September 2024

Amazon’s Alexa got caught trying to convince people to vote for Kamala Harris

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Despite Kamala Harris never winning a single state’s presidential primary or caucus in her political career, Amazon’s Alexa voice-enabled assistant seems to have decided that voters clearly fell out of a coconut tree if they aren’t yet feeling the Mamala vibes of our brat summer.Several social media videos that have gone viral this week depict…

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Here’s why I want a foldable iPad before a tri-fold smartphone

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I’m a fan of foldable devices, and I thought the Tecno Phantom Ultimate 2 concept (pictured above) was exciting when I first saw it last week. While the Tecno phone will not get a commercial release, Huawei is about to launch a similar phone of its own.The Chinese handset vendor will challenge the iPhone 16…

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Phison Enterprise SSDs at FMS 2024: Pascari Branding and Accelerating AI

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At FMS 2024, Phison devoted significant booth space to their enterprise / datacenter SSD and PCIe retimer solutions, in addition to their consumer products. As a controller / silicon vendor, Phison had historically been working with drive partners to bring their solutions to the market. On the enterprise side, their tie-up with Seagate for the…

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DapuStor and Memblaze Target Global Expansion with State-of-the-Art Enterprise SSDs

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The growth in the enterprise SSD (eSSD) market has outpaced that of the client SSD market over the last few years. The requirements of AI servers for both training and inference has been the major impetus in this front. In addition to the usual vendors like Samsung, Solidigm, Micron, Kioxia, and Western Digital serving the…

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Podcast: Ransomware and what data storage can do about it

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In this podcast, we look at ransomware and data storage with Chris McKean, a solutions specialist at NetApp. He talks about what storage suppliers can build into storage products that can help protect and remediate against the effects of ransomware attacks. These include detection, protection of data and locking data against unauthorised attempts to change…

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Could iPhone 16 preorders start earlier than usual?

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Apple announced that its iPhone 16 launch event will take place on Monday, September 9th, which is an unusual day of the week for iPhone launches. Could Apple also change the preorder and release dates from the usual Fridays following the launch event?It seems unlikely, considering Apple’s rather strict rules about launching new iPhones. But…

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Post Office Horizon IT scandal inquiry: Two years of shocking revelations

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The statutory public inquiry into the Post Office scandal went relatively unnoticed for almost two years, but in that time, those au fait with the case have been shocked on an almost daily basis. The airing of ITV’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office drama and accompanying documentary in January 2024, eventually put the scandal…

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The iPhone 16 won’t even be my first preorder after the launch event

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It’s that time of year when many longtime Apple product users like myself weigh their options. I will preorder one of the iPhone 16 models in a few days.I still haven’t decided which of the four new iPhones to get. But regardless of which one I’ll pick, it’ll be a great upgrade from my iPhone…

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Spotify users are furious about a big change in the iPhone app

2 minutes of reading / API, Apple, HomePod, iPhone, social media, Tech / By

Spotify users are about to suffer from a major drawback in the iPhone app. The company announced that Spotify Connect, which lets you control your songs when playing them on a speaker, will lose a simple yet very important feature: the ability to control volume with the iPhone’s physical volume buttons.According to an update Spotify…

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Apple’s iPhone 17 Air might get ultra-thin competition from Samsung

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Apple is widely expected to replace the iPhone Plus variant next year with an ultra-thin iPhone 17. In the past few months, we’ve been calling it iPhone 17 Slim, iPhone 17 Ultra, and iPhone 17 Air as we adapted to what leakers said about it.Considering the most recent iPhone 17 leaks, “iPhone 17 Air” might…

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