Apple Self Service Repair program, which helps users repair Apple products on their own thanks to access to manuals and genuine Apple parts, is expanding its Diagnostics feature to 32 European countries, including the UK, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.The Apple Diagnostics program launched in the US in December 2023. It gives users the same…
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Data warehousing gave birth to Business Intelligence. This was a point memorably made to me by the analyst Mike Ferguson when I interviewed him for one of our articles celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Computer Weekly. He said, in 2016: “Data warehousing had to happen and was absolutely aimed at the BI market. Up till…
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The Halo Trust is tapping into Amazon Web Services’ (AWS’s) portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI) tools for a pilot project to test if deploying the technology will speed up the time it takes to clear landmines in war-torn Ukraine. The Trust is the largest humanitarian landmine clearance organisation in the world, and has secured a…
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Key government technology supplier Atos is facing “material uncertainty” over its ability to continue trading, auditors have warned in the wake of a $5bn debt revelation. In the latest accounts for the British arm of French IT company Atos, auditors from Grant Thornton said the financial problems facing its parent company could limit its…
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An investment company has had its second attempt at securing planning permission for a datacentre development on a patch of Green Belt Land in Iver, Buckinghamshire, denied by local authority planning officials. Greystoke Land applied for outline planning permission to Buckinghamshire Council in March 2024 for its plans to build a datacentre of up to 72,000m2…
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When Micron announced plans to build two new fabs in the U.S. in 2022, the company vaguely said both would come online by the decade’s end. Then, in 2023, it began to optimize its spending, which pushed production at these fabrication facilities. This week, the company outlined more precise timeframes for when its fabs in Idaho and New…
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As Figma’s Config 2024 conference kicks off, the company just unveiled its new suite of software, with a redesign and several AI features coming to users later this year.“In a world where more software is being created and reimagined because of AI, designing and building products is everyone’s business,” said Dylan Field, co-founder and CEO of…
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Generative AI continues to amaze me, and the latest development comes in the form of a web tool I never knew I needed. It’s called websim.ai, and it’s a tool that lets you create fake websites for anything you might think of, no matter how stupid it may sound. Input a prompt, and you’ll get…
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The spotlight has been on Rivian’s long-term health for a bit now. With the company under financial pressure to get over the hump of moving from its R1 lineup into its R2 future, where the company is expected to experience its Tesla Model Y moment, there has been doubt thrown around about its ability to…
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If the rumor mill is correct, AMD might just pep up its Ryzen 7 9700X, which will be a workhorse mid-range processor for the next-gen Zen 5 range.With this one you need to understand a brief bit of background, namely that recently, AMD admitted that Ryzen 9000 models won’t be the fastest gaming chips around,…
