Author: Doudou

“It’s not just an incremental step,” Jay Gambetta, the director of IBM Research, said during a press conference on Tuesday. “It’s a meaningful leap forward.” Within a decade, Gambetta expects, chips with nanostacking will be widely used in data centers, where their improved efficiency could help the facilities better manage their energy consumption. “Absolutely, it’s transformational,” says Dan Hutcheson, vice chair of TechInsights, a technology analysis company. “This puts another 10, 15 years on the roadmap.”  Compared with IBM’s previous state-of-the-art architecture, the company reports, chips built with this new approach can do as much as 50% more work in…

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Through the innovative feature, customers can browse a range of evolving card designs, from cultural and seasonal themes to major regional and global events and apply them instantly via ENBD X. Emirates NBD , a leading banking group in the Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye (MENAT) region, announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind Visa personalised card art experience in the UAE, becoming the first issuer in the country to offer this capability. Developed in partnership with Visa, a global leader in digital payments and a partner of FIFA, the new feature allows Emirates NBD Visa cardholders to customise their cards…

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What seemed more like a matter of when, rather than if is finally here. As expected, Apple announced a substantial price hike across a majority of its devices. The new prices are coming on the premise of higher memory prices and are effective immediately. This is a significant development because Apple has historically absorbed rising component price swings by leveraging its supply chain scale and purchasing power. Before we delve deeper, we should mention that the iPhone has not been affected (for now) and is still selling at its regular prices. The entire AirPods lineup, as well as the Studio…

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AMSTERDAM, June 25, 2026 — Nebius has unveiled Nebius AI Cloud 3.6, adding new developer experience, security and governance improvements, as well as enhanced storage capabilities for teams running AI in production on Nebius’s full-stack AI cloud platform. Version 3.6 of Nebius AI Cloud “Aether” introduces Nebius Echo, a first look at Nebius’s AI agent for controlling cloud infrastructure using natural language. Built directly into the Nebius AI Cloud web console, Echo can answer questions and execute core operations, with guardrails to prevent unintentional actions. Nebius Echo runs on open-source models hosted on Nebius Token Factory, Nebius’s production inference platform. Echo…

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Built on Lean”s Deposits solution, the capability enables Ziina users to securely connect their bank account once and make future wallet top-ups with a single tap – no re-entry of credentials, no redirect to a bank portal. Lean Technologies  and Ziina  have launched the UAE’s first One-Tap Pay by Bank experience under the Open Finance framework, marking a significant step in the maturation of account-to-account payments in the region. Built on Lean’s Deposits solution, the capability enables Ziina users to securely connect their bank account once and make future wallet top-ups with a single tap – no re-entry of credentials,…

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AI SceneEver Asked How Business Listings remain So Correct?Think of the last time you went online to search for a coffee shop. Perhaps you sought out a plumber, or you may have looked into the availability of a restaurant.Apps such as Google Maps, Yelp, and various other business locations provide you with what you need in mere seconds.The hours, phone number, reviews, directions, photos, and news about the business are available immediately.We don’t usually think about this.We type what we like and then get an answer and move on with our lives.But here’s the thing: keeping millions of business listings…

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In a separate post, we looked at the Samsung flagship series – now let’s have a peek at Google’s top Android phones (well, the non-folding ones, anyway). Google also has a small and a large flagship in its lineup. However, unlike the Galaxy line where the two models are quite different, the two Pixel Pros are as similar as possible. The Google Pixel 10 Pro XL has a 6.8” display and a 5,200mAh battery. Meanwhile, the smaller Pro has a 6.3” display and a 4,870mAh battery. Both are powered by the same Tensor G5 chipset. The differences in…

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“I don’t think an AI model should have that kind of power over people’s lives,” Pegram says. Photograph: Alice ZooIn response to WIRED’s public records requests, Avon and Somerset Police provided a huge trove of performance data for 13 risk models used between 2017 and 2024—including those used to predict missing people, antisocial behavior, and who was most likely to commit or fall victim to crime. WIRED passed this data, along with other contextual information about Avon and Somerset Police’s data science program, to the independent AI auditing firm Eticas for review. The verdict was damning.“Most of these models produce…

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As a Daybreak Cyber Partner, Proofpoint can use GPT-5.5 within Proofpoint-managed products, services, and security workflows to support customer-facing defensive use cases without giving customers direct access to OpenAI models. Proofpoint,  a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, announced that it has been selected to join the OpenAI  Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, a collaborative initiative designed to help trusted cybersecurity organizations integrate advanced AI capabilities into defensive security operations, products, and services on behalf of their customers. As cyber threats continue to evolve in scale and sophistication, security teams face growing pressure to investigate incidents faster, analyze larger volumes of data,…

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