Techstrong News Recap – March 21, 2023

Hi again, everyone here the headlines from March 21st. First up. The BBC has told its employees to remove tiktok from their work mobile devices due to concerns over security and privacy.

This move makes the BBC the first UK Media company to do so and only the second in the world after Denmark's public service broadcaster. This being said though, the BBC has stated it will still use tiktok for editorial and marketing purposes. The app has been Bama government phones and several countries with the recent editions like New Zealand as the end of last week based on worries that tiktok could share data gathered from corporate devices with the Chinese government.

Tiktok denies any wrongdoing but the company employees were found to have tracked the locations of a few Western journalists in 2022. BBC's move could ultimately have a drastic fact over other meaty organizations as questions are rising as to what actions each should take to protect confidential information next crypto exchanges and wallets have seen an uptake and activity as customers look for alternatives to traditional Banks following the recent banking turmoil in the US with Bitcoin surging to a nine month Peak at 28,567 dollars. com and finance Rose around 15% since the collapse of svb.

In contrast downloads for the top 10 traditional Banks and top 10 digital First Banks fell by 5% and 3% respectively. The increased activity in crypto coincided with the shuttering of several mid and Regional size Banks which led to concerns about where people and companies should keep their assets this alongside the growing expectations that the central bank will slow down interest rate hike has fuel to cryptocurrencies rise in analysts predict that Bitcoin and crypto as a whole will benefit from efforts to increase liquidity. In other news Microsoft has introduced the new feature called co-pilot that utilizes artificial intelligence to become a user's very own personal assistant.

The tool can summarize link the emails draft Word documents and create animated PowerPoint slides. While this feature is currently only available to 20 Enterprise clients Microsoft's intends to expand. It's availability later on in the upcoming months copilot is being promoted as a tool that can enhance employee productivity by freeing up time spent on emails and allowing for easier Trend analysis on Excel in addition Microsoft is also unveiling a chat function called business chat, which is similar to the popular chat GPT platform.

Microsoft is saying this feature represents a significant advancement in the way that we interact with technology. Google Microsoft's rival is likewise integrating generative AI capabilities into its workspace applications, including Google Docs emails and slides and will be progressively making the service more available in the coming year. Next up.

Mercedes-Benz is planning to invest billions of dollars to upgrade its factories in China Germany and Hungary in the next few years with the overall goal of switching to electric vehicles and reducing emissions. The company is expected to invest a three-digit million amount per plant for the transition additionally Mercedes-Benz have announced that it will be ready to produce electric cars by the end of the decade subject to market conditions. The company also intends to modernize the painting systems in its factories in Germany with the aim of cutting energy in water consumption and reducing Reliance and carbon-based energy.

On digital cxl. We have an article that looks at how artificial intelligence and machine learning will change businesses this year both Ai and ml have taken the tech industry by storm allowing incredible transformations of how businesses operate. com On container Journal we have an article that looks at oracle's addition of a virtual nodes capability for its Oracle container engine for kubernetes.

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