#telus

[ex-foster]

There is this Telus program called Mobility for Good that provides free cell phones to former foster kids who are aging out of the system.

#foster kids #foster care #feminism #aging out #Canadian former foster kid #Foster youth #Former foster youth #Canadian former foster youth #Crown wards #Telus #Mobility for Good #Activism for former foster kids

[oldphonepreservation]

Four new Canada-carrier firmware dumps

Some new firmware dumps thanks to wavvy01! See below🔽

LG:

LG3200, FW T32TEV08, TELUS branded

Samsung:

SCH-A650, FW XE03, TELUS branded

SCH-A670, FW XI02, TELUS branded

SPH-A920, FW ZD12, Bell Canada branded

As always, all new files and JTAG pinouts are available on the Dumbphone Repo.

#digital preservation #flip phone #mobile phone #samsung #lg #bell #telus

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Some Canadians will pay more to use their cellphones while travelling abroad beginning next week.

Telus and Bell say they are raising roaming rates, effective March 8 and 9, respectively.

Telus says on its website that its customers will pay $14 daily to roam in the U.S., up from $12, while those visiting other destinations will be charged $16, which marks a $1 increase.

Bell users will face a daily $13 charge to roam in the U.S., up from $12, and $16 in other countries, up from $15.

Rogers charges $12 and $15 for daily U.S. and international roaming, respectively. [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #telecommunications #telecoms #Bell #Telus #capitalism

[albertabats]

#Baturdays are for learning about bats! Our #BatTeam produced this great 20 minute documentary called "The Bats of Alberta" which gives a great overview of the challenges facing all North American bat populations today.

#Alberta #Alberta Bats #bats #bat conservation #bats need friends #telus #Telus Storyhive #documentary #wildlife #Youtube

[whocalledhimannux]

I am having a sudden resurgence of "Kamet and Costis and Relius and Teleus are everything" feelings.

Centered atm on "his heart is unlikely to remain in his work"/Irene sparing Costis the burden of sacrificing the man he loves and "you don't understand, captain. I am pardoning him"/Eugenides doing the same for Teleus.

and both Costis and Teleus accepting the idea that they might have to sacrifice themselves for their own failures, and Costis balking at the idea of sacrificing anyone else--Kamet, Eugenides, Teleus himself--while Teleus has nothing except his code of honor, and nothing he won't sacrifice to uphold it... and over the course of KoA and RotT specifically he is challenged, he's forced to bend his code, and how Relius's failure/potential torture and death is more of a struggle to him than the loss of his own life. (...the moment in the dungeons is the Akedah. Abraham willing to sacrifice Isaac until he's stopped. holy shiiiiiiit.)

and how really in KoA and RotT we see him face the loss of Costis, the loss of Relius multiple times over, and open up to Pheris, and... I've run out of coherent words. but, like, the hard, unfeeling, unyielding captain of early KoA compared to the man who cries with Pheris and can't bear dancing. he gets softer, he takes losses worse, he believes in love more and that's what hurts him.

god we need more Teleus POV/backstory. what a fascinating web MWT has managed to weave around a character who is secondary/tertiary for most of the series.

#telus #queen's thief #spyfam

[museeeuuuum]

Currently Telus is building a 12 storey office building in the heart of downtown Victoria, and through the construction process they are digging into some very important archaeological layers; they are digging into a community that was known as Kanaka Row in the 1800's.

From the Capital Daily:

"A half-century before the Empress Hotel opened its doors in 1908, Victoria’s Inner Harbour—where Humboldt Street is today—was home to a medley of Hawaiians, Lekwungen peoples, and Chinese settlers.

Hawaiians had arrived in Victoria and the Gulf Islands in the mid-1800s, some having come from California. Many settled because they could vote and own property, so long as they became British citizens. (Still, living conditions for Hawaiians were far from ideal.) They worked as sailors, fur traders, carpenters, blacksmiths, mill hands, and farm workers, and, UBC historian Jean Barman writes, bought land around the colonial capital as early as the 1860s. The name they came to be known by—Kanaka—stems from the Hawaiian kānaka ʻōiwi, meaning “human being.”

