SigenStor : The AI 5-in-1 energy storage system
Red Energy, a commercial solar energy specialist, is introducing a game-changing solar solution to South Africa: SigenStor, an AI-optimized 5-in-1 energy storage system, the first of its kind in Africa. Selected as one of the few approved installers for SigenStor, Red Energy reaffirms its dedication to delivering cutting-edge solar solutions
Read morePacifico Biolabs emerges from stealth with fermentation process for alternative seafood
The company's fermentation process involves the cultivation of multiple microorganisms, including mycelium, to provide nutrition, flavor and texture. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreIndia may block Proton Mail
Proton, the Swiss privacy-focused software maker, says it has received a notice of a “possible block” of Proton Mail in India after the service was used in sending bomb threats to schools in the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. In a statement, a Proton spokesperson told Indian daily Hindustan
Read moreExperience the Power of Slack AI
Salesforce introduces Slack AI, an integrated AI experience in Slack, empowering users with guided AI search, channel recaps, thread summaries, and upcoming digests. The Significance: With almost half of digital workers struggling to find necessary information for efficient task execution, as reported by Gartner, the need for streamlined access to
Read moreEuropean digital rights group say the future of online privacy is on a knife edge
A coalition of more than two dozen digital and democratic rights groups, NGOs and not-for-profits, including noyb and Wikimedia Europe, have written to the European Union’s regulatory body for data protection urging it to reject a tactic that’s been controversially seized upon by Meta in its latest bid to circumvent
Read moreHow Neara uses AI to protect utilities from extreme weather
Over the past few decades, extreme weather events have not only become more severe, but are also occurring more frequently. Neara is focused on enabling utility companies and energy providers to create models of their power networks and anything that might affect them, like wildfires or flooding. The Redfern, New
Read moreCisco joins the list of tech companies announcing layoffs. Hashtag Trending, Friday Feb 16, 2024
Every once in a while, you have an interview that goes off in a totally different direction. That’s what happened this weekend. My guest, Ed Wattel, an AI thought leader, came in to talk about elections and how we’ll deal with AI and deep fakes. And we ended up with
Read moreForget Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) – the big impact is already here and it’s called AI agents
I watch a lot of YouTube – so you don’t have to. In this series I’ll bring you some of the best of what I’m watching, and sometimes, as in this post, I’ll provide my own commentary. YouTube is buzzing this week. Sam Altman is rumoured to be making a
Read moreAfter rockets and spacecraft, Rocket Lab’s next frontier could be applications
Rocket Lab is exploring possible applications for a satellite constellation that they would build, launch and operate in-house, similar to SpaceX’s Starlink business, as a way of generating recurring revenue, an executive said this week. “If you look to where we ultimately want to go, in a lot of ways
Read moreOpenAI’s Sora video-generating model can render video games, too
OpenAI’s new — and first! — video-generating model, Sora, can pull off some genuinely impressive cinematographic feats. But the model’s even more capable than OpenAI initially made it out to be, at least judging by a technical paper published this evening. The paper, titled “Video generation models as world simulators,”
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