Study says adoption of robots is growing due too labour shortage
Researchers have found that businesses adopting robots and other forms of automation are largely opting to do so due to labour shortages. A study by researchers from MIT and Boston University will appear in a forthcoming print edition of The Review of Economic Studies.
The study is authored by D...
Microsoft’s Azure Virtual Desktop now works without Active Directory
Microsoft has declared Azure Virtual Desktop generally available with the VMs connected to Azure AD rather than Active Directory. However, the initial release is a bit crippled.
Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), once known as Windows Virtual Desktop, is Microsoft’s first-party Virtual Desktop Infra...
Google Cloud introduces new storage products
The new offerings aim to provide better data protection and resiliency.
This week Google Cloud introduced two new storage products. It also announced an expansion of its Cloud Storage offering, to offer more resiliency and protection for customer data.
The new services are Filestore Enterpris...
Apple’s M1 MacBooks are fragile, a lawsuit alleges
MacBook owners are angry and claim in two separate lawsuits that Apple’s latest laptops, with the M1 chips, have defective screens that break easily and tend to glitch. The complaints were filed on Wednesday in a Federal District Court in San Jose, California.
The suits seek class certificatio...
ServiceNow unveils its latest Now platform release
The new release is called Rome and promises to help companies "thrive in the new world of hybrid work".
ServiceNow announced the Now Platform Rome release. This latest version of the Now Platform seeks to empower organizations to adapt to the hybrid work era, the company says. It will help manag...
Microsoft announces Office 2021 release and Office LTSC
The latest enterprise version of the Office suite is out now, the consumer version to follow next month.
This week Microsoft launched a new version of Office LTSC (Long Term Servicing Channel) a special edition of the Office productivity suite for enterprise customers. The company also announced...
Going cloud-native is going to be easy with Mirantis Flow
Cloud-native computing is the future of IT, especially with all the efforts to also bring it to the Edge. Organizations have been moving their applications to containers on Kubernetes-governed clouds for years now.
Most of the applications live in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and...
Salesforce Einstein Automate helps non-technical users achieve more
Salesforce rolled out three new products for Einstein Automate cloud offering designed to assist customers regardless of technical background. Einstein Automate was previewed in December, to enable users to create workflows for automating tasks like processing customer requests with minimal or no c...
Toshiba’s new drives are perfect for NAS and PC
Toshiba unveiled 18TB hard drives in the N300 NAS hard drive and X300 performance drive series. The drives are 9-disk helium-sealed units fitted with Toshiba's Flux Control – Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording (FC-MAMR) technology.
By using FC-MAMR, Toshiba managed to boost drive density by...
Amazon adds new “native” scanning capability to AWS Comprehend
The platform can now scan documents in native MS Word and Adobe PDF formats.
Amazon Web Services announced this week that they have added new features to their Amazon Comprehend service. Specifically, Comprehend now boasts the ability to extract custom details from documents in their native form...
Samsung announced it is mass-producing 90Hz OLED laptop panels
Samsung Display is delivering on its promise to increase OLED production. The company has started making laptop-sized 90Hz OLED panels en masse. They are slated to appear in upcoming 14-inch Asus laptops.
Asus Vice General Manager Y.C. Chen said in a statement that the demand for laptops is goin...
Microsoft’s next-gen Surface hardware is just around the corner
Apple just concluded its hardware event, where it announced several new products. However, the excitement doesn’t end with those announcements, as Microsoft will also have its Surface event next week. Microsoft will most likely introduce the new Surface Pro 8 and possibly also the Surface Laptop ...