Stomp brings a fully-functional Mastodon app to your Apple Watch
Another former Twitter app developer has turned their attention to Mastodon in the wake of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover which put an end to third-party clients. Launching today, a new app from the developer of the Twitter app Chirp is bringing Mastodon’s social network to your Apple Watch. Stomp, as
Read moreSalesforce Einstein Studio lets you bring your own model, starting with Amazon SageMaker
Salesforce introduced its AI layer, dubbed Einstein, in 2016. More recently, at the Salesforce World Tour event in NYC in May, all the company talked about was generative AI and Data Cloud, its in-house data lake. Today, it announced the next step in that journey with the release of Einstein
Read moreApple’s services business now has more than 1B subscribers
Apple’s services business now has more than 1 billion paying subscribers, the company said during its third-quarter results conference call. The company’s services portfolio comprises iCloud, Music, Fitness+, Pay, Apple Card, and Apple TV+, and it added 150 million subscribers over the past 12 months, the company said. The tech
Read moreSoftBank launches an OpenAI for Japan: SB Intuitions, building LLMs and generative AI in Japanese
AI may have found a center of gravity in the Bay Area, but we’re seeing a lot of activity elsewhere among those who believe that there is a market opportunity ensuring that the pace of innovation does not only get played out in just one corner of the world. Today,
Read moreDigital Finance Africa Recap: Unlocking the Future of Fintech
A resounding success is what attendees of this year’s Digital Finance Africa had to say about the event that was held on 2 August at the Gallagher Convention Centre. The event that started at 9 am brought in a crowd of enthusiastic tech experts and industry leaders excited to hear
Read moreEdgeIn hopes to be a faster, community-driven, ‘CrunchBase for Web3’
As we saw with the collapse of FTX, the Web3 space leaves a lot to be desired in terms of transparent information about companies, fundings, management and a slew of other data that really is commonplace and ‘de rigueur’ in the ‘normal’ tech industry. And there are far too many
Read more3 reasons to maintain a follow-on allocation
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Read moreHashtag Trending Aug.4- Meta’s new AI creates music from text; Microsoft makes licensing concessions for non-Microsoft cloud providers; Researchers discover how to jailbreak Tesla’s infotainment system
Meta releases AI to create music from text, Microsoft makes some licensing concessions for non-Microsoft cloud providers, and researchers discover how to jailbreak added features on a Tesla. These are the top tech news stories on today’s Hashtag Trending. I’m your host Jim Love, CIO of IT World Canada
Read moreEssential Things To Keep In Mind When Travelling With Aging Parents
As we grow older, traveling can become challenging for many of us. This is especially true when it comes to our aging parents who may no longer have the same level of mobility or energy they once had. However, this doesn’t mean that you should give up on traveling with
Read moreDiscord cuts 4% staff as part of company reorganization
Chat app Discord has let go of nearly 40 employees (4% of its workforce) as part of company’s restructuring efforts, according to multiple reports. Several Discord former employees posted on Twitter and LinkedIn that they were impacted by the layoffs. The job cuts have affected people in marketing, design, and
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