Category Archives: Technology

The Download: generative AI’s carbon footprint, and a CRISPR patent battle

The Download: generative AI’s carbon footprint, and a CRISPR patent battle

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone The news: Generating a single image using a powerful AI model takes as much energy as fully charging your […]

Sustainability starts with the data center

Sustainability starts with the data center

For data center operators, options for boosting sustainability include shifting energy sources, upgrading physical infrastructure and hardware, improving and automating workflows, and updating the software that manages data center storage. Hitachi Vantara estimates that emissions attributable to data storage infrastructure can be reduced as much as 96% by using a combination of these approaches. Critics […]

Google DeepMind’s new AI tool helped create more than 700 new materials

Google DeepMind’s new AI tool helped create more than 700 new materials

GNoME can be described as AlphaFold for materials discovery, according to Ju Li, a materials science and engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. AlphaFold, a DeepMind AI system announced in 2020, predicts the structures of proteins with high accuracy and has since advanced biological research and drug discovery. Thanks to GNoME, the number […]

Samsung Email Not Showing Images? Try These 3 Fixes Now

Samsung Email Not Showing Images? Try These 3 Fixes Now

Like Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, and other popular email clients, there should be an option to Show Images in Samsung Email. But recently, users have reported a glitch where this option has disappeared, meaning that they have to turn images on by default — a significant security flaw. In this troubleshooting guide, we’ll explain what causes […]

Procurement in the age of AI

Procurement in the age of AI

Influencing compliance spend. Procurement professionals aim to balance employees’ freedom to purchase the items they need with minimal intervention. However, self-sufficiency should not come at the cost of proper spend management, productivity, and policy compliance. “There’s always a healthy tension between how a company ensures they have the right controls and oversight but also enables […]

The Download: unpacking OpenAI Q* hype, and X’s financial woes

The Download: unpacking OpenAI Q* hype, and X’s financial woes

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Unpacking the hype around OpenAI’s rumored new Q* model Ever since last week’s dramatic events at OpenAI, the rumor mill has been in overdrive about why the company’s board tried to oust CEO […]