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Lyft announces Women+ Connect, a feature that helps match female drivers with female passengers; riders can still match with men when no women are available (Kellen Browning/New York Times) 12-09-2023

Kellen Browning / New York Times: Lyft announces Women+ Connect, a feature that helps match female drivers with female passengers; riders can still match with men when no women are available  —  The company said it hoped to improve safety and encourage more female drivers.  —  Lyft said on Tuesday that it was introducing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Intel announces Thunderbolt 5, offering up to 120 Gbps bandwidth, support for DisplayPort 2.1, USB v4, USB 3 20G, and PCIe Gen4, and up to 240W charging support (VideoCardz.com) 12-09-2023

VideoCardz.com: Intel announces Thunderbolt 5, offering up to 120 Gbps bandwidth, support for DisplayPort 2.1, USB v4, USB 3 20G, and PCIe Gen4, and up to 240W charging support  —  Thunderbolt 5 offers up to 3x the speed over Thunderbolt 4  —  Intel has revealed its newest iteration of the Thunderbolt technology. Lees verder op Tech Meme

How Finnish AI startup Metroc, which helps construction companies find projects, uses prison labor paid €1.54/hour to label data, with widespread public support (Morgan Meaker/Wired) 12-09-2023

Morgan Meaker / Wired: How Finnish AI startup Metroc, which helps construction companies find projects, uses prison labor paid €1.54/hour to label data, with widespread public support  —  In high-wage Finland, where clickworkers are rare, one company has discovered a novel labor force—prisoners. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Intel agrees to sell a 10% stake in IMS Nanofabrication to TSMC, valuing IMS at $4.3B, and will retain majority ownership of the standalone subsidiary (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat) 12-09-2023

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Intel agrees to sell a 10% stake in IMS Nanofabrication to TSMC, valuing IMS at $4.3B, and will retain majority ownership of the standalone subsidiary  —  Intel has agreed to sell a 10% stake in IMS Nanofabrication to TSMC for $430 million at a valuation of $4.3 billion. Lees verder op Tech Meme

MLCommons' MLPerf benchmark, based on a 6B-parameter LLM that summarizes CNN articles, finds Nvidia's H100s performed best, closely followed by Intel's Gaudi2 (Max A. Cherney/Reuters) 12-09-2023

Max A. Cherney / Reuters: MLCommons’ MLPerf benchmark, based on a 6B-parameter LLM that summarizes CNN articles, finds Nvidia’s H100s performed best, closely followed by Intel’s Gaudi2  —  An artificial intelligence benchmark group called MLCommons unveiled the results on Monday of new tests that determine how quickly top-of-the-line hardware can run AI models. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Salesforce announces Einstein Copilot, an AI chatbot for its apps, launching via pilot later in fall, part of its new Einstein 1 Platform (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE) 12-09-2023

Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: Salesforce announces Einstein Copilot, an AI chatbot for its apps, launching via pilot later in fall, part of its new Einstein 1 Platform  —  Salesforce Inc. today rolled out an artificial intelligence conversational copilot assistant for its applications that can assist users … Lees verder op Tech Meme

An in-depth look at how Google's Transformer model, developed by eight researchers in 2017, radically sped up and augmented how computers understand language (Financial Times) 12-09-2023

Financial Times: An in-depth look at how Google’s Transformer model, developed by eight researchers in 2017, radically sped up and augmented how computers understand language  —  Over the past few years, we have taken a gigantic leap forward in our decades-long quest to build intelligent machines: the advent of the large language model, or LLM. Lees verder op Tech Meme

A look at the challenges facing Arm, expected to start trading on September 14 at a $52B valuation, including a huge array of clients and geopolitical tensions (Don Clark/New York Times) 12-09-2023

Don Clark / New York Times: A look at the challenges facing Arm, expected to start trading on September 14 at a $52B valuation, including a huge array of clients and geopolitical tensions  —  The SoftBank-owned company, which for decades has defined how mobile phones operate, is grappling with geopolitical … Lees verder op Tech Meme

A profile of Thierry Breton, as the EU prepares to enforce the DSA and DMA, giving the bloc unprecedented regulatory power over big American tech companies (Jillian Deutsch/Bloomberg) 12-09-2023

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: A profile of Thierry Breton, as the EU prepares to enforce the DSA and DMA, giving the bloc unprecedented regulatory power over big American tech companies  —  Thierry Breton is a proponent of more regulation — and rules that boost EU companies. … The 68-year-old Frenchman was suppressing a smile … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The White House says eight more companies, including Salesforce, Nvidia, Palantir, IBM, and Stability, are signing its voluntary AI pledge, for 15 in total (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post) 12-09-2023

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: The White House says eight more companies, including Salesforce, Nvidia, Palantir, IBM, and Stability, are signing its voluntary AI pledge, for 15 in total  —  15 companies, ranging from Photoshop creator Adobe to ChatGPT maker OpenAI, have now taken the voluntary commitments Lees verder op Tech Meme