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Higher education industry is implementing new business models

To gain a better understanding, on a global and regional level, of what’s important to higher education students and what their challenges are with respect to learning, academic goals, and career goals, as well as staff perspectives on how to best communicate with, instruct, and prepare students, Salesforce partnered with Ipsos and The Chronicle of […]

Bill to use AI to vet consumer product safety moves to Senate

The U.S. House of Representatives this week approved and sent to the Senate a bill intended to form a pilot initiative to use artificial intelligence to vet whether consumer products are safe.  H.R. 3723, the Consumer Safety Technology Act, is sponsored by Rep. Jerry McNerney (Dem.), who represents California’s 9th congressional district (including East Bay […]

AWS acquires encrypted messaging app Wickr

(Image: file photo) Amazon Web Services is acquiring the encrypted messaging app Wickr, the company announced Friday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Launched in 2012, Wickr’s end-to-end messaging service was one of the early pioneers of ephemeral communication, offering encrypted and disappearing messaging long before Signal took off and WhatsApp rolled out […]

Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Omits Big Climate Measures

“Those two things must go hand in hand for it to have my support,” she said. Some Democratic strategists are skeptical about the budget reconciliation route. Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, both Democrats, have balked at voting for a reconciliation bill that has no Republican support. Mr. […]

Cloud ‘sticker shock’ explored: we’re spending way too much, some venture capitalists say

Cloud computing is probably the biggest business around these days — it has become a $100-billion-a-year industry. And there’s a chance companies are paying way too much for it.  Photo: Joe McKendrick That’s the conclusion drawn by Sarah Wang and Martin Casado, partners with Silicon Valley powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz Capital Management, who say the costs […]

INEOS Grenadier SUV to Do Land Mine Clearing in Global War Zones

The INEOS Grenadier SUV will be sent to Kosovo for land-mine-clearing work with the weapons-disposal charity Halo Trust in a testing phase. The automaker intends to build special Grenadiers for demining work once production starts. They’ll be equipped with floor armor and other equipment. The new SUV has been conducting trials this year all over […]