Before Apple unveiled Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2024, I said Apple AI should generally be free to iPhone users, laying out all the reasons why Apple can’t afford to charge a subscription fee for the service. I did mention one exception that would have me gladly pay for AI access: A smarter Siri that works…
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Apple is expected to release the first beta version of its Apple Intelligence platform as soon as this month. Starting with selected iPhone, Mac, and iPad models, this will be the company’s moment to show how its large language models can compete with OpenAI ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and other players while focusing on on-device processing.For…
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Data sovereignty is about the legal ability to control how data can be shared and used. Sounds simple, but how it’s applied can vary significantly. What does it mean from the perspectives of the European Union (EU) and VMware following the firm’s acquisition by Broadcom? For the latter, there’s been intense market scrutiny on Hock…
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AMD could offer gamers the chance to go further with juicing up next-gen Ryzen 9000X3D processors when they arrive, making them even speedier (in theory).Wccftech grabbed the scoop on this one, and asserts – without indicating the exact source, so add a hearty pinch of salt here – that it has learned that AMD’s plan…
Ahead of Apple’s iOS 18 beta 2 release early this week, the company announced it doesn’t plan to bring Apple Intelligence and certain other iOS 18 features to Europe due to regulatory fears. In a statement issued at the time, Apple said: “We are concerned that the interoperability requirements of the DMA could force us…
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AMD has officially pushed out FSR 3.1, the latest version of its upscaling and frame generation box of tricks that offers better quality – and a key ability that PC gamers are going to love – with initial support for five games.You might remember that FSR 3.1 was announced back at GDC 2024 in March,…
Intel’s well-documented issues with its high-end 13th-gen and 14th-gen CPUs crashing or being generally unstable with PC games could cast a cloud over sales of the firm’s next-gen Arrow Lake CPUs.Or it is the warning from a motherboard maker following the ongoing saga that has been dragged out over the course of this year, with…
Among the packed field of PC hardware manufacturers, Lian Li is a company that arguably shouldn’t even need an introduction. The quirky company has developed a devout following thanks to its focus on premium-quality aluminum computer cases that, more often that not, and come with in some rather unique designs. Over the years, the company…
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Data warehousing gave birth to Business Intelligence. This was a point memorably made to me by the analyst Mike Ferguson when I interviewed him for one of our articles celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Computer Weekly. He said, in 2016: “Data warehousing had to happen and was absolutely aimed at the BI market. Up till…
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If the rumor mill is correct, AMD might just pep up its Ryzen 7 9700X, which will be a workhorse mid-range processor for the next-gen Zen 5 range.With this one you need to understand a brief bit of background, namely that recently, AMD admitted that Ryzen 9000 models won’t be the fastest gaming chips around,…
