Microsoft and Facebook are to build a 4,000 mile transatlantic cable to give themselves a leg-up on data transfers. It follows a similar move by Google. The cable will run from Bilbao on the northern coast of Spain to Virginia. Most such cables run via New York, but Facebook is one of several companies with […]
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Yesterday Microsoft released a sweet, innocent chatbot designed to speak like a “millennial.” Today that chatbot is a corrupt foul-mouthed racist that has to be censored. The experiment and the outcome are perhaps a perfect example of how any attempt to give human elements to machines and software are undermined by the fact that some […]
If you’re wondering why your computer is slow and where all your RAM is going, this eGuide is for you! The amount of memory or RAM available on personal computers has increased steadily throughout the past decades. Many factors have pushed an increase in memory usage, and laptops shipping with 8 GB RAM is now […]
Windows 10 will soon be downloading to potentially millions of PCs whether the users want it or not. It’s now classed as a recommended update, meaning an automatic download for many users. The download will happen for anyone who has an earlier version of Windows set to download updates automatically and has the “Give me […]
Microsoft is to build data centers at the bottom of the ocean. Among other benefits, it should greatly reducing power use. One of the biggest problems with any large collection of servers is the sheer amount of heat generated and in turn the power needed to cool the equipment and stop it overheating and failing. […]
We conclude our look back at 2015’s news and subsequent developments with November and December. Following a social media campaign with support from the likes of Mark Hamill, Disney arranged a private advance showing for a man with terminal lung cancer. Daniel Fleetwood, who had already outlived doctor predictions by several weeks, feared he would not survive […]