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Stellantis Continues Global Rollout of Connected Car Features
June 13, 2024

Stellantis is rolling out several software products and connected features for its vehicles around the world. The automaker, whose 14 brands include Chrysler, Fiat and Peugeot, aims to enhance the mobility experience of its customers and boost its revenue from software and connected services, Stellantis...

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X CEO Linda Yaccarino Says Other Platforms Could Use Fact-Checking Feature
May 24, 2024

X CEO Linda Yaccarino said Friday (May 24) that the social media company could share its Community Notes feature with newspapers and other platforms. The crowd-sourced fact-checking feature can “force out bias,” Yaccarino said at the VivaTech conference in Paris, Bloomberg reported Friday. Yaccarino added that the feature now has more than 500,000 volunteers contributing...

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Microsoft and G42 Team on $1 Billion Kenya Data Center
May 22, 2024

Microsoft and AI company G42 have teamed to build a $1 billion Kenya-based data center. The collaboration, according to a Wednesday (May 22) news release, marks the largest digital investment in the history of the African nation, and will see the two companies join forces to create a new cloud...

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Microsoft Earmarks $4.3 Billion for AI/Cloud Projects in France
May 13, 2024

Microsoft says it is investing $4.3 billion toward tech projects in France. The spending package will focus on cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, “AI skilling, and French Tech acceleration,” the company announced Monday (May 13), with the goal of training 1 million people and supporting 2,500 AI...

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From Factories to the Fast Lane, Unpacking Autonomy’s Potential
May 08, 2024

As the electric vehicle (EV) landscape shows signs of short-circuiting, automakers are eyeing another innovation. One more futuristic, and more fitting, for our rising artificial intelligence (AI) era.  That’s because, with the news Tuesday (May 7) that Wayve — a software startup focused on self-driving...

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What Businesses Tackling Technical Debt Can Learn From the IRS
May 07, 2024

Where a business spends its money typically defines its strategy. And with the news last Thursday (May 2) that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is seeking more funding to continue scaling its digital transformation efforts as part of its Strategic Operating Plan, process modernizations designed to...

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Advanced Tech Adds Miles of Progress to Smart City Vision
April 26, 2024

The global smart cities landscape is evolving, driven by the fusion of urbanization and technological advancements. This transformative shift is underscored by the recent release of the “2024 Smart City Index,” a collaborative effort between the IMD World Competitiveness Center and the World Smart Sustainable...

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Making Sense of: How America’s CHIPS Act Fuels Domestic Innovation
April 26, 2024

American companies are outpacing European ones on innovation and technology. That’s what the head of Norway’s $1.6 trillion oil fund told the Financial Times Wednesday (April 24), and his comments came as just a day later, on Thursday (April 25), French President Emmanuel Macron urged...

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Advanced Tech Expands TV eCommerce Horizons
April 24, 2024

Gone are the days when watching TV was simply a passive pastime, a one-way street where viewers absorbed content without any direct interaction. In today’s digital age, the television screen has become a gateway to a world of commerce possibilities, ushering in the era of...