Using IoT to Combat Counterfeits in the Retail Supply Chain
Retail products move from suppliers and through distributors to reach shelves. Somewhere along the way, counterfeit goods slip in. Theses counterfeits show up across the retail supply chain in major stores, online marketplaces, and flea markets. Whenever this happens — and it happens often — businesses have to eat the cost of shipping and disposing […]
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TypeScript takes aim at truthy and nullish bugs
Microsoft has released a beta of TypeScript 5.6, an update to the strongly typed JavaScript variant that disallows nullish and truthy checks on syntax that never varies on nullishness or truthiness. The TypeScript 5.6 beta, which follows last month’s production release of TypeScript 5.5, was announced July 26. TypeScript 5.6 can be accessed through NuGet […]
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BMC report examines DataOps practices
Systematic data management investment and effort is associated with outsized returns on data-driven initiatives, according to a newly released report on DataOps from BMC Software. Further, large amounts of organizational data frequently remain underutilized for insights due to challenges with active data management, the report states. Released July 24, the report, titled “Putting the ‘Ops’ […]
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Vantiva Launches First Smart Security Camera Vantiva Peek™
Vantiva (Euronext Paris: VANTI), a global connectivity technology leader, today announced the launch of the Vantiva Peek™, a patent-pending smart camera with integrated motion, humidity, and temperature sensors, designed for self-storage rental units. This is the first endpoint device in the Vantiva Smart Storage solution suite. It includes network connectivity infrastructure, device management software, and […]
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Build and manage LLM prompts with Prompty
The resulting functions use the Prompty prompt description to build the interaction with the LLM, which you can wrap in an asynchronous operation. The result is an AI application with very little code beyond assembling user inputs and displaying LLM outputs. Much of the heavy lifting is handled by tools like Semantic Kernel, and by […]
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Harnessing Satellite Data for Sustainable Agriculture
As the global population continues to grow, the issue of food security becomes more pressing. Increasing agricultural production is a crucial challenge, especially considering its vulnerability to factors like extreme weather events, deforestation, resource scarcity, and urbanization, which further diminish the available workforce. This is where sustainable agriculture comes in. Unfortunately, agriculture also adds to […]
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Shiny for Python adds chat component for generative AI chatbots
Shiny for Python 1.0 launched this week with built-in chatbot functionality. The Chat() component is aimed at making it “easy to implement generative AI chatbots, powered by any large language model (LLM) of your choosing,” according to today’s announcement. “The ai_model can be anything, but Chat makes it especially easy to use interfaces from OpenAI, […]
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Join Us for the mioty Global Summit 2024 in Stockholm!
We’re thrilled to announce that the mioty Global Summit is returning for its second edition on 10 October 2024, in the vibrant city of Stockholm, Sweden. This is your chance to connect with our members and global mioty experts and discover why the future is orange! Dive into the latest developments, engage in meaningful discussions, […]
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Python pick: Shiny for Python—now with chat
As we wrap up the month in Python and elsewhere: Make generative AI chatbots in Python the Shiny way; use Streamlit to create web-based Python apps without getting dirty with HTML, CSS, or JavaScript; discover Extism, the lib that lets you build universal software components in WebAssembly; and get tips for speeding things up when […]
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Connecting EV Charge Points with Cellular
The increasing demand for clean energy and the ambitious 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by all 193 U.N. Member States are driving rapid growth in the EV charging and smart grid market. Eseye‘s research indicates that 80% of respondents in the EV charging industry expect a significant increase in the number of devices in […]
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