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Wells Fargo bank turns to AI to help families settle estates after a death

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US bank Wells Fargo has reported a big jump in recommendations from customers after using artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to help families manage the bank accounts, mortgages and financial assets of bereaved relatives.  The bank, which runs over 4,000 branches in the US, is investing in AI and business process management software as it…

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Podcast: Ransomware and what data storage can do about it

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In this podcast, we look at ransomware and data storage with Chris McKean, a solutions specialist at NetApp. He talks about what storage suppliers can build into storage products that can help protect and remediate against the effects of ransomware attacks. These include detection, protection of data and locking data against unauthorised attempts to change…

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iPhone SE 4 with Face ID and new iPad Air coming in early 2025

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Apple is planning to unveil the iPhone SE 4 alongside an updated series of iPads in early 2025, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.In a recent report, Gurman says that Apple is preparing to start production on a new iPhone SE model with the codename V59. He also reminds us that this will be the first…

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Last-minute leak reveals everything Apple will announce at the iPhone 16 event

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Ahead of the iPhone 16 event this Monday, a last-minute leak reveals every product and major feature expected to be announced during the It’s Glowtime keynote. According to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman, Apple will unveil new iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods models.Below, we’ve gathered all the new information about this iPhone 16 event leak. iPhone 16…

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Post Office Horizon IT scandal inquiry: Two years of shocking revelations

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The statutory public inquiry into the Post Office scandal went relatively unnoticed for almost two years, but in that time, those au fait with the case have been shocked on an almost daily basis. The airing of ITV’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office drama and accompanying documentary in January 2024, eventually put the scandal…

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QiStor flashes key-value storage software for hardware acceleration

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Existing flash storage is power-hungry and wasteful of datacentre performance because its data allocation method is rooted in the distant past of spinning disk hard drives and their fixed block pattern. The solution is to write data in key-value format and cut out the block addressing middleman. That’s the view of Silicon Valley startup QiStor,…

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Number of women choosing computer science degrees up 8%

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There has been an 8% year-on-year increase in the number of women studying for computer science degrees in the UK, according to research by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. Looking at data from university admissions service UCAS, BCS found that of the 15,530 UK-based students accepted to study computer science this year, 2,940 were…

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Fadu’s FC5161 SSD Controller Breaks Cover in Western Digital’s PCIe Gen5 Enterprise Drives

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When Western Digital introduced its Ultrastar DC SN861 SSDs earlier this year, the company did not disclose which controller it used for these drives, which made many observers presume that WD was using an in-house controller. But a recent teardown of the drive shows that is not the case; instead, the company is using a…

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Qualcomm Adds Snapdragon 7s Gen 3: Mid-Tier Snapdragon Gets Cortex-A720 Treatment

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Qualcomm this morning is taking the wraps off of a new smartphone SoC for the mid-range market, the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3. The second of Qualcomm’s down-market ‘S’ tier Snapdragon 7 parts, the 7s series is functionally the entry-level tier for the Snapdragon 7 family – and really, most Qualcomm-powered handsets in North America. With…

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