Further to the announcement that AMD is refreshing their Phoenix-based 7040HS series for mobiles with the newer ‘Hawk Point’ 8040HS family for 2024, AMD is set to drive more development for AI within the PC market. Designed to provide a more holistic end-user experience for adopters of hardware with the Ryzen AI NPU, AMD has made its…
As UK police look to increase their adoption of live facial recognition, a House of Lords committee has heard that serious issues remain around the proportionality and necessity of the way forces are using the technology. On 12 December 2023, the Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee (JHAC) – which has launched a short follow-up…
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As we approach the dawn of 2024, the intersection of sustainability and innovation within the IT sector demands a proactive approach from decision makers. The milestones of 2023, marked by progress and challenges, set the stage for a pivotal year ahead. Here, are some key priorities and resolutions that IT decision makers should consider to…
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A new report from the United Nations Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) finds national climate action plans remain insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees celsius and meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. The latest science from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicates that greenhouse gas emissions need to be…
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In my last column, I explored some of the great steps that the UK technology sector has taken towards sustainability over the past 12 months. This included progress in the realm of quantum computing, achieving symbiosis with datacentres, and recognising an increase in businesses reducing and recycling their e-waste. At Digital Catapult, we continue to…
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Swiss software developer Proton has been on fire recently, delivering exciting updates for its various end-to-end encrypted apps. Strong encryption is the key feature of Proton software, and all you need to get started is a Proton Mail account. That’s the first app that Proton made, a great Gmail alternative that offers end-to-end encrypted email…
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A card in your servers that can cut server resource usage by 25%. That’s the equivalent of buying three servers instead of four. And all done by offloading networking, storage and data services to a DPU-based PCIe card. That’s the promise from Nebulon, which sees its Services Processing Unit (SPU) revamped as the Medusa2 with…
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AMD’s next-gen graphics cards have been glimpsed, or at least we’ve seen references to RDNA 4 pop up in Linux – and this comes on top of recent YouTube leakage which sounds worrying for Nvidia (we’ll come back to that later).Wccftech reports that a couple of AMD chips are mentioned as supported in Linux patches,…
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Intel’s Core i5-14400 processor has been the subject of a benchmark leak which casts the CPU in a disappointing light.This is the follow-up to the popular Core i5-13400, and it’s rumored that the chip will be revealed by Intel at CES 2024 (along with other non-K versions – locked CPUs that can’t be overclocked –…
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A day after seeding the Release Candidate version of macOS 14.2, Apple is now making available RC 2 to developers. At this moment, it’s unclear what’s changing with this build, but Cupertino might have found something that needed a quick fix.That said, although macOS Sonoma still lacks a few features, version 14.2 is finally adding a few…
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