DOJ Opens Recruitment for Legal Technology Officer  GovTech

Hoover City Schools names Kelli Lane as chief technology officer  280 Living

Department of Performing Arts and Technology celebrates 100 years, looks to the future  N.C. State University Technician Online

Gov Tech Leader Nina D’Amato Named Chief Technology Strategist by Lenovo  GovTech

Bringing Locks to Life With Strand Hair Technology in Dragon Age: The Veilguard  Electronic Arts Home Page

Cedar Crest names founding director of technology leadership center  Lehigh Valley Business

Is technology improving airline customer service?  PhocusWire

How 3D scanning technology is being leveraged for commercial marine use cases  WorkBoat

HemaChrome collaborates with Global Health Labs to enhance its mobile health technology to test blood hemoglobin  Purdue University

NASA-developed Technology Supports Ocean Wind Speed Measurements from Commercial Satellite  Science@NASA

How Tech Created a ‘Recipe for Loneliness’  The New York Times

The deal also extends the agreement to the new entity that may be formed by Vodafone's planned UK merger with Three, though that deal is under CMA investigation.

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The company is pushing forward with its goal of connecting 1.9m premises in Ireland to its fibre network.

Read more: Eir says 93pc of broadband customers are hooked up to fibre

The Competition and Markets Authority will give its final decision on the major merger deal by 7 December.

Read more: Vodafone-Three merger could hike prices, finds UK watchdog

Lara Connaughton discusses the importance of driving the conversation around innovation and a sustainable future at a national and international level.

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The company must invest $15.75m to strengthen its cybersecurity and pay a penalty of $15.75m to the US Treasury.

Read more: T-mobile reaches $31.5m settlement with FCC over cybersecurity breaches

The CMA has found that a legally enforceable network upgrade as well as price freezing could solve its competition concerns.

Read more: Vodafone-Three merger might get greenlit by UK watchdog

Facial recognition technology can help the platform be 'faster, more accurate and more effective' against imposters, the software giant said.

Read more: Meta to test facial recognition to deter scammers

Globally, a data breach costs an estimated €3m and yet less than a third of Irish companies are well prepared.

Read more: Only 28pc of Irish companies have ‘robust’ cybersecurity measures

More than half of all breaches occurred in the Department of Social Protection, data revealed.

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Eligible SMEs can apply for funding of 80pc of their project costs, with a maximum grant of €60,000.

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The funds will also enable the development of next generation compounds, according to the company.

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The jobs will be in areas such as software engineering, applied sciences, data science, design, technical writing and analytics.

Read more: Microsoft to create 550 Irish-based jobs in R&D investment

The medical device manufacturer employs more than a 1,000 people at its site in Galway and Leitrim.

Read more: Freudenberg Medical announces 250 jobs for Leitrim

Were you offered a fully remote position but aren’t sure that it is the right step? Well here is what you need to know.

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Gaming giant Razer had been rumoured to be working on a smartphone for some time.

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The preview of Messenger Kids is launching in the US first.

Read more: Facebook launches Messenger Kids app for under-13s

Cabin fever hitting you hard? Google’s fun new game will keep you occupied.

Read more: Google Song Maker is the perfect time waster to while away the storm

The new quantised models are 56pc smaller and use 41pc less memory when compared to the full-size models released last month.

Read more: Meta releases compact versions of Llama 3.2 AI models

People have long dreamed of self-driving cars and humanoid robots, but the revolution has been slow. Why is that? Founder of robotic therapy equipment start-up RoboSculptor, Dennis Ledenkof talks about factors that hinder the development of robotics.

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A number of new measures have been announced as part of Ireland’s national AI strategy, including expanded upskilling initiatives.

Read more: Irish Government unveils ‘refreshed’ national AI strategy

Anton Shilov reports via Tom's Hardware: FFmpeg is an open-source video decoding project developed by volunteers who contribute to its codebase, fix bugs, and add new features. The project is led by a small group of core developers and maintainers who oversee its direction and ensure that contributions meet certain standards. They coordinate the project's development and release cycles, merging contributions from other developers. This group of developers tried to implement a handwritten AVX512 assembly code path, something that has rarely been done before, at least not in the video industry. The developers have created an optimized code path using the AVX-512 instruction set to accelerate specific functions within the FFmpeg multimedia processing library. By leveraging AVX-512, they were able to achieve significant performance improvements -- from three to 94 times faster -- compared to standard implementations. AVX-512 enables processing large chunks of data in parallel using 512-bit registers, which can handle up to 16 single-precision FLOPS or 8 double-precision FLOPS in one operation. This optimization is ideal for compute-heavy tasks in general, but in the case of video and image processing in particular. The benchmarking results show that the new handwritten AVX-512 code path performs considerably faster than other implementations, including baseline C code and lower SIMD instruction sets like AVX2 and SSSE3. In some cases, the revamped AVX-512 codepath achieves a speedup of nearly 94 times over the baseline, highlighting the efficiency of hand-optimized assembly code for AVX-512.

