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…

The C-suite is caught in an AI pressure cooker. On one side, boards and CEOs see the relentless headlines of AI-driven layoffs at major technology firms and ask a simple, pressing question: “Where are our savings?”. This creates immense pressure on CIOs to realise financial returns from AI, with the implicit assumption that the primary…

International Airlines Group (IAG) has announced a partnership to implement Starlink-enabled high-speed Wi-Fi connectivity for more than 500 aircraft across its fleet. IAG is one of the world’s largest airline groups, carrying more than 122 million customers to 260 destinations across 91 countries each year. Its leading airlines in the UK, Ireland and Spain include…

JarTee/Shutterstock A leak a few weeks ago claimed Google would add Gemini-powered conversations to Google Maps that would look and feel similar to chats in the Gemini app, with a big twist: These chats would be centered on navigation and nearby places of interest. That experience isn’t quite here the way it appeared in that…