Megacorp shows Alexa speaking like kid's deceased grandma In the latest episode of Black Mirror, a vast megacorp sells AI software that learns to mimic the voice of a deceased woman whose husband sits weeping over a smart speaker, listening to her d…
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Lees meerHyperscalers hog the good stuff Power and thermal management equipment essential to building datacenters is in short supply, with delays of months on shipments – a situation that's likely to persist well into 2023, Dell'Oro Group reports.…
Lees meerStart by pondering if customers could store their own info and provide access Column Sixteen years ago, British mathematician Clive Humby came up with the aphorism "data is the new oil".…
Lees meerPromoted phones as ready for a dunking – forgot to mention known problems with subsequent recharges Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission has fined Samsung Electronics AU$14 million ($9.6 million) for making for misleading water resistance…
Lees meerFreedom or echo chamber? Brave Software, maker of a privacy-oriented browser, on Wednesday said its surging search service has exited beta testing while its Goggles search personalization system has entered beta testing.…
Lees meerAnd pay the tiniest of fines, too Facebook parent Meta has settled a complaint brought by the US government, which alleged the internet giant's machine-learning algorithms broke the law by blocking certain users from seeing online real-estate advert…
Lees meerFocus emerges on workload security during its Zenith 2022 shindig Zscaler is growing the machine-learning capabilities of its zero-trust platform and expanding it into the public cloud and network edge, CEO Jay Chaudhry told devotees at a conference…
Lees meerFirst four edicts of 2022 include firmware and hypervisor specifications Embedded World RISC-V International has grown its pile of royalty-free, open specifications, with additional documents covering firmware, hypervisors, and more.…
Lees meerJust us who see 'liquid engineering' and think three pints at lunch on a Thursday? OK, got it, just us Castrol, better known for its engine oil, has partnered with cooling specialist Submer to drive the adoption of immersion cooling for datacenter a…
Lees meerAlthough PCIe 5.0 is just coming to market, here's what we can expect in the years ahead Early details of the specifications for PCIe 7.0 are out, and it's expected to deliver data rates of up to 512 GBps bi-directionally for data-intensive applicat…
Lees meerInternal research says the hiring pool has already dried up in a number of locations stateside Jeff Bezos once believed that Amazon's low-skill worker churn was a good thing as a long-term workforce would mean a "march to mediocrity." He may have to…
Lees meerReportedly dropping hints it may use legislation to push a London listing The UK government is upping the ante in attempts to have Arm listed on the London stock exchange, with reports suggesting it is considering the threat of national security law…
Lees meerSo are Microsoft, Adobe, W3C, Huawei, and… IKEA? Not Apple, though A smattering of big and not so big tech companies have linked arms to shape the emerging industry known as the metaverse.…
Lees meerOr some approximation of that Multi-cloud networking startup Alkira has decided it wants to be a network-as-a-service (NaaS) provider with the launch of its cloud area networking platform this week.…
Lees meerPrivacy group NOYB sues to get telcos to respect GDPR data access rights Some authorities in Europe insist that location data is not personal data as defined by the EU's General Data Protection Regulation.…
Lees meerChaebol weathers lower demand for smartphones and TVs, plus 4nm yield issues The demand for consumer electronics has slowed down in the face of inflation – but that didn't stop nine of the world's 10 largest contract chip manufacturers from growing …
Lees meerAutomaker partnering with Redwood Materials to develop recycling, remanufacturing processes Toyota has ambitious plans for the future of its electric vehicles, and it's turning to a Tesla founder to make them happen.…
Lees meerCollab to 'generate significant returns' for Europe in science, tech, economy Lenovo has inked an agreement with Spain's Barcelona Supercomputing Center for research and development work in various areas of supercomputer technology.…
Lees meerThe target? Thin clients and industrial devices – with new SoC family running up to 4 independent displays Embedded World AMD is bringing to market a new generation of Ryzen chips for embedded apps promising more CPU cores, enhanced built-in graphi…
Lees meerSome crypto-bros keep the faith in the face of market onslaught ProShares, the issuer of exchange-traded funds with around $65 billion under management, has launched the first short Bitcoin exchange-traded product in the US, offering a way for inves…
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