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What to expect from the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting Wednesday

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Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 06, 2024 in Washington, DC.  Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images The Federal Reserve has a lot to do at its meeting this week, but ultimately may not end up doing a … Read more

Enterprise SaaS investment makes a comeback — but not where you’d expect

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The global market for software is growing quickly. Gartner data indicates that software spend is the fastest-expanding segment of IT spend and that its pace of growth has accelerated in recent years. If Gartner’s forecasts bear out, the software portion of global IT spend could crest $1 trillion in 2024. Startups mostly build software. And … Read more

AI and You: Expect More Fake AI Images; OpenAI-Musk, OpenAI-NYT Battles Continue

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One of the advantages of generative AI tech is its natural language capabilities. That means you don’t need to be a programmer, engineer or scientist to “talk” to a gen AI chatbot and prompt it to create text, illustrations and other images, video, audio, photographs, and even programming code in seconds.   But the “magic” … Read more

Analysts expect XAG to outperform XAU in 2024

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One-kilogram silver bars sit stacked at Gold Investments Ltd. bullion dealers in this arranged photograph in London, U.K., on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images A record-breaking rally for gold may yet continue, particularly as investors position for interest rate cuts — but analysts say silver appears well placed to … Read more

Workers with AI skills can expect higher salaries – depending on their role

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Eugene Mymrin/Getty Images Deemed a growing scarcity in the industry, workers skilled in artificial intelligence (AI) can prompt higher salary offers of up to 44%, depending on which department the role is for.  Employers say they are willing to bump up salaries by 44% for AI-skilled workers in IT and 41% more for those in … Read more

What to expect from MWC 2024

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Without looking up any leaks or rumors, I’d bet that you could probably sketch most of the phones rumored to be launching at Mobile World Congress next week. Over the years, smartphones have settled on a relatively consistent design formula of big rectangular touchscreens, small selfie camera cutouts, app-based interfaces, and large camera bumps with … Read more

Stanley Kubrick Only Won One Oscar — And Not in a Category You’d Expect

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The Big Picture Despite a career spanning five decades and numerous iconic movies, Stanley Kubrick only received a single Oscar, which came in the category of Best Visual Special Effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey . 2001: A Space Odyssey changed ideas of what science fiction and cinema can accomplish, exploring high-concept topics like evolution, … Read more

China to display Comac C919 at Singapore Airshow. What else to expect

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A model of Comac’s C919 aircraft at the Singapore Airshow on Feb. 6, 2018. SeongJoon Cho / Bloomberg / Getty Images SINGAPORE — China is gearing up to showcase its narrow-body passenger jet to a global audience for the first time at the Singapore Airshow. Touted as a competitor to Boeing’s 737 and the Airbus … Read more

What we expect from MWC 2024

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In a little over a week’s time (February 26-29) around 85,000 or so attendees will descend upon the Fira de Barcelona for Mobile World Congress 2024. Over the past few years, the show has become arguably the most important mobile event of the year. Phone makers, telecoms and a variety of other tech vendors, journalists … Read more