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Out of the 52 submissions that came in since February, 21 were selected for the grants, with each focusing on efforts to “improve resilience, sustainability, and efficiency” using “carbon sequestration, carbon markets, hydrocarbon production, distributed renewables, and cybersecurity.” S. Shankar Sastry, a co-director of C3.ai DTI and a leading computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said the world was now being threatened by the pandemic, powerful wildfires, rising seas, monster storms and other severe weather threats....

Capital One has been expanding its reward offerings for cardholders. In recent months, they’ve announced a new dining rewards program as well as a new high-end travel card, the Capital One Venture X. Also: Capital One announces Capital One Dining for rewards cardholders Capital One Entertainment – accessed online or in the Capital One app – makes it easier for reward cardholders to redeem their points for tickets. All it takes is the push of a button with no need to pick up the phone or contact the box office....

Accredited third parties can use these “action initiation” powers once a customer provides access and consent to the actions being made, with the number of actions available to be limited to those that are relevant to the provision of a service. Prior to the introduction of these action initiation, consumers could only use the CDR to instruct accredited CDR participants, such as banks, to share their data with an accredited third party....

Add it up and it’s a busy time for an enterprise software vendor that appears to be critical to improving business processes with data. We caught up with co-CEO Alex Rinke to talk business process mining, the customer base and the plan to leverage data to build an execution management ecosystem. Here’s a recap of my conversation with Rinke: The elevator pitch. Rinke’s argument for Celonis revolves around the idea that companies aren’t leveraging their data to execute well and refine processes....

VoIP calling (although the measures against VoIP calls have been adapted to allow people to still keep in touch with their loved ones after Covid hit) Dating websites Pornographic websites Gambling websites LGBT Content Content critical of Islam, or the UAE government The methods for censorship aren’t that complex. UAE blocks online content with: The legal mandate given by the anti-terrorism law The sweeping power of the TRA, a censorship agency The two major ISPs in UAE, which the state owns...

The announcement comes a couple of weeks before the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), where the 17G90Q will presumably be on display. LG gave itself a challenge to try to squeeze larger, hotter components into the super-svelte Gram chassis, one that’s even trickier as the 17G90G is built around a massive 17.3-inch display. LG had already refined its sleek design on the Gram 17, which manages in its latest iteration to weigh just under 3 pounds and measure just 0....

CTA CEO Gary Shapiro said vaccines were the “best hope” for ending the pandemic and added that the organization wanted to play a part in encouraging people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. “We are taking on our responsibility by requiring proof of vaccination to attend CES 2022 in Las Vegas,” Shapiro said. For those who are not vaccinated against COVID-19, the CTA said it will accept proof of a positive antibody test as an alternative....

Christian Terwiesch, a professor of operations management at Wharton, said ChatGPT does an “amazing job at basic operations management and process analysis questions.” “Not only are the answers correct, but the explanations are excellent,” he writes in a new white paper. Also: How to get started using ChatGPT But he added the chatbot makes “surprising mistakes in relatively simple calculations at the level of 6th grade Math,” and that it currently can’t handle more advanced process analysis questions....

On Thursday, Check Point Research (CPR) said that the Office of the President of Afghanistan, representing President Ashraf Ghani, is being used as a lure in spear phishing emails designed to infiltrate government agencies in the country, of which a successful attack has led to the compromise of the Afghan National Security Council (NSC). It is thought that an advanced persistent threat (APT) group called IndigoZebra is responsible. The Chinese-speaking cyberattackers have targeted former Soviet Republics previously, as noted by Kaspersky....

According to Cisco’s new Hybrid Work Index, more than 61 million meetings take place globally every month. Yet, in any one of them, only 48% of participants are likely to speak. The lack of participation speaks to the need for a broader range of collaboration tools, including the sort of asynchronous meeting products that vendors like Cisco, Slack and Zoom are rolling out. The Hybrid Work Index, which Cisco plans to release quarterly, draws on millions of aggregated and anonymized customer data points from Cisco’s collaboration (Webex), networking (Meraki), internet visibility (ThousandEyes) and security (Talos, Duo, Umbrella) platforms....

