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The paradox of AI: problem vs. opportunity in web innovation

AI has dominated headlines, product strategies, and investment for the past two years, but as businesses reflect heading into 2025, an uncomfortable question lingers: where is AI’s financial impact, really? Amidst the AI hype climate, businesses have been eager to invest in emerging technologies that promise the world. So eager, in fact, that the market is now saturated with hastily-developed products designed more to showcase adoption than to deliver measurable impact. While AI tools have existed for some time, the rise of generative AI — starting with the release of ChatGPT just over two years ago — has captured broader attention and rekindled a frenzy of innovation, akin to the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. Generative AI's accessibility is lowering barriers to entry, sparking both a rush to investment and concern across industries. When applied strategically, it’s clear that AI can revolutionize user experiences at places like websites, where the potential for customer ex...

Poco M7 Pro Review: Pro Value, Practical Performance

The Poco M7 Pro is a budget smartphone that offers a big display, a big battery, and a big relief to your pocket. It is equipped with a MediaTek Dimensity 7025 Ultra chipset, a 50-megapixel primary rear camera, a 6.67-inch AMOLED display with 120Hz refresh rate, and a 5,110mAh battery. All of this is available at a starting price of Rs. 14,999, but does that make it a... from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/xBI5eP3

This is the world's first Thunderbolt 5 LTO tape drive and I can't understand why it exists in the first place

MagStor's Thunderbolt 5 LTO drive builds on its 2020 Thunderbolt 3 model TB5 certainly adds speed but what's the real-world benefit for tape? There's no word on pricing, but it's unlikely to be cheap MagStor introduced the world’s first Thunderbolt 3 LTO tape drive back in 2020, blending traditional tape-based storage with modern connectivity, and now, the company has announced the world’s first Thunderbolt 5 LTO tape drive. The company describes its latest product as the next step in offering flexible, high-speed backup and archival solutions for professionals working with large volumes of data. Tape storage continues to be a standard for long-term archival needs due to its durability and capacity, and the Thunderbolt 5 LTO drive is designed for use in data-heavy environments such as media production and enterprise IT. By integrating Thunderbolt 5, MagStor hopes to offer a faster, more streamlined connection between tape hardware and modern computing systems....

Here's why you should reinstall Windows 11 every two months - no, I'm not kidding

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Look, I love Windows, I do, I really do. It's one of those things that I just can't live without at this point. I've tried MacOS, I've tried Linux, I've even dabbled in the world of Android and Chromebooks during my time, and yet, none of it compares to Windows; it just doesn't. There's a certain amount of familiarity, of indoctrination into that Microsoft cult that's rife in me. I grew up using Windows 98, and onwards, it was what I gamed on, what I studied on, what I made lifelong friends on—you name it. 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, and finally we're here at Windows 11 , at least until Microsoft inevitably tells us that its "final" operating system isn't its final operating system. The thing is though, it really is a bag of spanners at times, and I've kinda developed this habit of going thermonuclear on my own machine at quite regular intervals over my lifetime. Mostly by flattening and reinstalling Windows onto my PC every ...

World Backup Day 2025: All the news, updates and advice from our experts

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Welcome to our live coverage of World Backup Day, which starts early on Sunday, the 30th (midnight GMT, but there is already 1300 in Auckland, New Zealand). We will update this live blog a few times today, with our real-time coverage of the day starting at 0830 UK time with regular updates throughout Monday, March 31st. Making sure your data is safe and protected has never been so important as we continue our way in the wild world of digital transformation, but with so much to do these days, it can sometimes go forgotten. Don't worry though, we've rounded up advice from our experts to make sure your data is protected. horror tales from our team and elsewhere to remind you of what can happen exclusive deals from our backup partners to keep your data safe backup content from our extensive archive data backup stories around the world And much more! Save 20% Acronis Cyber Protect offers an integrated secure backup and rapid recovery solution for your business f...

'An engineering masterpiece' — reviewer raves about fastest large capacity SSD ever built, but it won't be cheap

Chinese company DapuStor builds high capacity ultra-fast enterprise SSDs Its 1-DWPD Roealsen6 R6101 7.68TB SSD seriously impressed in a new review An "engineering masterpiece," the SSD delivered record read speeds DapuStor is a Chinese start-up specializing in the development and manufacturing of enterprise-grade SSDs - and although you’ve possibly never heard of it, it makes very large - and very fast - storage products. At the start of 2025, TweakTown tested DapuStor’s J5060 61.44TB SSD against a number of enterprise SSDs, including Solidigm's same size beast, and came away impressed with the drive’s superior read performance, declaring it to be “the most efficient SSD of its capacity point currently in circulation”. A new 122.88TB version of that SSD has been spotted online, and we look forward to seeing how it compares. Before that, however, TweakTown managed to get its hands on another DapuStor product, the Roealsen6 R6101 7.68TB Enterprise SSD. It may n...

It's time to put this debate to bed: ITX gaming PCs are the ultimate form factor

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ITX has had a hell of a battle over the years. It's a form factor that naturally draws quite a bit of ire depending on which side of the great PC gaming form-factor debate you sit. For those that love it, ITX and SFF machines are the stuff of legends. Intricately complex builds, ungodly power, and a real David-vs-Goliath kinda gaming rig. For the full-tower fans, they're pointless, overly hot, and lack the full connectivity that you'd find in a more robust, balanced chassis and form factor. For me, I 100% live life in that first category. In fact, I wouldn't have a career in hardware journalism if it weren't for building a machine inside of Bitfenix's now legendary Prodigy ITX gaming chassis from way back when in 2013 and showing it off to PC Format's editor back in the day. It's not all been glamorous, of course. Motherboards have often been lacking, case design has been pretty terrible at times, and there are all manner of cooling and cabling prob...