The craziest AI development I’ve seen all year is Microsoft’s VASA-1 technology. The company developed AI models that can transform a single image of a person with an audio file into a moving video of that person speaking. The demos were mindblowing, though VASA-1 isn’t available as a commercial product. It might never be, as…
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Depending on how much time you spend on the most popular video-sharing site in the world, a YouTube Premium subscription could be a worthwhile purchase. That said, the $13.99 price tag in the US is a touch steep, which is why some people are using VPNs to take advantage of the service’s regional pricing by…
If you used a VPN to get YouTube Premium, your account might get canceled Read More »
Western Digital expanded its WD Blue NVMe family of budget SSDs this week with the introduction of the the WD Blue SN5000 series, an updated lineup of SSDs that, among other things, adds a 4 TB model. Being budget drives, the SN5000 series is not going to be a performance monster, but their combination of capacity,…
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During Apple’s Let Loose event, the company announced several features it said would be added to Final Cut Pro in future updates. Now, the company has finally released the aforementioned new features in updates to its iPad and Mac versions.With Final Cut Pro for iPad 2 (which means version 2 of the software for iPad),…
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Several reports in the past few months claimed that Apple is working on a so-called “iPhone 17 Slim” model that will be larger than the usual iPhone Pro size but smaller than the iPhone Pro Max. The Slim moniker isn’t official, but it indicates that the iPhone in question might be thinner than other iPhone…
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Microsoft has admitted to Scottish policing bodies that it cannot guarantee the sovereignty of UK policing data hosted on its hyperscale public cloud infrastructure, despite its systems being deployed throughout the criminal justice sector. According to correspondence released by the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) under freedom of information (FOI) rules, Microsoft is unable to guarantee…
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In response to the increasing popularity of compact and portable gaming PCs in the past couple of years, we’ve seen several PC peripheral manufacturers release larger collections of SFX form factor cases and power supplies. Chief among these has been Cooler Master, where the prolific PC part vendor recently expanded their SFX series to include…
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Independent forensic accountants contracted to investigate controversial Post Office Horizon system in 2012 describe Post Office cover-ups, threats, obstruction and the “worst corporate behaviour” seen in their long careers. During the latest Post Office Horizon scandal public inquiry, investigators Second Sight revealed the lengths the Post Office went to in its efforts to prevent knowledge…
Key elections are being held in the UK, the US, the EU, and India, with many other countries also set to hold elections over the course of the year. Along with many organisations working with data and artificial intelligence (AI), we’re cognisant of the vast opportunities – and significant challenges – that these technologies can…
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We caught up with Pure Storage CEO Charlie Giancarlo at the company’s Accelerate event in Las Vegas this week. He gave us his view on why storage write speed is key for checkpointing in artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, why Pure aims to make corporate data available, rapidly, and in the place it does its day-to-day…
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