Footprint

Enough is Enough (EiE) Nigeria, a coalition of Nigerian youth advocacy groups has launched its book titled ‘Footprints: Past. Present. Future.’ The book, which is to mark its 12th anniversary, chronicles the organisation’s journey and contributions to building a new generation of #ActiveCitizens. It was launched on Monday at the Muson Centre, Victoria Island in Lagos State. The foreword for the book was written by a retired career diplomat Christopher Kolade, while the contributors include Aisha Yesufu, Tunde…

Two ways to easily estimate the carbon footprint of machine learning models and 17 ideas for how you might reduce itPhoto by Appolinary Kalashnikova on UnsplashThe environmental sustainability of machine learning models is increasingly receiving attention, however mostly from academia. Here, the conversation tends to focus on the carbon footprint of language models which are not necessarily representative of the general machine learning field and not enough attention is paid to the operations phase of machine learning…

Researchers have created a chemically stable catalyst that is stable in the presence of moisture.A cheap and chemically durable catalyst to synthesize ammonia.The Haber-Bosch process, which is often used to synthesize ammonia (NH3)—the foundation for synthetic nitrogen fertilizers—by combining hydrogen (H2) and nitrogen (N2) over catalysts at high pressures and temperatures, is one of the most significant scientific breakthroughs that has helped enhance crop yields and raise food production worldwide.However, owing to the…

The Indian Air Force inducted a fleet of electric vehicles in keeping with the government's initiative on introduction of green mobility. Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari flagged off the first batch of 12 electric vehicles in the presence of other senior officers and staff. "In order to achieve reduction in carbon footprint and in keeping with the government of India's initiative on introduction of green mobility, the IAF has inducted a fleet of Tata Nexon electric vehicles," the IAF said in a statement. It said the force…

Would you want a bottle of soda for just one cent? Before you say yes, there’s a catch: You have to pay by scanning your palm and sharing your information with a Chinese tech giant.This was the proposition Tencent made to a handful of Chinese consumers recently, as seen in a video posted on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, in late September. Tencent, the company that owns the payment system WeChat Pay, appears to have been testing palm-print payment devices in the country for months. Supporters of the technology…

Demanding that tech companies provide more data about the climate impact of building, training, and using AI is a start. We should also shift away from being obsessed with building ever-bigger AI models, and try to come up with ways to do AI research using more energy-efficient methods, such as fine-tuning existing models. Deeper Learning Inside Alphabet X’s new effort to combat climate change with AI and seagrass  MIT Technology Review got a sneak peek at Tidal, a new climate change mitigation project by X, the…

To test its new approach, Hugging Face estimated the overall emissions for its own large language model, BLOOM, which was launched earlier this year. It was a process that involved adding up lots of different numbers: the amount of energy used to train the model on a supercomputer, the energy needed to manufacture the supercomputer’s hardware and maintain its computing infrastructure, and the energy used to run BLOOM once it had been deployed. The researchers calculated that final part using a software tool called…

Using TensorFlow Lite MicroFigure by itemis AG, https://info.itemis.com/iot-systems/download-tinyml-rock-paper-scissors-dataset/ (with permission)Co-authored by Nikolas Rieder and Rafael Tappe Maestro.You want to expand your field of expertise in artificial intelligence and want to explore a more energy efficient approach to machine learning (ML). This article will introduce you to ML on microcontrollers (MCUs), also known as tiny machine learning (TinyML). Get ready for losing against a MCU at rock, paper, scissors. You…

In an interesting plot twist, the same Ford plant used to make vehicle engines is now using the technology that powers EVs to reduce the facility’s carbon footprint. Ford is partnering with Convergent Energy and Power, an energy-storage-solutions provider, to use lithium-ion battery technology to reduce electricity use. Convergent uses artificial intelligence (AI) powered battery storage to help companies reduce their carbon footprint while lowering energy costs. Since its founding in 2011, Convergent has…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study led by Argonne National Laboratory has found that electric vehicles will soon have the potential to cost less to own and operate than traditional gas vehicles, all while cutting greenhouse gas emissions by half over the lifetime of the vehicle. Electric…