
Navigating Azure deployment: The art of cost optimisation
Azure provides multiple storage tiers, each with different pricing based on data access frequency and retention needs.
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Azure provides multiple storage tiers, each with different pricing based on data access frequency and retention needs.
The company has signed a power purchase agreement with integrated energy aggregator NOA to supply wind-powered renewable energy to Teraco’s data centres.
Nvidia’s strong growth forecast for the first quarter on Wednesday signalled that booming demand for its AI chips is intact.
Suspended National Lotteries Commission (NLC) legal boss Gugulethu Yako has failed to appeal a high court ruling that she must face disciplinary action. Johannesburg Acting High Court Judge Johan Moorcroft described Yako’s bid to set aside the ruling of her disciplinary hearing as a “delay tactic”. He dismissed Yako’s application to appeal and ordered that […]
Utility-scale power stations will still play major part in South Africa’s energy mix for several years. However, the capability to install solar generation much closer to electricity users will.
Because MFPs are complex embedded systems, they represent a risk to network and enterprise systems if they are not adequately protected.
Synechococcus elongatusis soaks up carbon dioxide for its photosynthesis and stores more than other strains
Chonkus may sound like a champion Sumo wrestler but it is the nickname for a superpower strain of microbe that absorbs lots of CO2 relative to its size and stores it in its large cells.
Chonkus’s real name is Synechococcus elongatus, and it is a large and heavy strain of blue-green alga...
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Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi didn’t mention the plan for new number plates in his SOPA speech.
Amazon has unveiled the first major overhaul of its Alexa voice assistant since its introduction more than a decade ago.
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Bumblebees declined by almost a quarter compared with the 2010-2023 average, according to conservation charity
Figures show 2024 was the worst year for bumblebees in the UK since records began.
Bumblebee numbers declined by almost a quarter compared with the 2010-2023 average, according to data from the Bumblebee Conservation Trust. The researchers said the drop was probably due to the cold and...
When the palaeontologists of the future search for clues to understand how we lived, what might they find? Two scientists exploring this question have suggested that ‘technofossils’ will be our lasting imprint on the Earth. To find out exactly what these are and what they could reveal about our lives, Madeleine Finlay hears from the Guardian’s environment editor, Damian Carrington, and...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: Starting in April, the Tokyo Metropolitan government, one of the country’s largest employers, is set to allow its employees to work only four days a week. It is also adding a new “childcare partial leave” policy, which will allow some employees to work two fewer hours per day. The goal is to help employees who are parents balance childcare and...
Apple’s latest $599 iPhone isn’t the best bang for your buck.
Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson has stepped down, with COO Marc Winterhoff taking over as interim CEO. The company also announced its fourth-quarter financial results and revealed plans to more than double vehicle production to 20,000 units in 2025. CNBC reports: Winterhoff told CNBC on Tuesday that it was Rawlinson’s decision to resign as of Friday, however he declined to elaborate on any additional...
Google has received FDA clearance for the Pixel Watch 3’s Loss of Pulse Detection feature, which will start rolling out to U.S. devices around the end of March. The Verge reports: The Loss of Pulse Detection feature is exactly what it sounds like: if the Pixel Watch 3 senses that you’ve lost your pulse through an event like a heart attack or an overdose, it’ll send you a prompt. If you don’t...
Inception, a Palo Alto-based AI company founded by Stanford professor Stefano Ermon, claims to have developed a novel diffusion-based large language model (DLM) that significantly outperforms traditional LLMs in speed and efficiency. “Inception’s model offers the capabilities of traditional LLMs, including code generation and question-answering, but with significantly faster performance and...
More than 50 people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, most within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms. Initial analysis suggests neither Ebola nor Marburg is the cause.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Following up on Microsoft’s announcement of a qubit based on completely new physics, Amazon is publishing a paper describing a very different take on quantum computing hardware. The system mixes two different types of qubit hardware to improve the stability of the quantum information they hold. The idea is that one type of qubit is...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella argues that AI’s success should be measured by its impact on economic growth rather than achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), emphasizing that true progress will come when AI finds a transformative application akin to email or Excel. The Register reports: “Us self-claiming some AGI milestone, that’s just nonsensical benchmark hacking,” the chief executive...