If you read BGR’s in-depth Sonos Arc Ultra review, you know that we were absolutely blown away by how impressive Sonos’s latest high-end soundbar is. It’s easily the best Dolby Atmos soundbar on the planet right now, and we would recommend it to anyone and everyone if not for the price tag. Since it’s super…
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The Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) decision to increase its cloud hosting spend with Amazon Web Services (AWS) mid-contract by 89% is under scrutiny from procurement professionals. The government’s procurement arm is overseeing the migration of workloads from the Government Digital Service’s now defunct Gov.uk platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering to the AWS cloud. This piece of work…
Intel’s top-selling CPU is a lowly number 13 in Amazon rankingsTeam Blue is doing better in the Newegg CPU chart, but still not wellThis may reflect fallout from Intel’s recent fumbles with chip instability and the rocky Arrow Lake launchAMD is totally cleaning up in the world of desktop processors, with Intel lagging way behind…
Hackney Council has committed to growing its annual usage of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud platform by 8% a year over the next three years to secure a “minimum 22%” discount on the public cloud giant’s services, Computer Weekly understands. The local authority’s latest cloud hosting deal with AWS went live on 1 November 2024,…
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In 2024, Computer Weekly’s data and ethics coverage continued to focus on the various ethical issues associated with the development and deployment of data-driven systems, particularly artificial intelligence (AI). This included reports on the copyright issues associated with generative AI (GenAI) tools, the environmental impacts of AI, the invasive tracking tools in place across the…
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Everyone knows that LG OLED TVs are some of the most beloved televisions in the world. They offer stunningly vivid colors and the deepest blacks you can imagine. The only problem is that they’re often much more expensive than comparable smart TVs. That’s especially true when it comes to LG’s brand-new 2025 OLED TV lineup…
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Misusing artificial intelligence (AI) can have some very clear and expensive consequences. Movie studio Lionsgate recently joined a long list of organisations discovering that quotations and citations from generative AI (GenAI) systems need to be verified like any other source; Microsoft is being sued by a German journalist after Bing Copilot suggested he had committed crimes…
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Microsoft has taken issue with a newly formed cloud-focused lobbying body, known as the Open Cloud Coalition (OCC), describing the organisation is an “astroturf group” organised by Google. The OCC debuted on Tuesday 29 October, positioning itself as a group focused on making the public cloud a more transparent, open and competitive market for enterprise…
Object storage specialist Scality has launched Ring XP, a tuned-up version of its existing Ring platform aimed at artificial intelligence (AI) data lake use cases that promises microsecond (µs) storage access times. That tune-up centres on the use of a stripped-down version of S3 object storage application programming interfaces (APIs) – that lack performance-sapping functionality…
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Apple has taught us to expect emotional Christmas commercials for its products around this time of year, and the company delivered yet another touching ad that will make you cry. Released on Thanksgiving Day, the Heartstrings ad already tops one million views on YouTube, though you’ll also catch it on other social media channels. The ad…
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