July 2025

NAO says government should employ data analytics to tackle fraud

Government departments have 28 data-sharing agreements in place to detect fraud, but a report from the National Audit Office (NAO), has found there is insufficient focus on preventive measures. The authors of the NAO’s Using data analytics to tackle fraud and error report noted that integrating preventative controls into existing business processes often requires real-time…

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World’s first G-shaped trifold smartphone is official

Chinese smartphone vendor Tecno teased the Phantom Ultimate G Fold last week, just ahead of Samsung’s big Unpacked press event of the summer. Tecno’s marketing move was timed to beat Samsung’s own promotional strategy.Rumors said the Korean giant would tease the Samsung Galaxy G Fold trifold at the end of the media event. The phone…

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Adobe Firefly adds three major upgrades to its AI video generator

Today, Adobe is taking Adobe Firefly a step further with powerful new tools and expanded access to partner AI models for its AI video generator. The company says this update brings more “control, precision, and flexibility to create and edit content that connects and stands out.”The first major feature is the ability to generate sound…

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SAP’s Christian Klein – cloud, data, AI: How to harness new engines of progress

When it comes to investments in artificial intelligence (AI), the numbers are staggering. “Stargate”, a US initiative to build the largest AI datacentres the world has ever seen, aims to invest $500bn over the next four years. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have just announced plans to buy hundreds of thousands of advanced…

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Podcast: HDDs performance metrics and the workloads they excel at

In this podcast, we talk to Rainer Kaese, senior manager for business development for hard disk drives (HDDs) for Toshiba Electronics Europe about the use cases most suited to HDDs.Kaese outlines the key performance characteristics, in particular in data transfer rate and input/output (I/O) operations per second, and why that makes them most suited to…

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Google Search just got powerful new AI tools, but only for paying Gemini users

AI Mode was one of the highlights of Google I/O 2025, with Google showing off a few exciting AI capabilities coming to Google Search that are entirely optional. As a reminder, AI Mode is a separate tab in Google Search that you can choose to use, unlike the AI Overviews that appear at the top…

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Nvidia’s AI texture compression seems to work brilliantly in new demo, dropping GPU memory usage by almost 90%

Nvidia’s Neural Texture Compression feature just became more efficientIt got this boost thanks to Microsoft’s new Cooperative Vector in DXR 1.2Testing with a demo showed almost a 90% reduction in video RAM footprint for textures, but that won’t apply in all scenarios (by any means)Worried your Nvidia graphics card may be underpowered in terms of…

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Why I’m worried the iPhone 17 Air will be more expensive than expected

We’re only two months away from Apple’s big iPhone launch event. The iPhone 17 series will be unveiled in September, hitting stores around 10 days after the launch event.As with every year, we already have plenty of information about Apple’s upcoming iPhone series. We expect four iPhone 17 models this year, including the iPhone 17…

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Irish bank rolls out AI tools to 10,000 staff

AIB is embedding artificial intelligence (AI) into business tools throughout the bank for 10,000 staff to free up their time for higher value work. As well as using AI in conjunction with Microsoft tools such as Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint, the Irish bank’s AI Centre of Excellence will work on developing new tools…

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