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AI could boost Canada’s lagging productivity, Microsoft Canada’s president says

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Chris Barry, the president of Microsoft Canada.HO/The Canadian Press

When the head of Microsoft Canada needed to write a letter of interest as part of an application to join a not-for-profit board, he decided to put the tech giant’s software to the test.

Chris Barry commanded Copilot, the firm’s generative artificial intelligence service, to craft a five-paragraph missive based on his LinkedIn profile that was so good he only had to remove one word before sending it.

“I omitted one adjective that was a little over the top, a little too much, not quite my voice,” the Microsoft Canada president told a room of chuckling attendees at an executive AI summit the company hosted Wednesday in Toronto.

Later, in an interview, Barry said he didn’t think many other executives are using AI to the same degree, despite the hype that has built up around

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Portage College moves forward with kinesiology and computer science programs

City of Cold Lake council has thrown its support behind Portage College’s ambitious plans for two new programs – a kinesiology diploma program and a computer science diploma program.

COLD LAKE – City of Cold Lake council has thrown its support behind Portage College’s ambitious plans for two new programs – a kinesiology diploma program and a computer science diploma program. City council was asked by Portage College for a letter of support as it seeks approval from Advanced Education to offer the programs. 

Portage College is known for its many campuses spread throughout northeast Alberta in Boyle, Cold Lake, Frog Lake First Nations, Lac La Biche, Saddle Lake Cree Nation, St. Paul, and Whitefish (Goodfish) Lake First Nation # 128. The college offers a wide range of training options, including academic upgrading, culinary arts, environmental sciences, business, continuing education, trades and technology, as well as health and wellness options. 

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Should we fight climate change by re-engineering life itself?

Life has transformed our world over billions of years, turning a dead rock into the lush, fertile planet we know today. But human activity is currently transforming Earth again, this time by releasing greenhouse gases that are driving dramatic changes in our climate.

What if we could harness the power of living organisms to help rein in climate change? The field of “engineering biology”, which uses genetic technology to engineer biological tools for solving specific problems, may be able to help.

Perhaps the most dramatic success to date of this nascent field is the mRNA vaccines that helped us weather the COVID pandemic. But engineering biology has enormous potential not only to help us adapt to climate change, but also to limit warming.

In our latest paper in Nature Communications, we reviewed some of the many ways engineering biology can aid the fight against climate change – and

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Wichita County officials problem statement on substantial-scale “disruption in personal computer network”

Update: KFDX News been given this assertion at 12:58 p.m. from Wichita County Judge Jim Johnson regarding the outage of the county laptop or computer system:

“Wichita County recently uncovered a disruption in our personal computer community. We have taken prompt motion to protected the community, and we are operating with primary independent cybersecurity industry experts to assist with our response and the restoration procedure. We are presently investigating the circumstance and doing the job diligently to decide the scope of the incident.
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WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — The Wichita County network has been down for many days, top lots of to

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AI security: Sam Altman, Satya Nadella in US Homeland Security’s AI security advisory board

The U.S. Homeland Safety Section (DHS) on Friday declared a blue-ribbon board that consists of the CEOs of OpenAI, Microsoft, Google mother or father Alphabet and Nvidia that will suggest the authorities on the job of synthetic intelligence on crucial infrastructure. The board will create recommendations for the transportation sector, pipeline and electrical power grid operators, web support providers and other individuals to “avoid and prepare for AI-connected disruptions to critical companies that effect countrywide or economic protection, general public well being, or safety.”

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Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters the board would assist guarantee the secure deployment

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Coveo Joins the MACH Alliance, Enabling Additional Firms to

MONTREAL and LONDON and SAN FRANCISCO, April 25, 2024 (World NEWSWIRE) — Coveo (TSX:CVO), the primary supplier of AI platforms that provides AI Search and GenAI to just about every place-of-encounter throughout the enterprise, enabling exceptional individualized electronic experiences that travel company outcomes, now introduced that it has joined the MACH Alliance, the team of independent tech firms dedicated to advocating for open up, very best-of-breed technological know-how ecosystems. Its inclusion in the MACH Alliance acknowledges Coveo’s energy in composable AI technology, conference the MACH typical of modern know-how: microservices based, API-first, cloud-indigenous SaaS, and headless.

Today, people today anticipate a digital journey that is customized specifically to their personal wants and seamless across several channels and touchpoints. A MACH system enables enterprises to provide on those people anticipations by embracing a fashionable, cloud-primarily based composable architecture and a very best-of-breed technology ecosystem, supplying the agility digital leaders have

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