Gen. Peter Huntley, Lt. Gen. Jonathan Braga and Lt. Gen. Michael Conley urged Congress to take action to help U.S. troops advance. America is falling behind its adversaries when it comes to technological advancement, commanders of special operations forces told the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday. Gen. Peter Huntley, Lt. Gen. Jonathan Braga and Lt. Gen. Michael Conley all voiced concerns about special ops being bogged down by bureaucracy when it comes to making critical technological upgrades. Gen. Huntley, who leads the Marine Forces Special Operations Command, told lawmakers on Capitol Hill that modernization is "moving very fast" across the globe, but America's ability to keep up with the pace is troublesome. Gen. Huntley spoke of the impact artificial intelligence has had on U.S. forces' ability to "sense the enemy before they sense us," an advantage America has enjoyed for decades.

An oft-forgotten pioneer in video game history, Jerry Lawson, the Black engineer who helped kickstart home game consoles, is being honored with an academic endowment. USC Games at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, announced Thursday it has established The Gerald A. Lawson Endowment Fund for Black and Indigenous Students, an initiative to increase minority representation in games and tech. Recipients will be known as Lawson Scholars. Take-Two Interactive Software, maker of games such as "Grand Theft Auto V" and "Red Dead Redemption," made what the company described as "a very significant endowment" to create the fund. Jim Huntley, a USC Interactive Media & Games' professor and head of marketing, said he got the idea for the endowment during the summer 2020 protests and the school's deans of cinematic arts and engineering approved.

ORLANDO, Fla.--Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella faced sharp questions from Gartner analysts Tuesday about the privacy-invading implications of its 26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn, and its all-knowing virtual assistant, Cortana. Helen Huntley, one of the Gartner analysts questioning Nadella at a conference here, was particularly pointed about the fears. Cortana, said Huntley, "knows everything about me when I'm working. She knows what files I'm looking at, she knows what I'm downloading, she knows when I'm working, when I'm not working," she said. Cortana is "big brother intersected ... with productivity," said Huntley.