The idea of datacentres that run only on flash storage has been discussed for at least 10 years. During that time, some pioneering IT teams have replaced conventional hard disk drives (HDDs) and other storage media such as tape with flash. But others have kept faith with spinning disks, or more often adopted a
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Hello fellow procrastinators. This is your last-minute warning that you have until the end of the day to log in to any inactive Google accounts before they start getting deleted on December 1. Google is going to wipe any accounts that have been “inactive” for two years, allowing the company to free up storage space,
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Enlarge / An artist’s interpretation of what ChatGPT might look like if embodied in the form of a robot toy blowing out a birthday candle. Aurich Lawson | Getty Images One year ago today, on November 30, 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT. It’s uncommon for a single product to create as much impact on the tech
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At a dinner recently with friends, Henry Kissinger was, at the invitation of his host as usual, holding forth on various world crises when he was asked what gave him reason for optimism. He replied that he had confidence in the wisdom of the American people, though at the current moment he worried about a
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If you’re looking for a new streaming device and are maybe a bit lost given all the choices out there, you’re not alone. Three of the biggest players in the space are Google, Roku, and Amazon, and that means a comparison between the Chromecast with Google TV 4K, Roku Streaming Stick 4K, and Amazon Fire
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What just happened? Great news for PC (and Xbox) Game Pass subscribers: Remnant 2, one of the best games to be released in 2023, has been added to the library of titles available on Microsoft’s service. It joins the previous game, Remnant: From the Ashes, which was previously available on Game Pass but has now
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Google has reached a historic agreement with the Canadian government to pay an annual amount of CAD $100 million to a fund to support local publishers amidst controversies between social media platforms and news publishers sharing revenue for impressions. The C-18 law, passed in June 2023, makes it mandatory for digital platforms to compensate news
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Microsoft’s president says the sacking of OpenAI boss Sam Altman was not because of AI safety worries. Source link
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Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, says the advertisers that have stopped spending on the platform due to his endorsement of an antisemitic post can “f——” themselves. “What it’s going to do is it’s going to kill the company, and the whole world will know the advertisers killed the company,” Musk said at the
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Government’s slow progress compensating subpostmasters who had their lives ruined by one of its organisations, the Post Office, has forced it to legislate to allow it to extend its own deadline. The government has introduced legislation to ensure subpostmasters who suffered as a result of the Post Office Horizon scandal can receive compensation beyond
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