As a longtime user of the original Sonos Arc, I approached the new Sonos Arc Ultra with excitement and skepticism. The original Arc has been a staple in my home entertainment setup. It delivers impressive Dolby Atmos sound and effortlessly integrates with the Sonos ecosystem. With the Arc Ultra promising…

A near-production model of a solar-powered car will be on display at CES 2025. Aptera Motors has announced that a “production intent” version of its eponymously named solar-powered vehicle will be displayed at the mammoth consumer electronics show, which will be held January 7-10 in Las Vegas. The Aptera offers…

Schools and organizations that deploy vast numbers of computers have a much-needed computing edge against cybersecurity risks with enterprise-grade Chromebooks. Consumer-grade Chromebooks come with what Google calls “defense in depth,” which provides multiple layers of protection. If attackers succeed in bypassing one layer, others remain in effect. The networked Chromebooks…

High-powered computer chip maker Nvidia on Monday unveiled a new AI model developed by its researchers that can generate or transform any mix of music, voices and sounds described with prompts using any combination of text and audio files. The new AI model called Fugatto — for Foundational Generative Audio…

Nvidia has faced scrutiny this month because some servers with a whopping 72 Blackwell processors were overheating. The issue arose because some initial OEM deployments were not properly water-cooled, which Lenovo aggressively identified and mitigated with its Neptune warm water-cooling solutions. As AI advances, we’ll need more highly dense, incredibly…

This week’s Microsoft Ignite 2024 event in Chicago served as a platform to showcase Microsoft’s vision and strategies aimed squarely at corporate and enterprise customers. The keynote highlighted transformative technological shifts and the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in driving these changes. This year’s theme revolved around Microsoft’s commitment to…

IBM’s beta release of its Environmental Intelligence (EI) platform offers application developers and data scientists curated environmental insights powered by AI with access to open-source geospatial and satellite data. This cloud-based platform provides a variety of geospatial, weather, and climate APIs, enabling users to create applications that address sustainability, climate…

Risk management in many organizations is mired in a framework that can’t keep pace with the challenges that most enterprise risk teams face. It needs to be modernized. That’s the verdict that senior analysts Cody Scott and Alla Valente handed down in a recent Forrester Research blog that’s critical of…

Microsoft Ignite is on this week. It’s the company’s massive event focused on IT professionals. While you can attend this event remotely, you should consider attending in person this year because I still see far more AI failures than successes. When AI is deployed successfully, it has a significant positive…

Search engines using artificial intelligence could harmfully disrupt the digital economy, warns a researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center. “[I]f AI search becomes our primary portal to the web, it threatens to disrupt an already precarious digital economy,” Benjamin Brooks wrote in a recent article in the MIT Technology Review.…