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I am an AI expert and here's why quantum artificial intelligence is the next big thing in tech

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support Quantum artificial intelligence is the fusion of quantum computing and artificial intelligence. It is poised to redefine what’s computationally possible and it’s closer to reality than many think. The quantum technology market is rapidly expanding. Today, it's valued at around $35 billion, but forecasts estimate it could reach $1 trillion by 2030. That kind of explosive growth reflects not only the financial interest in quantum tech, but also its much anticipated capability. In fact, a recent global survey by SAS of 500 business leaders across industries reinforces these projections as it found that interest in Quantum AI is very high, with more than 60% of respondents indicating they are actively investing or exploring opportunities in the technology. Yet these business leaders also cited crucial barriers to adoption of Quantum AI. Among their top concerns were high cost (38%), lack of understanding or knowledge (35%), and uncertainty arou...

I am a cybersecurity expert and I predict UK retailers face a brutal summer of coordinated attacks—here's why

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support The recent spate of cyberattacks targeting major UK retailers has sent shockwaves through the industry, exposing critical vulnerabilities in the sector's IT infrastructure . In just two weeks, high-profile brands including Marks & Spencer, Co-op, and Harrods have fallen victim to sophisticated attacks that have disrupted operations and potentially compromised sensitive data. These incidents highlight a troubling pattern—threat actors are increasingly setting their sights on retail organizations, which represent lucrative targets due to their vast customer databases and the devastating operational impact of even brief outages. With millions in revenue lost and consumer trust at stake, these attacks serve as a stark warning that the retail sector must fundamentally rethink its approach to cybersecurity . Security Nightmare Unfolds Across British High Street The attack sequence began with Marks & Spencer falling victim to what appears t...

The iPhone 17 Air may have a small battery, but l don't think you'll need to worry

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support According to the latest iPhone 17 rumors, Apple is tipped to shake up its flagship smartphone lineup this year with new designs, new specs, and an entirely new model. Indeed, the much-rumored iPhone 17 Air has been speculated by many to take the place of the iPhone 17 Plus, swapping it for a thin-and-light version of the larger non-Pro Apple phone. However, as TechRadar readers will know, Apple has been beaten to the punch on this one – we recently covered the announcement of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge , which reworks parts of the Galaxy S25 Plus and Galaxy S25 Ultra into an impressively thin handset. You can ead to our hands-on Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge review for a full breakdown – in short, it’s wonderful, but doesn’t come without compromise. The spec sheet suggests that the battery was one of the big targets – the Galaxy S25 Edge comes with a 3,900mAh battery, down from the 4,900mAh battery found in the Galaxy S25 Plus. But as we've ...

I watched some of the viral ASMR videos made with AI and I feel more confused than soothed

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support Google’s Veo 3 Fast generates 720p AI videos twice as fast as standard Gemini Pro users can create three videos per day Flow Pro users pay just 20 credits per clip There's a strawberry made of glass that someone is cutting like it's made of jelly, then the same thing happens to several other berries and the Pokémon Charizard. A woman dips tongs into a platter of molten rock and takes a bite of the apparently delicious treat before spreading some on a waffle and taking a bite. These aren't a cough-syrup-induced hallucination; it's the latest trend in ASMR videos, created with Google's Veo 3 and other AI movie generators. You might have seen these and other bizarre videos on your TikTok algorithm. I’m not the biggest proponent of ASMR videos and their gentle whisperers, rhythmic tapping, and other soporific audio, but I understood the appeal. I'm not so sure the AI version is just as good. These aren’t your traditiona...

