The United States District Court for the District of Columbia has ruled against Google in the anti-trust lawsuit filed by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and a number of US states. The court concluded that Google had violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act by maintaining its monopoly in general search services and general text advertising…
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Winning the AI race isn’t just about getting artificial intelligence features right. It’s also about winning the hearts and minds of people who will use these products. Google just gave us a good example of how not to win any hearts or minds. As impressive as Gemini AI innovations might be, Google’s “pizza glue” Search…
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Listen to this podcast We speak to Google’s director of product management for confidential computing about ensuring the protection of data in use How do you offer a trusted environment for hosting applications and data in the public cloud? It is an area Google’s Nelly Porter is very much focused on. Porter is a director…
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Today’s Microsoft outages, linked to a CrowdStrike update, shows the immense risk we face if we put all our eggs into one huge world-spanning basket. Some colleagues initially suggested this was part of a co-ordinated attack on Microsoft’s infrastructure which, though it turns out is most likely not the case, was a reasonable first guess…
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On Friday 19 July 2024, the UK awoke to news of a fast-spreading IT outage, seemingly global in its nature, affecting hundreds – if not thousands – of organisations. The disruption began in the early hours of Friday morning in Australia, before spreading quickly across Asia, Europe and the Americas, with the travel industry among…
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It would seem that the adoption of cloud databases – those delivered via a cloud consumption model – is ramping up. Referred to as dbPaaS (database platform as a service) by analyst Gartner, the market for cloud databases is dominated by public cloud providers. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google, Oracle and Alibaba are among…
The UK government has sought to be proactive in its approach to addressing climate change, committing to ambitious targets such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 68% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels and achieving net zero by 2050. In support of these goals, obligations will come to the fore as organisations develop…
IT Sustainability Think Tank: How cloud AI technologies can help enterprises go green Read More »
The UK tech sector continues to struggle with skills shortages, especially in emerging and high-priority areas such as cyber security and artificial intelligence (AI). One of the contributory factors is a lack of interest in computer science education in schools. Computer Weekly recently reported that low uptake of computing-related subjects at GCSE level is threatening…
Engaging young people with careers in STEM at the Goodwood Festival of Speed Read More »
The number of surprises left for the upcoming Made by Google event next month continues to dwindle. Hours after we got an early look at the next-gen Nest Learning Thermostat, a new leak has revealed just about everything there is to know about the Pixel Watch 3. Android Headlines shared several pages of promotional material…
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OpenAI stunned the world with a ChatGPT demo in mid-May, just a day before Google’s AI-centric I/O 2024 event. OpenAI unveiled the GPT-4o model, a multimodal chatbot that can process audio, video, text, and image prompts. More interesting was the new Voice Mode that OpenAI developed for GPT-4o.ChatGPT now supports more natural conversations. GPT-4o allows…
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