Intermap Technologies ("Intermap"), a global leader in geospatial intelligence solutions, today announced the launch of its Lido Surface Data NEXTView ("NEXTView") data solution, co-developed with Lufthansa Systems, for the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) market. NEXTView is a high-accuracy, global 3D elevation dataset customized for aviation applications. It is continually refreshed to ensure currency and compliance with regulatory update requirements. The UAS market is composed of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, or drones) and the control systems that fly them. It is a critical time for UAS technology as it expands in many commercial, government and military applications around the world.

Besides Pokémon reclaiming its place in the zeitgeist, bots are the buzzing tech trend of 2016 so far. The big five -- Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft -- have all unveiled or featured bots in their annual product conferences. Consumer startup decks have hurriedly affixed bots to their pitches, for better or for worse. The New Yorker covered conversational bots in June. Bot has quickly become as common as the word app has been in startup chatter about what people are building: its a bot for'X' (in this case X usually stands for a mundane, predictable task currently carried out by humans).