My hope for Micro Four Thirds is waning – OM System's latest travel camera is yet another disappointing upgrade

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support OM System's OM-5 II is a modest upgrade of the OM-5 Available in three colorways, including a limited edition Sand Beige Body only price is £1,099 (US / Australia pricing TBC) I'm a fan of OM System's Micro Four Thirds cameras. They're compact, travel-friendly, compatible with a huge range of superb lenses, deliver incredible image stabilization for easy handheld shooting, plus their computational photography modes are addictively fun. OM System cameras hit the mark on many fronts. But what they have also hit, it seems, is a ceiling. Case in point – the new OM System OM-5 II. It comes two and a half to three years after the OM-5 , but you wouldn't know it – there's so little to differentiate between the two cameras. That's no bad thing per se, we still rate the OM-5 as a top travel camera . But where Panasonic is adding meaningful improvements to its Micro Four Thirds cameras, especially for video capture in the...

Wimbledon 2025 is set to be the smartest Championships yet, and it might help me fall in love with tennis again

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support This year’s Wimbledon tennis championships is set to be the most interactive and exhaustive for sports fans thanks to a major AI upgrade. The iconic tournament, long a mainstay of the British summer, is introducing a range of AI-powered upgrades and services for fans through its Wimbledon.com website and app. This includes an all-new feature allowing fans to explore information about certain matches in almost real-time, and an upgraded tool looking to predict the possible winners of every match. Match Chat and more IBM has now been the technology partner for the All-England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC), tournament organizers for Wimbledon, for 36 years, with 2025 marking another significant milestone for the pair. Following in the footsteps of recent AI-powered innovations such as 2024’s Catch Me Up , which utilized Watsonx's generative AI to create player-based updates in the form of "cards" available on the Wimbledon.com website or...

I'm a payments expert – this is what happens when you use an agent to buy on your behalf

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support One of the biggest differences between being rich and poor is having people to do things for you. When a person moves from being poor to the middle class, they might get a cleaner or take their clothes to a dry cleaner; when they become rich, they might get a driver, a private chef – an entire entourage devoted to making their lives easier. There’s growing excitement about the rise of AI-powered agents that act on behalf of consumers - not just during product discovery, but right through to purchase. Search-like queries on ChatGPT might only represent 1% of those on Google, but 1% of the colossal global search market is a huge number of searches, with potentially millions in revenue. Originally conceived as digital concierges to simplify search, these agents are now making actual purchases, and they’re doing it without ever handing control back to the shopper. Large payments players are laying the groundwork for AI-based commerce. Visa recentl...

I haven't even worn the Garmin Venu X1 yet, but it's already telling me a lot about how the company is changing

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support Garmin seems as though it's in the midst of a major course correction, and 2025 is a pivotal year. As someone who's been reviewing fitness technology, including the best Garmin watches , for many years, there's certainly been an increase in dramatic shifts in direction for the company in the past few months. That's not to say 'change' means 'bad': the recently announced Garmin Venu X1 looks like a great watch, but it's a pivot from the way Garmin has been designing watches up until this point. At two inches, the Venu X1 features Garmin's biggest screen. The Venu series has always represented Garmin's foray into lifestyle watch territory, with AMOLED screens replacing the duller, battery-saving memory-in-pixel (MIP) ones used in many of Garmin's other series and offering communication features, such as the ability to take calls on-wrist and interface with smart devices like the best video doorbells ...

Devs are considering quitting en masse because of embarrassing legacy tech, survey finds

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support Outdated tech stacks are more than annoying; they're driving top developers out of the industry Developers tie their identity to tech stacks, and they’re quitting when they feel embarrassed by them Modern innovation can’t happen when devs are trapped in outdated frameworks and dead-end systems A growing number of developers are rethinking their careers due to outdated and inefficient technology stacks, new research has claimed. A survey by Storyblok revealed over half (58%) of senior developers at medium to large companies reveal are considering quitting their jobs because of "inadequate and ‘embarrassing’ legacy tech stacks." Among all participants, 86% said they feel embarrassed by their current tech stack, with nearly a quarter citing legacy systems as the primary reason. Legacy tech takes a toll on developer morale Excessive technical debt and reliance on outdated libraries and frameworks were also major contributors to...

