Nvidia and Dassault Systèmes combine digital twins and AI in industry world models
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Nvidia and Dassault Systèmes combine digital twins and AI in industry world models

The companies want to ground AI models in science and engineering to grow industrial know-how.Nvidia is putting its AI infrastructure, models, and libraries together with virtual twin technology from 3D design software vendor Dassault Systèmes to build a shared architecture the companies describe as “science-validated industry world models.” It’s a deepening of their existing collaboration with “a shared long-term vision for how industrial AI will be built, validated and deployed at scale,” the companies said. Nvidia is multiplying its partnerships with developers of industrial design software. It recently expanded the integration options for its Omniverse development platform farther into physical AI applications, building the Omniverse libraries into Siemens Digital Twin Composer as well as integrating into products and services from Accenture, Microsoft, Ansys, Cadence, and others.World modelsDassault Systèmes CEO Pascal Daloz talked up the partnership’s potential for...
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Mick Clifford: New chapter in the extraordinary tale of Celtic Tiger developer Paddy Byrne
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Mick Clifford: New chapter in the extraordinary tale of Celtic Tiger developer Paddy Byrne

Seven years before the terrace of houses he built was burnt to the ground, Paddy Byrne’s helicopter crashed in a hotel carpark. The events were unrelated, but together gave a rare glimpse of a Celtic Tiger developer, who he was, what became of his work. He has flitted in and out of the headlines since. There he is, emerging from his bankruptcy. Is that the same Paddy Byrne who built the dangerous homes in Newbridge, now back in business with another company?Listen to the bankruptcy official in the UK describing him as trying to “cheat creditors”.Down in the courts earlier this year there was a liquidator claiming that Mr Byrne was ducking and diving, buying a hugely expensive vehicle for himself while creditors whistled Dixie.And now, the latest incarnation of the extraordinary Mr Byrne.He is currently in...
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Ground systems could delay Artemis 2 launch
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Ground systems could delay Artemis 2 launch

NASA Space Technology The mobile launch platform that will be used for Artemis 2 was rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building Oct. 3 after tests at Launch Complex 39B. Credit: NASA/Jamie PeerMILAN — Refurbishment of ground systems like a mobile launch platform could become another factor in the schedule for the Artemis 2 mission that NASA says is still planned for launch next September.A report by the Government Accountability Office Oct. 17 found that work on the Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) program, which includes the mobile launcher and other ground systems needed to support launches of the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, could delay the Artemis 2 launch.“While EGS elements are close to completion, the program has no schedule margin for these remaining activities,” the GAO report stated. While issues with Orion led...
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