Artificial intelligence (AI) workers in Kenya have launched the Data Labelers Association (DLA) to fight for fair pay, mental health support and better overall working conditions. Employed to train and maintain the AI systems of major technology companies, the data labellers and annotators say they formed the DLA to challenge the “systemic injustices” they face…
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The Ministry of Defence (MoD) aims to develop its Defence Data Analytics Platform (DDAP) over the next three years, with IT services firm Kainos, in a contract worth £50m. Kainos will provide support for users across the MoD, including the Royal Navy, British Army, Royal Air Force and other MoD support organisations, to change over…
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft have not taken kindly to the UK competition watchdog’s proposal to take a targeted approach to levelling the playing field for smaller providers operating in the UK cloud services market.The published provisional findings from the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) ongoing investigation into how the UK cloud infrastructure services…
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Senior retailers and technology providers from around the world converged on New York City for Retail’s Big Show, organised by the National Retail Federation (NRF), where they gained insights into the latest solutions affecting the sector. This year’s event attracted around 40,000 people from 105 countries representing 6,200 brands who heard about a variety of…
Cloud computing has always been marketed to enterprises as a more cost-effective way for companies to access the compute resources they need, because they only pay for what they use and can easily scale back how much they are using, based on demand. Enterprises were encouraged, on the back of these benefits, to streamline their…
Pure Storage thinks things are slotting into place for its predicted imminent demise of enterprise spinning disk. In December 2024, it announced an unnamed hyperscaler had inked an agreement to take Pure’s DirectFlash Modules (DFMs) as components for storage infrastructure. Meanwhile, Pure Storage now counts Nand flash makers Micron and Kioxia as supply chain partners.…
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ASRock has listed the unreleased Ryzen 9 X3D CPUs on its websiteThe Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D appear on the list of supported chips for AM5 motherboardsThis preparation work being put in place could be a hint that these processors are inbound soonAMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D could be launching soon, or at least…
AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU could be on sale soon – but I’m still worried about the price Read More »
You’re a $2.8bn storage supplier with flash arrays at the core of your business. How do you do research and development (R&D), test new products, test customer workload issues, and test array products over years-long timescales for issues that only arise as software, network and application changes concatenate and interact? Meanwhile, you are a global…
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Refresh 2025-01-29T19:02:00.354Z Another thing I appreciate about the RTX 5080 is that even though on paper its TDP is 360W, a 40W increase over the RTX 4080 and RTX 4080 Super’s 320W, I never saw it really approach that much power draw.The most it ever got was about 335W. By comparison, the RTX 4090 pushes…
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In 2024, Apple’s most significant release was definitely the Apple Vision Pro. Even though the company’s spatial computer was disappointing due to its lack of features and developer support, it’s undeniable that seeing the company enter a new market for the first time in a decade was exciting.You might think that the most important release…
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