Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, speaks on artificial intelligence during a Bruegel think tank conference in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan. 20, 2020. Yves Herman | Reuters The MedLM suite includes a large and a medium-sized AI model, both built on Med-PaLM 2, a large language model trained on medical data that Google first … Read more
Google shares jumped Thursday, a day after the company announced its latest artificial intelligence model called Gemini. Google executives said Gemini outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-3.5, but the company did not share how it compares with OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-4. Analysts are encouraged by Google’s progress in AI, but questions remain about how the company will monetize … Read more
Drivers west and south of Great Slave Lake are being warned to prepare for freezing rain throughout much of Monday. In an advisory issued late on Sunday evening, Environment and Climate Change Canada said parts of highways 1, 5 and 6 could become icy and slippery. The advisory covered roads around Hay River, Fort Smith, … Read more
Thousands of people have paid $2,500 for full-body MRI scans from Prenuvo, whose technology can detect more than 500 conditions. The scans take about an hour and are reviewed by one of Prenuvo’s licensed radiologists. “When you’re catching stage one cancer, what you’re doing will save lives,” said Prenuvo CEO Andrew Lacy. Prenuvo MRI machine … Read more
DALLAS, Oct. 03, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MEF, a global industry association of network, cloud, security, and technology providers accelerating enterprise digital transformation, today announced the formation of an Enterprise Leadership Council (ELC). Comprised of senior executives representing all major enterprise vertical markets with mission-critical network infrastructures, the ELC will bring important end user perspective … Read more
Nilay Patel, left, editor-in-chief of the Verge, and Kevin Scott, Microsoft’s chief technology officer, speak at Vox Media’s Code Conference at The Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel in Dana Point, California, on Sept. 27, 2023. Jerod Harris | Vox Media | Getty Images Microsoft technology chief Kevin Scott said on Wednesday that the company is having an … Read more
The Department of Defense has teamed up with Google to build an AI-powered microscope that can help doctors identify cancer. The tool is called an Augmented Reality Microscope, and it will usually cost health systems between $90,000 to $100,000. Experts believe the ARM will help support doctors in smaller labs as they battle with workforce … Read more
More evacuees are heading home to Hay River and the Kátł’odeeche First Nation on Sunday, with Fort Smith opening to residents on Monday. Sunday is expected to be a busier day of travel than Saturday. Many Hay River residents had already targeted Sunday as the town’s tentative reopening date, before that was brought forward to … Read more
Advertisement. Throughout August and into September, this page brought you the latest simple updates we had on wildfires threatening NWT communities, with time stamps. With most South Slave residents now able to head home, the peak of the crisis appears to be passing and we are no longer actively maintaining this page. Instead, key updates … Read more
Advertisement. Registration for flights home from Alberta to Fort Smith and Hay River closes at 8pm on Thursday. The battle against wildfires outside both communities continues. On Wednesday, NWT Fire said a controlled burn designed to protect Hay River and the Kátł’odeeche First Nation from an area of fire to the east had been successful. … Read more