Edition 38: The Post Office Scandal: What happens next?
?? From the value of Twitter (X) plummeting by over 72% of what it was acquired by #ElonMusk in October 2022, to ex- Post Office Ltd CEO #PaulaVennells handing back CBE over the #Horizon IT scandal.
?? We include the biggest talking points covered by EM360Tech, in this thirty seventh eighth of?#TechNewsTuesdays.
??? The world of retail looks very different today than it did 20 years ago. We’ve ditched shopping cards for digital baskets, cash registers for self-checkout machines, and cash for contactless payments.
?? As we enter the age of AI, however, another shift is taking place in the retail space... the rise of generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) is shaping how retailers interact with customers, manage sales, and market their products.
?? There are thousands of retail AI companies developing solutions designed to help retailers improve the customer experience, increase conversion rates, and improve supply chain management.
?? Cc: Bloomreach, Intel Corporation, Cresta, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Trigo, Oracle, mason, Salesforce, C3 AI.
"AI has become a powerful tool to use, but at what cost?!..."
?? Thomas R. Weaver?is a tech entrepreneur and author of Artificial Wisdom, a new novel centred around whether AI might sacrifice certain human freedoms in the pursuit of saving humanity from itself.
?? Set in 2050, Artificial Wisdom’s vividly realised dystopia forces readers to grapple with hard-hitting questions about our relationship with AI, as well as the climate crisis and the price we’d be willing to pay for salvation.
?? In this episode of the EM360Tech Podcast, Head of Content Matt Harris speaks to Thomas to discuss:
?? Inspiration for Artificial Wisdom
?? Recent AI regulation and legislation
?? AI predictions and worst-case scenario
?? The post office scandal is in the headlines again this week after an ITV drama about the 15-year-long saga was released on ITV.
?? But as the story plays out on television screens across the UK, the company behind the software that caused the scandal has been largely left out of the narrative.
???We re-tell the story of the post office scandal, exploring how Fujitsu's flawed #Horizon software led to the false prosecution of over 700 Post Office Ltd workers.
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?? When #ElonMusk bought popular social media platform Twitter in 2022, the tech world was excited to see the richest man in the world throw his hat into the social media ring... shortly after, Twitter as everyone knew it ceased to exist.?
?? The landscape of the internet had changed forever... 500 million actively monthly users now found themselves part of Elon’s latest business venture.?
?? Six months on, we look back at what happened to Twitter , and what we can expect to see next from X.
?? With the extensive library of domains and webpages across the world wide web, you might think the internet is running on words. But the reality is that the sentences you write and read online have nothing to do with how your computer navigates the endless web pages of the internet.?
?? To make sense of words, computers rely on?Domain Name System (#DNS) server?to translate the URL into the actual IP address of the website's server.?These servers come in all shapes and sizes and are central to how the internet works and how you navigate from page to page.?
?? In this top 10, we’re counting the?best DNS servers?for 2024, comparing their speed, reliability and security so you can choose the best DNS for your needs.
?? Cc: Gcore, Cisco Umbrella, NordVPN, Quad9 DNS, Google, Cloudflare, Comodo, VERISIGN, Oracle.
?? AI chatbots have been cropping up left, right, and centre since the launch of OpenAI’s explosive chatbot #ChatGPT at the end of 2022.
?? Powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), these chatbots can answer questions on almost any topic, generate essays in a matter of seconds, and even create code for developers.
?? Snap Inc.’s My AI is one of the latest chatbots to be launched amid the AI hype. Released to Users in April last year, the tech is now embedded into the Snapchat app and can have conversations with users about anything they like.?
?? EM360Tech Journalist, Ellis Stewart explores what Snap Inc.'s My AI is and how it works while examining whether it's safe to use the LLM-powered chatbot on the social media app.
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