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“By managing resources more effectively in the cloud, the end user gets more predictable performance from the application running on their smartphone,” she adds.Mathematical beginningsDelimitrou grew up in a midsized town within the vast plains of northern Greece. Her early interest in math and science was sparked, in part, by the ancient history of her homeland, where Euclid and Pythagoras studied mathematical problems more than 2,000 years ago. “In Greece, there is a long tradition of geometry,” she says.She also drew scientific inspiration from her parents. Her mother worked as a chemical engineer and her father as a pharmacist — and…
Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? It helps to know a bit about a certain popular country song if you want to answer 5-Down. Read on if you need help solving the puzzle today. The Mini Crossword is a nice break from the tougher puzzles, and it takes only a fraction of the time of the vaunted, regular New York Times Crossword puzzle. CNET publishes daily answers and hints for Wordle, The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Mini across clues and answers 1A clue: Old-fashioned business?Answer: BAR 4A clue: Start of a…
NVIDIA and Microsoft bet big on local AI with their Surface Laptop Ultra. “The software wasn’t ready, but the hardware was. Now the software is ready, and the hardware is too expensive to actually run it locally. So it’s becoming this thing where only the people who have the budget can really afford to run AI locally.” – Anshel Sag, an analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang took the stage in San Francisco to unveil the Surface Laptop Ultra. Powered by NVIDIA’s RTX Spark chip, this powerhouse runs heavy AI models…
They thought vending machine coffee was terrible, so they built one themselves Vending machine coffee often has a reputation for being watery and bitter—it’s the kind of drink you settle for just because it’s convenient. But Flow Coffee is trying to change that assumption. Over the past year, its vending machines have used real Meiji milk and oat milk instead of the cheap powdered creamer common among competitors, aiming to make the coffee taste closer to what you’d get at a café. The numbers suggest it’s working. Flow now sells 23,000 cups a month and has surpassed 150,000 cups sold…
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The word “intelligent” gets attached to a lot of things in enterprise tech, and most senior leaders have learned to read right past it. That skepticism is valid. When every platform, every storage array, and every SaaS dashboard claims intelligence, the word stops carrying meaning. But there is a real distinction worth drawing, because we are in the middle of the biggest AI wave most enterprises have ever faced. The gap between companies with real results and companies still waiting for them is getting harder to ignore. Here’s why the timing matters. The infrastructure choices companies make this year won’t…
Attackers compromised three country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) and obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for several Google domains, Google said on October 6. Google’s own systems were not breached, but any domain ending in .gh (Ghana), .sl (Sierra Leone) or .as (American Samoa) was put at risk. With such a certificate, an attacker could pose as the real site over an encrypted connection and read the private data sent to it. Chrome blocked the unauthorized certificates for Google’s domains through CRLSets, its way of quickly blocking certificates in emergencies, Google said. The company also worked with the certificate authorities (CAs) that issued the certificates…
City of Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson set up a new task force to bolster the economy. (Photo via Katie Wilson for Mayor) Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is bringing together leaders from Amazon, Spotify, the Port of Seattle, organized labor, technology, cleantech, small business and other sectors as part of a new task force focused on rebuilding and diversifying the city’s economy. Wilson on Wednesday announced 18 members of the Resilient Seattle Economy Task Force, which will look for ways to remove barriers to business growth, attract and retain companies and improve the process of starting and operating a business in…
Since its founding in 2004, it’s arguable that no network vendor has made better switches than Arista Networks Inc. That was true then and remains true, as its prowess in this area helped it ride the cloud boom and the artificial intelligence wave. That model is changing as AI scales. Today, ahead of next week’s Open Compute Project Global Summit in San Jose, Arista announced an expansion of its AI network strategy from switches to rack scale. Arista is launching an open Ethernet rack-scale portfolio covering both scale-up and scale-out AI fabrics, built with a large ecosystem of players such…
Chris Bourg, who has served as director of the MIT Libraries since 2015, has been named vice provost and Barbara K. Ostrom (1978) Director of the Libraries, MIT Provost Anantha Chandrakasan announced today.“The title ‘vice provost’ signals the enduring importance of the MIT Libraries in the digital age,” said Chandrakasan. “While the ways in which the libraries meet the needs of our community might change as technology changes, their mission of protecting access to knowledge and information is as vital as ever.”Thanks to a generous gift from Barbara K. Ostrom ’78, SM ’78, the position of the director of the…