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Apple Supplier Foxconn Aims to Double Jobs, Investment in India Over Next 12 Months

Apple supplier Foxconn aims to double its workforce and investment in India by next year, a company executive said on Sunday. Taiwan-based Foxconn, the world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronics, has rapidly expanded its presence in India by investing in manufacturing facilities in the south of the country as the company seeks to move away […]

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Bitcoin's next halving, set for around April 20, will cut miners' validating transactions to 450 from 900 now, costing the industry ~$10B in annual revenue (David Pan/Bloomberg)

David Pan / Bloomberg: Bitcoin’s next halving, set for around April 20, will cut miners’ validating transactions to 450 from 900 now, costing the industry ~$10B in annual revenue  —  – Cryptocurrency’s update will slash new supply in late April  — Competition for favorable electric rates growing from AI firms Source link

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Elon Musk’s xAI Unveils Grok 1.5 Vision AI Model in Preview, To Compete With GPT-4 Vision and Gemini Pro 1.5

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) firm xAI has unveiled a new AI model dubbed Grok 1.5 Vision. This large language model (LLM) is an enhanced version of the recently released Grok 1.5 model. With this upgrade, the AI model is now equipped with computer vision, making it capable of accepting visual media as input. It

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The US awards Samsung $6.4B in CHIPS Act funding and says the company plans to make 2nm chips at its Taylor, Texas plant by 2026, two years ahead of TSMC (Financial Times)

Financial Times: The US awards Samsung $6.4B in CHIPS Act funding and says the company plans to make 2nm chips at its Taylor, Texas plant by 2026, two years ahead of TSMC  —  South Korean chipmaker set to outdo rival TSMC with 2nm chip production in the US by 2026 as part of $40bn investment

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Just How Much of an Environmental Impact Does Watching Netflix Have? The Pebble Browser Extension Gives You the Hard Truth

With the massive growth of the Internet over the past two decades, things have reached a point where everything we do online has an impact on the environment. The concept of ‘carbon footprint’ is one that we’ve all likely heard of and understand already, but sometimes we choose to be blissfully unaware of just how

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LinkedIn: the number of companies with a designated head of AI position or a chief AI officer (CAIO) has almost tripled globally in the past five years (Emma Jacobs/Financial Times)

Emma Jacobs / Financial Times: LinkedIn: the number of companies with a designated head of AI position or a chief AI officer (CAIO) has almost tripled globally in the past five years  —  As boards grapple with the opportunity and risk of generative artificial intelligence, companies are leaning into a new role: the chief AI

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Beatoven.ai, an Indian AI Music Generation Platform, Is Making Music Creation Accessible

Technology has always been a great leveller. From the industrial age to the age of the internet, it has improved the quality of life for the masses and made things previously unimaginable more accessible. One only needs to take a look at their smartphone to understand how communicating with someone sitting thousands of kilometres away

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A look at BlackPlanet, a social network for African Americans that went live in 1999, had ~15M users in 2008, and arguably laid the foundation for Black Twitter (Hannah Giorgis/The Atlantic)

Hannah Giorgis / The Atlantic: A look at BlackPlanet, a social network for African Americans that went live in 1999, had ~15M users in 2008, and arguably laid the foundation for Black Twitter  —  Revisiting BlackPlanet, and a lost era when social media was still fun  —  A few years ago, Stephanie Williams and her

A look at BlackPlanet, a social network for African Americans that went live in 1999, had ~15M users in 2008, and arguably laid the foundation for Black Twitter (Hannah Giorgis/The Atlantic) Read More »

An overview of Bureau of Labor Statistics data, which shows California's percentage of US tech jobs has continued to steadily decline since 2020 (Joseph Politano/Apricitas Economics)

Joseph Politano / Apricitas Economics: An overview of Bureau of Labor Statistics data, which shows California’s percentage of US tech jobs has continued to steadily decline since 2020  —  The Golden State Used to Dominate Tech Employment—But Its Share of Total US Tech Jobs has Now Fallen to the Lowest Level in a Decade  — 

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