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That’s OctoML’s offering in a nutshell. We think it paints a representative picture of today’s landscape in AI application deployment, a domain also known as MLOps. We have identified MLOps as a key part of the ongoing shift to machine learning-powered applications, and introduced OctoML in March 2021, on the occasion of their Series B funding round. Launched today at TVMcon 2021, the conference around the open source Apache TVM framework for machine learning acceleration, OctoML’s new release brings a number of new features....

Belfiore tweeted about his planned retirement late today. From Belfiore’s email to the troops from today – a copy of which I saw and verified with Microsoft was real: “After a lot of personal reflection, I’ve decided that it’s time for me to draw my very-long career at Microsoft to its end after 32 years of amazing experiences building software and services with all of you.” He added: “This summer I went through the experience of sending my oldest off to college, which crystallized my realization around the limited time that remains for me to prioritize kids and family before the last of our crew moves out of the house....

What does this mean for you? It means you should never underestimate the value of professional development and generalist skills. One way to build up this knowledge base is by simply exploring the lectures available in Big Think Edge’s library. Taught by experts like Tim Ferriss, Edward Norton, Malcolm Gladwell, Chris Hadfield, Sarah Blakely, and Elon Musk, the library is available by subscription for personal and professional development. Over 150 experts, from Ivy-league professors to entrepreneurs, make up Big Think Edge’s collection intended to diversify your perspective for innovation....

However, that picture had already begun to alter before the COVID-19 pandemic– which acted as a further catalyst for change. As a result, last year, the consultancy firm Kearney revised its predictions for the e-commerce market in the Gulf region (GCC) from $21bn in 2020 to $24 billion. By 2025, they estimate the market in this part of the Middle East will have doubled to $50 billion per year....

Similarly, combining visual observation with audio could help a computer conceivably parse human speech better. In a sense, computer programs can read lips, though it is a laborious task to engineer. Recent AI work by Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, suggests a more efficient path to a day when computers can read lips just as well as HAL 9000 did when Dr. David Bowman and Dr. Frank Poole tried to evade its audio sensors inside the pod in the movie “2001....

That’s not to say it isn’t bad. Both CVE-2022-3786 (“X.509 Email Address Variable Length Buffer Overflow”) and CVE-2022-3602 (“X.509 Email Address 4-byte Buffer Overflow”) have a CVE rating of 8.8, which is considered “high.” That means they could still cause you real trouble. If that is, you’re using OpenSSL 3.0.0 to 3.0.6. OpenSSL 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 users don’t have to worry. However, just because your main operating system uses OpenSSL 1....

The telco picked up a single lower lot of 2x5Mhz in metro and regional allocations in the 900Mhz band, along with two pairs of 1MHz in downshift spectrum. In the upper bands, Optus gained three lots for a total of 2x20Mhz in metro and regional areas, but already had two lots of 5Mhz in the upper bands set aside for it for a pre-determined price of almost AU$357 million. “With this additional spectrum, and our existing mid and high band spectrum, we can continue to deliver great coverage and bring the benefits of our technology leadership to more Australians,” Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin said....

There’s nothing quite like a couple of years of chaos to make you want to take control of your life. While spending more time at home to social distance may have pointed your thoughts to tidying it with dazzling decor, it’s now time to move towards the interior design of your mind. If you think you can benefit from ruthlessly organizing your daily routine while simultaneously initiating a significant life change, the 2022 Productive Power Player Bundle is for you....

The Qualys Research Team, which uncovered the file system bug, also discovered a size_t-to-int type conversion vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s filesystem. This Linux security hole has been named Sequoia and it’s been designated CVE-2021-33909. Doesn’t sound like much, does it? Au contraire! It can be used against most Linux distributions in their default configurations. And, worse still, any – I repeat, any – unprivileged user can abuse it to gain root privileges....

The Telecommunications Interception and Access Act (TIA Act) previously banned the practice, but the government and its security agencies have argued that Australia has been falling behind foreign agencies. “The challenge with the existing foreign communications warrant is that the interception of domestic communications (communications that both start and end within Australia) is prohibited, even where that interception is inadvertent or unavoidable,” the PJCIS report said. The report said this approach made sense when interception warrants were introduced in 2000, and the main ways to communicate where telephone and fax lines, which had “reliable geographic identifiers such as country code, city code and exchange code”, but the use of the internet has changed that environment....

