Keeping connected during COVID-19 The global COVID-19 pandemic has seen a marked shift in the way individuals and organisations are connecting to one another. While lockdowns and social restrictions have been in place, people have become more reliant than ever on internet and telecommunications networks. As demand for bandwidth continues to rise, many industries are …
The Morning After: Our readers reviewed Apple’s AirPods Pro As usual, this Saturday email includes highlights from Friday and the rest of the week, but one of my favorites came in late last night. To celebrate its socially-distanced QuakeCon event this weekend — and encourage donations to several charities — Bethesda is making the original …
Top 10 data centre trends for 2025 The top 10 trends expected for data centres in the year 2025 have recently been released by Huawei. From 2010 to 2019, data centres evolved from ICT equipment rooms to cloud technology. Rapid development of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, big data and 5G is …
The Morning After: COVID-19 delays Super Nintendo World theme park indefinitely Nintendo The week starts without any Microsoft news bombs — it was busy enough last week for the company. So, instead, my attention is was drawn to Super Nintendo World. Universal Studios’ theme park in Japan tentatively reopened to visitors on June 8th, but …
Google Maps may offer routes connecting bikes and cars to public transit OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images Many people still aren’t commuting to work in light of the pandemic, but Google Maps might give you more travel options when it is safe to return. As 9to5Google reports, app sleuth Jane Manchun Wong has discovered that …
Android TV may soon recognize your exact voice Panos Sakalakis, Unsplash Google said that Assistant’s Voice Match feature was coming to many more speakers and smart displays in the near future, but it now appears that this includes your television, too. The 9to5Google team has discovered code indicating that Voice Match is in the works …
Reddit has the chance to chart a new course. Will it? SOPA Images via Getty Images The Reddit community is once again demanding change. Fed up with what they see as the company’s inability to deal with racist hate on its platform, a group representing hundreds of moderators, who together oversee some of the site’s …
The BBC’s Beeb voice assistant is ready for testing on PC Carl Court via Getty Images Last year the BBC announced it was working on its own voice assistant, called “Beeb,” designed to help customers take advantage of voice assistant technology regardless of their accent. Existing assistants still have issues understanding accents, and nowhere is …
Adapting to higher fibre counts in the data centre The volume of digital traffic pouring into the data centre continues to climb; meanwhile, a new generation of applications driven by advancements like 5G, AI and machine-to-machine communications is driving latency requirements into the single-millisecond range. These and other trends are converging in the data centre’s …
ARM’s latest phone chip designs will be better-equipped for 5G and foldables MirageC via Getty Images Smartphones require faster hardware every year, but upcoming models equipped with 5G and multiple displays will likely call for an even bigger jump in processing power than normal. ARM’s new Cortex-A78 CPU could serve as a starting point for …