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Starting November 11, TSMC plans to stop supplying 7 nm and smaller chips to Chinese companies working on AI processors and GPUs. "The move is reportedly to ensure it remains compliant with US export restrictions," reports The Register. From the report: This will not affect Chinese customers wanting 7 nm chips from TSMC for other applications such as mobile and communications, according to Nikkei, which said the overall impact on the chipmaker's revenue is likely to be minimal. TrendForce further cites another China-based source who claims the move was at the behest of the US Department of Commerce, which informed TSMC that any such shipments should not proceed unless approved and licensed by its BIS (Bureau of Industry and Security). We asked the agency for confirmation. Any moves by the silicon supremo is likely to be out of caution to pre-empt accusations from Washington that it isn't doing enough to prevent advanced technology from getting into the hands of Chinese entities that have been sanctioned. As TrendForce notes, it "highlights the foundry giant's delicate position in the global semiconductor supply chain amid the heating chip war between the world's two superpowers."

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Sodium-ion batteries are cheaper than lithium-ion batteries — and they're also more environmentally friendly. And "In the past few years, sodium-ion battery production has increased in the United States," reports the Washington Post, with a new factory planned to manufacture them "in the same way as lithium-ion batteries, just with different ingredients. Instead of using expensive materials like lithium, nickel and cobalt, these will be made of sodium, iron and manganese..." Last month, sodium-ion battery manufacturer Natron Energy announced it would open a "gigafactory" in North Carolina that would produce 24 gigawatt hours of batteries annually, enough energy to charge 24,000 electric vehicles. But sodium-ion batteries are still early in their development compared with lithium-ion, and they have yet to hit the market on a massive scale. "It's unlikely sodium-ion could displace lithium-ion anytime soon," said Keith Beers, polymer science and materials chemistry principal engineer at technical consultancy firm Exponent... The biggest limitation of sodium-ion batteries is their weight. Sodium weighs nearly three times as much as lithium, and it cannot store the same amount of energy. As a result, sodium-ion batteries tend to be larger. Jens Peters, an economics professor at the University of Alcalá in Madrid, said the energy density could be improved over time in sodium-ion batteries. But, he added, "what we found out so far in our assessments is that it is not a game changer." Sodium-ion batteries are touted to be the environmentally friendly alternative to their lithium-ion counterparts, thanks to their raw materials. Sodium, iron and manganese are all abundant elements on the planet, so they require less energy to extract and cost less... Sodium-ion batteries also last longer than lithium-ion ones because they can withstand more charge cycles, said Wendell Brooks, co-CEO of Natron Energy. "Our product can have millions of cycles," said Brooks, "where lithium-ion would have three to five thousand cycles and wear out a lot faster...." Sodium-ion batteries aren't the best fit for smartphones or electric vehicles, which need to store lots of energy. However, one advantage is their low cost. And they could be a good candidate in situations where the size of the battery isn't a concern, like energy storage. "When something is built out to support grid or backup storage, it doesn't need to be very dense. It's staying put," Beers said. Natron will invest nearly $1.4 billion in the factory "to meet the rapidly expanding demand for critical power, industrial and grid energy storage solutions," according to their announcement. "Natron's high-performance sodium-ion batteries outperform lithium-ion batteries in power density and recharging speed, do not require lithium, cobalt, copper, or nickel, and are non-flammable... Natron's batteries are the only UL-listed sodium-ion batteries on the market today, and will be delivered to a wide range of customer end markets in the industrial power space, including data centers, mobility, EV fast charging, microgrids, and telecom, among others."

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Led by Prof Breandán Kennedy, the research project will bring together 21 institutions from 11 countries.

Read more: UCD-led EU project aims to revolutionise biomedical research

The global average temperature this past year was 1.62 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average.

Read more: 2024 on track to become the warmest year on record

The project was described by judges as a 'creative and inspiring submission that will spark curiosity in space exploration'.

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PwC highlights that the growing demand for energy continues to outpace the adoption of renewables.

Read more: We need to decarbonise 20 times faster to stay on target, PwC says

Altair is known for its computational science and AI for industrial simulation and data analytics.

Read more: Siemens to buy Altair for $10bn to boost industrial software

The tech giant plans to spend big on AI because it sees 'strong momentum' in this area.

Read more: Meta to increase AI spend as revenue soars

Caitlin Kalinowski oversaw the development of Meta's augmented reality glasses that were announced five years ago.

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The proposed ban includes those already on the platforms and those with parental consent.

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The CEO of Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, had faced accusations that he had ignored and downplayed internal concerns raised about young users.

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While many people in the creative industries are worrying that AI is about to steal their jobs, Oscar-winning film director James Cameron is embracing the technology. Cameron is famous for making the Avatar and Terminator movies, as well as Titanic. Now he has joined the board of Stability.AI, a leading player in the world of Generative AI. In Cameron’s Terminator films, Skynet is an artificial general intelligence that has become self-aware and is determined to destroy the humans who are trying to deactivate it. Forty years after the first of those movies, its director appears to be changing sides and…

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When Apple’s version of AI, branded as Apple Intelligence, rolls out in October to folks with the company’s latest hardware, the response is likely to be a mix of delight and disappointment. The AI capabilities on their way to Apple’s walled-garden will bring helpful new features, such as textual summaries in email, Messages and Safari; image creation; and a more context-aware version of Siri. But as Apple Intelligence’s beta testing has already made clear, the power of these features falls well below what is on offer from major players like OpenAI, Google, and Meta. Apple AI won’t come close to…

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An interconnected smart home is a nice idea, but not if it's constantly leaking your data.

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ERICO® and TRUFAST® have teamed together to market the CADDY® PYRAMID family of rooftop pipe and equipment supports to the roofing market in North America.

Not only did this project renovate a California church with a durable new roof, it earned third place in the 2019 ATAS Project of the Year competition.