In autonomous vehicle news, Cisco and Verizon collaborated on a successful proof of concept demo in Las Vegas, showing that cellular and mobile edge compute technology can enable autonomous driving solutions without the use of physical roadside units to extend radio signals. Stellantis and Qualcomm are collaborating to deliver intelligent, customizable and immersive in-vehicle experiences to millions of vehicles across iconic automotive brands beginning in 2024. And IonQ and Hyundai Motor Company announced a new project designed to apply quantum machine learning to image classification and 3D object detection for future mobilities.

Accenture has made a strategic investment in Titan Space Technologies, an orbital compute platform that offers real-time monitoring and neural engine capabilities to accelerate the next generation of scientific technology innovations for enterprises, such as adaptive immune response, carbon capture and biomedical applications.

In satellite news, Viasat has been tapped to deliver real-time, near-earth communications to support NASA's Communications Services Project. The company is one of six American satellite communications providers collaborating with the agency to begin developing and demonstrating near-Earth space communication services that may support future NASA missions.

It's happy hour somewhere, and this summer it's happening in the the Metaverse. Jose Cuervo is planning to open the first metadistillery in the 3D virtual world Decentraland this summer.

AI and analytics news

AI and advanced analytics are making new breakthroughs possible every day, in fields as different as astronomy and shipping. Topcoder announced that the Comet Detection Marathon Match Challenge, conducted on behalf of NASA SOHO-ESA to develop artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms capable of detecting comets that reflect minimal light, resulted in the finding of two previously undetected comets. UPS is collaborating with Google Cloud to evolve UPS’s global logistics network technology and boost experience through AI/ML tools that increase supply chain efficiency and service.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced results from its HPE Spaceborne Computer-2, the first in-space commercial edge computing and AI-enabled system to run on the International Space Station—it completed 24 research experiments and drastically cut time-to-insight from months to minutes.

In other AI news, Frost & Sullivan's recent analysis of the global semiconductor devices market finds that technology convergence of connectivity and advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is accelerating growth across all verticals.

Network evolution news

The Wireless Broadband Alliance announced the successful completion of rigorous testing around the deployment of WBA OpenRoaming, priming the innovative Wi-Fi roaming standard for adoption throughout Europe.

Stateside, the Federal Communications Commission proposed that wireless providers that participate in Wireless Emergency Alerts publicly report on key aspects of the performance of this service. Since its launch one decade ago, Wireless Emergency Alerts have become an essential part of America’s emergency