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Market research company TrendForce has shared its prediction for DRAM manufacturing in the coming year, and it looks like servers may just tip the scales to become the most important sector. The firm reckons that server DRAM will account for 37.6% of the total bit output for 2023, placing it only just ahead of smartphones […]

AI chatbots are likely to face scrutiny in the long-discussed Online Safety Bill.  Lord Stephen Parkinson, a junior Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, was the one confirming the plans to include AI-generated content into the scope of the proposed legislation. This comes as both search engines and social media platforms […]

Microsoft's new ChatGPT-powered Bing search engine is evolving fast – it's now made the leap to Android and iOS smartphones with new mobile apps that also deliver voice search. The new apps, which are available today, bring Bing's new AI chat powers onto our phones for the first time. Assuming your account has access to the […]

Google has begun work on making Android more secure at the firmware level, targeting processors on systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) that target dedicated tasks such as mobile phone functionality, media playback and encoding, and Wi-Fi connectivity. Per BleepingComputer, the tech giant is starting to take notice of the fact that, “over the last decade”, firmware vulnerabilities on […]

AIs are taking over tech at the moment. They’re no longer just an assistant in our phones and smart speakers and, after making search engines talkative' and winning photography competitions, they’re going to be Spotify DJs now, too. Spotify – one of the world’s best music streaming services – has just unveiled its new OpenAI […]

Pixar's chief creative officer has admitted that the studio was wrong to presume that audiences would understand what Lightyear was about. Speaking to The Wrap, Pete Docter explained why Lightyear – one of two Pixar movies released in 2022; the other being Turning Red – didn't perform well at the box office. The reason? Viewers […]

Unknown hackers have reportedly managed to steal login information for data centers used by some of the world’s biggest tech and banking companies, researchers have claimed. Cybersecurity researchers from Resecurity recently reported how a threat actor breached GDS Holdings and ST Telemedia Global Data Centers – two of the largest third-party data center companies in […]

If you're already a Wordle addict then Quordle could be your next must-play game. This spin-off takes the familiar Wordle format and makes it harder by giving you four puzzles to solve simultaneously.  As you might imagine, it's hard – particularly today! So if you already find yourself searching for Wordle clues, you'll probably need […]

Samsung Galaxy S23 and S22 owners have been hit with a one-two punch as users have recently been experiencing defective hardware and software. Across social media platforms, and even on the company’s own Community forums, are posts showing some kind of bubble defect appearing on the bottom corners of the Galaxy S23 Ultra. The location […]

New research has uncovered some worrying findings regarding user privacy in Meta's Virtual Reality (VR) ecosystem, the Metaverse; more specifically, that you don't really have any. Graduate researcher Vivek Nair led a team at the University of California, Berkley, in the largest VR study of it kind at the Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI), […]