Luciana Pinheiro had been managing the subsidiary for about a month on an interim basis since Banhara announced his departure from the company after leading the Brazilian business for seven years. Pinheiro joined Citrix in 2019 as sales director. Prior to that, she served as senior partner manager at Prudential Financial. Her career spanning nearly three decades also included senior roles at Microsoft, where she worked for over a decade, as well as Sun Microsystems and IBM....

While the bank has not disclosed the size of its investment, the bank was the lead lead investor in H2O.ai’s $100 million Series E growth funding rounding. CBA will also become the exclusive financial services partner for the AI company in Australia and New Zealand. This will give the black and yellow bank access to H2O.ai’s AI cloud platform and a full-time team of machine learning engineers that will work within the bank to develop new AI solutions....

Ideal for both beginners and more advanced users, this well-equipped client is free to download. But is Vuze safe? Read our complete Vuze review to find out more about setup, user experience, blocking ads, and how you can protect yourself and your device as you torrent. Start Torrenting Safely! How to Set Up Vuze Go to the Vuze website and click ‘Free Download’. When it has downloaded, click on the Vuze Installer icon to initiate the installation process....

More specifically, the number you can see if you head over to Settings > Battery > Battery Health. That number that starts out at 100 percent and slowly ticks down until it’s time to replace your battery. You’d think that the number would tick down at a regular basis, but it doesn’t. And I can prove it. My iPhone 13 Pro Max is a launch day iPhone (actually, because of a UPS mix-up, I got it a day late)....

With the acquisition, Contentsquare gains Upstride’s deep learning experts to help it further drive innovation in ML and artificial intelligence. Fourteen Upstride engineers will join Contentsquare, bringing their experience of working for leading tech companies such as Facebook, Samsung, GoPro, and Nvidia. Meanwhile, Upstride CEO Gary Roth will fill a strategic role on Contentsquare’s operations team. Upstride brings AI talent to Contentsquare Prior to the acquisition, Upstride was developing technology that enhances the learning capabilities of optimization algorithms, particularly neural networks....

International Experiences All around the world governments rely on apps to fight the coronavirus. In this section we will discuss what apps they use, how they work, and how they have been experienced. The most important findings have been summarized in the interactive image and table below. A more detailed analysis for all countries can be found further down. Apps in Europe Germany Germany is one of the countries where the coronavirus has hit hard....

Pandemic Perfect Cover for Romance Scams The coronavirus pandemic has created a perfect cover for romance scams. Fraudsters are taking advantage of the loneliness and isolation people are feeling due to lockdowns. As well as the extra time people are spending socializing and seeking companionship on the internet since they are unable to go out. A romance scam involves criminals tricking victims into sending money after having nurtured an online relationship with the victim....

Pricing The M65 RGB Ultra retails for $69.99 (£69.99, CA$99.99, AU$99.00, €79.99), which is a pretty reasonable price for a gaming mouse with so many features. It also places this mouse on the same level as the Razer Basilisk V3 ($69.99) and the SteelSeries Aerox 5 ($79.99). There is a wireless version of the M65 RGB Ultra, which retails for $129.99, but other than connectivity options, there aren’t many notable differences between the two versions....

Google on Thursday shared new lines of research it’s pursuing that would help lower the barriers to healthcare with tools like smartphones and AI modeling. If the research advances, the pictures on your camera roll could one day help determine whether you have diabetes. Or you could use your phone’s microphone to listen to your heart. Google also shared new consumer tools it’s introducing, within products like Google Search and Youtube, to make healthcare more accessible....

The vulnerabilities impact VMWare vCenter Server, a centralized management utility. VMWare issued patches for two critical bugs, CVE-2021-21985 and CVE-2021-21986, on May 25. The first security flaw, CVE-2021-21985, impacts VMware vCenter Server and VMware Cloud Foundation and has been issued a CVSS score of 9.8. This bug was found in a vSAN plugin, enabled by default in the application, that allows attackers to execute remote code execution (RCE) if they have access to port 443....