UK police have been using live facial recognition (LFR) technology for the best part of a decade, with the Met being the first force to deploy it at Notting Hill Carnival in 2016. Since then, the use of the biometric surveillance and identification tool by the Met has ramped up considerably. While the initial deployments…
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Accenture’s 2024 Technology vision report has introduced a term to the CIO vocabulary – human-centric technologies. These are artificial intelligence-based systems, which are built in a way that makes them easier to interact with and can be seamlessly embedded across every aspect of people’s lives. The report’s authors stated: “We are moving toward a world…
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The consumer thermal camera market was opened up in the late 2010s by the launch of Seek Thermal’s first offering and FLIR’s FLIR ONE / FLIR ONE Pro. These had comparatively high resolutions of 206×156 and 160×120, which allowed the companies to further cut down the cost of follow-up products with lower-resolution sensors. US regulations…
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Since the dawn of retail, customers have been making demands of stores and service providers – we have all heard the common phrase “the customer is always right”. This year has seen prices rise and the cost of living increase, making consumers more unpredictable when it comes to where they choose to shop and what…
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The technology skills gap is still ongoing, with people not only lacking the technical skills needed for digital roles, but also some of the basic digital skills needed for day-to-day life. Workers were looking for digital skills, but they were also on the hunt for new jobs, as the tech hiring landscape became uncertain in…
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Digital secretary Michelle Donelan says UK government will not legislate on artificial intelligence (AI) until the timing is right, and is focused in the meantime on improving the technology’s safety and building regulatory capacity in support of its proposed “pro-innovation” framework. On 13 December, Donelan appeared before the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee to answer…
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It seems that Intel is not going to bring a new feature introduced with Raptor Lake Refresh (14th-gen) CPUs – one that can boost frame rates on supported games – to previous silicon generations.This comes from Hardware Unboxed, the YouTube channel that performed some testing on Intel’s new APO (Application Performance Optimization) in which the…
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The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has outlined plans to better protect the UK’s key data storage facilities, or datacentres, from a range of threats including cyber attacks, physical threats and the impact of climate breakdown. The government says its plans will help protect the vast number of organisations that now rely on…
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A new report from the United Nations Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) finds national climate action plans remain insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees celsius and meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. The latest science from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicates that greenhouse gas emissions need to be…
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The introduction of the Intel NUC in the early 2010s kickstarted the ultra-compact form-factor (UCFF) trend for desktop systems. Processors with TDPs ranging from 6 – 15W formed the backbone of this segment in the initial years. Intel and AMD have been officially allowing configurable TDPs for their notebook segment offerings for a few years…
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