Articles by Keumars Afifi-Sabet, Channel Editor (Technology), Live Science

Keumars Afifi-Sabet is the Technology Editor for Live Science. He has written for a variety of publications including ITPro, The Week Digital and ComputerActive. He has worked as a technology journalist for more than five years, having previously held the role of features editor with ITPro. In his previous role, he oversaw the commissioning and publishing of long form in areas including AI, cyber security, cloud computing and digital transformation.

An NCTJ-qualified journalist who specialises in technology, his path into journalism began at university. He immersed himself in student media while studying for a degree in biomedical sciences at Queen Mary, University of London. After graduating, Keumars wrote for a variety of local and national publications as a freelancer, including The Independent, The Observer, and Metro. While studying for his NCTJ certification, his work was commended in the category of ‘Top Scoop’ in the 2017 NCTJ awards. He’s also registered as a foundational chartered manager with the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), having qualified as a Level 3 Team leader with distinction in 2023.

Articles by: Keumars Afifi-Sabet

A CPU being manufactured by robotics on a workbench

Build-your-own-chip startup wants everyone to design and fab their own processor via a simple UI – but Nvidia, Intel et al needn’t worry for now

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 23 October 23

Zero ASIC is hoping to democratize chip design by removing key step that costs $100 million.

Japanese company promises to slash prices of AI computing in race to deliver the world’s cheapest GPU cloud

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 21 October 23

Third Wave wants to undercut the competition from hyperscalers with its Raytrek Cloud service.

Facebook is trialing robots that can autonomously move massive computer racks — let’s just hope they don’t forget to unplug before they move

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 20 October 23

Automating the movement of IT equipment can lead to efficiency gains and free up staff to do something better with their time.

Another 3D monitor that you can use without glasses just launched — and that’s excellent news for VR fans out there

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 20 October 23

The SpatialLabs View Pro 27 boasts a stereoscopic 3D display with HDR support and an ergonomic design.

Don’t mistake that 1TB SSD for a snack — smallest ever solid state drive that's barely bigger than a thumbnail debuts in Japan

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 19 October 23

Buffalo’s 1TB SSD measures just 14.6 x 28 x 8mm and weighs under 5g.

The scroll that's been unfurled using machine learning

AI has helped read a 2000-year-old scroll consumed by volcanic ash — and this could help rewrite what we know of antiquity

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 19 October 23

The scroll, from the ancient Roman city Herculaneum, contained Greek letters on several lines of the papyrus.

Even a laptop can run RAM externally thanks to a little-known tech called CXL — but it’s not for sale to mere mortals who only want 1TB of RAM

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 18 October 23

FADU’s CXL 2.0 switch concept augments next-generation data centers with more RAM for AI use cases.

The lightest AMD laptop ever just launched in Japan — and it seems to defy the laws of physics with a 24-hour battery life

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 17 October 23

The Dynabook GA83/XW weighs approximately 875g and starts from roughly $2,600.

Like Apple did with Intel, Qualcomm is now one step closer to an Arm-free ecosystem — thanks to its Google RISC-V alliance

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 17 October 23

Qualcomm and Google are building a Snapdragon Wearable platform to give manufacturers an alternative to ARM-based CPUs.

French company claims to have produced world’s smallest fanless PC based on Intel’s N100 — and it’s surprisingly cheap even in red

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 17 October 23

You can back the next-gen Bleu Jour mini PC for less than $250.

Remember T1000 from Terminator 2? Scientists are planning something similar but with a cuter name – SMARTLET

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 16 October 23

Microelectronics that can self-assemble into ‘living technology’? What could possibly go wrong?

World’s biggest PC vendor takes first step that could establish Android as Windows biggest rival ever — and eliminate Google ChromeOS at the same time

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet last updated 16 October 23

Updated Lenovo will soon begin to distribute devices powered by the Esper Foundation OS.

One step closer to the Matrix: AI defeats human champion in Street Fighter — with a revolutionary type of memory it uses to make itself even more powerful

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 15 October 23

The AI system, powered by phase-change memory and reinforcement learning, was trained for just two days.

The hull of a small boat built out of a supercapacitor

What if the humble house brick could store power? Researchers reveal new material and shed light on exciting world of structural capacitors

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 15 October 23

The best laptops and smartphones of tomorrow could be much lighter and store more energy.

To beat Nvidia, AMD bets on open source acquisition and a strategy reminiscent of Linux vs Microsoft era

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 14 October 23

AMD’s hopes to boost its AI-boosting software portfolio with the purchase of the $36.5m-rated Nod.ai.

Nvidia and AMD may face entirely new threat from $100 billion firm — will OpenAI end up buying Graphcore to build its own chips?

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 13 October 23

The once bullish startup is now struggling to stay afloat, with OpenAI keen to get in the chips business.

AI could help turbocharge your SSD’s effective storage by compressing data even further — but just don’t delete 7zip just yet

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 13 October 23

Researchers trained Chinchilla 70B to compress images and audio files far more effectively than conventional algorithms.

“We broke them all” — How researchers broke current image watermarking protections and what it means for a new era of truth-altering ‘reality’

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 12 October 23

Big tech may point to watermarking to separate real from AI-generated material, but scientists have already cracked it.

A cat looks for the Stray save file location on a laptop

Sneak attack from feline friend wipes US government server with cat-astrophic impact — human technician cat-egorically denies involvement

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 11 October 23

The US government refuses to confirm or deny whether a cat was involved in the four-hour outage

Adobe chose a revolutionary cloud storage system for its popular video editor — and it could come to a computer near you

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 11 October 23

The decentralized storage medium, provided by Storj, can reach speeds of up to 800Mbps.

Chinese reviewer tests world’s cheapest 1TB microSD card and finds it’s not that bad — ahead of the launch of a 2TB version

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 10 October 23

The $54 Topmore is a TF card that won’t blow you away, but can give you a much-needed low-cost space boost.

Real-life test of the world’s cheapest SSD was so bad, a hard drive would probably beat it — which is what the reviewer actually did and broke the poor thing in two

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 10 October 23

The $3 Goldenfir 2.5-inch SATA SSD feels and runs like a relic from the distant past

HP launched a 24-inch Windows 11 tablet that weighs 9 pounds and has a four-hour battery life — am I the only one who would love to have a laptop version of this monster?

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 9 October 23

The HP Envy Move brings the best of desktops, tablets, and laptops into one curious machine.

The Sphere at Las Vegas showing a pumkin

The inside of the world’s largest spherical screen is jaw-dropping — but wait till you see how the Las Vegas Sphere looks on the outside (now with Live Stream)

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet last updated 9 October 23

At 54,000 square meters, the Las Vegas Sphere is the largest display on the planet.

A tiny startup has helped Intel trounce AMD and Nvidia in critical AI tests — is it game over already?

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 8 October 23

This is the latest twist in the AI hardware arms race, with Numenta applying a novel approach to boosting CPU performance

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