Keumars Afifi-Sabet

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

Huawei announcing its LampSite X
Huawei debuts first 5.5G router ever – it's tiny and available from next year, but chances are that you'll never be able to buy it

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

Huawei LampSite X weighs just 1kg, but can offer speeds of up to 10Gbps by combining mmWave 5G with sub-6GHz wavelengths

AMD Radeon Pro W7900
AMD adds support for super-popular open source AI tool to its most powerful GPU – now imagine what would happen if an AMD APU could run Stable Diffusion out of the box

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

AMD is taking the fight to Nvidia's with open source.

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

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

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

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

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

Racks of servers inside a data center.
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

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

The Acer SpatialLabs View Pro 27
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

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

Buffalo SSD-PST1.0U3-BA
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

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

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

FADU CXL 2.0 switch concept
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

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

Dynabook GA83/XW
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

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

Qualcomm
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

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

The Bleu Jeur 8x8 Mini PC
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

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

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

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

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

Android
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

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

gameplay
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

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

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

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

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

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

OpenAI
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

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

compression
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

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

the face of somebody on a TV screen
“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

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

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

Amazon
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

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

Topmore 1TB microSD card
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

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

The Goldenfir cheap SSD
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

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

HP Envy Move when set up
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

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

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