UK police facial recognition: What you need to know

UK police have been using live facial recognition (LFR) technology for the best part of a decade, with the Met being the first force to deploy it at Notting Hill Carnival in 2016. Since then, the use of the biometric surveillance and identification tool by the Met has ramped up considerably. While the initial … Leer más

BT sees strong fibre uptake in third quarter

Just as new chief executive Allison Kirkby was taking the reins, BT revealed a third quarter of strong customer demand for fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) products at its Openreach division but with headwinds still blowing back performance at its business division. In its trading update for the nine months to 31 December 2023, BT reported pro … Leer más

The EZVIZ Smart Home Devices To Look Out For In 2024

It’s a brand new year but it’s already possible to spot trends among the tech launches and trade show reveals of early 2024. Here are some themes you can expect to see as the year continues, using some of the most interesting gadgets from smart home brand EZVIZ as examples. A focus on sustainability Environmental … Leer más

Meta ramps up GPUs to get ready for general intelligence

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, has posted full year revenue of  $134.90bn, 16% more than in 2023. The Q4 2023 and full-year earnings show the company’s commitments to investing in artificial intelligence (AI) and datacentre capacity. It expects to use 10 times as much compute capacity each year to build out … Leer más

AI: House of Lords focuses on copyright and transparency

The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee has called on the government to support copyright holders. The committee’s first report of session 2023-24 on large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) urged the government not to “sit on its hands” while LLM developers exploit the work of rightsholders.  The report’s authors … Leer más

Defra legacy IT: 180 applications refreshed, over 1,500 remain

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has updated what it claims to be 180 critical legacy applications. In May 2023, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) warned that the department had no clear plan to replace or modernise legacy systems.  In the Tackling Defra’s ageing digital services PAC report, Defra told the … Leer más

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