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  • Weekly News: Uber Faces Reality

    Weekly News: Uber Faces Reality

    Weekly news. Discover last news about IT: Uber faces reality and news about SAP that shared a few significant announcements.

    Uber Faces Reality

    One of the biggest heralds of the mobility revolution, Uber is known for making bold statements about the near future and the company’s role in making it possible.

    Flying
    taxis crossing the city’s skyline, fleets of driverless cars optimising traffic
    flow across entire countries. The full picture. 

    Well,
    it’s time to face reality. The reality of public traded companies, that is.

    In an
    effort to turn a profit next year, the company is abandoning both its
    loss-making flying taxi division and the development of its own driverless
    car. 

    Uber is selling the two businesses to two different start-ups, hoping to pursue its futuristic ambitions through partnerships moving forward.

    The Guardian

    SAP News

    German software giant SAP used its yearly TechEd event to share a few significant announcements. 

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    The company is the latest big player to jump on the low-code
    bandwagon with its new Cloud Platform Workflow Management tool. The solution
    lets employees with little to no knowledge of coding create their own
    operational workflows. 

    The tool also includes predefined workflows for processes like
    employee onboarding and can be integrated with Qualtrics data.

    SAP also announced its first-ever RPA solution. Named SAP Ruum, the tool complements the company’s new low-code strategy by allowing businesses to integrate easily deployable automation into departmental processes.

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  • Weekly News: Robot Farmers

    Weekly News: Robot Farmers

    Robot Farmers, Microsoft jobs, Ada Lovelace Day: discover our weekly news about IT & Tech.

    Robot Farmers

    Google‘s parent company, Alphabet, has presented a prototype for a new line of farming robots to help farmers monitor the health of crops and multiply crop yields.

    Consequently, project Mineral consists of swarms of “robot buggies” that go up and down the fields inspecting every plant. They do so on upright pillars, coasting on top of the plants much like harbour container cranes do.

    Meanwhile Alphabet’s goal is to accumulate large amounts of data about how crops grow to help the agricultural industry tackle the world’s increasing need for food and the sustainability of growing it.

    BBC

    Microsoft wants to create 1.5M jobs

    In addition, Microsoft has made a pledge to create 1.5 million tech jobs in the UK over the next 5 years, with and additional 300,000 depending directly on them.

    Called Get Go 2021, the campaign targets people currently in
    education, those looking into pursuing a career in tech, and those already in
    tech and wanting to change careers. The initiative is also meant to help those
    whose jobs have been affected by the Covid-19 crisis and bridge the IT talent
    gap. It will be based on education and training programs.

    The company will also leverage LinkedIn data to anticipate the need for more than 3 million skilled IT workers. 

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    Ada Lovelace Day

    Born in early
    19th-century England, Ada Lovelace was a pioneering mathematician and writer
    chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage’s “Analytical Engine,” a
    steam-powered calculating machine now regarded as the first fully-automatic
    mechanical computer.

    Although she wrote the first-ever algorithm, Lovelace’s true
    genius lied in her ability to envision the computer’s potential beyond mere
    arithmetic calculations. She is hence considered to be the first computer
    programmer, a “prophet” of the computer age.

    This week we celebrated Ada Lovelace Day, reflecting on women’s countless contributions to science, technology engineering and math (STEM) — something we should honestly do every day.

    Let this day serve as a reminder of how much work is left to do to ensure equal representation of women in tech.

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  • Weekly News: Your Phone is an Earthquake Detector

    Weekly News: Your Phone is an Earthquake Detector

    If you are one of the 2.5 billion Android device users out there, you now have a brand new conversation topic. Soon your phone will be part of a worldwide earthquake detection network. Yes, your phone is an Earthquake Detector soon…

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    Your Phone is an Earthquake Detector

    While using smartphone sensors to build an okay seismometer app
    is nothing new, Google has a better idea: integrating it into the phone’s
    operating system directly. 

    All devices running Android 5.0 and up will get the new feature
    through a Google Play Services update, essentially becoming decentralised
    tremor-monitoring stations that one day will help detect earthquakes early on
    and warn users. 

    For now, Google plans on collecting data for a while to fine-tune
    the system before rolling out proactive alerts. But don’t worry. You can
    opt-out of the service via your phone’s settings. Although most people won’t
    even know it is there.

    Toshiba-bye

    Thirty-five years
    after debuting its first laptop, the Japanese conglomerate Toshiba announced it
    is abandoning the portable PC market. 

    The entire PC hardware market, in fact. In 2018, Toshiba had
    already sold most of its PC business to Sharp, the same buyer this time
    around. 

    The decision comes as the company announced its first quarterly
    losses in 4 years and officially marks the end of an era in laptop
    history. 

    Toshiba laptops reached their heyday in the 1990s, when they came to dominate the global market. They started losing ground in the late 2000s after an industry shift towards more attractive designs and more powerful machines   

    A good reminder of how important it is to adapt and keep innovating.

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