DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist

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DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF 

By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane 

MICROSOFT IS ENABLING AI - "YEAR OF AI PC"





                                        Source:  Microsoft

  • For the first time in 30 years, Microsoft is making a major change to its keyboard with a new AI key.  Here's what we know:
  • Starting this month, Microsoft is adding a Co-pilot key - an AI key - to its keyboard to enable users to easily access and deploy AI
  • This is the first Windows keyboard addition in 30 years
  • The new key launches Microsoft's AI tool Co-pilot
  • Co-pilot can act like a search engine, summarize documents, create images and articles and more
  • Microsoft's goal: empower people to use AI easily
  • Microsoft is calling 2024 the year of the AI PC
  • The AI key is now launching on the 1st Windows 11 laptops and on partner PCs like Dell and will continue to roll out into February when it should be in wide, global distribution
  • Experts say this demonstrates Microsoft's commitment to AI.

DRINK WHISKEY - HELP SAVE THE PLANET





             Source:  Stock Whiskey, Historic Drinkers & Distillery

  • Scottish scientists have developed materials that can use distillery wastewater to produce green hydrogen.  Here's what we know:
  • Green hydrogen is normally created by using fresh water 
  • That consumes more than 20 billion quarts per year
  • The team from Heriot-Watts University is using distillery water instead of fresh water, saving over a billion quarts of fresh water
  • Next steps: scaling up production and analyzing distillery wastewater to find additional valuable materials to salvage from it along with hydrogen
  • A great use of distillery wastewater to create something very useful to help reduce the amount of CO2 spewed into the atmosphere - green hydrogen, an important emerging power source with zero emissions for aircraft, cars, trains, ships and more
  • Bottom line:  Cheers to our whiskey drinkers - they may be saving our planet!

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