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...“The Department of Commerce’s visibility into high-performance computing chip exports worldwide is going to go way up,” Allen said....
...Apple is hardly new to the smart assistants game. It bought Siri in 2010 and embedded it as a language-powered assistant in the iPhone a year later....
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...The acceleration of artificial intelligence and overall computing needs are affecting NCR’s big customers, he said. And this computing power increases their carbon footprints....
...The tech giant believes its new “mixed reality” device will usher in a “new era” in “spatial computing”, arguing the Vision Pro will have a similar impact to how the iPhone has revolutionised mobile computing...
...More than 80 per cent of total emissions was embedded in the goods and services that Mars buys, he said. “Huge amounts of this is about raw materials and agriculture . . ....
...“You need advances in optics, in power management, in thermal management [and computing power],” Toikkanen added....
...“Microsoft’s pricing power will jump once it has AI embedded in its services,” said Zino....
...Smart home: Apple has rebuilt its Home app to give users a better view of all the smart features in their home....
...Google’s sole reference to augmented reality at its event this year came with the demonstration of a simple translation app, making it possible for someone wearing a pair of smart glasses to see subtitles...
...The NFC ‘tap and go’ technology is embedded on Apple mobile devices for payments in stores.”...
...Tesco, for instance, has installed 500 “smart screens” at entrances to its connected stores through a partnership with JCDecaux....
...Devices covered include smartphones, smart TVs, games consoles, security cameras, baby monitors, smart home hubs and appliances, voice-activated assistants, smart thermostats and wearable fitness trackers...
...Even having to swipe the magnetic stripe that has been embedded in cards since 1970 is a rare event....
...They look almost identical to the classic model, first sold in 1952, except for one thing: they have Facebook embedded in them....
...Apple’s long-planned smart glasses are not expected to debut until next year at the earliest....
...By contrast, AR devices such as smart glasses enhance users’ surroundings, projecting new information on top of what they are already seeing. VR and AR have promise in certain industries....
...The past decade of easy money policies, big shifts into mobile and the emergence of cloud computing has been remarkably benevolent to tech companies....
...For example, the smart cameras that are AI driven that can segment the conference room and give everybody a box, and so on....
...The growing power of digital communications and computing and new regulatory powers enable the UK tax authority to trawl deeper for mind-boggling amounts of financial information....
...The move comes after it pipped its larger rivals Facebook and Apple to become the first big technology company to unveil AR smart glasses (see Tech Tools). 5....
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...The world’s largest social media company has for years been working on its first pair of smart glasses, which founder Mark Zuckerberg believes will be ubiquitous by the end of the decade....
...Smart reads Heavy traffic A myriad of electric vehicle start-ups are revving up to become the next Tesla, and there’s no shortage of fuel thanks to the billions of dollars staked on the race by BlackRock...
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