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Europe's satellite ambitions are heating up. Sateliot CEO Jaume Sanpera is calling on the continent to wake up before it finds itself caught between two global power blocs. He's pushing for a coordinated effort to turn European tech companies into genuine global champions, arguing that sovereignty in space isn't a preference, it's a necessity.
Shifting to software, VMware finds itself in a peculiar position. The company has been using artificial intelligence to hunt down flaws in its own products, and it's been so effective that the sheer volume of patches overwhelmed users. The response? Build an entirely new tool just to help customers manage the flood of monthly updates. It's a rare case of a solution creating its own problem.
And in the blurring world between Hollywood and gaming, the director behind Sony's God of War series revealed that James Cameron's Avatar technology directly influenced how those games were built. Speaking at the View Conference in Turin, Bruno Velazquez described a creative pipeline where filmmaking and game production are no longer parallel industries, they're genuinely intertwined.
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