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Are we putting too much faith in efficiency technologies? (Yes.) AI

Are we putting too much faith in efficiency technologies? (Yes.)

There is a belief that shifting to renewable energy and transitioning from physical to digital work methods will diminish the adverse impact of human activities on the environment. In his book “Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization,” journalist Ed Conway from

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When sausage rolls go offline: The hidden cost of outages AI

When sausage rolls go offline: The hidden cost of outages

Last week, I was with AI-outage-prediction company Hortium at the Retail Technology show at Olympia. Why was that? WhatApp, Instagram and a string of retailers including McDonalds and ultimate champion dealer of the sausage roll, Greggs, have all suffered outages over the last year that

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Beating the big firms: Part 2 AI

Beating the big firms: Part 2

The holes in AI messaging Hi guys Sorry it’s late this week. Half term and kids running around. (Quite nice really, but they’ve been banned from their computers today for being naughty.) Now with all the noise about AI, this week I have a test for you. I’m not seeing a credible benchmark,

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Accenture: Execs say edge computing key to growth AI

Accenture: Execs say edge computing key to growth

Foundational to useful AI strategies Edge computing is the use of any type of computer program that delivers low latency nearer to the requests Accenture researched sentiment towards edge adoption across 2,100 C-level executives in 18 industries across 16 countries. Findings: * Edge is set

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