Coca-Cola Invites Digital Artists to ‘Create Real Magic’ Using New AI Platform Digital creatives around the world can use a first-of-its-kind AI platform to generate original artwork with iconic creative assets from the Coca-Cola archives. Built exclusively for Coca-Cola by OpenAI and Bain & Company, “Create Real Magic” is the first platform of its kind to combine the capabilities of GPT-4, which produces human-like text from search engine queries, and DALL-E, which produces images based on text. Through the “Create Real Magic” contest, artists can download and submit their work for the opportunity to be featured on Coke’s digital billboards…
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“Unleash Digital with Everything as a Service”, the second Huawei Cloud Summit Middle East & Africa brought government leaders, cloud native industry experts, and customer representatives together from the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa with the aim of exploring how to optimise the cloud to boost the digital economy. H.E. Zhang Yiming, the Chinese Ambassador to UAE, gave a keynote speech on the significance of cloud computing for the digital economy saying “China is poised to partner with the UAE and countries in the Middle East and Africa in their digital cloud journey. Together, we will revitalise the industry…
Lenovo in collaboration with AMD announces the launch of a keyboard available on select devices featuring an Aotearoa New Zealand bilingual keyboard, designed to seamlessly write in the indigenous language, te reo Māori. The breakthrough approach device aims to enable Lenovo’s customers to communicate in their preferred language. The idea for the keyboard is the result of Lenovo New Zealand Country Manager, Libby Macgregor’s 8- year-old son Felix, beginning to learn te reo Māori in school and questioned why there wasn’t hardware available to support his learning. New Zealanders aged 15-34 are the most likely age group to speak more than a…
Samsung Electronics Opens the Odyssey Universe, a New In-Game Experience Inspired by the Odyssey Monitor Lineup Samsung Electronics has announced the release of the Odyssey Universe, a new customized map created for gamers to experience in Fortnite, based on the premium Odyssey series of monitors from Samsung. The Odyssey Universe is a new in-game experience expressing how the industry-leading Samsung Odyssey monitor lineup helps gamers deliver on the promise of next-generation games. “We are happy to introduce the Odyssey’s own customized gaming experience along with fun in one of the most popular game around the world.” said Hoon Chung, Executive…
With the Holy Month of Ramadan expected to begin this week, Emirates is preparing thousands of Iftar meal boxes for fasting passengers both onboard and at boarding gates, an array of religious content and Ramadan series on ice, and traditional Ramadan refreshments and meals in the lounges. Iftar Meal Boxes honouring Bedouin heritage From the 22 March, customers breaking their fast across all cabin classes to select Emirates destinations will receive thoughtful, nutritionally-balanced iftar meal boxes. Iftar meals will be served in bespoke boxes designed by Emirates to represent the rich Emirati heritage of the Al Sadu weavers. Al Sadu is a traditional form…
Puma launches the Brilliance Pack featuring women-specific fits for the Future, Ultra, and King Global sports company PUMA has launched the Brilliance Pack, featuring women specific fits for the FUTURE, ULTRA and KING in fresh new colorways. A brilliant fit for brilliant ballers – PUMA is celebrating the brilliance of the women’s game whilst looking ahead to the next generation of young female players. To mark the launch of the Brilliance Pack PUMA is bringing together professional players and grassroot programs, to inspire young girls to play football. Two key activations have already been held in Germany and France with…
Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, and leading Portuguese translational biomedical research and clinical care provider Champalimaud Foundation, has announced they have signed a strategic partnership aimed at halving the carbon footprint resulting from Champalimaud’s use of diagnostic and interventional imaging equipment by 2028. The transformation of Champalimaud Foundation’s imaging technology infrastructure will be enabled by a set of practical, scalable measures and innovations, including equipment upgrades, lifetime extensions, process digitalization, circular financing solutions with takeback, and renewable electricity sourcing. It will help drive the quality and efficiency of care delivery, while also realizing more sustainable healthcare. As…
VMware Unlocks Limitless Possibilities for Partners to Capture the Multi-Cloud Opportunity VMware, Inc. has announced the next evolution of the company’s flagship VMware Partner Connect program is live worldwide. Partner Connect is a singular, unified program for all partner types that is now more flexible and efficient, provides faster and simpler paths to progression, delivers more incentives, and rewards partners for both performance and capabilities. Through Partner Connect, VMware is empowering partners to drive growth by helping their customers successfully navigate the multi-cloud era. As organizations move from an environment of ‘cloud chaos’ to a cloud smart approach, there is…
IKEA expands the VAPPEBY range with a new waterproof Bluetooth speaker IKEA continues to expand the developing home electronics range with the launch of the new waterproof VAPPEBY portable Bluetooth speaker. The speaker, which will remain long-term in the IKEA range, is anticipated to sales start globally beginning this April. “We are delighted to introduce the new waterproof VAPPEBY portable Bluetooth speaker”, says Stjepan Begic, Product Design Developer at IKEA of Sweden. “The fundamental goal with the new speaker was to offer quality sound in a versatile product that can really be used anywhere”. 80 hours of total playtime The…
HP Inc. has issued its latest quarterly HP Wolf Security Threat Insights Report, showing hackers are diversifying attack methods, including a surge in QR code phishing campaigns. By isolating threats on PCs that have evaded detection tools, HP Wolf Security has insights into the latest techniques being used by cybercriminals in the fast-changing cybercrime landscape. To date, HP Wolf Security customers have clicked on over 25 billion email attachments, web pages, and downloaded files with no reported breaches. From February 2022, Microsoft began blocking macros in Office files by default, making it harder for attackers to run malicious code. Data collected…