2026-07-30

Three takeaways - why operational intelligence is now part of the capacity conversation

Why data center capacity depends on operational intelligence, not just power, land and build speed. [...]

2026-07-30

Why mainframes remain central to enterprise transformation

AI, hybrid cloud and cyber resilience are redefining, not replacing the modern mainframe. [...]

2026-07-30

Sony and Microsoft are destroying console and PC gaming — here’s why the experts think Valve can save the day with SteamOS

PC gamers are tired of Windows, PlayStation and Xbox — can Valve and SteamOS save the day? [...]

2026-07-30

Kesha, the internets tooth fairy, wants your teeth

These days, Pokémon cards are harder to come by than human teeth, the latter an outré collectible of choice for pop star Kesha. [...]

2026-07-30

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Is a Superhero Movie for Yearners

Peter Parker’s isolation lands especially hard in the age of AI, a loneliness crisis, and endless scrolling. [...]

2026-07-30

Highland Europe closes a €1.1bn fund to keep backing European scale-ups

Highland Europe has closed a €1.1 billion fund, its sixth, giving the growth-stage investor fresh capital to keep backing European technology companies as they scale. The firm announced Fund VI on 30 July, alongside the promotion of two investors to partner, and after a year in which it says it returned more than €1 billion […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-30

IBM just bought a quantum bet it doesn’t build. Days later, the payoff hit Nature.

Six days ago, IBM agreed to buy a quantum-computing lab that builds a kind of qubit IBM does not. This week, the lab showed the world why. HRL Laboratories published a result in Nature on Wednesday: a silicon quantum processor that, in effect, runs itself. The Malibu research house is jointly owned by Boeing and […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-30

A House Democrat wants Musk to answer for xAI’s polluting data centres

Frank Pallone is demanding emissions data and a site visit over the gas turbines powering xAI’s Colossus supercomputers, near mostly Black communities in Tennessee and Mississippi. The top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee is demanding that Elon Musk account for the pollution from xAI’s data centres, escalating a fight over the gas […]<br /> This story continues at Th [...]

2026-07-30

The AI race built faster chips. Now the chips are too fast for their own wires.

For three years, the AI race has been a race for faster chips. Eliyan just became a $1bn company by pointing out that the chips are now too fast for their own wires. The Santa Clara startup said it closed an oversubscribed $145m Series C at a $1bn valuation, making it a unicorn, the company […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]