Google’s dilemma: AI expansion vs achieving climate goals

Google’s dilemma: AI expansion vs achieving climate goals

Google is currently grappling with a major dilemma: finding a way to maintain its impressive progress in AI technology while also staying true to its goal of minimising carbon emissions. In its 2024 Environmental Report, Google discloses a concerning trend: a staggering 50% surge in emissions over the past five years. This surge can be attributed mainly to the heightened energy requirements of its AI-powered data centres. This alarming surge threatens to derail Google’s ambitious climate goals and underscores a growing conflict between technological progress and environmental sustainability. The report, reflecting Google’s progress toward meeting its environmental goals last year, shows…
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Qlik debuts new data integration and curation tools for generative AI systems – SiliconANGLE

Qlik debuts new data integration and curation tools for generative AI systems – SiliconANGLE

Data integration platform provider Qlik Tech International AB this week debuted a new product called the Qlik Talend Cloud, saying it’s designed to deliver high-quality, trusted data to artificial intelligence systems. It was announced alongside a new generative AI assistant that promises to help companies make better use of their unstructured data. The announcements came earlier this week during the company’s annual Qlik Connect event in Orlando. There, it also revealed strategic alliances with Amazon Web Services Inc. and Snowflake Inc. During Qlik Connect, the company was keen to stress the importance of good data and proper data management in enabling…
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Proton launches its own version of Google Docs

Proton launches its own version of Google Docs

Proton now has its own version of Google Docs in its Drive cloud storage service, and like the company's other products, it comes with end-to-end encryption. The company says its flavor of Docs "offers a unique solution in a market where most popular products neglect privacy" and recommends it for use in the healthcare, media, finance and legal industries. Proton Docs has advanced formatting and image embed options like Google Docs has and can create, open and edit documents in multiple formats, including Microsoft .docx.It has collaboration tools similar to Google Docs', as well. Users can invite anyone to view…
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RFK Jr., the man running as an alternative to Trump and Biden, just denied he barbecued and ate a dog

RFK Jr., the man running as an alternative to Trump and Biden, just denied he barbecued and ate a dog

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been linked to numerous bizarre headlines — including an admission that he once had a worm in his brain — but things just got a lot weirder.A Vanity Fair article on Tuesday contained an allegation that the independent presidential candidate once ate a barbecued dog.The article featured a picture that Kennedy — an environmental lawyer —had sent to a friend in 2010, which showed him holding a crisp carcass of an animal, posing with an unidentified woman.Vanity Fair had a veterinarian examine the picture, and the vet told the outlet it was likely a canine…
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Single Page Application: Authentication and Authorization in Angular

Single Page Application: Authentication and Authorization in Angular

Introduction In a Single Page Application (SPA), each element has its own existence and lifecycle, rather than being part of a global page state. Authentication and authorization can affect some or all elements on the screen. Authentication Process in an SPA User login: Obtain an access and refresh token. Client-side storage: Store tokens and minimal details in local storage. Login resolver: Redirect away from the login page if the user is authenticated. Router auth guard: Redirect to the login page if the user is unauthenticated. Logout: Remove stored data. Additional Considerations HTTP interceptor: Use the token for API calls. 401…
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This $40 Subscription Will Bring AI Into Your Business

This $40 Subscription Will Bring AI Into Your Business

TL;DR: Tap into a powerful world of AI with more than 82% off the 1minAI platform now at $39.99 through July 21. Businesses these days are scrambling to see how AI can help them innovate and grow. While AI hasn’t exactly entered into the mainstream without some ethical and moral questions, companies are nonetheless moving fast towards finding ways to incorporate expensive AI models into their business. If you’re running a smaller business, you may not feel like adopting OpenAI is for you, but that doesn’t mean you can’t leverage the power of AI. In fact, during our version of…
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Zoom now wants to be known ‘as an AI-first collaboration platform’

Zoom now wants to be known ‘as an AI-first collaboration platform’

COVID-19 has, in a sense, transformed Zoom from a business-only tool into a household name. Now, the $19 billion video-calling giant is looking to redefine itself, which means leaving behind much of what has made it a mainstay throughout its decade-plus history. Graeme Geddes, Zoom’s chief growth officer, recently told Fortune, “Zoom is so much more than just video meetings. Video is our heritage—so we’re going to continue to lean in there, push the market, there’s a lot of innovation that we’re doing—but we’re so much more than that.” The company’s new aspiration? “We want to be known as an…
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Lyra Health tackles mental health crisis with Fivetran’s data lake management – SiliconANGLE

Lyra Health tackles mental health crisis with Fivetran’s data lake management – SiliconANGLE

Our country is currently in the midst of a mental health crisis, and Lyra Health Inc., a leading provider for mental health benefits, is trying to better serve its customers through a collaboration with Fivetran Inc., an automated data movement platform. The latter company recently announced the Fivetran Managed Data Lake Service, which allows companies such as Lyra Health to move data into Apache Iceberg, the popular format for managing large amounts of data in analytic tables. Lyra Health’s Chris Suen and Fivetran’s Taylor Brown discuss the enterprise’s desire for more ownership over data. “Traditionally, you had to load your…
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I’m the son of a billionaire who forged my own career path.

I’m the son of a billionaire who forged my own career path.

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with 29-year-old Pete Ballmer, a standup comedian and former product manager in San Francisco and one of the sons of billionaire and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. It has been edited for length and clarity.As a kid, I liked computers. I used to subscribe to PCWorld Magazine because I liked reading about new products. I took computer science classes at my high school and really enjoyed them.I majored in computer science with a concentration in human-computer interaction at Stanford. Many people told me I was doing what my dad, Steve Ballmer,…
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