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The impact of AI on edge computing

CIO

IDC forecast shows that enterprise spending (which includes GenAI software, as well as related infrastructure hardware and IT/business services), is expected to more than double in 2024 and reach $151.1 In applications where real-time responsiveness is critical, minimizing latency is paramount. over the 2023-2027 forecast period 1.

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South African startup Qwili gets $1.2M to scale its app and low-cost NFC-enabled smartphone

TechCrunch

In a statement shared with TechCrunch, Qwili said it would use the investment for app development, new hires (improvement in operations and development capabilities) and hardware production. The company’s hardware is a low-cost NFC-enabled smartphone called Qwili Pula that allows merchants to send and receive payments.

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Google Cloud growth slows as Alphabet net income plunges

CIO

Meanwhile, Google’s total advertising sales fell to $59 billion, down 3.6% In particular, a slowdown in advertising on YouTube caused revenue to fall for that unit to $7.96 Even though cloud revenue was up, growth was slower than the 38% jump in revenue the company reported for the third quarter of 2022. from the $61.2

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Digital listening reveals 3 leading innovation drivers

CIO

Because transactions are transparent, blockchain has the potential to increase trust and enable new types of disruptive applications and services, such as decentralized financial systems, marketplaces, and social networks. Metaverse Opportunities Advertising: Advertisers see the metaverse as a powerful way to connect with and reach consumers.

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO

Analog computing The most common paradigm for computation has been digital hardware built of transistors that have two states: on and off. The hope is that these new analog chips will use dramatically less power making them useful for any of the mobile and distributed applications on machines that aren’t always plugged in.

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CodeSOD: A Bit of Javascript

The Daily WTF

It was a mix of NodeJS with some custom hardware involved. I expect this code to be uploaded to NPM and turned into a microframework that ends up powering 75% of web applications by the end of the week, as a dependency-of-a-dependency-of-a-dependency. Advertisement]. It seemed thorough and complete. Get started today!

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CodeSOD: Sensing a Problem

The Daily WTF

Talking to external hardware is often hard. Especially niche hardware devices, which frequently have terrible documentation, bad APIs, and many undocumented quirks that can only be learned by working with them. For example, Sandra , still with InitAg frequently has to work with hardware. Learning can happen.