Solid-state drive (SSD) prices per gigabyte (GB) dropped over the last two quarters – since the beginning of September 2024 – while SAS hard disk drive (HDD) prices increased over the same period. Flash drive prices (MLC, TLC and QLC) fell from an average of $0.085/GB to just under $0.079/GB. That’s a 7% decrease. At…
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Turns out not everyone was happy with Amazon’s attempts to launch delivery drones. In fact, College Station, a university town with roughly 125,000 residents, has been extremely resistant to the entire ordeal. And now, Amazon was forced to ground its delivery drone service, but not for the reason you might think.Amazon has been trying to get…
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Apple is following the beta testing of its latest operating systems, including watchOS 11.4 and tvOS 18.4. At this moment, it’s unclear what new features the company will add to these software updates. However, a few tweaks are expected for Apple Watch and Apple TV users.For example, watchOS 11.4 beta should likely bring new emojis.…
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After taking the world by storm with the debut of its R1 reasoning model in January, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is reportedly looking to maintain the momentum by rushing its new R2 model to market as quickly as possible, Reuters reports.DeepSeek at first planned to launch R2 in early May, but sources familiar with the…
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On Tuesday, top executives from Amazon took the stage at Spring Studios in New York City to share updates on the company’s devices and services. Unsurprisingly, those updates centered around artificial intelligence and all the ways that Amazon is integrating generative AI into Alexa and its Alexa-enabled smart devices.No new devices were announced at the…
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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…
