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US healthcare providers AdventHealth and Tampa General Hospital (TGH) have signed deals with Verizon Business for neutral host or combination neutral host and private 5G networks. AdventHealth is a non-profit medical organisation headquartered in Altamonte Springs, Florida, that operates facilities in 10 states across the US, offering a range of services, including primary care, specialty…

Yasin Hasan/Shutterstock The Apple AirTag is an excellent way to track luggage or small items like a keychain, but it’s also designed to work best with Apple’s ecosystem. If you’re on Android, you need something that works with Google’s Find My Device platform (aka Google Find Hub) which significantly narrows down the playing field. Samsung…

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a steady stream of reports suggesting that Apple’s ultra-thin iPhone Air hasn’t exactly been flying off the shelves. Just last week, for example, a report emerged claiming that Apple was planning to scale back iPhone Air production by as much as 1 million units…

Bgblue/Getty Images If you’ve bought a new USB-C cable or charger and seen “USB-PD” on the charger’s or cable’s box, you may have wondered what exactly these letters stood for. The answer is USB Power Delivery, a fast-charging standard that lets compatible devices negotiate and draw much higher power levels than traditional USB connections. Instead…

Operational Delivery Profession (ODP), the public face of the civil service, must keep pace with advances in technology and artificial intelligence (AI), which has implications on skills, a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report has concluded. In the Smarter delivery of public services report, the PAC noted that while the ODP has created a skills framework,…

Wongsakorn 2468/Shutterstock After launching the Galaxy XR headset a few days ago, Samsung plans to launch one more high‑end mobile product this year: its first trifold foldable phone. The device appeared in rumors and leaks earlier this year, with some reports calling it the Galaxy G Fold or Galaxy G Fold 7. The latest report…

Ivan Marc/Shutterstock Following Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference this past June, the company indicated that iOS 26 would allow users to add a U.S. passport to their Apple Wallet. In doing so, users would be able to use their iPhone or Apple Watch as a Digital ID when traveling domestically. The underlying benefit is that the…

Government departments in Sweden are considering deploying “open network” encrypted messaging services as an alternative to proprietary collaboration tools. Some 40 of Sweden’s government agencies are collaborating on a project that could see them rolling out a secure messaging service across government departments. The initiative comes as European governments are accelerating the deployment of “sovereign”…

In this podcast, we talk to Axel Stoermann, Kioxia’s vice-president and chief technology officer for memory and solid-state disk (SSD) products in Europe, about energy efficiency in flash storage hard disk drives (HDDs). Stoermann outlines why HDDs still rule the roost for data where access requirements aren’t so pressing, but how flash storage is king for…

In regional Asian coups for the comms tech provider, Nokia has announced a partnership with ST Engineering and First One Systems to deploy Bangkok Expressway and Metro (BEM) railway communications network for enhanced safety and services . Meanwhile, operator Gulf Bridge International (GBI) has selected Nokia’s optical networking solution to build a new high-capacity terrestrial…