U.S. manufacturing is at an inflection point: The sector is increasingly viewed as crucial to economic and pandemic recovery, yet outdated public perceptions could be impacting recruitment of vital new workers, according to study findings by Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute based on two recent surveys of executives and consumers.

Vectice Secures Top Talents from Cloudera and DataRobot

Vectice, the data science knowledge capturing and sharing solution, announced two new hires from top industry players. Joon Kim, previously at data management leader Cloudera, will be joining as Head of Solutions Engineering. Shyam Ayyar, previously at DataRobot, leader in machine learning software, will be joining as Principal Product Manager.

NASA Names Winners of Lunar Robotics Design Contest

NASA has chosen two students as winners of the Lunabotics Junior Contest, a national competition for K-12 students featuring the agency’s Artemis missions. Contestants were charged with designing a robot that can dig and move lunar soil, or regolith, from one area of the lunar South Pole to a holding container near a future Artemis Moon base.

Alias Robotics Discovers Numerous And Dangerous Vulnerabilities In The Robot Operating System’s (Ros) Communications That Can Have “Devastating Consequences

A team of researchers led by the Spanish firm Alias Robotics – specialized in robotic cybersecurity – together with cybersecurity experts from several multinationals and cybersecurity professionals from various governments, have discovered about fifteen dangerous vulnerabilities, some critical, in the Robot Operating System (ROS) and the DDS communications protocols that affect industrial systems and robots that, if used by cybercriminals, could have “devastating consequences. In turn, they have detected that these vulnerabilities are present in almost 650 different devices exposed on the Internet and used not only in industry, but also in healthcare or in the military field.

IBM Works with Discover to Co-Create Technology Solutions and Migrate to a Hybrid Cloud Platform

IBM Consulting is working with Discover Financial Services to help the leading digital bank and payments company enhance its digital transformation of applications and existing systems to a hybrid cloud architecture using Red Hat OpenShift.