With the UK’s communications regulator ending the consultative phase of its telecoms access review (TAR), the Independent Networks Cooperative Association (Inca) has urged Ofcom to ensure the review secures the future of infrastructure investment, fosters regulatory consistency, and promotes a fair and competitive landscape across all fixed telecoms markets, but is warning that designating market…

For a company as adept at design as Apple is, the company’s decision to completely revamp the Finder icon in macOS Tahoe 26 was bewildering. Whereas the icon historically featured a dark shade of blue on the left and a lighter shade on the right, Apple, for reasons that defy explanation, opted to reverse the…

The past few years have seen a steady increase in the number of companies moving towards implementing fully autonomous networks, yet many have been held back by legacy systems, siloed processes and fragmented data. Aiming to address the issue, Nokia has unveiled Autonomous Networks Fabric. Additionally, Nokia announced an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud to…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…