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• Major generative AI players join to create the Frontier Model Forum

  26-07-2023 21:59
  
  Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic will be the founding members of the Frontier Model Forum, an umbrella group for the generative AI industry. The group plans to focus on safety research, as well as the identification of best practices, public policy, and use cases for the rapidly advancing technology that can benefit society as a whole.According to a statement issued by the four companies Wednesday, the Forum will offer membership to organizations that design and develop large-scale
  
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• PowerX Appoints Ted Miller as Non-Executive Director - IT News Africa

  26-07-2023 18:38 via news.google.com
  PowerX Appoints Ted Miller as Non-Executive Director  IT News Africa
  
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• How to Effectively Communicate IT Security to the Executive Board: 7 Best Practices - Security Boulevard

  26-07-2023 16:38 via news.google.com
  How to Effectively Communicate IT Security to the Executive Board: 7 Best Practices  Security Boulevard
  
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• Was Steve Jobs right about this?

  26-07-2023 14:51
  
  Perhaps Steve Jobs was right to limit the amount of time he let his children use iPhones and iPads — a tradition Apple maintains with its Screen Time tool, which lets parents set limits on device use. Now, an extensive UNESCO report suggests that letting kids spend too much time on these devices can be bad for them.Baked in inequality and lack of social skills
  That’s the headline claim, but there’s a lot more to the report in terms of exploring data privacy, misuse of tech, an
  
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• New monday.com data infrastructure to speed platform performance

  26-07-2023 14:00
  
  Work management company monday.com has announced the initial rollout of its new mondayDB data infrastructure, built to underpin the company’s Work OS platform and help boost customers’ usage of the system.Described by the company as having a schemaless architecture — meaning that it has no predefined structure for how data is organized and stored — mondayDB strengthens the Work OS platform on top of which all of monday.com’s suite of products are built. This will a
  
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• How the Google Pixel Fold could make every Android device better

  26-07-2023 12:00
  
  When you talk about Google's Pixel Fold, it's tough not to focus mostly on the phone's form.I mean, this is a device whose screen folds in half, for cryin' out loud! It may not be the first Android phone to feature that feat, but still: It's without a doubt the device's defining characteristic. And it's quite a sight to see, even in passing, and even more so to experience in your own pockets and person-paws.While it's easy to obsess over the Fold's fold, though, we've been there and done that a
  
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• Companies that trialed a 4-day workweek continue to reduce time on the clock

  26-07-2023 12:00
  
  Companies that participated in a four-day workweek experiment have further reduced the amount of time employees are on the clock six months after the study’s end. The companies also continue to see increased productivity and benefits, according to new data from the pilot program.The non-profit 4 Day Week Global found that companies’ average working hours continued to fall after the six-month pilot program  ended in February.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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