The 2025 Google I/O developer conference will take place from May 20th to May 21st, Google announced on Tuesday. This year’s event will take place at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, where the company will host keynotes and live sessions to show off its “newest products, technologies and innovations in AI.” You will also…
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has committed to continue investing in its cloud arm, as the firm’s fourth-quarter results confirmed Google Cloud’s revenue increased by 30% to $12bn in the three months to 31 December 2024. The year-on-year uptick in Google Cloud’s quarterly revenue was “led by growth” in the company’s core cloud infrastructure offerings, as…
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If you thought that simply owning an iPhone would be enough to protect you from malware, we have bad news for you. According to researchers at Kaspersky, numerous apps infected with a malicious software development kit (SDK) used to steal crypto wallets were recently unearthed on Google Play and, for the first time, Apple’s App…
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Google is one of the top AI firms in the world, developing bleeding-edge AI under the Gemini umbrella. But Google isn’t seen as the leading AI company because OpenAI’s ChatGPT went viral before Google had anything to offer end users. Google has been playing catch-up since then. While Gemini has received tremendous upgrades in the…
Google fumbled its big Gemini AI ad for the Big Game Read More »
DeepSeek R1 stunned the world last week as its developers explained they could train an open-source reasoning AI as good as ChatGPT o1 at a fraction of the cost. Suddenly, anyone could create powerful AI models with the right combination of software innovations and decent hardware. The DeepSeek research implied that the focus wouldn’t be…
This AI is as good as ChatGPT o1, and it was built for under $50 Read More »
Following the rapid advancements in AI tech like ChatGPT, it’s only a matter of time before the leading AI firms come up with AGI, or artificial general intelligence. By definition, AGI is AI that’s as good as a human at tackling any task, with the obvious advantage that AI would have access to massive amounts…
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…
Whenever I look at a new generative AI model that can make music based on text prompts, I test it immediately to see what it can do. Most of the time, the results are incredible, but the samples are too short, and each one requires manual playback.I thought that would be the case with Riffusion’s…
I found a free AI music generator that legitimately sounds like real, professional music Read More »
AWS EBS – Elastic Block Storage – customers usually massively over-provision cloud storage capacity and pay way more than they should. Capacity utilisation on EBS is between 10% and 30%, according to Datafy, a startup that claims it can slash AWS customers’ EBS bills by adding greater granularity to their cloud block storage deployments. According…
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In October 2024, the European Commission (EC) published its Digital fairness fitness check report as part of a continued effort to evaluate the effectiveness of European Union (EU) legislation with consumer protection laws. Specifically, it evaluated the efficacy of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, the Consumer Rights Directive, and the Unfair Contract Terms Directive. The…
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