Meta’s founder Mark Zuckerberg has said the social media giant will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on building huge AI data centres in the US. The first multi-gigawatt data centre, called Prometheus, is expected to come online in 2026, Zuckerberg said. He said one of the sites would cover an area nearly the size…
Whether building a surround sound setup or simply investing in a quality home speaker, Sonos deals are essential to keeping costs low while securing excellent audio. It’s easy to get carried away syncing multiple speakers for a full surround sound experience, but such a luxury audio system is well within reach if you play your…
Beats headphone deals are far more commonplace these days. The previously premium cups have taken some serious price cuts over the years, which means cheap Beats headphones are often lining the shelves if you’re browsing at the right time. We often see these headphones taking heavier discounts during holiday sales but if you’re browsing outside…
Claude can now connect to apps like Notion, Canva, and Stripe The AI can understand and assist with tasks using your actual work data Claude’s secure access reduces the need to constantly explain context to the AI Anthropic has upgraded Claude with a major new set of tools that let the AI assistant integrate directly…
Chris Baraniuk Technology Reporter Chris Baraniuk Octopus makes heat pumps at its factory in Northern Ireland On the day I visit Octopus Energy’s heat pump factory in Craigavon, Northern Ireland, temperatures in London reached 29C. Some of the staff meeting me, who are usually based in the south of England, are beaming. It’s wonderful to…
A new AI voice-cloning tool from a British firm claims to be able to reproduce a range of UK accents more accurately than some of its US and Chinese rivals. Because much of the data traditionally used to train AI products with voices comes from North American or southern English speaking sources, many artificial voices…
Sony is sharing more details on its NFL coaching headset The Sony NFL Coach’s Headset will make its debut for the 2025 NFL season This one won’t be purchasable by consumers, but promises best-in-class ANC like the WH-1000XM6 Sony is the official technology partner of the NFL – the National Football League – and we…
Reddit has announced it is introducing age verification on its UK site from Monday to stop people aged under 18 from looking at “certain mature content”. The social media platform is bringing in the measures to comply with new rules under the UK’s Online Safety Act which require sites that show adult material to introduce…
Freepik launches unlimited AI video and image generation for Premium+ and Pro plans Model rollout will be gradual, but more are expected to be supported soon It could cost Freepik in the short term, but it’ll result in long-term customers Freepik is rolling out unlimited AI generation across the platform for paying users, meaning they…
Researchers have cracked a fundamental optical challenge: how to control both angle and wavelength of light independently—a problem that’s limited imaging and display technologies for years. By harnessing the power of radiation directionality and engineering bilayer metagratings with unique symmetry properties, they’ve decoupled these two variables for the first time. Their precise nanofabrication techniques allow…
