Lion builds an app to detect its beers on tap in venues

Lion has built a computer vision app to allow its sales team to automatically record how many taps at pubs serve its beers, ensuring the venue is meeting its contractual requirements. Lion’s head of enterprise applications Jamie Grande. The ‘Lion Pub Crawl’ app was built using SAP’s low-code/no-code Business Technology Platform (BTP) and AWS Rekognition. […]

Tech giants’ indirect emissions rose 150 percent in three years

Indirect carbon emissions from the operations of four of the leading AI-focused tech companies rose on average by 150 percent from 2020-2023, due to the demands of power-hungry data centres, a United Nations report said. The use of artificial intelligence by Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta drove up their global indirect emissions because of the […]

icare signs $29m cloud renewal with AWS

NSW workers’ compensation insurer icare has renewed a long-standing public cloud agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), extending the relationship for another three years in a deal valued at $29.1 million. The renewed contract, which runs until April 2028, continues icare’s access to AWS’ cloud computing infrastructure and was signed under the federal government’s whole-of-government […]