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• Amazon workers walk out to protest return-to-work policy, climate change

  31-05-2023 23:11
  
  Several hundred tech and administrative workers at Amazon’s main headquarters in Seattle staged a walkout today, urging the technology and retail giant to adopt more climate-friendly policies and do away with rules mandating in-office work.Several speakers at an event — which was broadcast on Twitter — spoke outside the company’s headquarters Wednesday morning, saying that climate change wasn’t being taken sufficiently seriously by Amazon, and arguing for a range o
  
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• USQBC executive highlights growth potential in IT, AI partnerships between Qatar-US firms| Gulf Times - Gulf Times

  31-05-2023 22:23 via news.google.com
  USQBC executive highlights growth potential in IT, AI partnerships between Qatar-US firms| Gulf Times  Gulf Times
  
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• WWDC: Apple gets back to the Mac in PC sales attack

  31-05-2023 16:46
  
  What do you need to go with a new cutting-edge mixed reality product? Computers to create virtual worlds on. That seems to be what Apple plans to introduce at WWDC next week.Is Apple about to turn AR hype into happening?
  All eyes are on Apple in the prelude to the company’s big developer jamboree beginning June 5. AR and VR industry leaders are hoping hard that the company’s announcements will be wind beneath the wings of a business opportunity that hasn’t really manifested it
  
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• The metaverse: Not dead yet

  31-05-2023 12:00
  
  The metaverse has been described as the next phase of the internet: interconnected and persistent 3D spaces where we will work, play, and, so it seems, purchase virtual real estate. But metaverse-related technologies have failed to keep up with the considerable hype, the vision of ultrarealistic virtual environments offered by tech vendors miles away from the current reality of cartoony avatars and cumbersome, expensive headsets.As the hype spotlight has shifted sharply to generative AI and all
  
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• 20 seconds to smarter Chromebook multitasking

  31-05-2023 12:00
  
  If you love finding hidden software treasures as much as I do, Google's ChromeOS operating system is a productivity playground like no other.ChromeOS is in a constant state of evolution, y'see, with new releases landing every four weeks and fresh 'n' fancy features more or less always under development and begging to be discovered. The best part of that setup is that unlike most other platforms — including even Android — Google's latest and greatest ChromeOS features are typically t
  
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• EU officials to meet OpenAI CEO again in June over AI laws

  31-05-2023 08:48
  
  Just days after trading remarks over the implementation of AI laws in Europe, European Union’s industry chief Thierry Breton is set to meet OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in June to discuss AI regulations further, according to a Reuters report.The meeting, which is most likely to take place in San Francisco, will see Breton seek a roadmap for implementation of EU’s AI regulations that are expected to come into effect in 2026, the news report cited unnamed EU officials as saying.  The di
  
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