Telus has refused to answer calls to action to excavate this area and explore this oft- forgotten history in Victoria's downtown core.

#history #archaeology #museum #telus #canadian history

[anthonyspage]

🏞🌿🦋👸🧚‍♀️🌎✨

#Woods #Forest #Trees #Plants #Earth #Nature #Butterflies #Famaliars #Goddess #Divine #Gaia #Telus #Mother Nature #Mother Earth #Pixie #Dryad #Fairy #Fae #Magical Creatures #Mystical Creatures #Supernatural Creatures #Magic #Magical #Mystical #Supernatural #Art #App #Adult Colouring Book #Adult Coloring Book #Tap Color - Color By Number

[govindhtech]

11x Faster Search for Generative AI with Azure AI Search

Azure AI Search

In order to assist customers developing generative AI applications that are ready for production, Azure is pleased to announce today some major updates to Azure AI Search. In order to enable customers to run retrieval augmented generation (RAG) at any scale without sacrificing cost or performance, Azure AI Search has significantly increased storage capacity and vector index size at no additional cost.

This article will explain how clients can

Can use today��s changes to achieve more scalability at a lower cost.

Put their large RAG workloads in the hands of Azure AI Search.

To innovate in previously unthinkable ways, use sophisticated search techniques to navigate complex data.

Introducing Azure AI Search, which offers greater performance and scalability at a cheaper price

With much increased vector and storage capacity, Azure AI Search can now provide users with higher scalability, better performance, and more data for their money.

In some regions, the Basic and Standard tiers of Azure AI Search now have more available capacity and compute.

Users are going to see up to a

11 times larger vector index.

A sixfold rise in overall storage.

Indexing and query throughput improvements of two times.

With these adjustments, clients can provide excellent user and interaction experiences at any size. With just one search instance, users can scale their generative AI applications to a multi-billion vector index without sacrificing efficiency or speed.

Providing a reliable enterprise retrieval system to support sizable RAG-based applications

For the management of their mission-critical enterprise search and generative AI applications, more than half of Fortune 500 companies rely on Azure AI Search. Azure AI Search is used by OpenAI, Otto Group, KPMG, and PETRONAS to support workloads related to retrieval augmented generation (RAG).

OpenAI had to make sure their retrieval system could handle previously unheard-of demand and scale when they unveiled their Assistant API and RAG-powered “GPTs” at OpenAI DevDay 2023. Because of Azure AI Search’s ability to handle their massive, internet-scale RAG workloads, OpenAI turned to it.

Azure AI Search now offers search functionality to products such as the GPT Store and supports RAG capabilities for ChatGPT, GPTs, and the Assistant API. Azure AI Search is the retrieval system that makes these products function whenever someone searches within them or adds a file to them.

As of November 2023, 100 million people visit ChatGPT alone each week, and over 2 million developers use its API to build applications. Three million custom GPTs were generated in the first two months after their announcement. With users from all over the world, these are enormous numbers. Really RAG on a large scale.

Using a cutting-edge, modern retrieval system to create better applications

Using just one search technique, such as vector search, is ineffective for creating generative AI applications that function as intended, as teams in the professional services, healthcare, and telecommunications industries have discovered.

Certain use cases are better served by different retrieval strategies. To cover the range of scenarios that any given application is likely to encounter, high-quality retrieval systems combine multiple techniques.

Developers can accomplish goals more quickly and efficiently by using Azure AI Search to enable applications to apply a range of strategies straight out of the box, such as hybrid retrieval and semantic reranking.

Advanced RAG is used by Telus Health to provide a customer support application

Telus Health is a Canadian-based company that leads the way in offering technology-based services and solutions to insurers, individuals, employers, and healthcare professionals. In order to address user questions regarding particular health plans and provide assistance with using their website, the company launched a customer support platform. All of the requirements could not be met by the first implementation, which was based only on vector search. Telus Health resorted to Azure AI Search as a result, which is renowned for its cutting-edge, extensive suite of search technologies.

