China plans to launch pilot projects in nine cities that will use the country's growing fleet of electric vehicles as batteries to reinforce power supply to the grid during peak demand, the government announced today. The initiative follows on from rules issued last year by the National Development and...
Agri View, a Mozambican start-up co-founded by Rui Bauhofer and Joaquim Rebelo, has created a model of dishes that promises to change the paradigm of how we think about reuse and waste. According to the Ndzila publication, inspired by an innovation in Latin America where utensils are made from pineapple peel, Agri...
G-mail spokesman Ross Richendrfer has said that the platform will soon stop using SMS for security validation and authentication, as is intended with passwords. SMS codes are to be abandoned when it comes to authentication and replaced by QR codes to "reduce the impact of rampant and global abuse...
The Italian government, through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), is funding the implementation of the "Digital Flagship for Africa" project, an initiative budgeted at 100 million dollars to support digital transformation in Mozambique. The project is part of a broader initiative of the Mattei Plan program, which aims to accelerate...
A consortium of investors led by Elon Musk has submitted an offer to buy OpenAI - the company that created ChatGPT - for 97.4 billion dollars, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The offer, according to the same publication quoted by Negócios, was submitted to OpenAI's board of directors by Marc...
A team of Japanese researchers has developed a device capable of recording and interpreting dreams, combining neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence (AI). According to a report in the Brazilian newspaper "Correio", it is a technology based on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which monitors brain activity during sleep and promises to enable people to immerse themselves in...
Tech giant Meta, which owns Facebook, plans to invest up to 65 billion dollars in projects related to artificial intelligence (AI) over the course of this year. On the table will be the construction of a giant data center and an increase in hiring for Meta's AI team. The company plans to use...
French technology company Cegid, a Decentralized Computing Management company specializing in management software for accounting, finance and tax, payroll, human resources and retail professionals, recently announced the acquisition of PHC Business Software, a leading Portuguese company in the management software market for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs).....
The US Supreme Court has unanimously decided to uphold the law banning TikTok in the United States as of Sunday, unless the social network is sold by ByteDance, the Beijing-based parent company, to an investor outside of China by then. According to a publication in the Portuguese newspaper Negócios, in a...
Meta plans to populate its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, with AI-powered personas, complete with their own profile pictures, biographies and ability to create and share content. According to a Marketeer publication, these virtual users will emerge from Meta's AI Studio, where humans can design...