The organizing Committee of FDC Summit in the sixth edition and the CDIS in its second edition announced the launch of a joint event named “Egypt International Summit for Digital Transformation and Cybersecurity”  from 19 May to 21 May 2024 at Egypt International Exhibitions Centre located in Mosher Tantawi axis, Hall 3 under the auspices of the Egyptian Cabinet, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy, the Ministry of Supply and Internal T ..read more

At the Intel Vision 2024 customer and partner conference, Intel introduced the Intel Gaudi 3 accelerator to bring performance, openness and choice to enterprise generative AI (GenAI), and unveiled a suite of new open scalable systems, next-gen products and strategic collaborations to accelerate GenAI adoption. With only 10% of enterprises successfully moving GenAI projects into production last year, Intel’s latest offerings address the challenges businesses face in scaling AI initiatives. “Innovation is advancing at an unprecedented pace, all enabled by silicon – and every company is quickly ..read more

The Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) has released a comprehensive report highlighting the most in-demand jobs in Egypt’s IT and Offshoring sector. Drawing insights from the latest two ITIDA Employment Fairs (IEF), which saw participation from nearly 125 local and multinational companies between October 2023 and March 2024, the data reveals key trends shaping the job market. Engineer Ahmed ELZaher, CEO of ITIDA The report indicates that software development roles (full stack developers -software testers – cloud engineers) top the charts, accounting for over 58% of the ..read more

As a part of its responsibility towards the warming globe, as the world’s foremost tech harbor, sustainability has been Intel’s indivisible nickname. The corporate has been paving the way in more than just sustainable semiconductor manufacturing; it has been also sharing the world its ultimate goals to achieve by 2023 in the field of water, waste, and climate change. In its latest exclusive interview with the Egyptian Gazette newspaper, Intel shared its vision of creating a sustainable PC lifecycle. The tech harbor elaborated on its commitment to reduce the carbon footprint in the overall prod ..read more

The National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Egypt (NTRA) released the internet usage index within 24 hours in Ramdan in 2024, compared to Ramadan in 2023. Mobile internet services were increasingly used by 74%, in line with the rise of mobile internet users reaching 9 million. Meanwhile, services of fixed internet recorded an increase by 29 % in conjunction with the rising number of new fixed internet users reaching 800 thousand users. Usage of online services within a single day in Ramadan in 2024 differed to Ramadan of 2023 as follow: Short entertainment videos:These are short e ..read more

LG Egypt has announced its latest exclusive promotion on the occasion of Eid Al-Fitr and for a limited time, with attractive discounts that goes up to 60% on LG’s Magic Remote Control. The offer was set to start on April 8th and is to be valid until the end of the month or until stocks last. The previously mentioned promotion allows LG ‘s customers to benefit from the discount and order the  Magic Remote Control on its own, through contacting the company’s service center on the hotline or via WhatsApp, where customer also get to request home delivery for the remote control, or to pick it ..read more

SAN FRANCISCO ― Google unveiled a host of updates to its artificial intelligence offerings for cloud computing customers, emphasizing that the technology is safe and ready for use in the corporate realm, despite recent stumbles in consumer-facing tools. At the company’s annual cloud computing conference in Las Vegas recently, Cloud Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kurian showed off how Google’s most powerful AI model, Gemini, can be used to create advertisements, ward off cybersecurity threats and spin up short videos and podcasts. Corporate customers will be able to peg Gemini’s query responses ..read more

TOKYO — Microsoft said it would invest $2.9 billion over two years to expand its cloud and AI infrastructure in Japan, the latest in a series of overseas expansions by large tech firms to support the development of artificial intelligence. The investment – the company’s largest in the 46 years of its operations in the country – will also go towards skilling three million people in AI and setting up a Microsoft Research Asia lab in Tokyo. Server operators are expanding their data centers and cloud computing assets globally to support a boom in AI applications and workloads, after the late 2022 ..read more

SAN FRANCISCO ― Meta Platforms unveiled details about the next generation of the company’s in-house Artificial Intelligence accelerator chip. Reuters reported earlier this year that Meta planned to deploy a new version of a custom data center chip to address the swelling amount of computing power necessary to run AI products in Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The chip, referred to internally as “Artemis,” will help Meta reduce its reliance on Nvida’s AI chips and reduce its energy costs overall. “This chip´s architecture is fundamentally focused on providing the right balance of compute, mem ..read more

SAN FRANCISCO — TikTok could be looking to take inspiration from Instagram with its photo-based format as plans advance to launch a new app. On March 11, a blogger who goes by TheSpAndroid took a deep dive into the app’s APK and found a new ‘TikTok Photos’ platform in the latest available version. At the time, there was no other indication that this would be made into a reality. Now, some users are reporting notifications suggesting the app will be called TikTok Notes. A social media user called Alex Friedman took to the X platform to share a screenshot of the notification, with the caption “L ..read more