Three-quarters of business professionals want to embrace the metaverse
The rise and rise of hybrid working, and/or the third workspace, has meant a reimaging of the tools that firms depend on to do their business. Increasingly, these have...
How it stands to benefit the tech sector’s SMEs and contractors
In the lead-up to chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s first fiscal statement, or mini-budget, on Friday 23 September, I had three main requests for prime minister Liz Truss’s new government when...
Natural History Museum partners with AWS for biodiversity research push
The Natural History Museum has enlisted the help of public cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bolster its scientific research capabilities. The museum said the partnership will pave...
BT Group sees network gains through AI Accelerator
BT Group’s Digital unit has announced the deployment of a new internal machine learning operations (MLOps) platform to shorten the roll-out of new artificial intelligence (AI) deployments from six...
Tesla shows off underwhelming human robot prototype at AI Day 2022
Enlarge / The walking Optimus prototype demonstrated at the AI Day 2022 event.Tesla Today at Tesla's "AI Day" press event, Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled an early prototype of its...
High-severity Microsoft Exchange 0-day under attack threatens 220,000 servers
Microsoft late Thursday confirmed the existence of two critical vulnerabilities in its Exchange application that have already compromised multiple servers and pose a serious risk to an estimated 220,000 more...
Mystery hackers are “hyperjacking” targets for insidious spying
Marco Rosario Venturini Autieri/Getty Images For decades, virtualization software has offered a way to vastly multiply computers’ efficiency, hosting entire collections of computers as “virtual machines” on just one physical...
Deepfake Bruce Willis may be the next Hollywood star, and he’s OK with that
Enlarge / Deepfake Bruce Willis as he appeared in a 2021 commercial for Russian mobile company MegaFon.MegaFon Bruce Willis has sold the "digital twin" rights to his likeness for commercial...
UK government rolls out Project Gigabit to rural Teesdale
The UK government has announced the latest part of its £5bn Project Gigabit national broadband programme, with ultra-high-speed connectivity being made available to more than 4,000 rural homes and...
City of Las Vegas bets on NTT for largest private 5G network in US
Amid the maelstrom of hotels, entertainment, gambling and dining establishments, it is easy to forget that Las Vegas is one of the most connected cities in the world. Las...