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Jackpot baby! Artificial intelligence has proven incredibly fruitful for Nvidia and its shareholders over the past year, and could even help the chipmaker surpass Amazon in terms of total market capitalization. Closing at over $720 today, that’s an increase of more than 20% year over year and nearly 50% since the beginning of 2024. Nvidia […]

A hot potato: An organization of European cloud infrastructure providers has sued Microsoft for its alleged anti-competitive licensing schemes in the cloud computing industry. The group is now willing to solve the issue amicably – if the Redmond giant cooperates. Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) and Microsoft have entered talks to resolve a

Forward-looking: Recent Windows updates, experimental builds, and rumors indicate that Microsoft wants Copilot – its generative AI-based virtual assistant – to take an increasingly central role in the operating system. A new Insider beta tests new functionality that could automatically integrate Copilot with specific processes. The release notes for Windows Insider build 26052 include notable

The big picture: 5G technology promised to revolutionize mobile networking, but the world is still waiting for this future to become a reality. Meanwhile, major network operators are making significant progress in delivering additional building blocks for 5G networks. BT Group recently demonstrated 5G network slicing capabilities at its Adastral Park research lab. Network slicing

What just happened? Microsoft has announced that the Windows 11 24H2 update will be released later this year. While the exact launch date remains a mystery, it promises to be a major update, with a number of AI features and other quality of life improvements. The official confirmation comes just days after the “Windows 11

What just happened? Last weekend, NASA’s Juno spacecraft made its second flyby of Jupiter’s moon Io in about a month. The first pass on December 30, 2023, was a test run for JunoCam to find the optimal viewing geometries and camera settings. At 930 miles (1,500km), it was the closest any craft had been to

Microsoft PC Manager is designed to keep your PC running smooth through several maintenance and security features. Cleanup The Boost feature cleans your temporary files and improves your memory usage. Health Check allows you to clear system logs and recent files and you can also disable unwanted startup apps to save resources. Store Management has

What just happened? Apple has been migrating PCs away from iTunes for years in favor of separate music, video, and device management apps. The process is nearing completion as the Cupertino giant’s media apps receive a stable release for all Windows users. How much time iTunes has left remains unclear. All Windows 10 and Windows

In a nutshell: The most distant human-made object from Earth is on life support following a computer glitch late last year that risks ending the mission. In mid-November, the nearly 50-year-old space probe lost the ability to send back crucial telemetry data to engineers here on Earth. Without the valuable insights, flight control specialists have

It’s not surprising that Reid Hoffman, who co-authored a book with GPT-4, and served as an OpenAI director, believes that knowledge workers who don’t use AI will get left behind. Hoffman is an entrepreneur, corporate executive, and venture capitalist who served on the board during the founding of PayPal, later becoming its COO, and in