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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After announcing the new Imagen 3 image generation model at Google I/O in May, Google has now made the text-to-image model available to all Gemini users.On Wednesday, Google said Imagen 3 “is now available to all Gemini users around the world.” As Google explained back when the model was announced, Imagen 3 comes with a…
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Google is appealing a judgement given on 7 October by US District Judge James Donato in California, which would diminish the company’s control over the distribution of Android apps. The federal judge has ordered Google to open up its app store, Google Play, to enable third-party app stores and allow software developers to offer Android…
Numerous IT service providers and consulting businesses have ramped up their artificial intelligence (AI) practices in recent weeks in a bid to drive demand for enterprise AI. The latest announcement is Accenture’s expansion of its partnership with Nvidia, resulting in the formation of the Accenture Nvidia Business Group, through which it plans to help enterprises…
The brutal dismantling of the LockBit ransomware crew and the humiliation of its key players has been one of the most talked about cyber security success stories of the past 12 months, but looking at the raw data, it doesn’t seem to have done much to dissuade cyber criminals. This is according to Secureworks’ 2024…
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Internet search giant Google has hit back at the US Department of Justice’s (DoJ) suggestion that its operations should be broken up on anti-competition grounds, claiming doing so would have “significant unintended consequences” for consumers and businesses alike. The proposal follows a landmark US court ruling from August 2024 that declared that Google’s parent company,…
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Threat intelligence specialist Recorded Future has revealed details of how it is now able to find – and alert – future victims of the Rhysida ransomware gang before it has a chance to deploy its ransomware locker. Rhysida, perhaps most famous in the UK for the late-2023 attack on the British Library, has been active…
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I never liked Google’s AI-powered photo-editing features, but I get why they’re important. Features like the Magic Editor in Google Photos let you create fake photos of things that never happened, but they prove that Google is good at AI. As hot as AI is right now in the tech world, that’s obviously something the…
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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…
