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In a basement beneath City St George’s, University of London, senior leaders from NATO watch as four research teams from the UK, US, Netherlands and Austria, showcase their AI-controlled, autonomous drones. The groups are competing against each other as part of the NATO-funded SAPIENCE programme, designed to accelerate progress with this emerging technology, particularly in a world where drones on the battlefield are changing warfare, as demonstrated in Ukraine.

“We are still trying to understand what are the impacts of drones,” says Claudio Palestini, head of NATO’s Science for Peace and Security programme. “We have regular contact with Ukraine where we understand what they are doing with technology,” he says. “NATO is adapting to this new way of fighting, we are developing some concepts in the drone warfare sphere.”

While there are applications on the battlefield, Palestini is keen to stress that there is a dual nature to NATO’s work. “What we do [at NATO’s Science for Peace and Security programme], it’s not purely military,” he says. “We want to have technology development that can be used in the commercial sector, but also in the defence sector. And this is where cooperation with Ukraine helps.” Such work has echoes of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

In London, the first of four events gets under way, simulating an indoor search and rescue scenario in an environment where GPS won’t work that is akin to the aftermath of a natural disaster. The team from City St George’s deploys two autonomous drones working cooperatively in a swarm configuration, with deep-learning algorithms driving navigation.

“We’re the only ones that used a neural network,” says Thomas Hickling, a PhD student and member of the team, highlighting how the group thinks this form of AI is better for mapping damaged infrastructure. Speed and reliability are also considerations, especially in life-saving scenarios. “We decided to use two drones as it’s much quicker and increases reliability,” says Hickling. “If one drone fails, you’ve got another one automatically. You can take over the jobs of the other drone.”

Future SAPIENCE events will test the teams’ technology in outdoor and mixed environments, performing a range of simulated tasks. While presented as a competition, Palestini sees this as a driving force behind acceleration and cooperation in the field. “We don’t expect to have a single winner,” he says. “We will have some sort of ranking, but all the ideas are good.”

Believe it or not, there’s only been one live-action Marvel series on Disney+ in 2024 prior to September. The nine-month drought is over thanks to the arrival of Agatha All Along, giving fans of WandaVision a semi-sequel series. But we might have to wait until March 2025 for the next Marvel show if there’s really nothing between Agatha All Along and Daredevil: Born Again.

In the meantime, younger Star Wars fans also have something to enjoy this month called LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy. It’s a pretty wild take on the Star Wars universe, as only LEGO could provide. But if you want more mature fare, Disney’s going to make you shell out more for Hulu just so you can watch Shogun, The Bear, Only Murders in the Building, and other shows on the Disney+ app that you already have. If that makes you unhappy, just remember that Disney+ is raising its prices again in October. Surely that will bring a smile to your face as you look over the best shows on Disney+ right now.

Looking for some more guidance on how to make the most of your streaming service subscriptions? We have also compiled guides to the best movies on Disney+, the best shows on Netflix, the best shows on Amazon Prime, and the best shows on Hulu. Don’t forget to check out the guide for the best new shows to stream this week.

If you’re not already subscribed, the Disney Bundle is worth considering. With it, you get Disney+, ESPN, and the ad-supported Hulu plan, making it an impressive value for the price. You’ll enjoy new Disney content, live sports coverage, and Hulu’s various originals.

OxygenOS, the heart of the OnePlus smartphones, is currently on its version 14. The company is now working on the OxygenOS 15 update. The brand will unveil the latest iteration of its custom Android skin in late September or early October, suggest the reports. While the brand hasn’t teased much about the upcoming version, folks over at SmartPrix have revealed quite a few details. It looks like the OxygenOS 15 takes inspiration from iOS and will borrow a lot of features from Apple’s OS.

Many core UI elements of OxygenOS 15 take heavy inspiration from iOS

People over at the tech publication SmartPrix were able to get an opportunity to beta-test OxygenOS 15. The source suggests that OxygenOS 15 takes heavy inspiration from iOS and brings an iOS-like volume panel, Dynamic Island-like notifications, and more. The OxygenOS 15 update will bring a brand new Control Center design. The source says the new Control Center looks like “If HyperOS and iOS had a baby”.