However, quitting your job can be arduous and anxiety-inducing, if not downright unpleasant – and with multiple moving parts, it can be easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. If you’re thinking of making your next career move, here are three key things to keep in mind before submitting your notice. 1. Make sure you’re financially stable Perhaps the most important thing to consider before resigning from your job is your financial state....

Invited to speak before UK lawmakers as part of an inquiry into the use of algorithms in policing, a panel of experts from around the world agreed that while the deployment of new technologies in law enforcement agencies is booming, there also seems to be growing pushback from those who will be most affected by the tools. “With respect to certain technologies, we’ve begun to see some criticism and pushback,” said Elizabeth Jo, professor of law at the University of California, Davis....

Apple announced Swift 5.5 in June at its annual developer conference WWDC with headline features including ‘Swift Concurrency’ for asynchronous and concurrent programming, improved package management and distribution, and standard library packages. One notable change was that developers can now grab packages from a search screen in Xcode, Apple’s IDE or integrated development environment. So-called “package collections”, or selected lists of packages, make it easier to distribute and consume collections of packages for specific uses....

You don’t have to believe me. Linus Torvalds himself picked out the Dell XPS 13 for his Linux laptop. Why? I’ll let the features speak for themselves. For starters, the high-end model in the new line is powered by an 2.7Ghz four-core Intel i7-7500U Kaby Lake chip backed by 16GB of RAM and a 512GB solid state drive. Kaby Lake is Intel’s newest, best processor. It’s built-in Intel HD Graphics 620 is the fastest, most-powerful graphics engine in Intel’s history....

That’s a real opportunity for new talent entering the workforce or for professionals looking to make a mid-career shift. Part of the allure is the broad applicability of automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence technologies to a variety of sectors that heretofore haven’t had much automation adoption. The chance to work on the leading edge of automation technologies and problem solve how they might be adapted to new use cases can be thrilling, particularly coming from IT and engineering fields that have now become more routinized after the profound shifts of previous decades....

With a new season typically comes new tech product releases, and you might be tempted to move on from your old devices and acquire some new ones. But before you decide to buy new ones, consider cleaning and revamping your current devices. Also: 5 ways to keep your smartphone working like new, for longer With the help of Catherine Hiley, a mobile expert at Uswitch, ZDNET is helping you welcome the spring season and transform your personal tech devices....

The convergence of humans and machines is thoroughly explored by Paul Daugherty and H. James Wilson, both with Accenture, in their forthcoming book, “Radically Human: How New Technology is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future.” The technology leader of the 2020s needs to take an activist role in building the relationship between people and technology. “The convergence between business and technology means it’s highly likely that the first time a customer interacts with a near-human AI agent, puts on a pair of virtual reality goggles, or learns about blockchain, it will be linked to a company’s cutting-edge offering,” they write....

After having been used for about 16 hours a day, every day for years, that large screen monitor started to get pretty dim, and developed dark spots in various areas on the display. We recently saw a pretty good pre-holiday deal, so we decided to pick up its replacement: a TCL Roku display. Also: TVs we love: The screens that ZDNet writers binge-watch on I’ve pretty much standardized on TCL Roku TVs throughout the house....

The AOMEI Partition Assistant offers a user-friendly interface with a wide range of tools that will simplify managing the partition of your disks. You can create, split, resize, merge and move partitions with no data loss, which will allow you to maximize the use of your disk space. It has many new features, such as Gutmann wiping methods, disk conversion between GPT and MBR, added Fill sectors with random data, and much more....

Belsky said Photoshop and Illustrator would be extended to the web so that projects could be accessed anywhere. “With just a URL, you can invite anyone to view and comment on your Photoshop or Illustrator file - and the reviewers don’t need to download any software or have a Creative Cloud subscription. And Creative Cloud subscribers can make light edits to Photoshop or Illustrator files right in their browser. The journey of bringing Creative Cloud to the web starts now with Photoshop on the Web in public beta, while Illustrator on the Web is debuting in private beta,” Belsky said....