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AI is more than a buzzword: It’s now being deployed on ships and golf carts

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Platform as a service (PaaS) solutions allow for higher-level programming with dramatically reduced complexity; the application’s overall development... Read more »

How retail can pivot to autonomous stores

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Retailers are considering autonomous store technology as an alternative to manned stores. This paper explores the challenges, the... Read more »

CIO vision 2025: Bridging the gap between BI and AI

Addressing shortcomings in companies’ data management and infrastructure, as well as internal structural and process rigidities and talent deficits, loom large among those challenges. Some 72% of the technology executives we surveyed... Read more »

The Download: AI-generated art and YouTube’s algorithm

1 The race to decarbonize Europe’s heavy industriesScaling up promising technologies is among the biggest obstacles—but they’re not insurmountable. (Economist $)+ Nature documentaries tend to skim over human suffering. (Wired $)+ Carbon removal... Read more »

Hated that video? YouTube’s algorithm might push you another just like it.

Mozilla researchers analyzed seven months of YouTube activity from over 20,000 participants to evaluate four ways that YouTube says people can “tune their recommendations”—hitting Dislike, Not interested, Remove from history, or Don’t... Read more »

Zero trust closes the end-user gap in cybersecurity

Specifically, 68% of the interviewees worry about cloud applications and data being subject to malware, ransomware, and phishing attacks. Although 55% don’t feel confident that their cloud security is properly configured, 59%... Read more »

This artist is dominating AI-generated art. And he’s not happy about it.

Mason encourages any artists who don’t want their works in the data set to contact LAION, which is an independent entity from the startup. LAION did not immediately respond to a request... Read more »

The Download: discovering proteins, and Pakistan’s climate crisis

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Uber appears to have been hacked by a teenagerAn 18-year old is claiming to be behind... Read more »

The Checkup: What minimally conscious brains can do

I’d come across a new study suggesting that people in a minimally conscious state can learn a rudimentary form of language, or at least a string of previously unknown syllables.It sounded fascinating,... Read more »

The “fingerprints” of climate change are clear in Pakistan’s devastating floods

In this case, however, just how big a role climate change played isn’t clear. It’s relatively straightforward to conduct an attribution study that assesses the influence of warming in heat waves, where... Read more »