Volvo has unleashed a big improvement in customer satisfaction after equipping its 1,500 service engineers with an Apple Watch to use during their day. What, on the face of it, seems a small change reflects extensive cultural change across the company, which is actively engaged in digital transformation across its Read more…
People who speak limited English struggled to access telehealth services in the US during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new analysis, affecting their ability to connect with medical care. It’s something experts worried about as soon as health organizations made the switch from in-person to Read more…
Virgin Hyperloop recently fired half of its workforce as the company is shifting its focus from transporting passengers to cargo, Financial Times reported. Services of a total of 111 members of its staff were terminated in what was an unanticipated move according to the employees. A company spokesperson told FT Read more…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by land, air and sea risks reverberating across the global chip industry and exacerbating current supply-chain constraints. Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas critical for lasers used in chipmaking and supplies more than 90% of U.S. semiconductor-grade neon, according to estimates from research firm Read more…
Microsoft has revealed it operates a planet-scale distributed scheduling service for AI workloads that it has modestly dubbed “Singularity.” Described in a pre-press paper [PDF] co-authored by 26 Microsoft employees, Singularity’s aim is described as helping the software giant control costs by driving high utilization for deep learning workloads. Singularity Read more…
Elon Musk said that Tesla is working to make Steam’s library of video games work on its onboard vehicle computer. As we previously reported, Tesla has a team of software engineers working on video games in Seattle and they recently started building a similar team in Austin. The automaker has Read more…
The US Copyright Office has rejected a request to let an AI copyright a work of art. From a report: Last week, a three-person board reviewed a 2019 ruling against Steven Thaler, who tried to copyright a picture on behalf of an algorithm he dubbed Creativity Machine. The board found Read more…