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CES 2024 – Day 2– Less Peaceful Progress

CES comes to life. After a quiet start on Tuesday, CES 2024 came back to life on Wednesday with a substantial increase in footfall, crowds and queues. This is an...

CES 2024 – Day 1: Peaceful progress

Footfall and chaos. CES 2024 is one of the most peaceful that I have seen in recent years (I didn’t come in 2021). There is space on the Monorail, almost...

Apple – Stocking filler.

Apple will find a way out. Apple has received an unwelcome Christmas present as it faces a ban on importing Apple Watch products in The USA as a result of...

The Metaverse – A year to forget

Down but not out. A rotten year for The Metaverse has one more gift to give which is the cancellation of the Pico 5 headset which is one of the...

Autonomous driving – Nadir of fortunes

Autonomous driving plumbs new depths Tesla’s recall takes autonomous driving to a new level of doubt and depression, but it is precisely at the point at which everyone is about...

Tech Newsround – Day of nonsense

Google vs Epic – Roll of the dice Google’s loss to Epic when Apple won for pretty much the same issue makes very little sense and is a demonstration of...

Artificial Intelligence– Regulatory debate pt. IV

Europe fares better than I expected. Unless I missed something, the preliminary deal on how to regulate AI in the EU looks far more realistic and business-friendly than I had...

AI Ecosystem– Google Gemini

Google gets its act together. Google has stopped panicking (see here) and launched a new large language model (LLM) which it claims takes multimodality to a new level (true) and...

AI Ecosystem– AI Alliance

Meta is the senior partner. Meta is moving to cement its grip on the emerging AI ecosystem by partnering with a range of “have-not” AI companies to increase support of...

Tech Newsround – Quantum & Nvidia

IBM lays out its wares & Nvidia goes for Japan IBM & Quantum computing – Still no Pong. Quantum computing is lining up to be the replacement for silicon when...