November 23, 2023 A recent trend has emerged among some big-box retailers, including Canadian Tire and Walmart, as they move away from self-checkout machines in favor of traditional cashier-based checkouts. This shift, highlighted in a CBC News report, more...
November 8, 2023 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has proposed new regulations for tech giants operating in the digital payments space. The proposed rule would subject companies like Google, Apple, PayPal, and Block's CashApp to bank-like supervision, ensuring more...
October 24, 2023 Next month will mark an independence day of sorts for IT infrastructure provider Kyndryl Inc. In 2021, what was then called IBM Global Technology Services was spun off and given until November 2023 to be more...
October 19, 2023 The European Central Bank (ECB) has announced a two-year "preparation phase" that will begin on November 1. During this phase, the ECB will finalize rules, choose its private-sector partners, and conduct testing and experimentation. The more...
May 15, 2023 Hugging Face and ServiceNow's BigCode partnership is making great progress in the development of large programming language models (LLMs) with the development of StarCoder and StarCoderBase, with an emphasis on ethical principles. StarCoder and StarCoderBase more...
May 11, 2023 According to Mark Russinovich, the Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Azure, confidential computing is likely to become the standard for all computing operations. He emphasized that this type of computing, which relies on trusted execution more...
April 25, 2023 To accommodate the expanding number of cashless companies, reverse ATMs that dispense stored-value cards in exchange for cash are being installed in a variety of locations such as amusement parks, casinos, and sports stadiums. Reverse more...
April 25, 2023 Melio, a B2B payments firm, has teamed with Shopify to provide a new bill payment solution. This service will allow merchants in the United States to manage their vendors and costs on Shopify's platform. According more...
April 17, 2023 Liz Lambert, a hospitality industry prodigy, 3D construction start-up Icon, and Danish design company BIG have joined forces to develop the world's first 3D-printed hotel in Marfa, Texas. BIG, the Danish firm behind Copenhagen's VM more...
April 14, 2023 Dolly 2.0, a text-generating AI model that can power chatbots, text summarizers, and rudimentary search engines, has been launched by Databricks, a data analytics business. It is the follow-up to the original Dolly, which was more...
