Author: Elodie Qian

The advantage of HCI is its ability to simplify data centre operations, thereby enhancing efficiency, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. HCI allows businesses to scale their infrastructure up or down as needed, without the need for significant changes to the underlying hardware.

A U.S. judge has ruled that Google violated antitrust laws by establishing an illegal monopoly in the search engine market. The decision sets the stage for a second trial to determine remedies, which may include the breakup of Alphabet, potentially reshaping the online advertising industry that Google has long dominated.

Character.AI, a leading startup in the realm of chatbot technology, has announced a licensing agreement with Alphabet’s Google on Friday. Google also announced the rehiring of Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, who is the founder, CEO, and co-author of the Transformer paper at Character.AI and was previously a Principal Software Engineer at Google.

Carlos Moreno proposed the 15-min city in 2016 as a model for a city where citizens can meet their daily needs within a 15-minute distance. The 15-Minute City concept was awarded the 2021 Obel Prize for the concept’s contribution to creating sustainable and people-centred urban environments.

Smart cities like London and Singapore are integrating technology to enhance urban services and quality of life. While smart cities offer numerous benefits, they also come with some issues that need to be addressed, like privacy concerns, the digital divide, and the need for robust cybersecurity measures.

Smart city solutions are comprehensive technology applications that aim to enhance the efficiency of city management and service levels. As cities continue to evolve, it is essential that the development of smart city solutions remains people-centric, focusing on the needs and well-being of all residents.

Smart city technologies enhance urban efficiency and improve residents’ quality of life through IoT, big data, AI, and other means. Focusing on sustainability, smart cities optimize resources and promote environmental friendliness through digital infrastructure, renewable energy, and intelligent waste management.

R&D Capitalization is the process of treating research and development (R&D) cost not as an expense but an asset on a company’s balance sheet. R&D Capitalisation not only helps to reflect more accurately the long-term value of a company’s investment, but also avoids short-term fluctuations in profits caused by one-off expensing.

DevSecOps tools are a set of technologies and practices designed to automate and integrate security into the development process. These tools are designed to embed security into the Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), and Continuous Deployment (CP) processes to enable security from code writing to release.

Nissan and Honda have announced a joint venture to research the next-gen software platform, as stated in their joint declaration on Thursday. The two companies have also signed a memorandum to enhance their strategic alliance, first announced in March, with a commitment to collaborate on areas such as batteries, e-axles, and vehicle complementarity.

US court suspended the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) attempt to re-implement net neutrality rules established in 2015. The court found that broadband service providers are likely to prevail in the upcoming legal dispute and has scheduled oral arguments on the topic for the end of the year.

The firewall doesn’t directly encrypt data, but it plays a vital role in data encryption to protect the confidentiality and integrity of data. Encryption is a data security technique whose core purpose is to convert readable data (plaintext) into an unreadable form (ciphertext) to prevent unauthorised persons from accessing or tampering with that data.