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Earlier this summer, more than a dozen bipartisan senators signed an amendment to the FAA reauthorization bill calling for a pause on the TSA’s further deployment of facial recognition technology until the program is reviewed and approved by Congress. Although the Senate voted to pass the bill without the amendment, the debate over the use of biometrics in air travel will continue. TSA’s facial biometric technology has been deployed in over 80 airports to date, with plans to target over 400 airports in the coming years. This is an exciting transition that leverages innovative technology to improve aviation security, but…

Fusion, a provider of electronic health record (EHR) solutions, has announced it will implement an EHR system for the Ohio Department of Youth Services (DYS). Fusion is currently the sole EHR provider for state agencies managing Ohio’s justice system and streamlining health technology for adult correctional facilities and juvenile services. The new EHR, which went live on June 24, gives DYS staff a comprehensive platform for managing patient records, coordinating care and improving overall efficiency, according to the company. “We are excited to welcome the Ohio Department of Youth Services into the Fusion family,” Fusion founder and CEO Brian Jacobsick…

Auterion Government SolutionsTed Davis has been promoted to president and general manager of the robotics and autonomous systems software provider.Auterion GS supplies these products to drone manufacturers, many of which are contracted to build aircraft for U.S. government agencies.Davis, a retired Air Force Lt. Colonel with a history of leadership roles in mission areas including missile defense, space and autonomous systems, succeeds Errol Farr, who will continue to serve in an advisory role at Auterion GS.DZYNE TechnologiesRetired Navy Vice Admiral Colin Green has joined the company, a maker of autonomous vehicles and other related technologies, as head of strategic solutions.The…

To receive industry-leading AI updates and exclusive content, sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters. Learn more For fans of the HBO series Game of Thrones, the word “Dracaris” has a very special meaning: Dracaris is the word used to command a dragon to breathe fire. While there are no literal dragons in the world of generative AI, thanks to Abacus.ai, the term Dracarys has gained meaning: it is the name of a new family of open, large-scale language models (LLMs) for coding. Abacus.ai is an AI model development platform and tools vendor that is no stranger to naming…

The 2024 Defense Health Information Technology Symposium kicked off in Dallas, Texas, with Patrick (Pat) Flanders, Chief Information Officer for the Defense Health Agency, discussing the Department of Defense’s efforts to modernize health care, provide enterprise intelligence and data solutions, and look to the future.”DHA is on a transformational journey to rethink, reinvent and reenvision our health care delivery model,” Flanders said. “This means moving to a people-centered approach to health and building a lasting framework for future change.””Everything we do is to support this goal. Our strategic plan, accelerator ventures and resources are all designed to drive this change,”…

Building a large AI model today can cost hundreds of millions of dollars, with predictions that it could reach staggering billions of dollars within a few years. Much of that cost is in the computing power of specialized chips (typically Nvidia GPUs), which can cost tens of thousands of them, costing $30,000 each. But companies training AI models or tweaking existing models to improve performance for specific tasks also struggle with another often-overlooked cost: data labeling, the painstaking process of training generative AI models with tagged data so they can recognize and interpret patterns. For example, data labeling has been…

Dr. Joyce F. Brown has served as FIT's president since 1998. Fashion Institute of Technology When I spoke recently with Dr. Joyce Brown about her work at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, she told me that the school has evolved into much more than just clothing manufacturing. The school began as a place where European immigrants could come and work as embroiderers, seamstresses, and tailors, with the goal of “building up the tailoring industry and ultimately professionalizing the industry.” The school, colloquially known as FIT, has benefited from what Dr. Brown described as a “great reputation” that…

(Reuters) – Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and Spotify Chief Executive Daniel Ek criticised European regulation of open-source artificial intelligence, saying complex rules risked leaving the continent behind.Europe, which has “more open source developers than the United States,” is well positioned to make the most of the open source AI wave, the CEOs said in a joint statement on Friday.”However, a fragmented regulatory structure with inconsistent enforcement stifles innovation and holds back developers.”Instead of clear rules, the CEOs said the European tech industry faces “overlapping regulations and inconsistent guidelines for complying with them.”A streamlined regulatory framework will not only accelerate…

Sometimes you need to go a bit beyond flowers or a nice restaurant. Last July, my wife and I celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary while all three of our children were in summer camp or visiting family. We cashed in most of the points and miles earned from our credit cards and were able to visit London, Paris, Normandy, and more for a fraction of what it would have cost.Planning an incredible anniversary tripI always start a trip by booking the hardest part first, which is the overseas flights. Fortunately, we like to earn American Express Membership Rewards and Chase…

CARMEL — A Carmel boy has his feet on the ground and his eyes on his goals.He is on track to break the Guinness World Record as the youngest person to complete a 100-mile trail race.Race day is next month. Stephanie Abbott Run 100 miles in under 30 hours by the time you're 13. That's what Gabriel Abbott needs to break the record.”I want to set goals and achieve them,” said Abbott, an eighth-grader at Clay Middle School. “We started investigating: Could someone that young have done it? And the youngest we found were these two kids who did it…