With the OLED iPad Pro just around the corner, I can’t stop thinking about the Apple Pencil 3. While this accessory was first rumored (by a sketchy source) to arrive late last year, Apple did, in fact, introduce a new Pencil as a low-cost option for USB-C iPad models.While some people thought this addition only…
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Software giant Microsoft revealed in mid-January 2024 that its systems were successfully infiltrated at the end of 2023 by Russia-backed hacking group Midnight Blizzard, as part of a coordinated and targeted information-gathering exercise. Microsoft confirmed the details of the attack in a statement published online on Friday 19 January 2024, where it revealed the attack…
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Navigation apps like Google Maps only work as intended if the device you’re using does one basic thing well: locate you, the user, accurately. If a navigation app can’t find you, it can lead to all kids of annoying navigation and direction issues.If you experience any location issues with your phone, you might consider calibrating…
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Seagate’s financial reports have been indicating imminent mass production of HAMR HDDs for a few years now, and it looks like the wait for these drives to appear in retail is finally at an end. The Seagate Exos product family is getting a 30TB capacity point, thanks to the use of heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR)…
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In response to the launch of NVIDIA’s new GeForce RTX 40 Super video cards, AMD has announced that they are instituting new promotional pricing on a handful of their high-end video cards in order to keep pace with NVIDIA’s new pricing. Kicking off what AMD is terming a special “promotional pricing” program for the quarter,…
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Retail technology’s annual jamboree returned to New York City for Retail’s Big Show, organised by the National Retail Federation (NRF), attracting senior retailers and technology providers from around the world looking to gain insights into the latest offerings impacting the sector. This year’s event saw a return to pre-pandemic levels of attendance, with 40,000 people…
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Hard disk drive (HDD) capacities could double in the next few years, with a milestone achieved by Seagate that brings 30TB (terabyte) drives to the market. This quarter, Seagate will ship the latest Exos HDDs with capacity of 30TB to cloud hyperscaler customers. These are based on advances in areal density – capacity per disk…
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The impact the democratisation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is having on global demand for colocation capacity will force datacentre operators to rethink how they build and run their facilities. That’s according to a 24-page report by commercial real estate and investment management company JLL, which predicts the take-off of AI will cause global datacentre…
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Microsoft’s earnings for 2024 show significant growth in the company’s cloud offerings, with revenue in its Intelligent Cloud business increasing 20% to $25.9bn. CEO Satya Nadella said the financial performance of the company was driven by the continued strength of Microsoft Cloud, which, he said, surpassed $33bn in revenue, up 24%. “We’ve moved from talking…
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There’s been plenty of whispers about AMD’s Zen 5 architecture, including possible release delays. However, a new report asserts that the upcoming Ryzen processor will be released on schedule.According to AMD’s latest earnings call for Q4 2024, a representative confirmed that “Zen 5 is on track for the consumer market for the second half of…
