Skip to content Image: Ben Patterson/Foundry After skipping last year, Amazon is back with a big fall hardware event slated for next week, and we’re expecting plenty of new Echo smart speakers and displays that make the most of Alexa+, Amazon’s AI revamp of the Alexa voice assistant. Plenty of other hardware will also be
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Stop Using Apple’s Default Alarm
Olga Demina/Getty We use our phones for nearly everything, be it for checking up on our friends, ordering food, or glancing over the latest match score on the iPhone's Dynamic Island. Believe it or not, smartphones are still capable of performing trivial tasks like placing phone calls, delivering messages, and even waking you up. On the
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What UK CIOs get wrong about AI and cloud …
UK firms are chasing AI and cloud combinations without clarity, risking failure. Success needs clear use cases, skills, a data strategy, agile methods, and focus on business value By Andy Bevan Published: 26 Sep 2025 Over the past decade, UK organisations have made significant strides in modernising their technology estate. Often though, when it comes
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Okta CEO: AI security and identity security are one and
Looker_Studio - stock.adobe.com At Oktane 2025 in Las Vegas, Okta CEO Todd McKinnon describes AI security and identity security as inseparable as he tees up a series of agentic security innovations By Alex Scroxton, Security Editor Published: 26 Sep 2025 9:45 At its annual Oktane customer conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, identity and access management
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You no longer need a subscription to get Microsoft Word,
Image: StackCommerce TL;DR: Replace your Microsoft 365 subscription with a lifetime license for Microsoft Office 2024 Home and Business on sale for $169.97. Microsoft 365 is $99.99 per year, at minimum. A more affordable alternative is to switch to Microsoft Office 2024 Home and Business to get permanent access to many of the same apps, and a lifetime license is
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Vivaldi browser adds ‘The Tab Button’ to cut down on
Image: Mark Hachman / IDG Vivaldi’s browser version 7.6 includes what the company is calling The Tab Button, a way to search, organize, and manage your active tabs similar to your search history. Let’s face it: Over time, chances are you just keep adding tabs to your browser window. They grow, expand, and even duplicate.
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Google’s new AI app searches ‘anything,’ including your PC
Image: Google Google said Tuesday that it’s testing a new experimental search app for Windows that will search your PC as well as the web, applying Google Lens when needed. Google classified its new app as an “experiment,” relegating it to its Labs program for now. The app is simply called “Google app for Windows,”
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Kioxia-Nvidia project aims for SSD performance 33 times higher than
Semiconductor memory maker Kioxia is developing next-generation SSD technology designed for ultra-fast read speeds to support demanding AI workloads. The company announced it intends to commercialize an SSD capable of delivering up to 100 million random IOPS by 2027, a performance benchmark about 30 – 35x greater than current high-end...Read Entire Article...
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Best free antivirus 2025: Keep your PC safe without spending
Image: Shutterstock.com / solarseven A lot of attention gets spent on the best paid antivirus suites, but free antivirus solutions are worth talking about, too. Not only is a solid option built into Windows, but the same antivirus engines that power paid third-party software power the gratis versions, too. So if you see a free
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Tokyo’s iconic Akihabara Electric Town went ‘dark’ for the first
J-Cast noted that while the incident was brief, locals described it as unprecedented. Some said they had never seen Akihabara without power in 15 years, others in 20, and one veteran shopkeeper claimed it had been 30 years since the last outage. The district even weathered the 2011 earthquake and tsunami without losing power.Read Entire