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Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder Who Coined Chip Rule, Dies at 94
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Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder Who Coined Chip Rule, Dies at 94

Gordon Moore, the Intel Corp. co-founder whose theory on computer-chip development became the yardstick for progress in the electronics industry, has died. He was 94.Moore died peacefully surrounded by family at his home in Hawaii on Friday, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation said in a statement.   Source link
Why Does US See Chinese-Owned TikTok as a Security Threat?
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Why Does US See Chinese-Owned TikTok as a Security Threat?

A Singaporean native, Chew told the lawmakers that TikTok prioritizes user safety and as he sought to avert a ban by downplaying the app's ties to China. Both Republican and Democratic representatives aggressively questioned Chew on topics including TikTok’s content moderation practices, its data security plans, and past spying on journalists.Here's a look at some of the concerns about TikTok and its ownership.WHY DOES WASHINGTON SAY TIKTOK IS A THREAT?Political Cartoons on World Leaders Political CartoonsTikTok, which has over 150 million American users, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chinese technology firm ByteDance Ltd., which appoints its executives.ByteDance is based in Beijing but registered in the Cayman Islands, as is common for privately owned Chinese companies. Its headquart...
Faculty Members Still Aren’t Sure What to Make of ChatGPT
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Faculty Members Still Aren’t Sure What to Make of ChatGPT

As anxiety about ChatGPT continues to pervade higher ed, a recent survey suggests that most colleges, departments, and individual faculty members have yet to develop guidelines on how artificial intelligence should — or shouldn’t — be used in the classroom.Most professors surveyed were also not sure whether educators should encourage students to use ChatGPT, and not sure how they felt about their colleges’ efforts to deal with the consequences of the new technology. That’s a sign of the tool’s novelty: It debuted in November 2022, in the middle of the academic year.Emily Isaacs, executive director of the Office of Faculty Excellence at Montclair State University, said it’s likely that faculty members have found it difficult to consider — let alone adapt to — the quick-moving and dynamic...
Don’t leave Global South out of green tech growth, UN warns
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Don’t leave Global South out of green tech growth, UN warns

The majority of developing nations are set to miss out on the economic benefits of booming green technologies, slowing progress toward their climate goals and widening the inequality gap between rich and poor countries, a United Nations report warned Thursday.The U.N.’s agency for trade and development, or UNCTAD, said that unless the international community and national governments actively tend to green tech industries in developing countries, the benefits associated with lower-emission technologies will be near inaccessible for many poorer nations particularly in Latin America, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa.“We are at the beginning of a technological revolution based on green technologies,” said UNCTAD Secretary-General Rebeca Grynspan. “Developing countries must capture more ...
How Providers Should Use Technology to Meet the EPCS Mandate
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How Providers Should Use Technology to Meet the EPCS Mandate

Digital health tools that allow providers to electronically prescribe controlled medications can improve care management and curb drug misuse if they're used correctly. Digital health technology has been hailed as an important tool for healthcare providers in prescribing medications, but those tools can be used for harm as well as good. That's why federal regulators are very strict in regulating digital prescribing, or e-prescribing.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) established new rules at the beginning of 2023 for Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances (EPCS), focusing on Schedule II, III, IV, and V controlled substances (including prescription opioids) covered under Medicare Part D. This mandate requires providers to use secure prescribing practices ai...
Startup Mantra: Bringing technology into classrooms
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Startup Mantra: Bringing technology into classrooms

Education system in India has been criticised for its rote learning approach, lack of practical application, inadequate infrastructure, and limited access to quality education. Despite some positive developments in recent years, such as increased government spending and the introduction of new-age technologies, the education system in India still faces significant challenges. On one hand, traditional teaching methods are not reaching students the way they should, while on the other hand educational technology is still evolving. School management is facing challenges like a lack of management tools for informed decision-making, the inability to conduct seamless online classes, unavailability of highly skilled and trained teachers, a tedious examination process, an ineffective system of ...
Enterprise Tech Firms Push Further Into Generative AI
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Enterprise Tech Firms Push Further Into Generative AI

Microsoft Corp. , Salesforce Inc. and other large enterprise technology firms are adding ChatGPT-like tools to business-software systems, even as many corporate technology chiefs remain wary of deploying unfamiliar chatbot technology known for occasionally producing false, inaccurate or confusing results.  By embedding the technology into their software products, veteran IT vendors are poised to accelerate its adoption across the enterprise market, in part by leveraging longstanding relationships with millions of commercial customers, analysts say.     Established vendors, like Microsoft and Salesforce, understand their customers’ commercial needs and goals, said Charles King, president and principal analyst at IT consulting firm Pund-IT Inc. “Those ...
Musk Taunts Wheelchair-Bound Twitter Employee He Laid Off
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Musk Taunts Wheelchair-Bound Twitter Employee He Laid Off

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — If you're not told you are fired, are you really fired? At Twitter, probably.Haraldur Thorleifsson, who until recently was employed at Twitter, logged in to his computer last Sunday to do some work — only to find himself locked out, along with 200 others.Instead, after nine days of no answer from Twitter as to whether or not he was still employed, Thorleifsson decided to tweet at Musk to see if he could catch the billionaire's attention and get an answer to his Schrödinger’s job situation.“Maybe if enough people retweet you’ll answer me here?” he wrote on Monday.Political CartoonsEventually, he got his answer after a surreal Twitter exchange with Musk, who proceeded to quiz him about his work, question his disability and need for accommodations (Thorleifsson has mus...