When Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) acting vice-president for the worldwide public sector, David Appel, opened the firm’s UK Public Sector Symposium earlier this month, he drew a historical parallel to artificial intelligence (AI). Three miles west of the City of London venue we were at is the Crystal Palace, a million square feet of glass and…
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Meta has said it will be connecting a petabit subsea cable between the US and France by 2029. Called Petal, the subsea cable will span over 4,300 miles and, according to Meta, double the capacity of today’s fastest transoceanic cables. Meta has been collaborating on the buildout of subsea network capacity with Marea in 2018,…
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The UK’s Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has worked with Google Cloud, Google DeepMind and Faculty – a company recently acquired by Accenture – to improve the planning system. The collaboration on the Augmented Planning Decisions (APD) tool, which uses Google Cloud, is being developed and alpha-tested with local planning authorities in the…
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In Summer 2023, a plaintiff known only by their initials “K.G.M.” launched a case against Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap (owner of SnapChat). It was alleged that social media companies had engineered their sites to encourage their users to engage compulsively with platforms, which had caused the plaintiff to suffer from anxiety, body dysmorphia and…
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Organic Media/Getty Images When buying a new laptop, you must consider several factors. Some of these include the price, operating system, processor, screen size, and weight. You might want a laptop that’s as basic as possible for school, like a Chromebook, while the next person might need a workhorse that can handle any demanding tasks…
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José Adorno/BGR It won’t take long for Apple to introduce iOS 26.4 to all users, as it just seeded beta 4. With rumors suggesting that the new Siri features might be introduced with iOS 26.5, this means there is also no reason for the company to stay too long in this beta cycle. After all, it…
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Aiolhoz/Shutterstock In over two decades of technology journalism, I can tell you I’ve seen some truly weird tech fads come and go — from weird web crazes that every venture capitalist and tech blog swears will change everything to pointless hardware that somehow captured the zeitgeist and opened our wallets. I might even be guilty of…
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US lawmakers have written to the social media company Meta demanding answers over proposals to introduce facial-recognition technology to its smart glasses, which the lawmakers say puts the privacy and civil liberties of citizens at risk. Democratic senators have written to Meta’s chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, warning that the “uniquely dangerous” plans could accelerate…
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It’s becoming clearer that we are in a perilous financial situation globally. Fears over an “AI bubble” are being cited by the Bank of England, the International Monetary Fund and the boss of JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon. If you want a sense of how insane the narrative is around AI investments, consider this: Thinking Machines…
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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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