Author: Trendici
Almost one in three people (31%) expect their job either to be unrecognisable or to disappear completely by the end of the decade, twice the share who held that view just 18 months ago. This is among the findings of a YouGov poll of 1,891 employees for Accenture. The survey, which is published in Accenture’s Generating impact report, found that over three-quarters (79%) of workers expect they will need to reskill and over half (55%) say they are likely to change occupations. According to Accenture, there is a risk that organisations are not yet providing enough clarity or support…
Back in May of last year, From Software, A24, and Bandai Namco announced its intentions for an Elden Ring movie which would be written and directed by Alex Garland. Garland is known for films like Ex Machina and most recently Civil War, but he is no stranger to the video game world having written Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and DmC: Devil May Cry for Ninja Theory.Today we learned some new details about the movie with the reveal of its cast and release date, which is March 3, 2028. Production officially begins on the film in the coming months. The…
Mercedes currently has no plans to introduce an estate version of the new C-Class, despite BMW confirming that it will offer a big-booted Touring version of the new i3. Every C-Class so far (and its W201-generation 190E predecessor of the 1980s) has been offered in estate form, but this new EV could be the first to buck the trend, simply because, said designer Robert Lesnik, “nobody is buying them”. Asked about the prospect of turning the new coupé-roofed C-Class into a wagon, Lesnik told Autocar: “It’s interesting: if I sit down with guys like you or other designers, they say…
Image: Generated with Google’s Nano Banana 2. A fresh round of layoffs is looming at Meta. Reuters reports that the company is preparing a first wave of layoffs on May 20 that could cut about 8,000 jobs. The layoffs are expected to be the first in a broader round of reductions planned for later this year. They also come alongside an internal reshuffle, with staff moves and team changes already underway as Meta reworks parts of the company. One layoff date, bigger changes behind it With the first round set to affect about 10% of Meta’s workforce, the shape of what…
Using voice control, it can be spoken to “like a friend”, said the firm, being capable of complex, multi-part conversations and retaining a short-term memory. Despite the heightened emphasis on digital functionality, the electric C-Class retains a suite of physical controls in line with a push to maximise analogue appeal. There is a new control panel on the centre console, for example, with buttons and a roller for volume control, while the steering wheel hosts rocker switches for the speed limiter and cruise control functions. While the EV is a similar size to the combustion-engined C-Class, at around 4.8 metres…
Smart has released the first images of the Concept #2, which will be unveiled on Wednesday, previewing a successor to the Fortwo city car. The production #2 was announced in September and will arrive later this year as a Europe-focused two-seater developed jointly by parent companies Geely and Mercedes-Benz. Sketches of the concept reveal a look that stays true to the 1998 original Smart car and even appears to build on the facelifted third generation model – which went out of production in 2024 – suggesting that Smart sees this as effectively a continuation of the model line. New elements are a more bulbous overall shape and larger wheel…
A recent Computer Weekly article posed a question that has hung over UK government technology for decades: is digital identity a dystopian nightmare or the route to modernised public services? The article invoked the Rashomon Effect – the idea that we’re all watching the same policy from different angles and nobody can agree on what’s actually happening. It was right. But there’s a way to stop arguing about the ending and start writing it with evidence. Trial digital identity somewhere first, applying the government’s mantra of “test and learn”. Not in a Whitehall sandbox. Not in a PowerPoint simulation.…
IT leaders are deploying an increasing number of containers to modernise applications, run commercial off-the-shelf software, and handle artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics workloads. While containerisation is associated with a cloud-native microservices architecture, it is also used to host traditional enterprise applications, such as when organisations want to reduce their VMware estate and select Kubernetes to support both cloud-native and traditional applications. As a consequence, more organisations are having to work out how best to handle persistent storage with Kubernetes (see Acid versus Base box). A Dimensional Research poll of 519 IT decision-makers at organisations with 500 or…
The interior is largely unchanged otherwise, which means most of it feels very high-quality and luxurious, if overly minimalist. There’s loads of space in the back, but the boot is slightly smaller than that of the iX3. The 800V upgrade is obviously very welcome. A DC charging peak of 350kW is very good, if not a class-leading figure, but WLTP efficiency is 3.0-3.3mpkWh, depending on the version, and that is not amazing. The Polestar 3 is hard to position, being about the same size as an iX or Porsche Cayenne Electric but functionally no more practical than an iX3 or…
Being a photographer on a weekly motoring magazine means going on more than your fair share of car launches. Often in Europe, sometimes beyond, but there’s no doubt that the air miles are well and truly racked up. There’s one thing I always do as soon as I touch down in a new, far-off land (normally in the snaking queue that leads to passport control), and it begins with loading up Facebook. Not for the social aspects of that app, though: I’m simply addicted to poking around the wretched hive of scum and villainy that’s more commonly known as Facebook…