What is a transaction in computing?
What is a transaction in computing? In computing, a transaction is a set of related tasks treated as a single action. Together the tasks form a logical unit of work...
Microsoft Teams is adding 3D avatars for people who want to turn their webcams off
Enlarge / Customizing a Mesh for Teams avatar. Like many people on real-life video calls, the avatars only feature business attire from the waist up.Microsoft There are plenty of reasons...
What is Google Duplex? | Definition from TechTarget
What is Google Duplex? Google Duplex is an artificial intelligence (AI) technology that mimics a human voice and makes phone calls on a person's behalf. It enables users to perform...
Ransomware attacks have entered a heinous new phase
Don Farrall/Getty Images In February, attackers from the Russia-based BlackCat ransomware group hit a physician practice in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, that's part of the Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN). At...
UK mini-datacentre startup hails energy savings of heat reuse deployment at leisure centre
British startup Deep Green has set its sights on accelerating the roll-out of datacentre heat reuse schemes across the country, following the deployment of its first heat recapture setup...
How William Hill’s IT copes with big sporting events
Online bookies need to cope with the usual peaks and troughs around football, horse racing, motorsports and other major sporting events, but few seem to attract the betting level...
Central bank digital currency use set to soar over next seven years
Payments made using central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) will grow from $100m this year to a massive $200bn in 2030. The startling numbers from Juniper research reveal a 260,000% increase...
As Covid fades away, what’s the future of remote work in Europe?
Prior to the pandemic, many European companies had already tried allowing employees to work from home. In most cases, this was only for a small number of workers and...
BT helps Channel 4 and ITV take Freeview content to the cloud
ITV and Channel 4’s terrestrial Freeview channels are now running in the cloud as a result of a multimillion-pound contract that will make use of BT’s smart broadcast network....
You can now run a GPT-3 level AI model on your laptop, phone, and Raspberry Pi
Ars Technica Things are moving at lighting speed in AI Land. On Friday, a software developer named Georgi Gerganov created a tool called "llama.cpp" that can run Meta's new GPT-3-class...