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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AMD’s current chipset, AM5 – which arrived with Ryzen 7000 processors last year – won’t be superseded until 2026 at the earliest, and could quite possibly remain longer than that.In an interview with retailer and PC maker Overclockers UK – see the video clip below (flagged up by PC World) – AMD’s David McAfee, who…
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Over the course of 2023, there has been a concerted effort by the UK government and law enforcement to push more digital offerings into policing, including hyperscale public cloud infrastructure, various facial-recognition technologies and integrated record management systems. However, Computer Weekly’s coverage reflects the contentious nature of many of these deployments, which are often plagued…
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Intel has released their first mobile processors based on their highly anticipated Meteor Lake platform, the Core Ultra H and the Core Ultra U series. Available today, the Ultra Core H series has four SKUs, including two Ultra 7 16 core (6P+8E+2LP) chips and two 14 core (4P+8E+2LP) Ultra 5 chips. All run at a…
In the realm of business applications, the underlying complexities of the western economic crisis and war in Ukraine and the Middle East were obscured in 2023 by the hype surrounding generative AI (GenAI). It would be eccentric, indeed churlish, to downplay the significance of GenAI, and so the first four articles selected here are, indeed, about…
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When you say artificial intelligence (AI) these days, ChatGPT and similar products come to mind. The generative AI apps are available online on any platform, ready to help improve your productivity. Or waste time and AI resources to have fun. Dealer’s choice. But it’s not just smartphones and computers that get AI features, and Samsung’s…
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When Intel struggled with its 10nm process technology a few years ago, some investors suggested that the company would be better-off spinning its chip production into an independent foundry, leaving the core of the company to focus on chip design instead. Bucking these calls, however, Intel opted to keep chipmaking in-house, even going as far…
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As with 2022, Computer Weekly technology and ethics coverage continued with a focus on working conditions in the tech sector, looking, for example, at the experience of UK Apple workers attempting to unionise and the efforts of digital gig workers who train and maintain today’s much-hyped artificial intelligence (AI) systems. AI itself also took centre…
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If you thought the Nvidia RTX 4090 cable melting nightmare was over, well, we’ve had another twist in this particular tale – although the latest misstep isn’t anything to do with Team Green itself.If you recall, when we first heard about the problem with some melting cable adapters, CableMod was one of the third parties…
The first-generation Apple Vision Pro is expected to launch by February 2024. While Apple’s upcoming spatial computer generates a lot of hype, we have already heard a few details about a second iteration of this headset.Unfortunately, unlike Apple’s iPhones, Macs, and Apple Watches, which get updates yearly, the company might take a long time to…
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