Intel's 800-series platform for Arrow Lake-S LGA-1851 CPUs revealed
Published in PC Hardware


Shown to partners

Intel is organising a series of events for distributors and board partners to present and discuss its forthcoming LGA-1851 platform. It has revealed a few things it is not telling the great unwashed yet.

Enterprises missing out on cost-effective, sustainable IT
Published in News


Gartner has been looking into its crystal balls

Soothsayers and tarot readers working for the market watcher Gartner have seen many enterprises overlook cost-effective opportunities to achieve their sustainable IT goals.

Meta faces EU scrutiny over ad model
Published in News
Tuesday, 02 July 2024 11:13

Meta faces EU scrutiny over ad model


Sniffs of anti-trust

 Meta is encountering obstacles while striving to comply with the European Union's stringent online competition law, the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

NASA claims that the ISS is just the hotel California
Published in News


Astronauts can check out anytime they like; they can never leave

In a stunning bit of spin, the PR department at NASA insists that astronauts who flew to the international space station in one of its craft are not trapped there.

Samsung’s foldable phones leaked
Published in Mobiles
Monday, 01 July 2024 11:47

Samsung’s foldable phones leaked


Two weeks away from launch

With less than two weeks until Samsung's July 10 Unpacked event, leaked images of two new foldable devices—the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6—have surfaced.

Fujifilm discovers X100V camera cash cow
Published in News


After mainly getting out of that business  

For years, Japan's Fujifilm shifted away from its legacy camera business, focusing on healthcare, but it is now finding that its retro-themed X100 digital cameras are a cash cow.

Microsoft tracked sex toy shoppers in real time
Published in News


Vole knows what you did last summer

The software king of the world, Microsoft, is in trouble after it stands accused of stalking a user who bought a sex toy.

AI is better than undergraduates at exams
Published in AI


Not so good when it needed abstract reasoning

A top boffin at the University of Reading Peter Scarfe has discovered that AI is passes exams much better than most undergraduates.

Japan hits broadband record
Published in Network
Monday, 01 July 2024 11:28

Japan hits broadband record


402 terabits per second down fibre optic cables

Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT has achieved a staggering data transfer rate of  402 terabits per second (Tb/s)  over commercially available optical fibre cables.

AI's energy appetite might kill the power grid
Published in AI


But it might not be the AI at fault

AI might be a greedy energy guzzler, threatening our power grids, but it might be the way we use data centres that is at fault.