Snowflake says Cortex launch puts LLM, GenAI in ‘hands of all users’
Data cloud company Snowflake this week launched Snowflake Cortex, a managed service which it said enables organizations to more easily discover, analyze and build artificial intelligence (AI) applications. It said the new offering, which was launched at the firm’s Snowday 2023 event and is currently in private preview, “gives users
Read moreCyber Security Today, Week in Review for the week ending Friday, Nov. 3, 2023
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week in Review for the week ending Friday, November 3rd, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. In a few minutes Terry Cutler of Montreal’s Cyology Labs will be here to discuss recent
Read moreBoox’s latest e-readers combine quiet, compact styles with big customization
Boox has a confusingly wide array of devices to choose from, but the latest make a good case for themselves as powerful, compact alternatives to Kindle and Kobo. The delightfully small Poke 5, even smaller Palma, mid-range Page and larger, color Tab Mini C are all worth your consideration if
Read moreIf your startup doesn’t seem impossible at first, it’s not hard enough
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Read moreA cautionary tale: The tragic case of two Danish hosting firms who lost all their clients’ data
Cybersecurity incidents of all kinds happen frequently, but one of the most extreme occurred in mid-August, when two Danish cloud hosting firms – CloudNordic and AzeroCloud – paid the ultimate price following a ransomware attack: both organizations ceased to exist. What happened to the two, says Bobby Cornwell, vice president
Read moreFax machines in the 21st century
Tens of millions of fax machines still exist. My business line gets calls from modems and fax machines fairly often. Maybe my number is close to that of a fax machine. Fax machines and health care Fax machines are especially common in health care. I remember when I was working
Read moreThomson Reuters to spend more than $100 million annually on generative AI
Thomson Reuters has started rolling out generative AI into its products, notably in its flagship Westlaw Precision, and has doubled down on its promise to spend more than US$100 million annually on artificial intelligence capabilities. Chief executive Steve Hasker initially unveiled the company’s big generative AI plans in May, a
Read moreApple CEO Tim Cook says AI is a fundamental technology, confirms investments in generative AI
Apple CEO Tim Cook pushed back a bit at the notion that the company was behind in AI on yesterday’s Q4 earnings call with investors, as he highlighted technology developments that Apple had made recently that “would not be possible without AI.” Specifically, the exec pointed to new iOS 17
Read moreHow to bootstrap an AI startup
Michael Koch Contributor Share on X Michael Koch is the co-founder and CEO of HubKonnect, an AI-enabled local store marketing platform. When you take venture capital money, investors will shape everything from your strategy and product to your thought process. That may not be best for what you’re offering, especially
Read moreLemon8, the Instagram rival from TikTok parent ByteDance, fails to gain traction in U.S.
TikTok owner ByteDance’s efforts to make its Pinterest-slash-Instagram competitor Lemon8 take off in the U.S. haven’t yet panned out. Since launching in the U.S. earlier this year, the Lemon8 app has only seen around 2.6 million total U.S. downloads, according to new data from app store market intelligence provider Appfigures.
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