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AI adoption - Unemployment - Generative AI - Artificial intelligence - Labor marketMapping AI at work
New research shows that AI adoption remains highly uneven across the workplace, with some early signs of employment effects emerging among younger workers entering AI-exposed occupations.By The Beiruter -
Artificial intelligence - Scientific integrity - P-hacking - Research ethics - AI researchArabIan nights: Three tales of AI and troubled science
From poisoned datasets to prompt-based p-hacking and AI-generated papers, new research shows how artificial intelligence is testing the safeguards designed to protect scientific integrity.By The Beiruter -
Lebanese tech talent - Citizen-generated data - Civic technology - Government accountability, - Digital governanceCan citizen data improve accountability in Lebanon?
As Lebanon expands its digital government infrastructure, citizen-generated data could provide a new way to track public-service failures and measure how authorities respond.By The Beiruter -
Artificial intelligence - Clinical decision-making - AI-assisted diagnosis - Medical expertise - Medical AIThe paradox of medical AI in the exam room
As artificial intelligence moves deeper into diagnosis and clinical decision-making, medicine is confronting how to expand access to expertise without surrendering human judgment or weakening the training that produces future specialists.By The Beiruter -
Semiconductors - AI infrastructure - Artificial intelligence - memory chips - high-bandwidth memoryAI’s next bottleneck is memory
The artificial intelligence boom is straining supplies of the advanced memory chips needed to keep powerful processors running, with rising demand beginning to affect the wider electronics industry.By The Beiruter -
Solar energy - Renewable energy - distributed solar - electricity grids - Chinese solar panelsThe solar boom Africa’s statistics are missing
A new report finds that solar installations are surging across Africa far faster than official statistics suggest, driven by cheap Chinese panels and a largely decentralized boom that is allowing businesses to generate their own electricity beyond the reach of national grids.By The Beiruter -
Geopolitics - Digital infrastructure - internet infrastructure - internet resilience - submarine cablesThe internet’s most important infrastructure is underwater
More than 99% of international data traffic travels through submarine cables, but their concentration along narrow maritime routes, dependence on a small repair fleet and growing control by technology giants are turning the infrastructure beneath the internet into an issue of economic security and geopolitical power.By The Beiruter -
Big Tech - Data centers - Artificial intelligence - Self-medication in Lebanon - capital expenditures - free cash flowsAI is breaking Big Tech’s cash machine
AI is transforming the economics of the world's most profitable technology companies as the enormous cost of computing requires levels of physical investment once unusual for the technology industry.By The Beiruter -
Digital economy - IPv4 - IPv6 - IP addresses - internet infrastructureThe strange market keeping the old internet alive
The internet exhausted its supply of new IPv4 addresses 15 years ago, but a global market for existing addresses shows how scarcity, compatibility and sunk investments can keep an aging technology valuable long after its successor arrives.By The Beiruter -
WhatsApp hacking - Cybercrime - Cybersecurity - Online scams - OTP scamsThe complete journey of hackers into your accounts
A simple message, a stolen code, and suddenly your trusted contacts become targets; inside Lebanon’s growing WhatsApp hacking networks and the tricks criminals use to steal accounts, money and personal data.By Fatat Ayad
