Samsung Electronics Achieves Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Verification on Product Carbon Footprint for Semiconductors Samsung Electronics a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, has announced that it has established a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) on the product carbon footprint of its semiconductor business and achieved verification from DNV, one of the world’s leading independent certification bodies. LCA is a methodology for assessing environmental impacts throughout the lifecycle of commercial products, processes, or services, by quantifying the amount of energy, materials and waste discharge. In detail, on its semiconductors’ carbon footprint, Samsung’s LCA covers raw material extraction to chip manufacturing, assembling…
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AI applications are summarizing articles, writing stories and engaging in long conversations — and large language models are doing the heavy lifting. A large language model, or LLM, is a deep learning algorithm that can recognize, summarize, translate, predict and generate text and other content based on knowledge gained from massive datasets. Large language models are among the most successful applications of transformer models. They aren’t just for teaching AIs human languages, but for understanding proteins, writing software code, and much, much more. In addition to accelerating natural language processing applications — like translation, chatbots and AI assistants — they are…
Love is in the air as the Nation’s Favourite Coffee Shop, Costa Coffee, has made partnership with Rolo to create the ultimate chocolate caramel drinks range just in time for Valentine’s Day. Whether you are looking to spend some precious time with a loved one, see a good friend for an overdue catch-up or fancy trying something new for yourself, why not try one of Costa Coffee’s new Instagrammable limited-edition drinks offering? The new limited-edition Inspired by Rolo Chocolate Caramel Hot Chocolate & Light Dairy Swirl is made with Costa Coffee’s signature Hot Chocolate, blended with scrumptious chocolate and caramel flavour…
PUMA and Creative Director June Ambrose will be releasing their first co-branded collaboration, “Keeping Score” on January, 2023. This new co-branded collaboration is a celebration of Ambrose’s career and impact within hip hop and fashion, exploring the idea of reflection, and encouraging women to keep score of their wins. As culture shifts, women on and off the court continue to become more aware of their power, as individuals and in numbers. Since joining the sportswear brand in 2020 as the Creative Director for the Women’s Basketball category, June’s mission has continuously been focused on highlighting and empowering women, knowing life…
When the team at Motive set out to remake Dead Space, they knew they wanted to ensure the game could be played and enjoyed by as many people as possible. “Dead Space is a classic that changed how horror games were perceived when it was released,” says Lead Senior Experience Designer Christian Cimon, “so it made sense to revive that game and share it with a whole new generation. But the game came out 15 years ago, when accessibility features were less common. Things like subtitles, menu narration, control-remapping, and the like are pretty much expected now, so we wanted…
Accenture Invests in Forma Vision to Bring 3D Volumetric Video to the Metaverse Accenture has made a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures, in Forma Vision, a provider of live-streamed, volumetric video technology that enables 3D holographic images of people, objects and environments to be beamed into the metaverse from any office, home or other location. Until now, the metaverse opportunity has been constrained to enterprise use cases appropriate for avatar-to-avatar interactions. Now, using Forma Vision’s low-cost, live-streaming volumetric video technology, enterprises of any size can teleport people, places and things into their metaverse experience. For example, Accenture and others have conducted…
GeForce NOW RTX 4080 SuperPODs are rolling out now, bringing RTX 4080-class performance and features to Ultimate members — including support for NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GPU architecture technologies like NVIDIA DLSS 3. This GFN Thursday brings updates to some of GeForce NOW’s hottest games that take advantage of these amazing technologies, all from the cloud. Plus, RTX 4080 SuperPOD upgrades are nearly finished in the London data center, expanding the number of regions where Ultimate members can experience the most powerful cloud gaming technology on the planet. Look for updates on Twitter once the upgrade is complete and be sure to check back…
80% of plastic in the ocean originates on land. The move, in partnership with Keep Sea Blue, will potentially see 500 tonnes of discarded plastic prevented from entering the oceans. Discarded plastic waste such as drinks bottles which is at risk of getting into the sea, is now being collected and recycled and used again in Tesco’s fresh fish packaging. Next week sees many of the supermarket’s fresh Salmon, Haddock, Cod and Sea Bass lines sold for the first time in trays that contain at least 30% Recycled Coastal Plastic collected from beaches, coastlines, and coastal communities around the Mediterranean…
Since 2023, Audi is the first premium auto manufacturer to join the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS). This global coalition of companies, NGOs, and the public sector is dedicated to water stewardship throughout the value chain; this step will allow Audi’s San José Chiapa site in Mexico to seek certification under the International Water Stewardship Standard, also known as the AWS Standard. Clean drinking water is one of the most valuable resources in the world, which is why Audi focuses on economical and efficient water use in its Mission:Zero environmental program. The company wants to keep its own water consumption…
Organizations that implement data-driven change management are more successful in their change processes than those that don’t. For example, change success increases by 27 percent due to a high level of data maturity in the organization, by 23 percent due to data-driven leadership, and by 26 percent as a result of a data-driven culture. Organizations that base change management decisions on data also benefit from greater transparency, more opportunities for participation and a better sense of control among employees. This is according to the new study by Capgemini Invent, “Data Driven Organizations: Boosting change success with data”, for which 1,175 professionals and managers from various…