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DeepSouth AI supercomputer to become first at a human brain scale

01/02/202412/22/2023 Jennifer Goula

AI supercomputer - Hand holding up digital brain

The technology is under development by Western Sydney University and will go live in 2024. Scientists in Australia at Western Sydney University are currently developing an AI supercomputer called DeepSouth, which it expects to be as powerful as the human brain. A human brain is exceptionally energy efficient for the amount it can accomplish per watt of power. To process the equivalent of a billion-billion (also known as an exaflop) mathematical operations per second, the human brain requires only 20 watts of power. The researchers are now working on creating…

Black Friday shoppers looked to mobile commerce in record numbers this year

12/05/202312/04/2023 Jennifer Goula

Mobile commerce - Black Friday Sale on smartphone

Consumers overall looked to the internet to provide them with the deals they wanted from the sales. This year, online shopping on Black Friday rose by 7.5 percent over last year on the same day, including buying on laptops, computers and mobile commerce. Total estimated sales on the one day were $9.8 billion in the United States, said Adobe Analytics. This is a further indication that online and mobile commerce are highly appealing to consumers and that they will look there first for many of the deals they’re hunting for.…

GPT builder option might soon be an option for ChatGPT subscribers

11/14/202311/13/2023 Jennifer Goula

Leaked videos and screencaps show a new chatbot creation and management tool for the subscription plan. OpenAI is getting ready to hold its first developer conference, and at the same time, newly leaked screenshots and video have shown a substantial update to ChatGPT in the form of a GPT Builder option. The leak suggests that there will be an option for a custom chatbot creator with many known features, According to a report in The Verge, citing The Decoder, the screenshots and video of the GPT Builder indicate that OpenAI…

General Services Administration adding facial recognition to Login.gov

10/31/202310/30/2023 Jennifer Goula

The GSA is altering its digital identity service to let users authenticate themselves based on ID. The General Services Administration (GSA) has announced that it is adding facial recognition to its digital identity services, letting users authenticate themselves based on using the technology to match their faces against a government ID already submitted to their accounts. The new service will provide a single sign-on services for Americans using Login.gov. In this way, Login.gov will accept facial recognition as an authentication against the image on an already-submitted government ID. Americans will…

New York bans schools from using facial recognition technology

10/10/202310/05/2023 Jennifer Goula

Facial recognition - Banned for use in schools

The state announced that it would not allow educational institutions to use this type of tech. New York state has announced that it has banned schools from being able to use facial recognition technology. The decision was made following indications that suggested that it would place student privacy at risk. The state officially banned schools following the result of an analysis conducted by the state’s Office of Information Technology Services. It concluded that student privacy risks were more important than the possible benefits it could offer security efforts. The move…