Microsoft Earmarks $4.3 Billion for AI/Cloud Projects in France

Microsoft Earmarks .3 Billion for AI/Cloud Projects in France

Microsoft says it is investing $4.3 billion toward tech projects in France. The spending package will focus on cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, “AI skilling, and French Tech acceleration,” the company announced Monday (May 13), with the goal of training 1 million people and supporting 2,500 AI startups by 2027. The news marks Microsoft’s largest investment in …

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Japan’s Fugaku Tops 2 Supercomputer Rankings for 9th Time

Japan’s Fugaku Tops 2 Supercomputer Rankings for 9th Time

Newsfrom Japan Science Society Technology May 14, 2024 09:12 (JST) Tokyo, May 14 (Jiji Press)–Japanese supercomputer Fugaku has topped two sets of semiannual global rankings for computing performance for the ninth consecutive time. According to the results released Monday, Fugaku has held the top spot in the High Performance Conjugate Gradients rankings for industrial computing …

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Janet Yellen Calls on Congress to Renew ACP During Virginia Trip

Janet Yellen Calls on Congress to Renew ACP During Virginia Trip

ACP ‘ACP is now at risk,’ said Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and ‘we know how crucial the internet is.’ Photo provided by Comcast show Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen, alongside Broderick Johnson, Executive Vice President for Public Policy at Comcast, at roundtable discussion in Strafford County, Virginia FREDERICKSBURG, May 13, 2024 – Secretary of …

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Janet Yellen Calls on Congress to Renew ACP During Virginia Trip

Janet Yellen Calls on Congress to Renew ACP During Virginia Trip

ACP ‘ACP is now at risk,’ said Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and ‘we know how crucial the internet is.’ Photo provided by Comcast show Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen, alongside Broderick Johnson, Executive Vice President for Public Policy at Comcast, at roundtable discussion in Strafford County, Virginia FREDERICKSBURG, May 13, 2024 – Secretary of …

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A Bull Market Is Here: 2 Artificial Intelligence Stocks Down 27% and 60% to Buy Right Now

A Bull Market Is Here: 2 Artificial Intelligence Stocks Down 27% and 60% to Buy Right Now

Buying these beaten-down chip stocks could help you profit from the AI revolution. Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the world at an incredible pace, and its earthshaking impacts are still just beginning to unfold. The rapid evolution of this new category of software is poised to influence nearly every industry imaginable, and is being made …

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Ultraleap Hyperion Makes The Best Hand Tracking Better

Ultraleap Hyperion Makes The Best Hand Tracking Better

Ultraleap released Hyperion, the latest version of its industry-leading hand tracking software runtime and SDK. Hyperion supports the Leap Motion Controller 2 addon, which supports almost any headset (including standalone headsets) via USB or can be integrated into a headset’s existing sensor suite by headset makers. We tried the previous version of Ultraleap’s hand tracking, …

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Apple backports fix for RTKit iOS zero-day to older iPhones

Apple backports fix for RTKit iOS zero-day to older iPhones

Apple has backported security patches released in March to older iPhones and iPads, fixing an iOS Kernel zero-day tagged as exploited in attacks. In security advisories published today, Apple once again said they’re aware of reports that this vulnerability “may have been actively exploited.” The flaw is a memory corruption issue in Apple’s RTKit real-time …

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