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As AI is increasingly established as a world-changing field, the U.S. has an opportunity not only to demonstrate global leadership, but to establish a solid economic foundation for the future of the technology. A panel of experts convened last week at GTC to shed light on this topic, with the co-chairs of the Congressional AI Caucus, U.S. Reps. Jerry McNerney (D-CA) and Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH), leading a discussion that reflects Washington’s growing interest in the topic. The panel also included Hodan Omaar, AI policy lead at the Center for Data Innovation; Russell Wald, director of policy at Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered AI and Damon Woodard, director of AI partnerships at University of Florida’s AI Initiative. “AI is getting increased interest among my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, and this is going to continue for some time,” McNerney said. Given that momentum, Gonzalez said the U.S. should be on the bleeding edge of AI development “for both … [Read more...] about Hanging in the Balance: More Research Coordination, Collaboration Needed for AI to Reach Its Potential, Experts Say

Cross-play games are growing in number by the day, meaning that anyone hoping to play the latest FPS , MMO , or frantic cooking game with their friends online – regardless of the platform they're using – has more avenues to do so than ever. It’s never been easier to play with people all over the world. Some might not see the fuss around cross-play; after all, don’t you have enough people to play Call of Duty: Warzone with on just your PS4 ? But something as simple as cross-play can influence which hardware you pick up. After all, if your friends are playing on Xbox and you're playing on PlayStation, you want the option to play with them without having to buy an Xbox too. And it’s become increasingly clear that we have the technological ability to enable cross-platform games, especially as consoles – like the PS5 and Xbox Series X , or their PS4 and Xbox One predecessors – share increasingly similar processing architecture. More and more developers are opening up their … [Read more...] about Best cross-play games to play across console and PC

A brown pelican rescued from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill 11 years ago has finally returned home. After being found completely covered in oil on June 14, 2010, the bird was taken from Louisiana to Georgia to avoid the ongoing spill, where it was later rehabilitated and released. Now, over a decade after its traumatic ordeal, the pelican has finally made the 700-mile (1,100 kilometers) journey back home. "It's truly impressive that it made its way back from Georgia," Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) biologist Casey Wright, who spotted and photographed the pelican sitting atop a rock on Queen Bess Island in Barataria Bay, said in a statement . Related: In photos: Flight of the brown pelicans The bird was identified by the tag that was clipped to its right leg after its rescue from Empire Jetty in Barataria Bay in the aftermath of the spill, which smothered the Gulf of Mexico with more than 400,000 tons (370,000 metric tons) of oil. … [Read more...] about Pelican rescued from Deepwater Horizon disaster flies hundreds of miles home

The latest research from the 2021 Connected Benchmark report found that the average organization runs 843 individual applications. The report also found that only 29% of applications on average are integrated. With the average lifetime of an application being just four years, organizations must evolve away from being hierarchical and hardwired toward being flexible and open to change -- a composable enterprise. Marketing departments represent a line-of-business with many business applications that are mostly not integrated. The marketing technology landscape has exploded in the past decade. Just look at the trend of Scott Brinker 's Marketing Technology Landscape logo map over the past ten years: State of Marketing research from Salesforce shows that marketing leaders top challenges are customer engagements in real time, innovation, creating a cohesive customer journey across all channels, unifying customer data sources and sharing a unified view of customer data across … [Read more...] about A cure for marketing’s ‘Frankenstack’ syndrome

The Trump administration has announced US visa restrictions on Huawei workers such as the refusal or revocation of a visa. The rules will be imposed on those employees of the Chinese tech giant "that provide material support to regimes engaging in human rights violations and abuses globally," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told journalists Wednesday. "The state department will impose visa restrictions on certain employees of Chinese technology companies like Huawei ," he said. Editors' top picks Subscribe to CNET Now for the day's most interesting reviews, news stories and videos. Pompeo called Huawei "an arm of the CCP's surveillance state that censors political dissidents and enables mass internment camps in Xinjiang and the indentured servitude of its population." Any carriers worldwide that use Huawei's equipment "are doing business with human rights abusers," Pompeo added. The decision relies on Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which … [Read more...] about Huawei employees hit with US visa restrictions