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The technological sector is well recognized for being dominated by men, and the underrepresentation of women in the field has long been of concern. Women still only hold a small percentage of computer employment, despite attempts to enhance diversity and…
The halls of Stanford Law School (SLS) buzzed with conversations and coding on May 20 when approximately 150 people gathered for what is believed to be the world’s first hackathon at the intersection of law and Large Language Models such…
Apple said its $7,000 Mac Pro computer will contain the new M2 Ultra chip, which offers performance advantages over previous models featuring an Intel processor. In addition to pressure from Apple, Intel faces increased competition from AMD and Nvidia. Apple…
BOSTON – The Atlantic basin hurricane season started Thursday and tracking tropical developments will become more and more frequent over the summer. Now, a Boston company is tracking more than just the path of these storms. Karen Clark and Company…
Professor Sam Clemence The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) and the DFI Educational Trust Legends Committee has chosen Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Sam Clemence as a recipient of one of the DFI Legends Awards for 2023. This award was established…
Generative AI is the hot new technology behind chatbots and image generators. But how hot is it making the planet? As an AI researcher, I often worry about the energy costs of building artificial intelligence models. The more powerful the…
At Marketplace, we say all the time that the stock market is not the economy. But the stock market does sometimes tell you where the economy might be headed. Case in point, Nvidia, the computer chip designer, has seen its…
Today Spanish cloud services distributor Jotelulu announces a €4M Series A funding. Jotelulu is a white-label cloud services platform that helps any IT company sell cloud services to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) competitively, under their own brand, and without…
Four student companies receive co-working space and $100,000 in pre-seed funding to pursue their startups after graduation NEW YORK, NY – Cornell Tech awarded four student startup companies with pre-seed funding worth up to $100,000 each in its tenth annual…