Intel won’t disclose exactly how it was able to participate in the Super Bowl LIII halftime show, but it did disclose that it used 150 Intel Shooting Star drones to spell out the words “ONE” and “LOVE” during the musical performance. As Maroon 5 began singing “She Will be Loved,” Intel initiated its software directing
More Passenger Drone Test Flights Hitting the Skies
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We previously reported on the Y6S drone passenger test flights set for this year in London; now, two more companies have started testing passenger drones, too. Ehang 184 passenger drones, created by the Chinese company Beijing Yi-Hang Creation Science & Technology Co., Ltd., and Vahana, Airbus’ passenger drone project, both hit the skies.
Ehang 184…
World-Record Drone Show at Olympic Ceremony
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As with any Olympics Opening Ceremony, the pageantry is of global scale, but this year, in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Intel took it to a whole new level–a record-setting 1,218 drones hit the skies for a mechanical phenomenon. There’s never been anything like it.
Intel’s Shooting Star software platform enables an army of one foot-long,…
Spectre And Meltdown Vulnerabilities Affect Processors In Wide Range of Computing Devices
By Kathleen Porter on
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This week, the world learned of widespread and serious vulnerabilities in most central processing units (CPU). CPUs manage the instructions received from the hardware and software running on a computer. The vulnerabilities, named Meltdown and Spectre, affect virtually every computer existing today, in particular those with Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), Nvidia and Arm…
Intel Bug Affects Millions of Devices
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Intel has confirmed that a bug in its remote server management tool, known as Management Engine, which allows administrators of IT systems to remote access devices to apply updates or troubleshoot problems for users, allows unverified code to be run on Intel chipsets, so the intruder to gain control of devices.
The Management Engine bug…
Voluntary best practices for drone privacy finally released
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It’s here–last week, privacy groups and industry stakeholders that were participating in the National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) Multi-Stakeholder process released a set of best practices for commercial and private drone use. Participants included Amazon, AUVSI, Center for Democracy and Technology, Consumer Technology Association, CTIA, FPF, Intel, X (formerly Google X), New America’s Open…