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Read moreAI and crypto mining are driving up data centers’ energy use
A view of Meta’s data center in Clonee Co Meath, Ireland. Picture date: Tuesday June 13, 2023. | Photo by Niall Carson/PA Images via Getty Images Data centers could gobble up twice as much electricity by 2026 thanks in large part to cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence, according to a new
Read moreAmie brings your email inbox to its calendar app
There’s a reason why some people are die-hard Microsoft Outlook fans. It brings together your emails, your calendar events and your contacts in a single app. But… it’s Outlook. And some people can’t stand its convoluted interface. Amie, one of the most innovative apps in the new wave of calendar
Read moreApple weighs taking commissions on sideloaded apps in EU, report says
Apple is determined to take a slice of in-app purchases, no matter how users access apps or make their payments, it seems. After dropping commissions to 27% following a court ruling that said Apple had to allow app developers the ability to point to their own payment options via the
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Read moreFeds kick off National AI Research Resource with pilot program live today
A year to the day after it was proposed, the National AI Research Resource is coming online — at least in pilot form — as a coalition of U.S. agencies and private partners start to apply billions in federal funding towards public-access tools for aspiring AI scientists and engineers. NAIRR
Read moreCourt rules in favor of a web scraper, Bright Data, which Meta had used and then sued
Meta has lost a claim in its legal battle with an Israeli tech firm, Bright Data, which it sued last year for scraping data from Facebook and Instagram via the web. The tech giant, which has a long history of suing data scraping businesses, claimed that Bright Data’s data harvesting
Read moreInsights: How can South African SMEs Thrive in Retail
Small businesses in the retail sector, employing 50-60% of South Africa’s workforce and contributing approximately 34% to GDP growth, face significant pressure to navigate challenges and recover swiftly from disruptions. Despite political and economic instability, inflation, and issues like load shedding, crime, and civil unrest, SMEs in the retail sector
Read moreArcee is a secure, enterprise-focused platform for building GenAI
While working at Hugging Face, engineers Mark McQuade and Brian Benedict ran into challenges helping enterprise customers adopt GenAI. Some companies didn’t want to use closed-source AI APIs due to the perceived lack of transparency — but also resisted open source models over security concerns. “We came to realize that
Read moreElo Life Systems grabs another $20.5M to get its monk fruit sweetener to market
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