The augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) market has shown a sharp rebound in the first quarter of the year, with 18.1% annual growth that is setting up mixed reality (MR) and extended reality (ER) to drive long-term expansion, according to research from IDC. The analyst’s Worldwide quarterly augmented and virtual reality headset tracker…
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The ability of generative AI models like ChatGPT and Gemini to generate images with impressive quality continues to amaze me, even though I’ve seen countless examples of how good these image generation models are. These models can also edit real photos by following simple text prompts. And yes, these models can be abused to create…
Imagen 4 is Google’s latest text-to-image model, and the results Read More »
At Pure Storage’s Accelerate 2025 event this week in Las Vegas, the company launched its Enterprise Data Cloud, which knits together a common operating system across its storage products, plus monitoring and management capabilities from its Fusion control plane and as-a-service procurement options. We caught up with CEO Charles Giancarlo to ask him about Pure’s foray…
Pure CEO Charlie Giancarlo on data management, all-flash and tariffs Read More »
US restaurant chain Red Lobster opted to standardise on Pure Storage flash storage arrays as it tried to fill a gap in disaster recovery (DR) provision that would have left it severely exposed in case of an unplanned outage at its primary datacentre. The move to fully on-premise mirrored datacentres also meant it dodged cloud…
Restaurant fills DR gap with all-flash Pure and dodges higher Read More »
This has been a busy week for OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Jony Ive. After all, the AI firm had to take down its page about io, Altman and Ive’s company that is currently developing a device that could mark the biggest product release in the industry since the iPhone in 2007.While some people assumed that…
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Emerging technology such as smart artificial intelligence (AI)-based assistants could save people two hours a day, a OnePoll survey for Lloyds Banking Group has reported. The survey of 1,000 UK adults in conjunction with Lloyds found that high earners are most interested in tech to help them manage their busy lives and do household chores.…
Richer people look forward to cutting-edge tech to help save Read More »
As activity ramps up for the £1.3bn project funded by the UK government, Welsh government, public sector and the private sector, the Swansea Bay City Deal has awarded full-fibre services operator and provider ITS a £3.5m contract to supply dark fibre to enhance public sector connectivity across Carmarthenshire. The Swansea Bay City Deal project is…
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According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple now plans to debut its AI-powered upgrade for Siri as part of iOS 26.4. Looking back at the previous two iOS generations, iOS 18.4 arrived on March 31, 2025, while iOS 17.4 rolled out on March 5, 2024. Therefore, we can safely assume iOS 26.4 will launch around March…
We might have to wait until March 2026 for Siri’s Read More »
AI superintelligence is inevitable. In fact, we’re already well on our way to reaching it. Superintelligence will theoretically lead to a much better world for everyone on the planet. It’ll eventually be available to everyone, and it’ll be cheap. We won’t worry about energy costs either. This is all part of the vision laid out…
ChatGPT Projects just got a huge upgrade Read More »
Apple Music is getting several new features in iOS 26. Alongside the revamped design with Apple’s new Liquid Glass UI, it seems the company has finally figured out how to create a native Apple Music Replay experience on its music platform.This was first noted by X user Dylan. If you open Apple Music Replay in…
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