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Lees meerAI infrastructure isn't just hot and power hungry, it's uses a prodigous amount of water researchers tell El Reg Generative models like GPT-4, Midjourney, and others have many understandably concerned about the technology's potential to disrupt soci…
Lees meerCompleting a tough level doesn't mean squat if you can't defeat UK and USA It's another one down, two more major hurdles to jump for Microsoft in its quest to absorb video game maker Activision Blizzard, as the EU officially gave its blessing to the…
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Lees meerBeancounters underestimate financial and cultural cost of mega redundancy programs Publicly listed technology companies under pressure to make deep job cuts can underestimate the often negative impacts redundancies may cause, both financially and cu…
Lees meerBeancounters underestimate financial and cultural cost of mega redundancy programs Publicly listed technology companies under pressure to make deep job cuts can underestimate the often negative impacts redundancies may cause, both financially and cu…
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Lees meerLawyers claim separated IT giants are reading from the same page IBM and its IT infrastructure spinoff Kyndryl were this week taken to court by an axed exec who had put decades of her life into the tech giants.…
Lees meerLawyers claim separated IT giants are reading from the same page IBM and its IT infrastructure spinoff Kyndryl were this week taken to court by an axed exec who had put decades of her life into the tech giant.…
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Lees meerWe sat through the Chocolate Factory's PR blitz so you don't have to At its downsized developer conference on Wednesday, Google showed off present and planned Pixel hardware – a foldable Pixel among them – and PaLM 2, a large language model that fol…
Lees meerIn cloudy Yorkshire, a ray of light can become the enemy On call With Friday upon us once more, the weather forecast assumes outsized importance as we all hope for bright days that let readers make the most of their time off.…
Lees meerTalk about going against the Grain Google recently changed the default setting for adding invitations to its Calendar service in a way that interferes with third-party products. The Big G said it's just trying to block spam while some in the industr…
Lees meerWe've got four words for you: Insert coin to continue The European Union and the United Kingdom are at odds again, this time over whether to approve the proposed $68.7 billion merger of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard.…
Lees meerJust a small experiment – for now? YouTube has begun showing a pop-up to some viewers warning them that "ad blockers are not allowed" on the video-sharing site.…
Lees meerWe sat through the Chocolate Factory's PR blitz so you don't have to At its downsized developer conference on Wednesday, Google showed off present and planned Pixel hardware – a foldable Pixel among them – and PaLM 2, a large language model that fol…
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