2023

Enterprises advised to reconsider datacentre hosting locations on sustainability grounds

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Shifting all of the server farm capacity contained within five of Europe’s largest datacentre hubs to places that are powered by renewable energy could cut the sector’s carbon emissions by up to 91%, it is claimed. In a joint piece of analysis by Scottish datacentre provider DataVita and IT sustainability consultancy Posetiv, the “carbon intensity”…

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AMD teases new processors that could make for some monstrously powerful gaming notebooks

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AMD has revealed a roadmap for its notebook APUs, which contains some potentially very impressive chips for the best thin-and-light laptops.The roadmap includes details about the upcoming ‘Strix Point’ processors, which will supersede the existing ‘Phoenix’ APUs that are currently available under the Ryzen 7040 name. AMD confirmed that there will actually be two different…

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Now might be the time for that RAM upgrade – to beat rumored price hikes

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DDR4 (and DDR5) RAM for your PC could soon be getting pricier, according to a new forecast, and somewhat sooner than was anticipated.If you’ve been following RAM pricing – and we’ll excuse you, if you haven’t (just this once) – then you’ll have seen that throughout the course of this year, DDR4 system memory pricing…

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Solidigm Introduces D7-P5810: 144L SLC NVMe Drive for Write-Intensive Workloads

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Solidigm’s datacenter SSD offerings have been clearly delineated into different categories – the D3- SATA offerings for legacy servers, the D5- QLC-based offerings (with different models offering different tradeoffs between cost and endurance), and the D7- NVMe drives for the best performance and endurance ratings. The company has been using TLC NAND in the D7…

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11 new iPhone 15 features you can’t use on any other iPhone models

4 minutes of reading / AirPods, Apple, Apple Watch, iPhone, Tech / By

The iPhone 15 has been out for about a month now. Many consumers have already upgraded to one of the four new models, and they have likely discovered there are several new features you can’t get on any other iPhone models. BGR has picked 11 of our favorite exclusive features that you will only find…

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I wish the iPhone had the Pixel 8’s generative AI wallpapers

3 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, ChatGPT, Google, iPhone, Tech / By

Google is leaning heavily into AI with its new Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, and while some of those AI features might not seem especially exciting, there’s one that stands out that I wish the iPhone would add, too. One of the ways that Google is taking advantage of AI on the Pixel 8…

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AI like ChatGPT can guess secrets that you never share, study shows

4 minutes of reading / AI, chatbot, ChatGPT, Facebook, Google, Meta, Tech / By

I’m not as worried about the impending AI apocalypse some experts warn about as I am about privacy protections in AI services like ChatGPT and its competitors. I hate the idea of tech giants or third parties possibly abusing large language models (LLM) to collect even more data about users. Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox.…

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UK IT professionals express concerns about government’s generative AI goals

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As the Global AI Safety Summit prepares to bring together leaders from around the world in November, research reveals that a large majority of UK IT professionals are concerned about the government’s ambitions for the use of generative AI (GenAI). To be held at Bletchley Park on 1-2 November 2023, the Global AI Safety Summit…

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Learning from Google: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

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Working at a company that is a giant of the tech sector has many advantages, but for Arvind Jain, the CEO of Glean, it also helps to work at much smaller organisations. Glean positions itself as the Google of enterprise knowledge and discovery. In fact, it was founded in 2019 by a number of Google…

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Nvidia RTX 3080 GPU postmortem finds nasty cooling flaw – but don’t panic

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A couple of Nvidia graphics cards have reportedly been affected by a flaw in their cooling systems – but these seem to be very rare occurrences.The issue is with the vapor chamber, as flagged up by a Quasarzone forum member, which has an apparent problem with oxidization of the heatsink and holes appearing in the vapor chamber.The…

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