ICYMI: the week's 7 biggest tech stories from Apple's beautiful Liquid Glass to the Xbox's surprise handheld launch

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support It's been a massive week for tech news, with Apple's WWDC taking place and a raft of big announcements in the gaming world. Missed it all? Never fear – because you can catch up on it by scrolling down for our handy recaps of the week's seven biggest tech news stories. And once you're all up to speed with that, be sure to also check out our picks for the 7 new movies and TV shows to watch this weekend . 7. Xreal told us more about Project Aura (Image credit: Xreal) We already knew Xreal’s Project Aura glasses would bring Android XR features to Xreal’s lineup, but we didn’t know too much about the hardware itself. Now we do. For a start, the device will apparently boast a 70-degree field of view – which is much larger than the FOV found on the 57-degree Xreal One Pro and which will give the Project Aura glasses a massive virtual screen. It’ll also be tethered to a compute puck which will run Android XR using a Snapdrago...

Could Apple’s new Workout Buddy get me running consistently again? Here’s why I’m so excited about it

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support The Apple Watch’s fitness features have been getting consistently more impressive in recent years, between new running metrics, the recent addition of Training Load, and integrations with third-party apps such as TrainingPeaks . And yet, despite these advanced tools at my fingertips and as someone who tests the best Apple Watches as part of my job, I’m still lacking in the running department. After a long day of work, as a man in his mid-thirties with a very active six-year-old, the last thing I feel I want to do is get my shorts and underlayer on and head out the door, and that’s even with some lovely running routes nearby. Tracking my workouts is great, but how can I outsource my motivation to my Apple Watch? As it happens, Apple's new AI Workout Buddy might be the answer. Workout Buddy could became my favorite new watchOS feature in years (Image credit: Lance Ulanoff / Future) I should stress that I have no such issues getting t...

Would you buy your child a ChatGPT‑powered Barbie? I’m queasy at the prospect of a real‑life Small Soldiers scenario

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support Mattel is partnering with OpenAI to build AI‑powered toys, which might lead to some amazing fun, but also sounds like the premise for a million stories of things going wrong. To be clear, I don't think AI is going to end the world. I've used ChatGPT in a million ways, including as an aide for activities as a parent. AI has helped me brainstorm bedtime stories and design coloring books, among other things. But that's me using it, not opening it up to direct interaction with children. The official announcement is very optimistic, of course. Mattel says it’s bringing the “magic of AI” to playtime, promising age‑appropriate, safe, and creative experiences for kids. OpenAI says it’s thrilled to help power these toys with ChatGPT, and both companies seem intent on positioning this as a step forward for playtime and childhood development. But I can’t help thinking of how ChatGPT conversations can spiral into bizarre conspiracy theories, exc...

Major data breach at popular hookup app leaks data on millions of users - see if you're safe

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support Cybernews found an unescured MongoDB instance belonging to Headero The database contained millions of records and PII It has since been locked down, but users should still be on their guard Security researchers from Cybernews have reported uncovering a massive MongoDB instance belonging to a dating and hookup app called Headero. The database contained more than 350,000 user records, more than three million chat records, and more than a million chat room records. Among the exposed data are names, email addresses, social login IDs, JWT tokens, profile pictures, device tokens, sexual preferences, STD status, and - extra worryingly - exact GPS locations. However, Headero's developer, a company called TheThotExperiment, says Cybernews' information is not precise: "Our investigation—under way in cooperation with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada—has already established several verified facts," the company told...

Your AI is only as good as the knowledge base it ingested

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support Will your AI confidently deliver the right answers or stumble through outdated knowledge while your customers grow increasingly frustrated? Artificial intelligence (AI) may be changing how businesses interact with customers but there's a critical element that often gets overlooked: the knowledge that powers it. The quality of AI responses directly depends on the information it can access – a relationship that becomes increasingly important as more organizations deploy AI for customer service. AI is really good at accessing unstructured and structured data and collating it into a well-packaged natural language response. Unlike when you do a Google search, and it comes back with multiple responses (where the level of those answers is largely driven by advertising or other sponsorship) AI looks at the body of knowledge that supports the question being asked. So, when talking about knowledge-driven AI for customer experience , it's the idea ...