2024’s Tech Insights and Innovations

January 2nd.
Ring in the new year with fresh tech insights and innovations to start 2024 right:

🌟 2024 showcased groundbreaking tech insights and transformative milestones across AI, brain chips, and market expansions.

✍️ Lesson of the Week: Learn to set clear goals and craft effective prompts to optimize AI outputs.

🏥 AI is being used in care homes with tools like facial recognition and motion sensors—offering fascinating tech insights into healthcare innovation.

📱 Weekly Tech Tip: Clean your phone properly.

🚀 What’s New: “Explore Now” button and SSO account provisioning.

📕 Book of the Week: “Nexus” by Yuval Noah Harari.

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2024 Tech Insights

2024 has been a year of incredible change and innovation, bringing new technologies and big milestones that reshaped the tech world.

From breakthroughs in AI and brain chips to companies reaching record valuations and expanding into new markets, the industry showed remarkable resilience in the face of challenges.

With emerging markets stepping up, regulations shifting, and technology pushing boundaries, 2024 provided unparalleled tech insights into the evolution of tech.

Lesson of the Week

This week’s lesson, from “Discovering prompt engineering,” focuses on setting clear goals and crafting effective prompts to optimize AI outputs. Prompt engineering offers tech insights into how to maximize the potential of AI.

Question of the Week:

What part of this prompt defines the audience for the blog?

You are a nutritionist. Write a blog post about the importance of a balanced diet for parents of young children.

Select one

A) Parents of young children

B) Blog post authors

C) Nutritionists

See if you’re right–the answer is at the bottom!

AI in Care Homes

AI and smart technology are reshaping care homes, introducing tools like facial recognition to detect pain, motion sensors to prevent falls, and circadian lighting for dementia patients.

These innovations offer critical tech insights into improving safety and efficiency.

Weekly Tech Tip

Clean Your Phone Properly

  1. Use 70% isopropyl alcohol wipes or a microfiber cloth.
  2. Avoid harsh cleaners like rubbing alcohol or paper towels.
  3. Remove lint with tape or a soft tool.
  4. For waterproof phones, wipe with a damp cloth, then dry thoroughly.

What's New

“Study Now” is now “Explore Now,” with scavenger hunt buttons hidden when no resources support the assessment. SSO clients can also request auto-account provisioning, with options for Disabled, Company Authentication, and Company Authentication + User.

Book of the Week

Nexus explores the transformative role of information throughout human history, from the Stone Age to the modern era.

It examines how societies have used information to shape truth, power, and ideology, often with profound consequences.

The book emphasizes the need to responsibly navigate the complexities of information in an age of existential challenges and offers great tech insights.

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Lesson of the Week Answer:

B) The plt.bar() function is without any arguments

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