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Enhanced Saudi Electricity Company App: Customer-Friendly Features and Advanced Services
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2024-01-23 19:57:16
Many of the consumers are not aware of the mobile application where all services for electricity consumers in Jeddah-Saudi are available at a finger tip. This app has many features. The new update of Saudi Electricity Company’s application is more customer friendly and simple. According to officials, the needs of customers can be met better and more efficiently. Aiming for better service in less time.
The new update includes many advanced services. Many facilities like status of application submitted by the customer, window for requesting electrical service receipt, live chat, opportunity for users to leave comments etc. have been put in place. The company claimed that through the developed ‘Electricity Application’, its digital services will attract users in a new look and feel and experience the highest level of quality and excellence in the electricity sector.
Know how much electricity is used daily
In the new update, the amount of electricity consumed by the customer can be separately distinguished by day, week and month. The customer can also read his meter from anywhere and anytime through the application. Apart from this, one can also compare the consumption with similar subscribers in his area and nearby area. The customer will also receive a message when the consumption exceeds the specified limit.
Full time technical support
In the new version of the Electricity application, it is also possible to communicate with the employees through chatting. Complaints related to power outage etc. can also be submitted online without visiting the office.
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NightShade: The Revolutionary Tool for Protecting Designs from Artificial Intelligence Models | University of Chicago
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2024-01-23 17:58:19
Researchers at the University of Chicago have launched a new tool called NightShade, to help designers and artists protect their designs from being used to train artificial intelligence models.
The tool’s website reported that the idea NightShade It relies on adding digital data to each element of the design, and it causes artificial intelligence models to become confused if they try to train on the designs. If the user enters a command into the intelligence models to design an image, the design appears completely contrary to what the user intended.
The researchers who developed the tool, which is part of the research project The Glaze Project, said that the digital modification that the tool makes to designs cannot be eliminated or circumvented in any way, and remains fixed within the composition of the designs, even when taking a screenshot, cropping the image, or redesigning it. , or modification of its elements.
Unprecedented turnout
The new tool was widely welcomed by artists, who praised it as a powerful offensive step that might be used to harm artificial intelligence companies, and limit their ability to exploit artworks to train models for free, while achieving huge profits, without acknowledging the efforts of artists.
Immediately following its launch, the tool witnessed a demand that the developers did not expect, who confirmed that the tool’s hosting servers were on the network. University of Chicago It is experiencing unusual slowness, due to increasing installation requests from users.
The demand reached such a degree that some artists waited up to 8 hours to be able to install the new tool, which is available for Mac computers that operate with Apple M1, M2, and M3 processors, as well as Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers.
When installing the tool, users are obligated not to change its source code, modify it, or use it to obtain profits from its distribution or sale.
In conjunction with the spread of artificial intelligence at the end of 2022, a state of anger prevailed among textual content makers such as news sites, and designers and photographers who created visual content, as a result of companies developing artificial intelligence models using this available content to train their models, without the permission of the content makers.
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2024-01-23 19:30:51
The US Republican Nikki Haley has promised perseverance in the duel with former President Donald Trump for her party’s presidential candidacy. “Everyone is waiting to write my obituary,” the former ambassador to the UN told the TV station CNN in the US state of New Hampshire on Tuesday. But she remained in a field of applicants in which there were initially more than a dozen candidates and only two remained. Trump, however, appeared confident of victory.
The 52-year-old Haley emphasized that she is a fighter and “someone who doesn’t give up.” A newsletter from Haley’s campaign team said on Tuesday that the political elite and the media already wanted to crown Trump and declare the Republican race over. “That’s not how it works,” wrote Haley’s campaign manager, Betsy Ankney. Congressmen and other presidential candidates fell down in droves, but Haley didn’t back down. “We’re not going anywhere.” The primaries had just begun. “After Super Tuesday we will have a very good picture of where this race stands,” Ankney emphasized. “Until then, everyone should take a deep breath.”
Trump appeared confident of victory throughout the day. “The corrupt swamp in Washington has done everything in its power to take your voice away,” he wrote to his followers online. However, New Hampshire will certainly speak with a “loud and clear” voice. For her part, Haley explained in Hampton that the election campaign has always been a marathon race. “He was never a sprinter.” According to her campaign team, she wants to stay in the race at least until Super Tuesday on March 5th. Then elections will take place in 16 of the 50 states. The actual presidential election is on November 5th. According to the statistics website FiveThirtyEight, Trump was last in New Hampshire with 53.9 percent of the vote, ahead of Haley with 36.3 percent. Most polling stations close at 7 p.m. (US East Coast time; 1 a.m. CET), although some close an hour later.
Of the Republican presidential candidates, only Haley and Trump remain. In national polls, Trump has a huge lead over Haley. She is therefore given little chance of ultimately prevailing once morest Trump. The ex-president once once more appeared confident of victory on Tuesday during a surprise appearance at a polling station in New Hampshire, where the second Republican primary was taking place, and assured that he didn’t care how long Haley stayed in the race.
In New Hampshire, Haley’s gap to Trump in polls was significantly smaller than elsewhere. She was hoping for a strong result there. Trump, in turn, called on his supporters in advance to give him a large margin of victory in New Hampshire in order to cement his role as the party’s frontrunner. Several loyal Trump supporters had already declared that the race was over following his clear victory in the first primary election in the state of Iowa. The winner of the Republican primary will almost certainly face incumbent President Joe Biden from the Democrats. In surveys, Biden and Trump are currently virtually tied.
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