UK police have been using live facial recognition (LFR) technology for the best part of a decade, with the Met being the first force to deploy it at Notting Hill Carnival in 2016. Since then, the use of the biometric surveillance and identification tool by the Met has ramped up considerably. While the initial … Leer más
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros 10 functions 20L capacity Air frying basket No need to preheat Cons Accessories not dishwasher safe Large worktop footprint Needs substantial space around it Our Verdict If you have the space, Tefal’s Easy Fry air fryer oven offers a lot: faster grilling, baking and roasting than a conventional oven, … Leer más
Just as new chief executive Allison Kirkby was taking the reins, BT revealed a third quarter of strong customer demand for fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) products at its Openreach division but with headwinds still blowing back performance at its business division. In its trading update for the nine months to 31 December 2023, BT reported pro … Leer más
It’s a brand new year but it’s already possible to spot trends among the tech launches and trade show reveals of early 2024. Here are some themes you can expect to see as the year continues, using some of the most interesting gadgets from smart home brand EZVIZ as examples. A focus on sustainability Environmental … Leer más
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is still feeling the effects of many of its customers embarking on cloud cost optimisation strategies, but said the pace of new customers joining its ranks is accelerating. The public cloud giant has posted its fourth quarter and full-year results, which revealed the firm has seen its revenue increase on … Leer más
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, has posted full year revenue of $134.90bn, 16% more than in 2023. The Q4 2023 and full-year earnings show the company’s commitments to investing in artificial intelligence (AI) and datacentre capacity. It expects to use 10 times as much compute capacity each year to build out … Leer más
The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee has called on the government to support copyright holders. The committee’s first report of session 2023-24 on large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) urged the government not to “sit on its hands” while LLM developers exploit the work of rightsholders. The report’s authors … Leer más
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has updated what it claims to be 180 critical legacy applications. In May 2023, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) warned that the department had no clear plan to replace or modernise legacy systems. In the Tackling Defra’s ageing digital services PAC report, Defra told the … Leer más
Asymmetric power dynamics at work are fuelling Welsh workers’ negative experience of artificial intelligence (AI), says Trade Unions Congress (TUC), and make it difficult to challenge the imposition of new technologies in the workplace. In a review of how workers and trade unionists across the country are experiencing the technology, Wales TUC found that … Leer más
The US government has succeeded in disrupting a botnet created by known Chinese threat actor Volt Typhoon that had paved the way for cyber attacks on critical national infrastructure (CNI) organisations across America and other countries. A security alert published by the US Office of Public Affairs confirmed Volt Typhoon, a hacking group sponsored … Leer más
