Google will no longer charge customers fees for transferring their data out of its cloud when switching to a new provider, as part of a concerted push to distance itself from its public cloud competition. Amit Zavery, general manager, vice-president and head of platform at Google Cloud, announced the move in a blog post, and…
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Yesterday, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S24 lineup, focusing on AI features. Although the South Korean company is the one to be praised, several functions rely on Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Google’s software capabilities introduced during last year’s Google Pixel 8 event.One of the most exciting features highlighted during the keynote, Circle to…
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I wondered months ago whether the Galaxy S24’s built-in AI would be available for free or if the buyer would have to pay for it, either as a subscription or in the form of a price hike for the phone itself. As ChatGPT has shown, AI features can’t be free. If you want the best…
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Remember that $5 billion suit alleging that Google tracks Chrome users in Incognito mode? Well, Google decided to settle it recently, without disclosing the settlement details. A judge will still have to approve the deal by February, so we’ll soon see what Google agreed to. While we wait, there is a disturbing development involving Google Chrome.…
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If you’ve ever heard the phrase “addition by subtraction,” you’ll understand Google’s latest move. This week, Google announced that it plans to eliminate more than a dozen features from Google Assistant in the coming weeks. Google Assistant VP Duke Dukellis explained in a blog post that the team is “prioritizing the experiences you love and…
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As businesses continue to grow online and rely further on digital capabilities, designing your organisation to be ‘secure by default’ is becoming more important than ever. Almost every credible source will tell you that the volume of cyber attacks is up this year. But this is not a new headline, and as technology and information…
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Which are the top storage array makers and what are their strategies towards the cloud, containers and consumption models of procurement? In this article, we rank the top storage suppliers according to IDC market share statistics for 2022 in terms of enterprise external storage and give a brief summary of each player, where they’re at…
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Countries in the Middle East are spending huge sums of money, made from selling fossil fuels, in the diversification of their economies. This means digital technology will play a key role in the region’s economic development. It will cost a lot for countries like the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia to catch the…
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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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Apple users rarely see malware notifications like the ones that keep popping up on Android, including apps that Google has to ban. But just because iPhone security is better doesn’t mean hackers have given up. A few years ago, we saw the infamous Pegasus attack that relied on an iMessage exploit to infect phones without…
