words about the site they helped to build over the course of seven years. Here’s what they had to say. I remember lobbying hard to work at USgamer. I also remember the fear and trepidation talking to site founder Jaz Rignall about the potential job offer. That was the moment where writing about games went from a part-time job to a full-time...

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Press Start to Continue
USgamer will cease publication today, roughly seven years after it was founded with the intention of establishing a foothold for Gamer Network in North America. By the time you read this, Eric Van Allen, Mathew Olson, and I will be gone. The site itself will remain, but it will no longer be updated. It is sadly, frustratingly, one more victim of the global pandemic that has shut down much of the world, killing nearly 2 million people in the...

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Travelex Insurance Introduces New Protection Plan for...
OMAHA, Neb., July 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Travelex Insurance Services has released a new travel protection plan designed specifically for domestic travel within the USA. Travel America was created with the leisure travelers in mind. Based on several industry surveys, many travelers have indicated they feel safest traveling by car and avoiding large crowds at airports.  “COVID-19 has changed the way people will travel forever. We felt it was necessary to create a plan which provides valuable protection...

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In the Walking Capitals of the World,...
By international standards, London is a fairly walkable city. In 2018, one of every four trips was made primarily by foot. And the city is aiming for even more, with aggressive plans to improve conditions for pedestrians and cyclists in order to decrease traffic and emissions―and the added benefit of keeping Londoners healthy during lockdown. Even so, London’s foot traffic is measly compared with cities in sub-Saharan Africa, where 40 to 60 percent of travelers move around by foot....

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The Spanish government is planning to test 80,000 people a day for coronavirus with the roll-out of robot testers. Technology will be used to speed up testing of people in Spain, one of the countries hardest hit by the Covid-19 outbreak, with more than 200 deaths so far. According to Bloomberg, Spanish authorities now plan to increase daily testing from about 20,000 a day to 80,000, by using four robots to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to testing. Speaking at...

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Branding Sophia: AI vs Human Capital
We have come to a point in our lives where the life of an Artificial Intelligence is worth more than any with a melanin ratio that has been deemed unacceptable. The term “artificial intelligence” (AI)-“referring to the use of computer systems to perform tasks that normally require human understanding…has been around for nearly 60 years. (…) Our increasingly sophisticated understanding of how the human brain works and our ability to embed brain-like elements into computers have engendered such capabilities as...

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