Thousands gathered at London’s Excel to hear Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella deliver a keynote presentation for the company’s AI Tour. Those who made it to the start, given the length of the queue to go through security and get a visitor’s badge, heard from Nadella on the artificial intelligence (AI) opportunity that is available in…

Tinhkhuong/Shutterstock We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When you need more screen real estate than what a standard Android smartphone provides, a tablet is an obvious alternative. While they’re not as portable as phones, Android tablets have their own importance. Due to their larger footprint, they give you a bigger screen for…

During Trump’s second term, the company’s CEO Tim Cook promised it would invest up to $600 billion in the U.S. economy in the next four years. He also signaled Apple would, in some capacity, move its production to the United States. While the dream of making the iPhone in the U.S. might never come true,…

Looking to transcend the physical constraint of every generation of connectivity to date – copper’s speed, fibre’s time to deploy and the scarcity of radio spectrum – Taara has revealed a “breakthrough approach” to commercial communications and connectivity infrastructure in the form of the “world’s first” wireless communication platform based on optical phased arrays. Designed…

New Africa/Shutterstock We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Vinyl’s comeback is often framed as a nostalgic blip, but that explanation collapses when you look at who is actually driving sales. According to Luminate’s 2025 year-end data, vinyl sales rose for the 19th consecutive year in 2025, with Taylor Swift leading the…

AS photo family/Shutterstock Smart TVs can spy on you by tracking what you watch, what you search, and a whole lot more. Some smart TV manufacturers have even been sued for these spying allegations. One of the most prominent ways a smart TV operating system tracks you is by using something called Automatic Content Recognition (ACR). ACR…

Looking to transform how multinational enterprises manage and scale international internet of things (IoT) deployments, wireless management platform firm Aeris has announced a partnership with Verizon Business. The Aeris IoT Accelerator (IoTA) Services is designed to enable multinational enterprises to localise US devices in weeks instead of months using Verizon Business’ IoT connectivity and ThingSpace…

ISC2, the non-profit membership association for cyber security professionals, has launched a code of conduct to spread more ethical, principled practices across the global cyber security trade. The ISC2 Professional Code of Conduct builds on the association’s existing Code of Ethics, and has been developed with input from ISC2 members from all over the world.…

In Season 12 of “Shark Tank,” which aired in 2020, two entrepreneurs appeared to promote what they believed was the future of electric vehicle (EV) charging. They were Josh Aviv and Chris Ellis, two of the co-founders of SparkCharge. The third co-founder, Richard Whitney, did not appear in the episode. The goal of SparkCharge is…

If you’ve owned a laptop in the past twenty years or so, chances are high that you’ve had one at some point. But it’s easy not to think about, especially since it doesn’t seem to do anything at first glance. The object in question, of course, is that little slot located on the side of…