News that ARM is embarking on developing its own datacentre processors for Meta, as reported in the Financial Times, is indicative of the chip designer’s move to capitalise on the tech industry’s appetite for affordable, energy-efficient artificial intelligence (AI). Hyperscalers and social media giants such as Meta use vast arrays of expensive graphics processing units…
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Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D are purportedly arriving on March 12Reviews are apparently going to be published the day beforeWe’re still waiting for a key detail here, and that’s the asking prices of these high-end X3D chipsAMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D processors are rumored to be hitting the shelves on March 12.VideoCardz claims that…
Microsoft might release a free tier Office version with ads in the future. According to Beebom (via The Verge), the company started testing this possibility for Windows PCs. At this moment, the Redmond firm isn’t publicly promoting this bundle, even though it acknowledged the test after the media started talking about the possibility of an…
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Microsoft announced that its Copilot’s Think Deeper and Voice features are now available for free, with unlimited access for all users. Powered by OpenAI’s o1 model, you can talk with Copilot using Voice and use Think Deeper’s reasoning models to help with more complex tasks.This announcement comes as OpenAI expands its Operator capabilities to more…
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After taking the world by storm with the debut of its R1 reasoning model in January, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is reportedly looking to maintain the momentum by rushing its new R2 model to market as quickly as possible, Reuters reports.DeepSeek at first planned to launch R2 in early May, but sources familiar with the…
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A viral video from China has sparked new discussions about the future of robotic combat, showing a dramatic battle with between a drone and a robot dog where both machines fire fireworks at each other. Considering some of the other videos we’ve seen recently out of China’s robotic race, this further highlights the rapid advancements…
The digital landscape is entering a critical turning point, shaped by two game-changing technologies: generative AI (GenAI) and the imminent arrival of quantum computing. These technologies hold vast promise for innovation, but they also magnify the risks to privacy, data security, and trust. Organisations that want to thrive sustainably in this new era must adapt…
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Nvidia’s RTX 5050 GPU has been spotted in gaming laptops alongside the RTX 5060Incoming HP Victus 15 notebooks will feature these Blackwell GPUsThe RTX 5050 is likely to be a laptop-only graphics card, as with the previous Lovelace generationAway from the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080, and the continued stock woes around these GPUs, we’ve…
Nvidia has supposedly run into performance issues with the chips for its RTX 5070 and 5060This has meant these GPUs have been theoretically delayed by a monthAs a result, initial stock levels of the RTX 5070 may be thin on the groundWe’re hearing more rumors about Nvidia’s RTX 5070 and 5060 GPUs being delayed and…
New reports suggest significant stock shortages for Nvidia’s RTX 5070 TiThere are claims the situation is even worse than the supply issues seen with the RTX 5080One UK retailer has put forward a worst-case scenario that it could take (up to) six weeks for restocking the RTX 5070 TiNvidia’s RTX 5000 series launch has become…
