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ATOMIC TREASURES: Tracking poachers — how nuclear technology could transform rhino conservation

Technology tamfitronics Last week, 20 black and white rhinos went nuclear after radioisotopes were inserted into their horns in a novel approach to anti-poaching. This tiny bead of radioactive material can help increase the capability to detect smuggled horns, increase prosecution success, reveal smuggling routes and deter end-user markets...
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How Vulcan Materials paved its way to digital success
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How Vulcan Materials paved its way to digital success

Technology tamfitronics Technology tamfitronics Company-first CIO Krzysztof Soltan and his team helped transform the construction-aggregates giant with a focus on digitizing operations, modernizing infrastructure, and overhauling how IT goes about its business.In a recent “all-hands” meeting, Krzysztof Soltan, CIO of Vulcan Materials, announced his IT organization would continue its “laser focus on digital transformation.”Digital technology, he explained, would remain a central focus of the construction-aggregates industry and would underpin customer-grade experiences increasingly expected from industry leaders. Vulcan, based in Birmingham, Ala., is the nation’s largest construction aggregates company, producing materials such as crushed stone, sand, and gravel, with strategic downstream assets like asphalt and ready-mixed in select markets. Soltan, previously a tech leader at Johnson Controls, ABB, and GE, became the company’s first CIO just two years ago and is at the forefront of the...
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South African researchers test use of nuclear technology to curb rhino poaching
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South African researchers test use of nuclear technology to curb rhino poaching

Technology tamfitronics A sedated rhino is prepared to be tranquilized, before a hole is drilled into its horn and isotopes carefully inserted, at a rhino orphanage in the country's northern province of Limpopo, Tuesday, June 25, 2024. Researchers have started the final phase of a research project aimed at reducing rhino poaching by inserting radioisotopes into rhino horns to devalue one of the most highly trafficked wildlife commodities. Credit: AP...
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Mark Zuckerberg Sounds Off on Developing AI: ‘I Don’t Think AI Technology Is a Thing That Should Be Hoarded’
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Mark Zuckerberg Sounds Off on Developing AI: ‘I Don’t Think AI Technology Is a Thing That Should Be Hoarded’

Technology tamfitronics AI may soon become a part of our everyday lives, but in a new interview with the YouTuber Kallaway, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg suggested we may be thinking about the technology all wrong.Zuckerberg spoke about most major companies and their desire to build one main AI, using Google's Gemini or OpenAI's Chat GPT as examples. But for Meta, the strategy isn't to develop one central AI — the company wants to create multiple programs. "Our overall view is that this isn't the type of thing that there should just be one of, people want to interact with lots of different people and businesses and there need to be...
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