OnePlus took inspiration from iOS while designing the volume panel in OxygenOS 15. The new volume slider will “start out as a larger slider but shrinks to a narrow width” when you tap on it again, just like in iOS. The source highlights that swiping down from the top right of the display will trigger the Quick Settings panel.

If you swipe down from the left, you will get the notification shade. Also, the OnePlus users will be able to customize the Quick Settings panel as per their liking by rearranging tiles.

A Dynamic Island-inspired notification system is coming with the OxygenOS 15 update

Furthermore, the report suggests that A Dynamic Island-inspired notification system is coming to OnePlus devices with the upcoming OxygenOS update. Much like the Dynamic Island on iOS, it will now sit on top of the center punch hole. In addition, the camera app on a phone running OxygenOS 15 allows you to shoot live photos. Once again, this is very much like iOS, which calls it Live Photos.

Notably, the source suggests that the OnePlus users will not have to wait too long to test out the aforementioned features. The first beta version of OxygenOS 15 is expected to be released by the end of this month. If that doesn’t happen then early October is the best bet.

Reltio and Collibra on Thursday unveiled a new integration aimed at enabling joint customers to more easily discover and govern data assets across domains within their organizations.

Using Reltio Integration for Collibra, which combines the key capabilities of the two vendors, customers can take advantage of Reltio’s data unification platform in concert with Collibra Data Intelligence Platform, including its data catalog.

Potential benefits, among others, include reducing the time it takes to find and operationalize reports, dashboards, models and other data assets, along with improved data governance and data lineage capabilities.

In addition, cost savings is a benefit. Users do have to pay for the integration, but Reltio Integration for Collibra is priced lower than what it would cost for a joint customer to configure an integration on their own, according to Venki Subramanian, Reltio’s senior vice president of product management. Specific pricing details were not disclosed.

Given the different capabilities of Reltio and Collibra, and the potential advantages of using their tools in concert with one another through a preconfigured integration, the partnership between the vendors is significant for joint customers, according to Doug Henschen, an analyst at Constellation Research.

Reltio and Collibra are in adjacent spaces and fill different needs, so it’s a complementary pairing that should benefit joint customers.

“Reltio and Collibra are in adjacent spaces and fill different needs, so it’s a complementary pairing that should benefit joint customers,” he said. “The prebuilt integration between the two technologies will make it easier for customers to deploy and use the technologies together.”

Reltio is a master data management specialist based in Redwood Shores, Calif., whose AI-powered Connected Data Platform enables users to unify data to develop trusted data tools to inform decisions. The vendor’s June platform update included a generative AI assistant that enables conversational interactions with data, along with prebuilt, industry-specific master data management tools.

Collibra, meanwhile, is based in New York City and Brussels, and offers metadata data management capabilities, including a data catalog and data governance tools, through its Data Intelligence Platform. In April, the vendor’s platform update featured the general availability of Collibra AI Governance. The tool enables users to better manage AI models and applications, including generative AI, as their use expands beyond teams of data scientists.

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New capabilities

At the enterprise level, where organizations collect billions of data points and develop thousands of data products such as reports, dashboards and models, relevant data is difficult — perhaps nearly impossible — to discover without implementing systems to organize it all.

And it is only becoming harder to discover without highly organized systems in place, given that the volume of data and its complexity continue to increase.

Master data management is one method of organizing data. In particular, it enables enterprises to make sure their data is uniform, there aren’t separate records for one data point or data set, and the terminology used to define data is consistent.

Catalogs are another way to organize data. Data catalogs are a means of indexing and governing data across systems and domains so that data does not get isolated and is easy to access, irrespective of where an employee works within an organization.

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By combining Reltio’s master data management capabilities with Collibra’s data catalog and other data intelligence tools, the integration aims to enable faster and easier discovery of the trusted data needed to inform a given decision. Such data discovery is particularly relevant now, as enterprises aim to develop more AI models and applications — including generative AI — that require copious amounts of appropriate data to be accurate and reduce the likelihood of hallucinations.

