AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D is back in stock after a woeful launch window The processor sells for $479 / £449 and offers leading gaming performance It outclasses many pricier processors in gaming performance for the moneyDespite releasing back in November 2024, AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D has been difficult to track down in the US and…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has hit out at the UK competition watchdog for presenting “no credible evidence” to support its claims the public cloud giant’s anti-competitive behaviour is harming how the domestic cloud infrastructure market operates. The Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) published the provisional findings from its multi-year antitrust investigation into the inner workings…
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Sir Martin – founder of what became the world’s largest advertising company, WPP – is now chairman of the board of S4Capital, which aims at digitally native delivery of services.He talks about the use cases in advertising and marketing, limited currently, but where activities like planning and buying media will likely become automated by AI…
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Amazon is killing a feature that lets users of some Echo devices stop Alexa from sending voice recordings to the cloud. As shared on Reddit, Amazon sent out emails to users of affected Echo smart speakers to let them know that the “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” feature will no longer be available starting on…
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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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