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Staff Reports | Community Updates Abrazo Scottsdale was asked to be part of what’s called a limited market release to perform Mako total knee replacement surgery. (Submitted Photos/DigitalFreePress) Abrazo Scottsdale Campus has added two new Mako SmartRobotics orthopedic systems to its surgical offerings, enhancing joint replacement procedures with advanced technology. The $1.5 million investment will allow surgeons to perform total knee, partial knee, total hip and revision hip surgeries, with total shoulder procedures expected to be added next year, according to a press release. The robotic systems assist surgeons in planning and executing procedures with greater precision, which may result…

BYLINE: Russ Nelson As Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or drones, become increasingly vital to military, government and civilian applications, conventional machine-learning techniques essential to training these devices often rely on paradigms that require transmitting all raw data from UAVs to centralized servers. This approach can be impractical due to privacy concerns, limited bandwidth and the time required for a task to be completed. Now a researcher in the College of Engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has won a $599,830 National Science Foundation grant to address these challenges by using collaborative Artificial Intelligence (AI). The effort pioneers…

Uniphy’s technology has already been trialled by automotive giant Hyundai and Spain’s Grupo Antolin

HONG KONG (AP) — China’s Alibaba Group posted a 34% jump in revenue from its cloud business in its most… HONG KONG (AP) — China’s Alibaba Group posted a 34% jump in revenue from its cloud business in its most recent quarter, buoyed by the boom in artificial intelligence. But overall revenue at the Chinese tech group for the July-September quarter increased by just 5% year-on-year to 247.8 billion yuan ($35 billion), and profit fell 52% from last year, as a fierce price war in China’s e-commerce landscape — including in the food delivery segment — eroded into short-term profitability.…

UBTech Robotics, one of China’s top robot manufacturers, said on Tuesday it had secured a major contract to deploy humanoids at border crossings to perform tasks such as guiding travellers, conducting inspections and handling logistics, as the country intensified efforts to apply robotics in the real world.The company has struck a 264 million yuan (US$37 million) deal with a humanoid robot centre in Fangchenggang, a coastal city in the southern autonomous region of Guangxi, which shares a border with Vietnam. The project features the industrial-grade Walker S2, a model launched in July that was billed as the world’s first humanoid…

Drake State Community & Technical College is participating in the AWS–Machine Learning University Educators Consortium and Transformation Alliance. The college is one of 14 historically Black institutions working to broaden access to artificial intelligence and machine learning education in Alabama. The meeting culminated in the formation of the Alliance for AI and Machine Learning, a groundbreaking initiative co-led by Dr. Calvin Briggs of the Southern STEM Center and Dr. Majed Dweik of Alabama A&M University. This new alliance will serve as a catalyst for integrating AI across educational institutions and strengthening the state’s talent pipeline. “Industry-aligned AI and machine learning…

Lysaker, Norway – Wavetrain Systems AS, a subsidiary of Nordic Technology Group AS (NTG), is pleased to announce that its latest Level Crossing Warning System has achieved an updated CENELEC SIL2 approval. The system is powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), delivering robust detection performance and opening significant market opportunities in condition‑based monitoring and maintenance.Building on this technology, Wavetrain has completed final trial activities with Network Rail, Wavetrain’s key launch customer. This milestone marks an important step toward broader deployment of the solution to enhance safety and efficiency at level crossings.”Achieving updated CENELEC SIL2 approval, together with…

STOCKHOLM, Nov. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Allurity, a European cybersecurity group with a strong presence across the continent, today announces the acquisition of MSF Partners (Monti Stampa Furrer & Partners), an expert operational technology (OT) security firm specialized in safeguarding critical business assets and infrastructure, including manufacturing plants, hydro dams, energy generation and mining facilities, and other essential systems that societies rely on. The acquisition strengthens Allurity’s position as a comprehensive cybersecurity company covering the entire cybersecurity lifecycle – from risk identification and prevention to detection, response, and recovery. By adding MSF Partners’ expertise in security strategy, posture improvement, and…

JOHANNESBURG, Nov. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Vodacom Group, a leading pan-African telecommunications and technology company, today announced a strategic collaboration with Google Cloud to accelerate its digital transformation using Google Cloud’s advanced data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) product portfolio. The collaboration will enhance Vodacom core solutions and establish a powerful platform for creating new, disruptive products and services specifically tailored for the African market. Vodacom Announces Multi-Year Strategic Collaboration with Google Cloud to Boost Africa’s AI Advancement Under the terms of the collaboration, Vodacom will harness the capabilities of…

The planned investment by Amazon hopes to crate 1,100 jobs and support new workforce development, training programmes and community projects in the state. As generative AI (Gen AI) continues to cause demand for advanced cloud infrastructure and compute power to surge, Amazon said its investment in Indiana will support the future of AI innovation. This is in addition to the company’s $11 billion investment in St. Joseph County last year, expanding its infrastructure to new sites across Indiana. “Indiana has long been an important partner for Amazon and today we are proud to reaffirm our commitment to long-term investment and…