The need to find efficiencies, drive staff productivity and boost the in-store customer experience – not to mention ongoing efforts to try new things in the name of sustainability – are driving the adoption of electronic shelf labels (ESL) in UK retail.In March, Company Shop, a redistributor and retailer of surplus products from the retail…

A few months after Samsung introduced an anti-reflective glass display to the Galaxy S24 Ultra, a well-known leaker claimed Apple was working on something similar. The iPhone 16 would not get an anti-reflective coating, but Apple would bring the display feature to the iPhone 17 Pro models.The spring 2024 report said Apple had spent billions…

Ahead of DeepSeek’s R2 release, Alibaba announced its new Qwen3 AI model. The Chinese giant wants to improve its artificial intelligence capabilities and efficiency compared to the DeepSeek model.According to Nikkei Asia, the e-commerce company reduced computing power while still being able to train 36 trillion tokens, double the amount used for its previous Qwen2.5…

Microsoft is preparing to increase its European datacentre capacity by 40% over the next two years and will appoint a board of directors to oversee its continental server farm operations. The plans are part of a five-point set of “digital commitments” from Microsoft, designed to “uphold Europe’s digital resilience” and protect the privacy of data…

As the company boosts its investment in infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI), Meta’s latest earnings call has painted a bleak picture for software developers.  The social media giant posted first-quarter 2025 revenue of $42.3bn, a 16% increase from the same quarter in 2024. Cost of revenue increased 14%, driven primarily by higher infrastructure costs and…

It seems like an eon ago, but it has only been a few weeks since top US defence officials used the Signal messaging platform to communicate about an upcoming US military operation and mistakenly added a journalist to the group chat. And news subsequently came to light that the US secretary of defence may have…

Following a report that “at least” three iPhone 17 models will feature 12GB of RAM, Weibo leaker Digital Chat Station now says all new models will get this memory increase. According to the leaker, Apple will equip the upcoming iPhone devices with 12GB of RAM to improve Apple Intelligence features.At first, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believed…

DuckDuckGO is one of the best browsers for people who want to take advantage of AI while still maintaining their privacy. Last year, the company introduced an AI chat feature that made ChatGPT queries private. Then, in March, the browser expanded the AI capabilities of its software to bring users the ability to get AI-assisted…

Although the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) backlash may have been mounting in recent years, particularly in the US, it has reached a peak since President Donald Trump took power earlier this year. Within the first few days of assuming office, the president signed a raft of Executive Orders eradicating DEI, equal opportunity and affirmative…

Following the previous update that improved support for Apple Intelligence features on Windows virtual machines and added enhanced Writing Tools capabilities for Windows apps, Parallels Desktop version 20.3 has been released with a few new upgrades.This update offers further enhancements to x86_64 virtual machines on Apple Silicon Macs, including full compatibility with the latest M4…