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TOPEKA — A Kansas House committee on Monday supported waiving construction and electricity costs, as well as equipment sales tax, for data center companies that invest at least $600 million in capital and create jobs in the state. The 2023 bill to do so has been shelved. benchmark. The tax cuts in House Bill 2450, sponsored by NetChoice, a U.S. online business trade group, have been touted as the best way to attract companies like Amazon, eBay, Expedia, Google, and Meta to Kansas’ rolling hills and flatlands. I did. The impetus for the bill was data center companies’ desire to…
The world of AI is already off to a busy start to 2024, with acquisitions, partnerships, and releases taking place over the last week. Cut through the noise with five of this week’s top AI news headlines. Google releases Gemini Ultra Back in December, Google announced its most advanced model to date, Gemini. The multimodal Gemini model powers the Bard chatbot to handle complex, domain-specific questions, significantly increasing the speed and accuracy of coding tasks. Google has made it clear that Gemini is more than just a model, it represents a change in thinking. Gemini supports the foundation of the…
Reading time: 2 minutes People in rural areas don’t want perfect internet connectivity. They just want a reliable service that allows them to perform basic online activities. Poor connectivity means people in rural areas have no choice but to rely on libraries, marae and schools to connect to WiFi, or study or work late at night or early in the morning to avoid crowds. These are some of the findings of the Rural Digital Connectivity Survey by Research First, commissioned by the Department for Primary Industries and Business, Immigration and Employment. New Zealand has more than 4.5 million internet users,…
Fortinet, a global cybersecurity leader, announced the launch of a new rugged, compact appliance specifically designed to enhance secure networking capabilities and 5G connectivity to operational technology environments. FortiGate Rugged 70G with 5G dual modem is powered by the latest 5th generation Fortinet Security Processing Unit (SP5). The device offers unparalleled network performance, innovative FortiGuard AI-powered security services, and high availability with dual 5G modems. This powerful combination is well suited for a variety of use cases in strictly remote environments, such as full-service remote ATMs within the banking industry. In the industrial sector, there is an increasing demand for…
In an effort to curb the use of AI, voice cloning technology, in robocall scams, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on February 8, 2024 passed a unanimous vote banning unsolicited robocalls with AI-generated voices. issued a declaratory judgment. In the ruling, which is effective immediately, the FCC clarified that the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), which aims to curb nuisance calls, also prohibits unsolicited AI-generated robocalls. Robocalls are prerecorded or computer-generated voice messages that are delivered simultaneously to many phone users. AI enhances the capabilities of robocalls, making them more sophisticated and deceptive. With the advent of generative AI,…
US stocks traded mixed on Monday as investors braced for the release of the January CPI report.The median forecast suggests year-over-year CPI will fall to 2.9%, down from 3.4% previously.If inflation continues to decline, the Federal Reserve could decide to cut interest rates sooner rather than later. Thank you for registering! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed on the go. Download the app U.S. stocks were mixed on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing at a record high, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 were slightly lower.Investors are now bracing for January’s inflation data, with…
In October 2020, to commemorate International Internet Day, I spoke about threats to internet freedom. A lot has happened and a lot has changed in less than four years. But the threat persisted. On the contrary, Internet users and their freedoms are now more at risk than ever. In commemoration of Safer Internet Day in February 2024, we must reiterate that without freedom there is no safety, both online and offline. Especially since both adversaries are now equipped with the most powerful cyber repression tool ever: artificial intelligence (AI). AI as a tool of oppression and deception Internet freedom has…
This article has been reviewed in accordance with Science X’s editorial processes and policies. The editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the authenticity of the content: fact confirmed trusted sources proofread got it! Non-majority caregivers by gender and number of caregiver days per week (%). Note: Results for men and women who are non-majority caregivers who shared their girlfriend three or more nights a week in 2001 are not reliable. The estimate that her non-majority caregiver male parent shared her three or more nights a week in 2003 and 2004 is also not reliable. credit: Australian Household, Income…
If you listen to media reports, the end of robot employment is already here. Big tech companies are ramping up their AI departments while cutting jobs elsewhere. And AI was directly blamed for at least 4,600 layoffs last year, with experts predicting the ultimate impact could reach millions of workers. But Elon Musk will say that the real crisis is not there, but that people aren’t having enough babies. Last summer, Tesla CEO Elon Musk called the declining birth rate “the greatest crisis facing civilization.” In response to a Business Insider report at the time that Musk had secretly given…
Since the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave preliminary approval to SpaceX to provide Starlink satellite internet capabilities to mobile vehicles, its use has continued inexorably. The availability of internet on trains, RVs, boats, planes and cruise ships has led many companies to sign up for the most expensive Starlink tier. Free Starlink on board The latest example comes courtesy of Hawaiian Airlines, which not only announced it would offer in-flight Wi-Fi to its customers via its Starlink satellite internet service, but also gave it away for free. The airline says.Hawaiian Airlines today installed Starlink’s high-speed, low-latency broadband Internet service on…