Articles by Keumars Afifi-Sabet, Freelance Contributor

Keumars Afifi-Sabet is a freelance contributor for Tech Radar and 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

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

And that’s how it all started: AI managed to design a robot that walks — from scratch, and in less than 60 seconds

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 8 October 23

This is the first algorithm that can design robots that actually work in the real world.

Intel wants its GPUs to take a bigger slice of the VDI market by eliminating licensing fees

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 7 October 23

Intel’s Flex GPUs are tailormade for the VMware Horizon suite of VDI tools and services.

Are hyper-specialized processing units the future of computing? Meet the company who wants to be the Nvidia of data queries

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 7 October 23

Neuroblade’s SPU for data analytics workloads can accelerate performance by up to 100 times.

The IonQ Forte enterprise quantum computer

Quantum computers are fast becoming cheaper and smaller — and they could be coming to a data center near you very soon

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 6 October 23

IonQ’s latest quantum computers can be deployed in enterprise and government data centers.

Meet Japan’s weirdest laptop — Panasonic’s extraordinary 1kg Let’s Note takes two SIMs, has a round touchpad, and holds on to a 35-year-old tech so that you can run four monitors

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 5 October 23

Panasonic’s latest Let’s Note also features a detachable battery pack with a 16-hour lifespan.

$2000 RTX 4090 external watercooled GPU dock has finally been tested — an 850W desktop video card that can run on almost any laptop with a Thunderbolt 3 port is what creatives should aspire to

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 5 October 23

The GPU box can link up to four displays at any one time and output at 8K resolution.

This YouTube video shows tiny Intel rival running x86 code in emulation — weeks after announcing 192-core monster CPU

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 4 October 23

Tachyum has reached a key milestone in its bid to unseat several industry heavyweights.

AI LLM provider backed by MLPerf cofounder bets barn on mature AMD Instinct MI GPU — but where are the MI300s?

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 3 October 23

Lamini wants enterprises to buy their own LLM superstation to run LLMs in virtual PCs or on-premise.

Microsoft will kill Exchange Web Services in 3 years — as everyone is strongly advised to migrate to Graph

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 1 October 23

From October 1 2026, users will need to migrate to Microsoft Graph, even though the company admits it has shortcomings.

The 'world's smallest' external GPU has been tested and it could be the best laptop upgrade yet — here’s why

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 1 October 23

With the sub-1kg GPD G1, you can plug a Radeon RX 7600M XT GPU into your enterprise notebook.

Your next laptop could run faster, last longer and pack more memory thanks to Samsung’s revolutionary new technology — but it won’t be cheap

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 30 September 23

Samsung’s LPDDR-based LPCAMM memory will offer 50% greater performance in the next generation of PCs and laptops.

A Windows 11 PC that’s smaller and lighter than the iPhone 15 Pro has been tested — just wait till someone hacks it into a Windows smartphone

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 30 September 23

The Zepan RY-P1 is a palm-sized mini PC that’s being crowdfunded for development from roughly $280.

A padlock against a black computer screen.

Researchers find a way to make photos and muted videos ‘speak’ – here’s what it could mean for your privacy

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 30 September 23

Innovative technology is powered by a sophisticated machine learning system.

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