Oh me, oh mesh! Many journalists in this business have at least one pet technology that’s never taken off in the way they think it should. Hypersonic passenger planes, deep-sea thermal-energy power plants, chording keyboards—all have their adherents, eager to jump at the chance of covering their infatuation. For me, it’s mesh radio systems, which first captivated me while I was zipping around downtown Las Vegas back in 2004. In that pre-smartphone, practically pre-3G era, I was testing a mesh network deployed by a local startup, downloading files at what was then a mind-boggling rate of 1.5 megabits per second…
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GamesBeat is excited to partner with Lil Snack to have customized games just for our audience! We know as gamers ourselves, this is an exciting way to engage through play with the GamesBeat content you have already come to love. Start playing games here. Stellar Blade was the only one of April’s new releases to make it onto the U.S. bestsellers list, according to industry-tracking firm Circana. Shift Up’s action title managed to make it to the number one spot on the list in a month marked by older games climbing the charts. Hardware sales have also declined precipitously in…
Getty Images The US Treasury Department has sanctioned three Chinese nationals for their involvement in a VPN-powered botnet with more than 19 million residential IP addresses they rented out to cybercriminals to obfuscate their illegal activities, including COVID-19 aid scams and bomb threats. The criminal enterprise, the Treasury Department said Tuesday, was a residential proxy service known as 911 S5. Such services provide a bank of IP addresses belonging to everyday home users for customers to route Internet connections through. When accessing a website or other Internet service, the connection appears to originate with the home user. In 2022, researchers…
21 May 2024Chris Baraniuk,Technology reporterGetty ImagesData centre electricity needs are forecast to double between 2022 and 2026There’s a big problem with generative AI, says Sasha Luccioni at Hugging Face, a machine-learning company. Generative AI is an energy hog.“Every time you query the model, the whole thing gets activated, so it’s wildly inefficient from a computational perspective,” she says.Take the Large Language Models (LLMs) at the heart of many Generative AI systems. They have been trained on vast stores of written information, which helps them to churn out text in response to practically any query.“When you use Generative AI… it’s generating…
Purchase orders (POs) are legal documents drawn up to finalize contracts between a buyer and a supplier. Today, the purchase order has become an integral part of modern business. It is involved whenever goods or services are procured and plays critical roles formalization of agreementsorder trackingcost controlDispute ResolutionHowever, manually managing these order documents is a big hassle.Manual purchase order processing can increase cycle times by up to 50%.the error rate in manual data entry can be as high as 30%, leading to costly rework and delays.Businesses that use manual processes spend almost twice as much money on procurement processes compared…
“What gets measured gets managed” was coined by Peter Drucker, regarded as the father of modern management, in 1954. It is an often quoted saying which is actually part of a larger, and I think more powerful quote “What gets measured gets managed — even when it’s pointless to measure and manage it, and even if it harms the purpose of the organization to do so.”Drucker’s insight underscores that, while gathering and measuring data is essential, the real challenge lies in identifying and prioritizing the right metrics that will drive a business in the right direction. By focusing on and…
We have talked a lot about some of the biggest ways that AI technology is changing the programming profession. One of the biggest benefits of AI is that it is helping developers test their programs more easily. This is one of the reasons that programmers are expected to spend over $12.6 billion on AI code test tools by 2028.Remarkably, generative AI has had little effect on test automation. Microsoft has incorporated extraordinarily sophisticated AI into Office and Windows production versions. This is one of the many examples of how AI can be beneficial in low code environments.Is software testing becoming…
22 hours agoSusie Bearne,Technology ReporterUravuThe founders of Uravu (left to right) Govinda Balaji, Swapnil Shrivastav, Venkatesh RajaWhen a severe drought hit the Indian city of Kozhikode, also known as Calicut, in 2016, residents including student Swapnil Shrivastav had access to a limited amount of water each day. “We were rationed to two buckets of water a day, which we collected from water tanks,” he says.While he says it’s not uncommon for water supply issues to impact parts of India, it was a tough month for Mr Shrivastav and others in the region. “It was a very humid area; it was…
Two weeks ago, Google announced a slew of new AI-powered features at its I/O developer conference. Microsoft followed suit last week with the introduction of its Copilot+ PCs that have, you guessed it, a slew of new AI-powered features. Somewhat predictably, Google is announcing its answer to the Copilot+ PC initiative with… the humble Chromebook. The Chromebook Plus line that it first announced last October, to be specific. When Google first announced Chromebook Plus, it focused on a combination of higher-performance hardware as well as some modest AI software features compared to what you’d get on regular Chromebooks.Now, however, Google…
The meme coin frenzy continues with the launch of PlayDoge, one of the newest entrants into the market. PlayDoge kicked off its crypto presale today and in just a few hours has already raised over $200,000. Let’s find out why this could potentially be the next meme coin to watch. Is PlayDoge the Next Meme Coin to Explode? According to their whitepaper, PlayDoge is a mobile-based play-to-earn (P2E) game, transforming the iconic Doge meme into a Tamagotchi-style virtual pet, powered by the $PLAY token. In this nostalgic 2D 8-bit world, players must care for their digital Doge companion by feeding…
