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Asus Launches USB4 Add-In-Card: Two 40 Gbps Ports for Desktops

Asus has introduced a USB4 PCIe add-in-card for the company’s desktop motherboards, allowing users to add two USB4 ports to their systems. The card can be used to connect up to four devices and a display to each of its ports, and can even be used to charge laptops that support USB charging. The Asus…

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Spatial computing is Apple’s next big thing, so iOS 18 could look more like the Vision Pro

iOS 18 will be the biggest iPhone update ever released. That’s what Apple sources who are reportedly familiar with iOS 18 told Mark Gurman a few days ago. I speculated that there’s only one thing that could elevate iOS to such status: the inclusion of so-called Apple GPT AI features in iOS. Without AI, iOS…

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Crew Clothing head of IT: ‘The projects don’t stop’

It was all change at the top for Crew Clothing in 2023 as the senior team departed. But the technology transformation strategy remains not only on track, but is set to accelerate in 2024. The fashion retailer is ploughing on with the introduction of a finance system, upgrading to a more sophisticated point of sale…

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Nvidia rushes out fix for GPUs that are suffering nasty stuttering in games and web browsers

Nvidia has deployed a hotfix for some nasty issues with its graphics cards that have led some GeForce owners to experience stuttering not just in PC games, but in everyday computing activities.This is hotfix driver version 551.46, an update based on the newest Game Ready Driver (v551.23) that should be applied by anyone who’s being…

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MLCommons To Develop PC Client Version of MLPerf AI Benchmark Suite

MLCommons, the consortium behind the MLPerf family of machine learning benchmarks, is announcing this morning that the organization will be developing a new desktop AI benchmarking suite under the MLPerf banner. Helmed by the body’s newly-formed MLPerf Client working group, the task force will be developing a client AI benchmark suit aimed at traditional desktop…

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visionOS 1.0.3 available to Vision Pro users with reset option for forgotten password

A couple of weeks after releasing visionOS 1.0.2 to all users, Apple is now issuing the first Vision Pro update with this spatial headset now out, visionOS 1.0.3. With this version, users can get several bug fixes, in addition to the ability to reset their device if they’ve forgotten their passcode.Previously, users would have to…

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Want to use Google Gemini on iPhone? It’s already hiding in an app on your iPhone

Google made a few big changes to its ChatGPT rivals late last week, and they’re all for the better. The Bard branding is gone, with Google Gemini now replacing it. Duet AI is also going to be called Gemini inside Google’s productivity apps. Then there’s Gemini Advanced, the new ChatGPT Plus equivalent. But the $20…

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Defra legacy IT: 180 applications refreshed, over 1,500 remain

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has updated what it claims to be 180 critical legacy applications. In May 2023, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) warned that the department had no clear plan to replace or modernise legacy systems.  In the Tackling Defra’s ageing digital services PAC report, Defra told the PAC it…

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Intel’s First High-Volume Foveros Packaging Facility, Fab 9, Starts Operations

Intel this week has started production at Fab 9, the company’s latest and most advanced chip packaging plant. Joining Intel’s growing collection of facilities in New Mexico, Fab 9 is tasked with packaging chips using Intel’s Foveros technology, which is currently used to build the company’s latest client Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) processors and Data…

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Welsh workers’ AI experiences shaped by uneven power dynamics

Asymmetric power dynamics at work are fuelling Welsh workers’ negative experience of artificial intelligence (AI), says Trade Unions Congress (TUC), and make it difficult to challenge the imposition of new technologies in the workplace. In a review of how workers and trade unionists across the country are experiencing the technology, Wales TUC found that their…

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