Niall Robinson, head of product innovation at the Met Office, is an experienced executive who turns novel ideas at the UK’s national weather and climate service into valuable outputs. He’s been with the organisation for 12 years and still finds places to drive change. “One of the cool things about the Met Office is the…
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After a packed tvOS 18 release, Apple is being modest with this cycle’s major software update, tvOS 18.1. So far, the only change spotted in this version is improvements to the TV app Watchlist.As spotted by Apple TV aficionado Sigmund Judge, Apple is adding a Watchlist to tvOS 18.1. According to him, “The new Watchlist…
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expanding its efforts to reuse and recycle its datacentre hardware by opening a reverse logistics facility in Dublin, Ireland, operated by its Re:Cycle Reverse Logistics subsidiary. The facility is designed to give a second life to the component parts of AWS datacentre hardware and server racks, including processors and network…
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To tie in with the government’s International Investment Summit, US tech firms CyrusOne, ServiceNow, Cloud HQ, CoreWeave and ServiceNow have announced major UK expansion worth a total of £6.3bn. Last month, the government took steps to classify UK datacentres as critical national infrastructure (CNI), and in July, hired entrepreneur Matt Clifford to kickstart an…
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After unveiling new iPhone 16 models, Apple Watches, AirPods, and an iPad mini, Apple has even more products to launch in the coming months. Among them are new Macs, iPads, and even another new iPhone in early 2025. Here’s everything we expect Apple to unveil in the next six months:New Macs are coming very soonImage…
There are central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and even data processing units (DPUs) – all of which are well-known and commonplace now. GPUs in particular have seen a recent rise to prominence with the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI). You may have also heard of tensor processing units (TPUs), which are a…
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The price of RAM is dropping rapidly right now, and the industry has seen pricing dip by close to 20% over the past month.That’s according to a report from The Elec (a Korean tech site) which cites figures from DRAMeXchange (the memory division of analyst firm TrendForce).We’re told that in September DRAM and NAND pricing…
NetApp will maintain its big push towards data management for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads and took the opportunity to explain that move at its Insight 2024 event in Las Vegas this week. Core to that is data management via a global metadata namespace in its Ontap storage operating system that aims to make corporate data…
Google Cloud has emerged as the latest party to take issue with Microsoft’s strategy of charging enterprise customers more for running its software in competing cloud environments by filing a complaint with the European Commission. The internet search giant’s public cloud arm claims the practice harms customers and infringes European Union law, and has accused Microsoft…
The AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, which is our choice as one of the best processors in the market period, beat out two of the best Intel processor options when it comes to pure gaming ability. Its reputation has made the chip a hot commodity, and its price has been skyrocketing as of late.This is due…
