Stas Malyarevsky/Shutterstock Let’s get it out of the way: Apple’s EarPods do not have better audio quality than any of the current AirPods Apple sells. Besides having specific audio chips inside, AirPods also have custom drivers, internal amplifiers, and a complete algorithm that makes the music sound fuller. AirPods also have several audio features that EarPods…
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Freshworks CIO Ashwin Ballal hasn’t taken the typical digital leadership journey. Having completed a PhD in material science and engineering, he started in business-focused operations, working in marketing, engineering, product and operations. His shift into IT came much later, almost to the extent that he could be seen as an accidental CIO. “My career wasn’t…
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By 2029, the default method to proving your identity for everything from work to childcare could be a digital ID stored on your smartphone, if UK government proposals go through. While the promise is efficiency through means such as quicker checks, reduced fraud and simpler access to essential services, it also risks creating systems that…
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The “clear and present danger or hot air” framing surrounding Anthropic’s Claude Mythos frontier AI model sets up the wrong argument. What Mythos represents is a tempo shift in how vulnerabilities are found, chained, and exploited. Anthropic says Mythos can identify and exploit zero-days across major operating systems and browsers at a level serious enough…
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Emmanuel Frenehard, chief digital officer (CDO) at biopharmaceutical giant Sanofi, recognises that the CDO role often means different things in different companies. At Sanofi, it was decided that the role would be an all-encompassing position, overseeing business applications, infrastructure, cyber security, data, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital services. There are also professionals in Frenehard’s team…
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It’s rare that a major company does the right thing, to the extent that it’s refreshing when it does happen … even when that good behavior is mandated by the courts. In this case, the make good is from prebuilt PC manufacturer NZXT, which has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit and clear debt…
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In July 2024, we listened to the Labour government’s first King’s Speech. It contained a single line almost imperceptibly nodding towards something on artificial intelligence (AI). The government said it would “seek to establish the appropriate legislation to place requirements on those working to develop the most powerful artificial intelligence models”. Some 20 months later…
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Aramex has announced a landmark collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that will redefine the digital foundation of one of the world’s leading logistics and transportation providers. The partnership, announced at the Gitex Global 2025 conference in Dubai, has begun with the successful migration of Aramex’s Oceania datacentre to the AWS cloud. Headquartered in the…
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Computer Weekly’s list of the most influential women in UK technology has been running since 2012, launched to promote a discussion surrounding the role of women in the technology sector during a time when the lack of diversity in tech was only beginning to be considered. When it was launched, the list only featured 25…
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Intel’s CEO has reportedly addressed staff members worldwideLip-Bu Tan seemingly laid out some very frank observations and clear goalsAll this indicates a focus on streamlining and also breaking into the AI arena – though not to catch Nvidia directly, but with so-called edge AIIntel’s (relatively) new CEO has apparently admitted the gravity of the struggles…
