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Naomi Timperley, co-founder of Tech North Advocates, has become the 14th person to be named Computer Weekly’s most influential woman in UK technology. The list was created in 2012 to make the amazing women in the UK’s technology sector more visible and accessible, originally showcasing only 25 women before growing to include 50 women in…

Mr.Mikla/Shutterstock We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Valve’s Steam Deck can do a lot of neat things, from playing the games you own on Steam to even accessing non-Steam games through various tools. It also can serve as a functional desktop PC through Desktop Mode, allowing for the use of a…

Smith Collection/gado/Getty Images Back in 2024, T-Mobile and Starlink received official approval to expand their satellite phone coverage. This led to the arrival of T-Satellite, which now allows even more apps to work off the grid. And while you’ll need to have service with T-Mobile specifically to take advantage of all of the benefits of…

José Adorno/BGR Chinese EV maker Xpeng continues to expand on its EVs and flying vehicle technologies, but it also unveiled the new generation of its IRON humanoid robots at its AI Day in Guangzhou, China. Xpeng unveiled the eighth generation of its robot initiative (and the third with a humanoid design), and it now plans…

IT leaders need to weigh up the drive to adopt new, exciting innovation with the technical debt and mission-critical legacy applications their business has accumulated. Many legacy systems continue to deliver business value, and as Jeremiah Stone, chief technology officer at SnapLogic, noted during a conversation with Computer Weekly at the company’s Integreat event in…

Koshiro K/Shutterstock In mid-August, a mysterious Nano Banana AI image generator went viral, not because of its catchy name, but because of the AI-generated images testers kept posting online. Some believed Nano Banana, then in testing on LM Arena, was an unreleased Google model the company would soon unveil. By late August, Google unveiled Nano…

As the drive for the use of open telecoms technology in the UK gains further pace, deep tech innovation organisation Digital Catapult believes it has added further momentum to the Open RAN innovation by signing five international suppliers to its advanced connectivity programme, offering access to what it said was the UK’s only open testing…

Whenever GM explains why it’s abandoning CarPlay, the explanation is nothing short of a convoluted mess. For instance, GM CEO Mary Barra and GM Chief Product Officer Sterling Anderson recently appeared on the Decoder podcast and explained, in part, their stance on CarPlay. At one point, Anderson went so far as to intimate that GM’s…

Audit, tax and advisory firm KPMG has equipped its US headquarters with a dedicated network powered by Verizon 5G. One of the big four accounting and professional services networks in the world, KPMG has core industry client teams that draw from more than 40,000 professionals in the US and 162,000 worldwide, spanning advisory, tax and…

The Broadband Forum has published a technical report outlining how to address the internet challenges people living in multi-dwelling units (MDUs) still face despite rapidly increased broadband access to premises over the past few years. The report defined fixed wireless access (FWA) as establishing a connection over a radio link for communications between a base station…