“This partnership reflects a lot of synergies between the two primary disciplines of each company,” said Stewart Bond, an analyst at IDC.

In particular, combining Reltio’s master data management capabilities with Collibra’s data catalog and governance capabilities will be beneficial, he continued. Collibra does not have master data management tools, and Reltio does not offer a data catalog.

“It’s a win-win for both,” Bond said. “There are some overlaps in data quality capabilities, but the overlaps are more complementary than competitive.”

Motivation for the partnership and integration resulted from a shared goal of developing an open data ecosystem for Reltio and Collibra users. By doing so, Reltio and Collibra can provide users with a choice of different partners with which to use each vendor’s capabilities, according to Subramanian.

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He noted that from Reltio’s perspective, it views Collibra as one of the top data catalog, metadata management and data governance providers. That makes it a logical partner for Reltio, which did not previously have a native integration with a data catalog vendor, Subramanian said.

However, toward Reltio’s goal of developing a broad ecosystem for data management and analysis, the partnership is not exclusive, and Collibra likely won’t be the last data catalog vendor with which Reltio partners.

“While Collibra is the first native integration we have with a data catalog, we are working on extending our integrations to other products in this space,” Subramanian said. “Reltio integrates with not only data catalogs, but also other data management capabilities like data lakes, data warehouses and data enrichment solutions.”

Specific goals of the partnership include the following:

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• Cost savings by providing a prebuilt integration between Reltio and Collibra that would otherwise require joint customers to invest time and money to engineer on their own.
• Integration between the Collibra data catalog and Reltio’s master data management and data unification tools to make trusted data easily discoverable in the data catalog.
• Accelerated time to value by automatically synchronizing metadata from Reltio with metadata in Collibra.
• Improved data governance in Reltio through Collibra’s policy, privacy and security control settings.
• Automated data mapping to provide data lineage information that enables users to understand the sources and uses of data assets to engender trust.
• Self-service configuration that lets joint customers update their integration through Reltio’s low-code/no-code Integration Hub.

Cost savings and time to value are important, but they’re commonplace when vendors partner and develop integrations, according to Henschen.

What separates routine partnerships that largely represent marketing opportunities from more meaningful integrations is whether the partnerships go deeper and enable a tight-knit integration between two otherwise separate platforms, he continued.

Reltio Integration for Collibra represents a tight-knit integration, Henschen said.

Beyond touting improved time to value and lowering the cost associated with using the platforms together without a prebuilt integration, Henschen noted that one important potential benefit includes adding Collibra’s policy, privacy and security controls and automated data lineage capabilities to Reltio. Another significant benefit is using the Reltio Integration Hub to keep integrations between the vendors current.

“It sounds like there’s some substance to this partnership,” he said.

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Next steps

With Reltio Integration for Collibra now available to joint customers, one of Reltio’s primary product development goals is to improve its data unification capabilities through AI and automation, according to Subramanian. In addition, the vendor plans on adding new prepackaged, industry-specific tools to simplify master data management and add more integrations to broaden its ecosystem.

Henschen noted that Reltio’s focus on AI and automation is appropriate. Collibra, as evidenced by its most recent platform update, is similarly adding AI capabilities.

But while both are adding AI tools to simplify using their platform, Reltio and Collibra each also has an opportunity to help customers more easily develop their own AI models and applications, he said. Reltio could assist users by improving its data integration capabilities, while Collibra could help its users with more automation, according to Henschen.

“The [data integration] market is consolidating, and the bar is being raised with the infusion of GenAI technologies that depend on data, so I’d like to see Reltio develop or partner to gain deeper data integration capabilities,” Henschen said. “GenAI is also making its mark on data intelligence platforms, so I’d like to see more from Collibra on how catalog and policy work can be automated.”

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Eric Avidon is a senior news writer for TechTarget Editorial and a journalist with more than 25 years of experience. He covers analytics and data management.