Apple Sinks From First to Fifth Place in Chinese Smartphone Market

Analytics company Canalys has released its latest report on China’s smartphone market for the first quarter of 2024, and Apple has come off worst among the top five brands jostling for supremacy in Asia’s largest economy. Huawei returned to the top spot after 13 quarters with a 17% market share. The local vendor shipped 11.7 … Read more

Google Messages now shows the RCS provider in a different place

Last updated: April 17th, 2024 at 22:40 UTC+02:00 Many of you reading this article might be using Google Messages as the default messaging app but most of you might not know that the messaging platform can show you who is providing you Rich Communications Service (RCS). To check that information, click on the profile icon/picture, … Read more

A 30,000TB tower powered by a 70-year-old technology — Spectra Logic proves that data tape still has a place in an AI world with storage system that can handle thousands of LTO-9 tapes

Spectra Logic has introduced the Spectra Cube tape library, a cloud-optimized system for on-premise, hybrid cloud, and IaaS environments that is designed to be quickly deployed, dynamically scaled, and easily serviced without tools or downtime.  The Spectra Cube library is managed by the company’s recently announced LumOS library management software, which provides secure local and … Read more

Clock-watching could be killing your sleep – why clocks have no place in the bedroom

You wake up and check the clock – 2am, plenty of time left to fall back to sleep on your best mattress. Then you check again and this time it’s 3am, then 4am, and now you’re just lying there watching the clock tick closer to morning. While monitoring the time may seem like a smart … Read more

Google Gemini Pro moves to second place in chatbot performance table

Google’s Bard has made a significant leap in the world of chatbots, climbing to the second position on the Chatbot Arena leaderboard. This notable rise from eighth place is a testament to the integration of the advanced Gemini Pro model, which has been met with widespread user approval. The Chatbot Arena, which employs the ELO … Read more