Samer Saab, Founder and CEO of Explorance – Interview Series
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Samer Saab is the founder and CEO of Explorance with over 22 years of experience in the technology industry. Prior to founding Explorance, Samer developed a wide perspective on business through a variety of roles in diverse organizations including Bombardier, Nortel, Sycamore Networks, and Nakisa. He also participates in a wide range of philanthropic activities […]
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Q&A: What we do – and do not – know about the blackout in Spain and Portugal
At 12.33pm on Monday 28 April, most of Spain and Portugal were plunged into chaos by a blackout. While the initial trigger remains uncertain, the nationwide blackouts took place after around 15 gigawatts (GW) of electricity generating capacity – equivalent to 60% of Spain’s power demand at the time – dropped off the system within the space of […]
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100 Days of Trump 2.0: Considerations for Cities and Community Partners
The first 100 days of the second Trump administration have proved volatile for local governments working to advance ambitious climate action. We have seen the freezing or termination of federal grants and other financial assistance, executive orders seeking to usurp state and local authority, the initiation of extensive deregulatory efforts, threats to green banks and […]
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64% of Scotland’s supply chain are investing in renewable energy, trade body finds
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Montrose Port Authority is one of the organizations featured in publication, which showcases groups working in Scotland’s renewable energy industry. The findings have been published by Scottish Renewables, which surveyed its 370+ members as part of this year’s Supply Chain Impact Statement, published on 30 April. But it also finds that 60% of suppliers think Scotland […]
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Gemini Robotics: AI Reasoning Meets the Physical World
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In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has advanced significantly across various fields, such as natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision. However, one major challenge for AI has been its integration into the physical world. While AI has excelled at reasoning and solving complex problems, these achievements have largely been limited to digital environments. To […]
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Government attempts to reduce environmental protections in planning bill could breach international law, says KC
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The government’s flagship Planning and Infrastructure Bill could be in breach of international law, according to new legal advice from a leading KC. Planning and environmental law barrister, David Elvin KC of Landmark Chambers, found Part 3 of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill to be “regressive” and potentially in breach of international law. Mr Elvin’s […]
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Grangemouth closure and Blair’s net zero intervention, must be wake up call for government warns Unite
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Aerial image of Grangemouth site from 2018. Unite, one of the UK’s largest trade unions, representing workers in construction, energy and engineering, has today (30 April) called on the UK government to fundamentally rethink its approach to net zero policies and industrial strategy. Unite’s intervention comes a day after it was announced that the Grangemouth […]
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AI Doesn’t Necessarily Give Better Answers If You’re Polite
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Public opinion on whether it pays to be polite to AI shifts almost as often as the latest verdict on coffee or red wine – celebrated one month, challenged the next. Even so, a growing number of users now add ‘please’ or ‘thank you’ to their prompts, not just out of habit, or concern that […]
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Worms, Springs, and Soft Robots: Tiny Creatures Inspire Giant Leaps
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Researchers at Georgia Tech recently unveiled an impressive achievement: a 5-inch-long soft robot that can catapult itself 10 feet into the air – the height of a basketball hoop – without any legs. The design was inspired by the humble nematode, a tiny roundworm thinner than a human hair that can jump many times its […]
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CCC: England’s approach to climate adaptation is ‘not working’
The “vast majority” of the UK government’s plans to prepare for climate hazards have made virtually no progress over the past two years, according to the Climate Change Committee (CCC). In that time, the world has experienced the hottest year on record, while England has seen its wettest ever 18-month stretch between 2022 and 2024. […]
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100 Days of Trump 2.0: Laying the Groundwork for Future Climate Litigation Battles
This post is part of a new Climate Law Blog series, 100 Days of Trump 2.0, in which the Sabin Center offers reflections on the first 100 days of President Trump’s second term across a variety of climate-related topics. To read other posts from the series, which will roll out over the course of this week, […]
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It’s Not About What AI Can Do for Us, But What We Can Do for AI
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Most view artificial intelligence (AI) through a one-way lens. The technology only exists to serve humans and achieve new levels of efficiency, accuracy, and productivity. But what if we’re missing half of the equation? And what if, by doing so, we’re only amplifying the technology’s flaws? AI is in its infancy and still faces significant […]
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Navigating the Conversational AI Wave: A Playbook for Executives Looking to Stay Ahead
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Conversational AI, which enables machines to simulate human dialogue, has emerged as one of the most sought-after AI applications in today’s market. IDC forecasts that the conversational AI software services market will continue its strong acceleration through 2024-2028, reaching over $31.9 billion in revenue by 2028. Yet, with the growing hype around conversational AI, it […]
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Kieran Norton, Deloitte’s US Cyber AI & Automation leader – Interview Series
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Kieran Norton a principal (partner) at Deloitte & Touche LLP, is the US Cyber AI & Automation Leader for Deloitte. With over 25 years of extensive experience and a solid technology background, Kieran excels in addressing emerging risks, providing clients with strategic and pragmatic insights into cybersecurity and technology risk management. Within Deloitte, Kieran leads the […]
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100 Days of Trump 2.0: The Inflation Reduction Act
This post is part of a new Climate Law Blog series, 100 Days of Trump 2.0, in which the Sabin Center offers reflections on the first hundred days of President Trump’s second term across a variety of climate-related topics. To read other posts from the series, which will roll out over the course of the […]
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Restoring and Editing Human Images With AI
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A new collaboration between University of California Merced and Adobe offers an advance on the state-of-the-art in human image completion – the much-studied task of ‘de-obscuring’ occluded or hidden parts of images of people, for purposes such as virtual try-on, animation and photo-editing. Besides repairing damaged images or changing them at a user’s whim, human […]
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Mixed microplastic blend may be substantially more toxic for marine life
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Acartia tonsa (illustration by Dmitry Kulakov). A new study indicates that a mixed microplastic blend may be substantially more toxic than a single polymer on a key marine food-web species. Due to the wide range of ways in which microplastics can enter the natural environment, microplastic pollution is extremely diverse in terms of material make-up, […]
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How Patronus AI’s Judge-Image is Shaping the Future of Multimodal AI Evaluation
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Multimodal AI is transforming the field of artificial intelligence by combining different types of data, such as text, images, video, and audio, to provide a deeper understanding of information. This approach is similar to how humans process the world around them using multiple senses. For example, AI can examine medical images in healthcare while considering […]