One of AMD’s most innovative desktop processor designs in recent years has to be the X3D series, with their 3D V-Cache packaging technology. Since AMD launched their Zen 3-based RYzen 7 5800X3D back in April of 2022, the sky has been the limit for AMD’s L3 cache-stacked chips, which have had significant benefits in gaming,…
AMD Announces New Desktop Zen 3 Chips With 2 New APUs and the Ryzen 7 5700X3D Read More »
Amazon Web Services (AWS) looks set to make more money on three multi-million pound government contracts that went live on the same day in December 2023 than it has previously amassed through its decade-long involvement with the G-Cloud procurement framework. The public cloud giant signed three 36-month contracts with several different major government departments that…
AWS secures £894m in cloud spend across three contracts with UK government on same day Read More »
In a matter of days, we learned not just about one but two massive password data breaches. One involved millions of leaked passwords, while the other concerned some 26 billion records, including passwords and other personally identifiable information.If you still don’t use a password manager to safely store all the passwords for your online accounts…
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At least one streaming service seems to be skeptical about Apple’s Vision Pro spatial computer. On Wednesday, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that Netflix has no plans to make a native visionOS app for the upcoming mixed-reality headset.Not only is Netflix choosing not to design an app for the Vision Pro, but the company won’t even…
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Google will no longer charge customers fees for transferring their data out of its cloud when switching to a new provider, as part of a concerted push to distance itself from its public cloud competition. Amit Zavery, general manager, vice-president and head of platform at Google Cloud, announced the move in a blog post, and…
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Nvidia’s RTX 4080 Super and RTX 4070 Ti Super, the final two refreshes for Lovelace to follow the RTX 4070 Super, somehow went on sale early at Amazon – plus we’ve had a benchmark leaked for the latter.VideoCardz reported that both of these inbound GPUs popped up with product listings for Zotac graphics cards that…
Scammers duping PC gamers with fake RTX 4090 graphics cards isn’t anything new, but what is new is that we’ve seen a couple of these in January 2024 now, when the incidents are normally a more scattered affair – and the latest one was in the US.Tom’s Hardware reported that a hardware repair expert on…
You probably had to buy a new iPhone Lightning cable from Apple sometime in your life because the one in the iPhone’s box broke. Also, you might have the feeling that Apple’s (Lightning) cables don’t last that long.I always had this feeling, even though I kept buying them. But Consumer Reports did some empirical testing…
Which are the top storage array makers and what are their strategies towards the cloud, containers and consumption models of procurement? In this article, we rank the top storage suppliers according to IDC market share statistics for 2022 in terms of enterprise external storage and give a brief summary of each player, where they’re at…
Storage suppliers’ market share and strategy 2023 Read More »
As with 2022, Computer Weekly technology and ethics coverage continued with a focus on working conditions in the tech sector, looking, for example, at the experience of UK Apple workers attempting to unionise and the efforts of digital gig workers who train and maintain today’s much-hyped artificial intelligence (AI) systems. AI itself also took centre…
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