ZDNET’s key takeaways The Coway IconS is available for $578. This air purifier cleans large rooms of up to 1,298 square feet, has a washable pre-filter for easy maintenance, and looks stylish enough to blend in with your home decor. Unfortunately, the IconS is large and expensive. Air purifiers are commonly used to relieve symptoms of allergies and asthma, but they can also improve your everyday life even if you have a steady immune system….

Oracle, according to Westfall, is committed to investing $10 billion in 2025 to build 100 new data centers and expand 66 existing ones, aiming to double its capacity this year. Likewise, Google is investing $75 billion in 2025 for data center construction, focusing on AI and cloud infrastructure, with projects such as a $600 million facility in Mesa, Arizona, and a $2 billion data center in Fort Wayne and Indiana underway, Westfall said. Meta, too,…

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET One of the most important annual events in the field of artificial intelligence kicks off this week in Singapore: the International Conference on Learning Representations. As usual, chip giant Nvidia had a major presence at the conference, presenting over 70 research papers from its team. Also: Nvidia launches NeMo software tools to help enterprises build custom AI agents The papers cover topics ranging from generating music to creating 3D-realistic videos, robot…

ZDNET’s key takeaways The Soundpeats Pop Clip earbuds are avaialble on Amazon for $39. While these earbuds might not offer the best sound, they do have very good battery life and are comfortable enough to wear for very long durations. The bass in the Pop Clips isn’t well defined and isn’t capable of reaching the necessary depth for some genres. Earlier this year, I reviewed the Soundpeats Pearl Clip Pro earbuds and was converted to the form…

Synology / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET So, Synology dropped a bombshell on its users this week. After some back-and-forth with company officials, I can confidently say it’s not quite as bad as it seems. It’s not ideal, but it’s not the end of the world either. OK, let’s back up. Synology is a company that makes network-attached storage (NAS) systems. The company makes prosumer, small business, and enterprise-level gear. In my evaluation of their…

jgroup/Getty Images There’s been a ton of buzz about how AIs can help programming, but in the first year or two of generative AI, much of that was hype. Microsoft ran huge events celebrating how Copilot could help you code, but when I put it to the test in April 2024, it failed all four of my standardized tests. It completely struck out. Crashed and burned. Fell off the cliff. It performed the worst of…