In 2022, datacentres were estimated to consume about 2% of global energy. By 2026, that number is predicted to double to 4%, equivalent to about 1000 terawatt hours a year, which, according to Gartner, is equivalent to the consumption of a country the size of Japan. Lloyd Jones, vice-president analyst at Gartner, said the company’s…
Remember when Samsung invited Google and Qualcomm to announce the “next XR experience“? I know I do because it happened in early February 2023, during the Galaxy S23 event. At the time, the web was filled with rumors about Apple’s mixed reality device, which would launch as the Vision Pro. Apple’s spatial computer dropped a…
Samsung is developing Gemini AI-powered XR glasses, and we might’ve already seen them Read More »
I’ve been a ChatGPT Plus user for about a year, and I think the $20/month subscription is worth it to access some of OpenAI’s best ChatGPT features. One of them is the newly released ChatGPT Search product that competes directly against Google Search. It’s probably the AI product some people at Google have been dreading…
ChatGPT’s search engine might end your dependence on Google Read More »
Rumors about foldable iPads and MacBooks and foldable iPhones have been floating around for years. However, Apple has not released a commercial product yet. Apple keeps selling hundreds of millions of candybar iPhones instead.Meanwhile, Samsung keeps mocking Apple for not making foldable phones. Samsung is also secretly dying to see Apple enter the space, not…
Our first look at the foldable iPhone is coming sooner than expected Read More »
A survey suggested a few days ago that Samsung might unveil the Galaxy S25 series on January 5th, which would make it the earliest launch for a Galaxy S model in Samsung’s history. The Galaxy S24’s Unpacked happened on January 17th this past year.That was just a survey. We pointed out at the time that…
Galaxy S25 Slim might be the star of Samsung’s rumored January event Read More »
Server manufacturers have long recognised the niche in public cloud computing that physical servers neatly fill. This has evolved over time to IT leaders and the industry recognising that some workloads will always be run on-premise; some may run both on the public cloud and on-premise; and some may be wholly cloud-based. Artificial intelligence (AI)…
The reason I’m so excited about genAI products like ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta AI, and Siri becoming personal assistants in the not-too-distant future is for one particular use case. I like genAI’s ability to answer all sorts of questions, even though I know it can hallucinate information. I’m also a fan of what OpenAI has achieved…
I want AI to browse the web for me, but definitely not Google Jarvis Read More »
Microsoft has taken issue with a newly formed cloud-focused lobbying body, known as the Open Cloud Coalition (OCC), describing the organisation is an “astroturf group” organised by Google. The OCC debuted on Tuesday 29 October, positioning itself as a group focused on making the public cloud a more transparent, open and competitive market for enterprise…
Apple has taken yet another step in busting down barriers between green and blue bubbles. As spotted by The Verge this week, reactions (called Tapbacks on iOS) sent by Android devices to iPhones now appear on top of the message as intended.As The Verge notes, an Android user reacting to a message sent from an…
Emoji reactions from Android users finally show up correctly on iPhones Read More »
Samsung may have been the first to launch an “AI phone” this year, the Galaxy S24 series, which came with Galaxy AI preloaded, but Samsung didn’t offer a vision similar to Apple’s Apple Intelligence at the time. The Galaxy S24 offered plenty of AI features elsewhere at launch, like summarization, translation, and image generation, but…
Galaxy S25’s next-gen Bixby might be able to understand context Read More »
