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Apple opens App Store to game streaming services
Starting today Apple is opening up its App Store to allow game streaming apps and services. This means that services like Xbox Cloud Streaming and GeForce Now, which previously were only accessible on iOS via a web browser, will be able to offer full-featured apps. “Developers can now submit a single app with the capability to stream all of the games offered in their catalog,” Apple wrote in a blog post. These changes apply “worldwide,” according to the company.
Google’s Hugging Face deal puts ‘supercomputer’ power behind open-source AI
Google Cloud’s new partnership with AI model repository Hugging Face is letting developers build, train, and deploy AI models without needing to pay for a Google Cloud subscription. Now, outside developers using Hugging Face’s platform will have “cost-effective” access to Google’s tensor processing units (TPU) and GPU supercomputers, which will include thousands of Nvidia’s in-demand and export-restricted H100s. Google said that Hugging Face users can begin using the AI app-building platform Vertex AI and the Kubernetes engine that helps train and fine-tune models “in the first half of 2024.”
NASCIO, PTI on What's Coming in 2024 for State and Local IT
When Doug Robinson speaks, the government technology community listens. He has been the exceptional executive director of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) for two decades, and I know of no one who has more knowledge, better relationships, and greater feel for the overall pulse of state government CIO agendas. Doug leads a team of experts that are simply amazing at supporting the NASCIO Executive Committee, which is composed of top state CIOs from around the country. Almost as important, he maintains essential relationships with the NASCIO Corporate Leadership Council (private-sector members), numerous nonprofits that support other aspects of government (such as NASBO and NASACT), as well as federal and local government agencies, liaisons and more.
Marketplace: Gov Tech Firms Bring Expertise to Public Agencies
The companies serving the gov tech market offer tools tailored for the public sector's unique needs. From justice and public safety to health and human services, these are some of the areas seeing major growth. The companies working in gov tech carve out their niches and bring to market what they hope is the best tool for the needs of state and local government. Our staff dug into some of the biggest verticals to get a sense of who is doing what, and how.
What's New in Digital Equity: DOE Unveils National Plan for Closing Digital Divides
Plus, the U.S. Conference of Mayors has launched a digital equity challenge, a report found that nearly 90 percent of Michigan jobs require digital skills, North Carolina gets $82 million in broadband funding, and more. The resource also provides action-oriented recommendations to close the three digital divides for states, districts, school leaders and other stakeholders using examples from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and several territories.
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