It’s been five years since Google first offered a glimpse of Project Starline, a three-dimensional videoconferencing platform billed at the time as as a “magic window” that enables realistic and immersive calls. On Wednesday, Google announced that Google Beam — as the software element of the product is now called —Continue Reading
Microsoft has added a “pay-as-you-go” option for OneDrive storage, providing an additional way for Microsoft 365 commercial customers to buy extra cloud storage capacity for users. Previously, increasing storage capacity for OneDrive users meant purchasing capacity “packs” for individual accounts, available in 100GB, 500GB, and 1TB through 6TB sizes. WithContinue Reading
Picture a main contractor in Leeds coordinating a logistics warehouse where the structural grid leaves a 2,800 mm clear zone over a plant deck. The architect wants a flush external profile, the roofing contractor needs a single kerb rather than three linked domes, and the fire engineer needs a provenContinue Reading
openKylin is China’s homegrown, open source operating system which is developed by a consortium of companies, research institutes, and individual contributors. We have covered openKylin in the past but that was more than two years ago. There is a new major release in the form of openKylin 3.0 that bringsContinue Reading
Contrary to what you might expect of a newly launched Linux distribution, Gravity Linux has a long-term goal of not existing as a distro. The project is a Fedora Remix for Apple Silicon Macs that ships with KDE Plasma on Wayland as the default desktop. Everything in it is builtContinue Reading
Ubuntu’s new AI-powered dictation tool Myna isn’t officially ready, but you can give it an early test. Canonical has added the Myna orchestrator snap and a pair of speech-recognition AI models to the Snap Store recently, and made its new desktop Myna Settings tool available to test from a PPA.Continue Reading
Worldwide AI spending will increase 49.5% in 2026, to $2.7 trillion, and grow another 36.2% in 2027 as AI usage continues to expand, Gartner predicts in the latest quarterly update to its IT spending forecast. But there’s been no diversion of money from other areas of IT to feed AI,Continue Reading
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people — by somehow regulating the fast-expanding technology that they have been designing. “If managed poorly, I even believe AI could be a riskContinue Reading
“I don’t agree with Stanford making those choices about how we were represented,” said Billy Ramirez., “I don’t agree with Stanford making those choices about how we were represented,” said Billy Ramirez., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
CATL has unveiled TECTRANS II, a commercial vehicle battery platform built around standardized packs that can be combined in different numbers to set a vehicle’s energy capacity and payload. The largest configuration supports a driving range of up to 1,000 km, according to the company. It follows the first TECTRANSContinue Reading
Anode material developer Echion Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with South Korean battery equipment maker Energy Tech Solution (ETS) to develop battery technology based on Echion’s XNO niobium-based anode material. ETS is the first total battery solution provider in Echion’s partner network, and it will cover productionContinue Reading
As renewed chaos grips the oil market, China is reaping the benefits of electric vehicles. But Australia’s reliance on diesel leaves it exposed…Continue Reading
In what was a severely belated response to acts of violence by immigration enforcement officers, “Border Czar” (who seems far more interested in raiding inland cities than patrolling the border) Tom Homan assured the nation that all ICE officers would soon be wearing body cameras. The only holdup, he said,Continue Reading