There Aren't a Lot of Reasons to Get Excited About a New Amazon Smartphone The company is reportedly building a new AI-powered mobile device. If Amazon follows through on the plan, experts warn it would be next to impossible to break into a crowded market. Reuters reports that Amazon's Devices and Services unit is working on a smartphone--dubbed Transformer--with Amazon's Alexa+ AI assistant and shopping as a major focus of the experience. It's unclear what this smartphone would cost, how much Amazon is spending to develop Transformer, and what operating system it will run. There's no word on when it will launch, and there's still also a chance the project could be scrapped altogether.

Everyone wants to kill the app. There's a wave of companies building so-called app-less phones and gadgets, leveraging artificial intelligence advancements to create smarter virtual assistants that can handle all kinds of tasks through one portal, bypassing the need for specific apps for a particular function. We might be witnessing the early stages of the first major smartphone evolution since the introduction of the iPhone--or an AI-hype-fueled gimmick. There's the Humane Ai Pin, a wearable that can identify objects, take photos, and project information into the palm of your hand. It's powered by a digital assistant that uses multiple large language models, such as ChatGPT, and it's designed to reduce reliance on the smartphone.

From algorithms firing staff without human intervention to software keeping tabs on bathroom breaks, technologies including artificial intelligence are already upsetting workers and unsettling workplaces. At call centers, AI systems record and grade how workers handle calls, often giving failing grades for not sticking to the script. Some corporate software spies on workers to see whether they ever write the word "union" in their emails. As technologies grow ever more sophisticated in monitoring, surveilling and speeding up workers, many workplace experts say US businesses, labor unions and government are not doing nearly enough to protect workers from tech's downsides. "Workers are being constantly monitored, and AI-based monitoring tools can make mistakes that can translate into unfair pay cuts or firings," said Virginia Doellgast, a professor of employment relations at Cornell.

The largest ICT employer in Hungary, Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions (formerly IT-Services Hungary, ITSH) is a subsidiary of the Deutsche Telekom Group. Established in 2006, the company provides a wide portfolio of IT and telecommunications services with more than 5000 employees. ITSH was awarded with the Best in Educational Cooperation prize by HIPA in 2019, acknowledged as one of the most attractive workplaces by PwC Hungary's independent survey in 2021 and rewarded with the title of the Most Ethical Multinational Company in 2019. The company continuously develops its four sites in Budapest, Debrecen, Pécs and Szeged and is looking for skilled IT professionals to join its team. We seek our new passionate Tech Lead for our existing MLOps platform.

Our brand Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia entered the life of Košice region in 2006 under the name of T-Systems Slovakia and ever since has been inextricably linked with the region when became one of the founding members of Košice IT Valley. We have managed to grow from scratch to the second largest employer in the eastern part of the country with more than 3900 employees. Our goal is to proactively find new ways to improve and continuously transform into the type of company providing innovative information and communication technology services. We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Data Engineer to join our Common Data Intelligence HUB virtual team at T-Systems Germany. The Common Data Intelligence HUB is a team of approximately 100 engaged professionals dedicated to developing business intelligence solutions and open datasets for T-Systems.

Our brand Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia entered the life of Košice region in 2006 under the name of T-Systems Slovakia and ever since has been inextricably linked with the region when became one of the founding members of Košice IT Valley. We have managed to grow from scratch to the second largest employer in the eastern part of the country with more than 3900 employees. Our goal is to proactively find new ways to improve and continuously transform into the type of company providing innovative information and communication technology services. We are seeking a skilled and experienced Power BI Developer with an innovative mindset to join our Finance International Business Intelligence Team working in a Scrum environment. The ideal candidate will have the opportunity to work remotely from anywhere in Slovakia and will be responsible for designing and implementing data-driven solutions in a Microsoft BI cloud environment to support business intelligence needs across multiple foreign countries, with a focus on automation and implementing predictions, artificial intelligence and self-service BI in the future.

On August 4, Deutsche Telekom, a global leader in integrated telecommunications, announced that its subsidiary T-Systems will partner with China's Envision Digital, a leading global provider of AIoT software for Net Zero solutions, to enable German retailers to reduce their CO2 emissions. Under the partnership, Deutsche Telekom's enterprise customers will offer Envision Digital's Net Zero EnOSTM platform on T-Systems' sovereign cloud. Operating in more than 20 countries with approximately 28,400 employees, T-Systems is a leading global provider of information technology and digitalization solutions. Recently launched, the sovereign cloud it developed in partnership with Google Cloud is the first of its kind on the German market. It complies with the requirements of German regulators, while retaining the public cloud functionality of a hyperscaler, which helps accelerate digitalization projects.

The world premiere of Beethoven's 10th Symphony, which has been completed with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), will take place on 9 October 2021 at the Telekom Forum in Bonn. The performance was originally scheduled for November 2020, to mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, but had to be postponed due to the pandemic. Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the most influential and significant composers of all time, composed nine symphonies and began working on his 10th Symphony shortly before he died. Deutsche Telekom organized a team of international musicologists and artificial intelligence experts led by Dr. Matthias Röder, to create a possible completed version of Beethoven's unfinished 10th Symphony with the help of AI, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. The experts providing scientific guidance and supervision included Prof. Dr. Christine Siegert, head of the Beethoven-Haus research department. The AI was "fed" with Beethoven's compositions and the sketches for his 10th Symphony as well as works from composers and musicians that influenced Beethoven including Johann Sebastian Bach.

Plans to beam 5G signals to the public via drones that stay airborne for nine days at a time have been announced by two UK firms. They want to use antenna-equipped aircraft powered by hydrogen to deliver high-speed connectivity to wide areas. Stratospheric Platforms and Cambridge Consultants say they could cover the whole of the UK with about 60 drones. But telecoms analysts question whether the economic case for this scheme is quite as simple as it sounds. The Cambridge-based companies say they would run the service in partnership with existing mobile operators. They are already backed by Deutsche Telekom, which hopes to trial the technology in rural southern Germany in 2024.

I'm not sure I can describe the apprehension you feel when you sit down to drive a semi-truck for the first time in your life--and that semi-truck is roughly 2,500 kilometers away. In a demonstration at MWC Barcelona 2019 (formerly called Mobile World Congress), I overcame my anxiety and successfully drove a truck through a modest obstacle course in a parking lot in Götenberg, Sweden, while I sat surrounded by monitors in a conference hall in southern Spain. Thankfully, Einride, the company behind the truck I was driving, took precautions to make sure I didn't set a new world record for "Instigating a Traffic Accident from the Greatest Distance Away." Those precautions included limiting the top speed of the truck, called a T-pod, to five kilometers per hour regardless of how hard I stepped on the gas, and having an Einride employee on site in Götenberg with a kill switch at the ready. With a 4G network, driving a truck from half a continent away would be tricky, to say the least.