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No suspension for former Canada coach in Olympics drone spying case

The fallout from Canada Soccer&s drone-spying scandal at the Paris Olympics has reached a conclusion — at least for former coach John Herdman. After an independent disciplinary committee hearing, Herdman has received a written admonishment, closing a controversial chapter in his career.

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Maxar launches alternative to GPS using 3D mapping

In a world where access to GPS on the battlefield can win or lose a fight, Maxar is working on a solution for when having it just isn&t an option. Called Raptor, the product uses satellite mapping to build a 3D globe that can serve as an alternative to GPS.

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Recent developments in large language models (LLMs) have primarily concentrated on boosting their capacity to predict text in a forward, time-linear manner. Emerging research study suggests that enabling LLMs to critique and fine-tune their own outputs retrospectively can significantly enhance their efficiency. While effective, existing techniques rely ...
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DJI M30 drone users can now fly safely over people

Looking to fly your DJI Matrice 30 (M30) drone safely over people? Canada-based Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions (AVSS) has cleared a key regulatory hurdle for its PRS-M30 parachute recovery system, making it easier for commercial drone pilots to legally expand their DJI M30 operations in urban environments where such flights were previously...

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State drone laws might be getting out of hand

Laws regulating the purchase and ownership of drones have skyrocketed over the last couple of years thanks to movements to ban Chinese-made drones from the US. The popularity of drones has also added other regulations, like where you can and can&t take off and land or where you can operate one from. However, Connecticut might have one of the...

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Navigation is a fundamental skill for any visually-capable organism, serving as a critical tool for survival. It enables agents to locate resources, find shelter, and avoid threats. In humans, navigation often involves mentally simulating possible future paths while accounting for constraints and alternative possibilities. However, modern robotic...

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DJI Mavic 4 Pro&s electronic ND filter will not be integrated

Unlike what we expected to see from our assumption of electronic ND filters, per a leaked Mavic 4 Pro store listing, the electronic filter coming from DJI will snap onto the front of the massive camera payload like previous models. This was one of the few first details seen in what will be one of many early released store listings for the Mavic 4...

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DJI Power 2000 hits the FCC database

The next product in DJI&s Power lineup, the DJI Power 2000, has appeared in the FCC database. While details about its features are still limited, the launch is expected to occur soon, as the FCC listing typically signals an imminent release.

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The landscape of vision model pre-training has undergone substantial development, especially with the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs). Typically, vision models operated within repaired, predefined paradigms, but LLMs have introduced a more versatile method, unlocking new methods to leverage pre-trained vision encoders. This shift has actually triggered a.
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Security risks found in popular Holy Stone drone models

If you own a Holy Stone drone, you might want to pay close attention. A new research paper has revealed some concerning findings about the security and reliability of Holy Stone drones, a popular budget-friendly brand in the consumer drone market. While Holy Stone has built a strong reputation among hobbyists, new evidence suggests that users...

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Sentera adds FLIR thermal power to drone sensor lineup

Drone sensor tech specialist Sentera is expanding its payload capabilities by integrating Teledyne FLIR&s Boson thermal camera modules into its 6X Thermal series. The company is enhancing its 6X Thermal and 6X Thermal Pro sensors with high-precision radiometric thermal mapping, making them powerful tools for applications ranging from...

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A foundation design describes a pre-trained design developed on comprehensive datasets, developed to be flexible and adaptable for a variety of downstream jobs. These designs have gathered widespread attention and are increasingly incorporated into daily applications. The field of music production does not have an effective foundation model capable of ...
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Mavic 4 Pro Delayed? Leakers believe so

It&s been several months since DJI&s Mavic 4 Pro hit the FCC database, and from what we can tell, we could be seeing a release in late April if leakers are correct. However, some now think the drone will be delayed, but why?

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The recent Nobel Prize for groundbreaking improvements in protein discovery underscores the transformative capacity of foundation designs (FMs) in exploring vast combinatorial spaces. These designs are poised to change many clinical disciplines, yet the field of Artificial Life (ALife) has actually been slow to embrace them. This gap presents a.
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OpenMind and DIMO provide car-to-robot connectivity to realize smart cities
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Chinese eVTOL operator EHang nabs approval for paid commercial flight operations

EHang General Aviation has received regulatory approval for its EH216-S eVTOLs to begin commercial flights in China. Customers can now purchase a flight ticket to take low-altitude tours around two popular regions of China.

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The transformative effect of Transformers on natural language processing (NLP) and computer system vision (CV) is undeniable. Their scalability and efficiency have actually moved advancements across these fields, however the increasing intricacy of these models has actually led to skyrocketing computational costs. Addressing this obstacle has ended up being a priority, triggering ...
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DJI Modify&s new update unlocks advanced 3D model editing

Tech giant DJI has just dropped a major update for Modify, the company&s AI-powered 3D modeling and point cloud editing software. Designed for professionals in surveying, mapping, and construction, Modify helps users clean, classify, and refine 3D models with ease. With the release of version 1.3.0, DJI has packed in new automation features,...

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Current advancements in training large multimodal models have actually been driven by efforts to remove modeling constraints and combine architectures throughout domains. In spite of these strides, many existing designs still count on individually trained elements such as modality-specific encoders and decoders.In a new paper JetFormer: An Autoregressive Generative ...
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DJI Flip drone gets performance tune-up with new firmware update

DJI has rolled out a fresh firmware update for the drone, bringing essential fixes to enhance flight stability and overall reliability. While the update doesn&t introduce major new features, it addresses some known issues, ensuring that pilots get a smoother flying experience.

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The Transformer architecture, introduced by Vaswani et al. in 2017, serves as the backbone of contemporary language models. Over the years, numerous modifications to this architecture have been proposed to enhance aspects such as training stability, inference efficiency, context length, and robustness.

In a new paper nGPT: Normalized Transformer...

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Sager Electronics to exhibit at the Robotics Summit Expo
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DJI, SkyPixel announce best drone shots of 2025

Tech giant DJI and its social media platform SkyPixel have unveiled the winners of their 10th annual drone photo and video contest — and the results are nothing short of spectacular. From breathtaking landscapes to mind-bending perspectives, this year&s entries pushed creative boundaries like never before.

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Big Language Models (LLMs) have actually ended up being important tools for diverse natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Conventional LLMs run at the token level, creating output one word or subword at a time. However, human cognition works on multiple levels of abstraction, making it possible for deeper analysis and imaginative reasoning.Addressing this space, in a.
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Celebrate top robotics innovators at the Robotics Summit Expo-s RBR50 Gala
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MKBHD checks out Zipline&s second generation delivery drone in action

Known as Zips, Zipline&s &Platform 2& delivery system takes a step forward to bring drone delivery to the home, a dream of all drone delivery companies on the market. Will this be the one that finally succeeds? MKBHD dropped a video this week checking out their testing site, showing how the new system works.

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Language designs (LMs) based on transformers have actually become the gold standard in natural language processing, thanks to their remarkable performance, parallel processing capabilities, and ability to keep long-term context through key-value (KV) caches. Nevertheless, these advantages come at a cost-- transformers need quadratic computational resources and l.
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Saildrone, Thales Australia integrate acoustic sensor technology into Surveyor USV
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