The Guide Team at Telus Health played a key role in developing their search approach and making efficient use of AI Search to improve the platform. Telus Health made it possible for the system to effectively handle queries pertaining to client-specific documents as well as those utilising the company website by broadening their retrieval strategy and introducing hybrid search with semantic reranking. This strategic improvement, made possible by Azure AI Search, has greatly increased the platform’s accuracy and responsiveness and demonstrates Telus Health’s dedication to providing top-notch customer service.

NIQ Brandbank uses multi-vector retrieval to enable brands to maximise their online presence

Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) brands can outperform their rivals by using NIQ Brandbank’s solutions to provide rich, pertinent content and imagery for their digital shelf.

With data-driven, practical advice and insights that demonstrate how their product content compares to competitors in the market, NIQ Brandbank’s Content Health+ solution enables brands to maximise their online presence.

The application helps brands increase sales, improve product placement across retailer search results, and improve their online presence with its straightforward, user-friendly format.

In order to determine which product attributes affect organic placement on the digital shelf, Content Health+ draws from research conducted by an NIQ Data Impact team. The application uses multi-vector search on the backend to search the research that is stored in both text and images. Search reranking is used to present the most relevant results. This feature makes excellent recommendations about the kind of content that a brand should prioritise in order to boost sales and performance.

Content Health+ was developed using hybrid multi-vector search and semantic ranking to ensure that the application functions as intended. Combining different retrieval techniques allows more ideas and opportunities to be realised for e-commerce and recommendation apps.

Find out more about Azure AI Search

They are facilitating the AI systems’ ability to retrieve information at scale by making these announcements today. With Azure AI Search’s cutting-edge retrieval technology and an enterprise-ready foundation, customers can innovate with confidence.

Leading search and information retrieval platform for RAG Azure AI Search, an AI-powered platform for information retrieval, assists developers in creating generative AI apps and rich search experiences by fusing enterprise data with large language models. Provide search capabilities for all mobile applications, internal search applications, and software as a service (SaaS) apps.

Simplify the creation and provision of search solutions

Simplify the process of creating search indexes and ingesting data by integrating them with Azure storage solutions, RESTful APIs, and SDKs. Implement a search service that is fully configured and offers user-friendly features like synonyms, faceting, scoring, and geo-search. Steer clear of the operational costs associated with debugging index corruption, keeping an eye on service availability, or manually scaling during traffic spikes.

Showcase the most pertinent outcomes for your users

Utilise cutting-edge deep learning models from Bing and Microsoft Research to give your apps results that are pertinent and contextual. Use the semantic search feature to provide customers with substantially better results, gain a deeper understanding of their search terms, and increase customer engagement. Knowledge mining and summary results are also made possible by semantic search, providing your users with quick snippets without making them scroll through a tonne of results.

Use Azure OpenAI Service to develop apps for the next generation

To apply the most sophisticated AI language models to your search solutions that use your own data as the foundation for responses, combine Azure AI Search with Azure OpenAI Service. ChatGPT, an Azure OpenAI service, allows you to retrieve enterprise data from knowledge bases using conversational language.

Adapt search features with AI integrations

Customise the search process to fit your organization’s particular needs. Key phrase extraction, language detection, optical character recognition (OCR), image analysis, translation, and role-based access control (RBAC) are just a few of the customizable features that Azure AI Search provides. Utilize the integration features offered by Azure AI services, such as Speech, Vision, Language, and Azure OpenAI Service, to enhance the conversion of unstructured, raw data into searchable content.

Scale to handle heavy traffic loads and big datasets

Easily index and search through enormous volumes of data, regardless of the size of your company, to provide excellent search results for your users without worrying about infrastructure management. Your search solution will be scalable as your company expands thanks to Azure AI Search’s ability to manage massive data loads and high traffic loads.

