Category Archives: Technology

21Mar/24

Allstate Protection Plans Finds 78 Million Americans Damaged Their Smartphones in the Last Year. The Nation’s Repair and Replacement Bill Now Totals $149 Billion Since the Introduction of the Smartphone

From listening to music to watching movies, connecting with family to counting steps, we depend on our smartphones like never before, according to new research by Allstate Protection Plans. Yet, there are real misconceptions about the cost of smartphone ownership when it comes to damage and repairs. Continue reading

20Mar/24

Google Cloud and NVIDIA Expand Partnership to Scale AI Development

SAN JOSE, Calif.March 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — GTC — Google Cloud and NVIDIA today announced a deepened partnership to enable the machine learning (ML) community with technology that accelerates their efforts to easily build, scale and manage generative AI applications.
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12Mar/24

Google Cloud Announces New Generative AI Advancements for Healthcare and Life Science Organizations

Today at HIMSS24, Google Cloud announced several new solutions to help healthcare and life sciences organizations enable interoperability, build a better data foundation for their businesses, and deploy generative AI (gen AI) tools to improve patient outcomes. Continue reading

23Feb/24

Dating apps are accused of being ‘addictive’. What makes us keep swiping?

Dr Anastasia Hronis, University of Technology Sydney

A class-action lawsuit filed in the United States against Match Group – the parent company of dating apps Tinder, Hinge and The League – is making headlines around the world.

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09Feb/24

Orca Scan launches three-step solution to connect millions of retail products to the internet

Cambridge-based software company Orca Scan has partnered with GS1 UK, the UK arm of the global not-for-profit association that sets and maintains standards for barcodes, to help brands upgrade traditional barcodes on their product packaging to the next generation of GS1 Digital Link QR codes. Read more

09Feb/24

Ax-3 Astronauts Splashdown, Completing First All-European Commercial Astronaut Mission to ISS

After undocking from the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, Feb. 7, the Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3) crew safely splashed down off the coast of Florida aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft at 8:30 a.m. ET on Feb. 9, 2024. The Ax-3 crew’s return officially concludes the first all-European commercial astronaut mission and Axiom Space’s third crewed mission to the ISS. Read more