BT sees fibre and 5G advances in H1
Noting that high-quality connectivity has never been more important for its customers and that it remains “laser-focused” on modernising and simplifying the company, BT Group has released results for...
The most vulnerable place on the Internet
imaginima/Getty Images The Asia-Africa-Europe-1 Internet cable travels 15,500 miles along the seafloor, connecting Hong Kong to Marseille, France. As it snakes through the South China Sea and toward Europe, the...
Retail’s robotics reboot
It felt apt for retail warehouse robotics to be on prominent display at Manhattan Associates’ Exchange 2022 event in Berlin from 10 to 12 October. Packing, sorting and collaborating...
Intel’s oft-delayed “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon CPUs are finally coming in early 2023
Enlarge / Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs.Intel Intel's next-generation Xeon CPUs based on the new Sapphire Rapids architecture have been delayed more than once, but Intel is finally gearing up...
New Mac app wants to record everything you do—so you can “rewind” it later
Enlarge / Rewind reportedly lets you search your Mac's usage history for what you've seen, said, or heard.Rewind AI Yesterday, a company called Rewind AI announced a self-titled software product...
Microsoft claims summer heatwave led to no excess water use by its datacentres
Microsoft datacentres drank no more water than usual during the summer heatwave, the software giant has claimed, contrary to press reports that portrayed one of its massive European campuses...
Truespeed invests £22m into South-West full-fibre roll-out
Truespeed has announced a £22m investment across multiple South West locations, including South Gloucestershire, North Somerset and Bath, as it continues to accelerate the roll-out of its gigabit full-fibre broadband...
Tech to drive collaboration and fend off recession at UK medium firms
With inflation and higher taxation about to make dealing with the cost-of-living crisis even harder, tough times are certainly ahead for all UK businesses. But research from Virgin Media...
Can crypto recover from the crash of 2022?
As corrections go, the cryptocurrency crash of 2022 was particularly brutal.In November 2021, the market had surged to a peak valuation of almost $3tn. By June 2022, it had...
Meta’s AI-powered audio codec promises 10x compression over MP3
Enlarge / An illustrated depiction of data in an audio wave.Meta AI Last week, Meta announced an AI-powered audio compression method called "EnCodec" that can reportedly compress audio 10 times...