Howard’s Appliances Expands with New HQ

Howard’s Appliances Expands with New HQ

Howard’s Appliances has secured a significant lease for its new corporate headquarters, main distribution center, showroom and outlet. The company has leased a 127,540-square-foot industrial facility at 111 N. Baldwin Park Blvd. in the City of Industry, Calif. This strategic move will allow Howard’s to consolidate its corporate and distribution operations, thereby enhancing efficiency and … Read more

Workbox to Open Flex Office Space Near White House

Workbox to Open Flex Office Space Near White House

Workbox-Dupont Circle will occupy Suite 200 at the property. Image courtesy of Workbox Workbox is entering the Washington, D.C., market with a 29,000-square-foot coworking space at 1333 New Hampshire Ave. NW in Dupont Circle. The new location is scheduled to open in February of 2025.  The office building is a 360,000-square-foot property that The Meridian … Read more

DOD taps McKeown to serve as new special assistant for cybersecurity innovation 

DOD taps McKeown to serve as new special assistant for cybersecurity innovation 

David McKeown has been chosen as the Defense Department Chief Information Office’s inaugural special assistant for cybersecurity innovation, according to a Friday announcement. As part of the new role, McKeown will stand up and lead the CIO’s Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, which will focus on tackling long-range and complex innovation challenges for cybersecurity modernization. He … Read more

The Download: Shaking up neural networks, and the rise of weight-loss drugs

The Download: Shaking up neural networks, and the rise of weight-loss drugs

Networks programmed directly into computer chip hardware can identify images faster, and use much less energy, than the traditional neural networks that underpin most modern AI systems. That’s according to work presented at a leading machine learning conference in Vancouver last week. Neural networks, from GPT-4 to Stable Diffusion, are built by wiring together perceptrons, … Read more

Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Google releases its own “reasoning” AI model

Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Google releases its own “reasoning” AI model

Google DeepMind’s chief scientist, Jeff Dean, says that the model receives extra computing power, writing on X, “we see promising results when we increase inference time computation!” The model works by pausing to consider multiple related prompts before providing what it determines to be the most accurate answer. Since OpenAI’s jump into the “reasoning” field … Read more