Month: September 2024

How to Get Setup With Xcode Cloud

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Xcode Cloud is a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) platform provided by Apple. It automates away the hard work of building your apps, testing them, signing them, and pushing them to a destination. Why use Xcode Cloud, I hear you say? If you’ve been through the process of manually archiving your app, and then … Read more

Slack is turning into an AI agent hub. Should it?

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The head of Slack, Denise Dresser, tells TechCrunch she is shifting the business chat platform into a “work operating system,” specifically by making Slack a hub for AI applications from Salesforce, Adobe, and Anthropic. The company’s CEO sees Slack as more than a place to chat with your coworkers, but do users want that? And … Read more

Intel moves to spin out foundry business, inks AI chip deal with AWS

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Intel has announced a key customer win and changes to its foundry business as the beleaguered chipmaker looks to execute a turnaround. Intel is taking steps to transition its chip foundry division, Intel Foundry, to an independent subsidiary, Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger said in a blog post. Intel Foundry’s leadership isn’t changing, and the subsidiary … Read more

Why Aren’t Customers Exploring Your Entire Software Portfolio?

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Your software is excellent. So, what’s preventing your customers from knowing more about—and adopting—more of your software offerings? Cross-portfolio access to your software applications and features can help customers derive value from a greater number of your products. Yet, three common impediments may be in the way of getting customers to embrace the valuable features … Read more

Tech’s emissions may be way higher than disclosed due to ‘creative accounting’ of carbon

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Accounting for the emissions of a global tech empire is not a simple task, and what industry standards we do have for disclosure may allow tech companies to systematically understate their carbon footprint. A Guardian report compares official declarations of carbon emissions, including what amount to offsets purchased elsewhere, with “location-based” emissions, another standard metric … Read more

The IISc Memristor: The Dawn of a New Era in Computing and AI Accelerators

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A New Era in Computation A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore have just created a revolutionary prototype of a computing paradigm that could shake (and replace) the foundations of modern computing – starting with the transistor and the GPUs! The Von Neumann architecture and its infamous Bottleneck on which all … Read more

CRISPR-Cas9 guide RNA efficiency prediction with efficiently tuned models in Amazon SageMaker

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The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) technology holds the promise to revolutionize gene editing technologies, which is transformative to the way we understand and treat diseases. This technique is based in a natural mechanism found in bacteria that allows a protein coupled to a single guide RNA (gRNA) strand to locate and make … Read more