New trillion-parameter AI language model
A team of researchers from Google revealed their new trillion-parameter AI language model. This model surpasses the latest OpenAI’s GPT-3, one of the largest language models ever trained, which…
Leaders in Tech: Harneet Bains
Welcome to the next feature of our Leaders in Tech editorial series. Speaking to leaders in the industry to capture their stories, career highs and lows, their trials and successes,…
Ubiquiti, victim of a security breach
At the beginning of the week, Ubiquiti revealed that it was the victim of a data breach and it became aware of unauthorized access to its systems hosted by a…
The Importance of QA in Software Testing
Quality Assurance (QA) is an essential part of any software development team. It helps the testing team save time and money as well as increase the quality of the products.…
Chip engineer Jim Keller joins AI Canadia startup
Jim Keller has recently joined AI Canadian silicon start-up, Tenstorrent as its Chief Technology Officer, President, and was appointed a member of its Board of Directors. The Toronto-based software…
US Army to develop a thermal facial recognition system
The US Army revealed its plan to develop robots that can see and identify faces in the dark with a facial recognition system. DEVCOM, the US Army’s corporate research…
Poor quality software cost US businesses $2 trillion in 2020
According to the Consortium for Information & Software Quality (CISQ), badly made software has cost the U.S. around $2.08tr in 2020. The Cost of Poor Software Quality in the US…
Temasek raises funds for Indian AI agritech company
Temasek Holdings Pte-backed ABC World Asia has raised $20 million for CropIn, an artificial intelligence (AI) and data-based agritech startup in order to help the adoption of digital technologies in farming.…
Women in IT: Mili Mathew
Welcome to the next part of our Women and Diversity in IT editorial series. This series aims to speak with women about their experience in the IT and Testing industries. Focusing…
AI neural network able to produce images from text prompts
OpenAi in partnership with Microsoft recently developed a new neural network called DALL-E. This network is a version of the company’s GPT-3 language model and is able to create images…
How to transform at scale
The UK telecoms industry is a very competitive market. One of the keys to success is to deliver software changes quicker to market than your competitors – that not only…
President Trump bans Chinese software apps on claims of espionage
On Tuesday, President Trump has signed an executive order that bans businesses with leading Chinese technology companies. The U.S President is also trying to forbid any transactions with eight companies,…
Canadian university’s major issues with Workday HR
According to the Association of Graduate Students Employed at McGill (AGSEM), the new Workday HR and payroll system used by McGill University in Canada would not have paid its teaching…
Software development and analytics skills most in-demand in the IT industry
A new study by PostBeyond revealed that employers are now mostly looking for people with software development and analytics skills. The researchers studied 1.000 jobs ads within the development,…
Pinterest to pay $22.5m to settle gender discrimination claims
The social media company Pinterest has agreed to pay $22.5m in order to sort out claims of gender discrimination. The claims came from Pinterest’s former chief operating officer, Francoise…
The key role of cybersecurity during lockdown
As the pandemic slowly made its way all around the world, most businesses and organizations had to send their workers home. Due to this, a lot of infrastructures and systems…
Automated robots to boost the supply chain industry in Canada
The Canadian government will be investing $34 million in a high-density automated storage company, Attabotics. By supporting research, Canada is looking to grow its global leadership in AI and…
US to launch a new study around consumer privacy in big tech companies
The US is organizing a new study on consumer privacy and has therefore asked big tech companies such as Amazon and Facebook to share their information in the next 45…
US treasury and commerce departments attacked by hackers
An emergency order has been issued after the US treasury and commerce departments declared to have been hacked. Indeed, federal civilian agencies have been ordered to disconnect from a…
US government to adopt safe AI technology
This week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order, which outlines nine principles that the US government will have to stick to when creating and adopting AI technology. This…
