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EMERGING TECHNOLOGY

High Wire Networks | December 15, 2021

High Wire Networks Inc.’s today announced a networking solutions project valued at more than $800,000. The Company will deliver onsite engineers and project management for nearly 600 government locations. This impending rollout adds to the growing number of government projects High Wire has been awarded—successfully completing nearly a dozen federal projects in the past two years. “With the demand for federal infrastructure upgrades i...

Amazon | March 07, 2020

A U.S. judge said Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is likely to succeed on a key argument of its challenge to the U.S. Department of Defense’s decision to award cloud computing deal worth up to $10 billion to Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) The opinion by U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith was unsealed on Friday. On Feb. 13, she issued an order blocking work on the contract pending resolution of Amazon’s court challenge. Amazon contends the contract was awarded to Microsoft b...

Complete Music Update | January 16, 2020

America’s National Association Of Broadcasters has hit out at the US Department Of Justice’s recent intervention in the ongoing dispute between boutique collecting society Global Music Rights and the Radio Music License Committee. GMR is the newish performing rights organisation founded by veteran artist manager Irving Azoff which represents a small group of accomplished songwriters in the collective licensing domain. It competes with the bigger American collecting societies BMI and ...

White House | February 12, 2020

Plans to increase the AI and quantum computing budget shows that the Pentagon will no longer be a backseat driver in the development of cutting-edge military tech. Expect US capabilities to grow rapidly and in greater secrecy. The announcement last week that more money of the Trump administration’s proposed $4.8 trillion budget would be earmarked for the Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation is a significant step in the ongoing Artificial Intelligence arms race. Fearful...