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

Tim Berners-Lee
Quote of the day by inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee: "Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves" — highlighting the longevity of data as a resource

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One of the most esteemed scientists in the world reflects on how important data has become in the 21st century and the modern iteration of the internet

Mark Zuckerberg
Quote of the day by Mark Zuckerberg: 'Metaverse isn't a thing a company builds. It's the next chapter of the internet overall' — a prediction that hit wide of the mark

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The Meta CEO's pandemic-era predictions on the future of technology failed to materilaize

Elon Musk
Quote of the day by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk: "If you go back say, 300 years, the things we take for granted today, you'd be burned at stake for" — echoes of science fiction

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Elon Musk reflects on advances we've made in the 21st century and how, in times gone past, they would be considered "indistinguishable from magic"

Sundar Pichai
Quote of the day by Google CEO Sundar Pichai: AI is "more profound than electricity or fire" — a reminder of its role as a critical resource in the modern world

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

With AI usage growing tremendously in recent years, we reflect on one of the most intriguing framings of this technology

Mark Zuckerberg standing in front of a Facebook banner
Quote of the day by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg: 'Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough' — on the nature of disruption

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The Facebook co-founder has long run his company with a philosophy that promotes speed in innovation

Steve Jobs holding the iPod mini at Macworld
Quote of the day by Steve Jobs: "What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds" — how technology has augmented us all

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The Apple co-founder was a huge believer that the technology we're building can augment and extend what we're capable of

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talking at Milken Institute event
Quote of the day by Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang: "I appreciate that many of us grew up and enjoyed science fiction, but it's not helpful" — on quantifying the existential risks posed by AI

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With prominent scientists and technologists frequently warning of the risks of AI, Jensen Huang eases concerns by lamenting the influence of sci-fi

Jony Ive
Quote of the day by former Apple design chief Jony Ive: "When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works it sort of becomes magical" — wisdom on the power of simplicity

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The man responsible for designing some of the most elegant devices in the world believed in how amazing technology needn't be complex

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Sam Altman
Quote of the day by Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine having gone through figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT" — opening up on how reliant we are on chatbots

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The OpenAI CEO recently became a parent and has been relying on a chatbot for parenting tips, as many others are increasingly doing

Dario Amodei
Quote of the day by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: "Humanity is about to be handed almost unimaginable power, and it is deeply unclear whether [we] possess the maturity to wield it" — warnings on the looming threat of beyond-human AI

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

The Anthropic chief has mused on the implications of achieving superpowerful AI within the next few years — and doesn't think we're capable of collectively handling it

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Sundar Pichai
Quote of the day by Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai: "Quantum is where AI was five years ago" — insight on the next big tech craze

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AI is reshaping society in real time, and many expect quantum computing to one day do the same — but not for some time yet

Larry Ellison
Quote of the day by Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on" — a dire warning on the erosion of privacy

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

Legendary technologist Larry Ellison has outlined a vision for an increasingly aggressive surveillance state in the 21st century

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Apple co-founder Steve Jobs with a Macintosh computer.
Quote of the day by Steve Jobs: "Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think" — advice on upskilling for the future

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Steve Jobs was a huge believer in the power of education and learning skills like programming and development

AMD CEO Lisa Su
Quote of the day by AMD CEO Lisa Su: "The age of traditional computing is dead" — marking the start of the heterogeneous computing era

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A decade before GPUs took center stage in the AI buildout, Su projected a future in which conventional processors would no longer reign supreme

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Getty/Bloomberg / Contributor
Quote of the day by Google co-founder Larry Page: "When you aim for the stars you may come up short, but still reach the moon" — comments on the scale of ambition

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The legendary tech entrepreneur outlines a philosophy at the heart of Google's meteoric rise in the last few decades

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Nvidia GTC 2025 Jensen Huang keynote
Quote of the day by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: "Software is eating the world, but AI is going to eat software" — A prophetic statement predicting the impending death of software

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With SaaSmageddon underway, we remember a decade-old insight into the future of the software industry

Gary Shapiro CTA and CES
10 major tech events you should earmark in 2025

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From CES to AWS re:Invent, there are plenty of great opportunities to learn and network at some of the hottest events on the tech calendar in 2025

Microsoft
10 tech anniversaries you shouldn't miss in 2025

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From the birth of Microsoft to the very first search engine – these are the biggest tech anniversaries we'll be celebrating in 2025

Samsung Galaxy S23 screen
I downsized my phone after using a big phablet for years – it’s a breath of fresh air, but it just makes me want a new iPhone SE

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Small phones may have mostly faded away, but after using the Galaxy S23, I'd love to see more compact-ish smartphones.

HP ThinkJet
How HP's first ThinkJet printer brought office printing to the masses 40 years ago

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The HP ThinkJet brought compact inkjet printing to the masses and consigned the dot-matrix printer to history.

The gmail logo next to lines connecting to symbols and padlocks
People laughed when Google announced Gmail on April 1 2004 — but nobody's laughing now

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20 years old today - the story of how email service started out as a simple search tool for a Google employee's email server, and faced internal resistance before seeing the light of day.

Keanu Reeves is playing Neo in The Matrix holding out his hand as objects float in the air around it.
As 'The Matrix' turns 25, the chilling artificial intelligence (AI) projection at its core isn't as outlandish as it once seemed

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Scientists believe we're on the cusp of achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), 25 years after the Wachowskis presented their dystopian vision of the future.

IBM PC
Intel's first blockbuster chip was the 8088 – and it changed everything 45 years ago

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This chip that powered one of the most iconic computers in the world – the IBM PC

internet connectivity
Looking back at the chip that changed how we accessed the World Wide Web, 30 years on

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Internet speeds shot up from roughly 56kbps to 100Mbps thanks to the Amati Communications Overture ADSL Chip Set – which propelled DSL into the mainstream

Somebody holding a laptop with the Adobe logo showing on its display in front of icons of different software applications
30 years ago, a merger marked the beginning of the end for Aldus and the birth of the Adobe we know today

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While Adobe was prospering, Aldus was struggling, but the two companies came together to change the foundations of the desktop publishing industry

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