Use AI sensibly

With Azure AI Search, you can get access to cloud search tools, guidelines, and other resources to assist you in developing a responsible AI solution. Go through Microsoft’s responsible AI guidelines.

Read more on Govindhtech.com

#govindhtech #TELUS #LLM #generativeai #AzureAI #azureaisearch #chatgpt #AzureOpenAIService #news #technews #technologynews #technology #technologytrends

[fandom-imagination-ss]

Since changing my internet ( I upgraded so still the same company) I've been on the phone with them 3 different times in total 6 hrs so far!

-Still having spotty to no internet

- paid for a installation fee, the man who did it installed the outdoor Hub inside the house ( which he just plugged it into the wall) and we were charged $80 for that!

-losing internet often. At least 5 hrs a day we don't have internet. And with a house full of ppl who work from home big deal!

- discovered they gave us a new account..

-learned this when I got a email saying I haven't paid my internet last month then this month's bill . And it was now almost 3 00 with including new installation fee, new hub ect..

But I paid the installation fee, new hub ect on feb 2, and they charged me again Feb 3. Which I just discovered.

About to call them about the billing then I have to talk about them fixing the internet again! FmL

#telus #internet #why!!

[global-cell]

Our job is to keep you connected. Staying connected with us is no different. As a small Alberta-based company, we understand the importance of staying connected and being serviced well. Our commitment is for your company to have a single point of contact when it comes to your telecommunications. We are excited to be your one-stop shop for all your telecommunications needs. With our large variety of Smartphones, iPads, Smartwatches, Boosters, Accessories, and so much more – we have something for everyone. We’re locally owned and operated, located in St Albert since 1995.

#10 posts #tumblr milestone #Telus #TELUSEPP

[cantechnews]

Rogers lights up 5G service at all TTC subway stations

#Rogers #TTC #Toronto #YYZ #Canada #Bell #Telus #TechNews #CDNTech

[terriwriting]

Said to be worth about US$4 billion when it went public in 2021, Babylon Health is presumably now worth nothing more than what its constituent parts can fetch to pay off its creditors.

It turns out that its founders and bosses wildly exaggerated the capabilities of its chatbot program, which was described as using artificial intelligence, raising the hope here in Wild Rose Country that it could all but make family physicians obsolete.

Alert readers will recall that in 2020, then-premier Jason Kenney’s minister of health, Tyler Shandro, was engaged in an effort to cut physicians’ incomes that came to be known as the UCP’s “war on doctors,” and from which Alberta is yet to recover.

#alberta #canada #united conservative party #telus

[maximummobili]

Telus

TELUS is a prominent and innovative telecommunications company in Canada, celebrated for its unwavering commitment to connecting Canadians across vast landscapes. With a history steeped in technological advancement and a mission rooted in enhancing lives through connectivity, TELUS stands as a beacon of reliability and innovation in the Canadian telecommunications landscape.

#telus #telus epp

[netcrackertech]

TELUS Discusses Its Partnership With Netcracker

Hasan Jafri, Vice President of Common Services & Enterprise Architecture at TELUS, discusses the company’s longstanding partnership with Netcracker and the system improvements it has planned. Watch Now - https://www.netcracker.com/blog/view-all/on-video-telus-discusses-its-partnership-with-netcracker.html

#netcracker #tellus #telus #5g

[spacerangerprince]

Upgraded my iPhone 8 Plus (Gold) 64GB to iPhone 14 Pro Max (Space Black) 128GB 📱😍

📸: TAKEN: MARCH 30, 2023

📌: POST: MAY 3, 2023

#apple #iphone #iphone14promax #spaceblack #128gb #telus #myiphone

#apple #iphone #iphone14promax #spaceblack #128gb #telus #myiphone

[beabboy]

perks from our company #blessed🙏 #happyhere 💚💜 #telus (at Telus House Mckinley) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnELBprrTil/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#blessed🙏 #happyhere #telus