Year: 2023 - Page 10

Oct 24 2023

Intel leak suggests MacBook-beating laptops could trouble Apple sooner than expected

3 minutes of reading / Hardware, Intel, Tech, Twitter / By Comkex

Intel’s Lunar Lake processors have been somewhat under the radar thus far, so it’s interesting to see a leak pop up around the future CPUs.As a quick refresher – the various lakes Intel employs are confusingly numerous – the next-gen chips from Intel are Meteor Lake (laptop chips, due in December) and Raptor Lake Refresh…

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Oct 24 2023

CDO interview: Andrew Curry, manager of the Central Data Office, ExxonMobil

7 minutes of reading / Dell, digital transformation, Microsoft, SAP, Tech / By Comkex

Andrew Curry is an experienced data leader who’s using his surfeit of knowledge to help one of the world’s biggest companies embrace digital transformation. Curry joined oil and gas giant ExxonMobil after graduating with a degree in IT from college in 1999. Today, he’s fast approaching a quarter of a century with the company –…

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Oct 24 2023

REVR is a low-cost kit that makes gas cars electric

2 minutes of reading / Tech / By Comkex

Just looking at the price tag, a new low-cost retrofitting EV kit that costs around $3,100 might not sound cheap. But when you consider that’s just a tenth of the cost of most gas-to-electric conversion kits, it’s actually a pretty killer deal. An Australian design student named Alexander Burton designed the new kit, and it…

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Oct 24 2023

US SEC launches probe into mass MOVEit breach

3 minutes of reading / Tech / By Comkex

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched a probe into the mass breach of Progress Software’s MOVEit file transfer tool, which is now estimated to have affected over 2,000 organisations and exposed the personal data of around 64 million people. Conducted by ransomware operation Clop (or Cl0p) in late-May 2023, the breach involved…

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Oct 24 2023

Why the human factor is critical to ITOps success

6 minutes of reading / agile, Apple, automation, Cloud, Computer, digital transformation, Intel, ITIL, Oracle, Tech / By Comkex

If only fast IT operations (ITOps) was just about choosing the right tooling. Instead, as so often in IT, ensuring optimum software and services delivery that gets business results involves the solving of “people’ problems too. “There’s a big gap between what we see people do, and what we think they should do,” says Andy…

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Oct 24 2023

Nvidia RTX 4080 Ti rumor suggests it’s the high-end GPU you’ve been waiting for

4 minutes of reading / Tech, Twitter / By Comkex

Nvidia could be planning a faster version of its RTX 4080 graphics card, and this GPU might just be temptingly priced.That’s the latest theory from MEGAsizeGPU, one of the regular hardware leakers on X (formerly Twitter), so regard it with the usual caution you’d employ around chatter from the rumor mill.There will be a 4080S(maybe…

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Oct 24 2023

T Levels expand the work-ready tech talent base and now include a specialism in cyber security

5 minutes of reading / Tech / By Comkex

The UK has a strong traditional education system that leads young people through GCSEs and A Levels to a degree at some of the world’s leading universities. Every year, thousands of talented and highly educated young people graduate and enter the workplace. Nevertheless, the tech sector – like other industries – struggles to meet its…

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Oct 23 2023

Microsoft’s Project Silica turns glass into futuristic data storage

4 minutes of reading / AI, Azure, Microsoft, Tech / By Comkex

The last time we talked about Microsoft’s Project Silica was about four years ago when Microsoft was showing off a proof of concept. The company managed to write Warner Bros’ Superman movie on a tiny piece of durable quartz glass that measured only 75 by 75 by 2 mm. That data is safer than copying…

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Oct 23 2023

BMW, Mini, and Rolls-Royce are all adopting Tesla’s NACS charger

3 minutes of reading / iPhone, Tech, Tesla / By Comkex

It feels like the number of EV brands that haven’t committed to Tesla’s NACS charger is now less than those that have. Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox. Sign up for the most interesting tech & entertainment news out there. By signing up, I agree to the Terms of Use and have reviewed the Privacy Notice.…

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Oct 23 2023

Intel Launches Arc A580: A $179 Graphics Card for 1080p Gaming

2 minutes of reading / Intel, Tech / By Comkex

When Intel unveiled its range of Arc A-series desktop graphics cards last year, it introduced four models: the Arc A770, Arc A750, Arc A580, and Arc A380. However, the Arc A580, which uses a cut-down ACM-G10 GPU, never reached the market for reasons that remain unclear. On Tuesday Intel finally fleshed out the Arc desktop…

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