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This week’s podcast guest is Will Hutton, political journalist, author and academic, who discusses the potential implications of the upcoming Autumn Budget on the British tech industry, why working with the EU is vital for achieving the growth ambitions championed by the government and how the UK can maintain its place on the global tech ...
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President Donald Trump threatens tariffs on Denmark and other European nations over Greenland annexation, citing national security concerns. Read more ›
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I began choosing grocery cashiers over self-checkout and was surprised by how much small human interactions helped combat loneliness. Read more ›
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A couple months ago, YouTuber Benn Jordan "found vulnerabilities in some of Flock's license plate reader cameras," reports 404 Media's Jason Koebler. "He reached out to me to tell me he had learned that some of Flock's Condor cameras were left live-streaming to the open internet." This led to a remarkable article where Koebler confirmed the breach by visiting a Flock surveillance camera mounted on a California traffic signal. ("On... Read more ›
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Increasing DDR5 prices are leading buyers to buy "ancient" desktop platforms going as far back as the DDR3 era. YouTuber discovers 4790K powered system with an RTX 2060 Super and $40 worth of 32GB DDR3 memory can run games modern AAA games at 60FPS. Read more ›
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Since the United States announced it would “run” Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration has openly floated similar interventions elsewhere in Latin America. But the country Donald Trump has fixated on most isn’t an adversary — it’s an ally. Greenland, a NATO member and longtime partner of the United States has repeatedly […] Read more ›
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A Chinese firm has tested the world’s first megawatt class airborne wind turbine platform designed to feed electricity directly into the grid. Read more ›
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Elon Musk wants OpenAI and Microsoft to pay him damages in the range of $79 billion to $134 billion over his claims that he was defrauded. Read more ›
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Intel's mainstream Arrow Lake lineup is due for a refresh later this year, and while we've already seen a lot about the desktop parts, the first mobile SKU has just appeared on PassMark with some impressive scores to boot. It beats every x86 laptop processor and gives most desktop SKUs a run for their money as well. Read more ›
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We now have some idea of what's at stake in the longstanding feud between Elon Musk and OpenAI. As first reported by Bloomberg, the latest filing, as part of a lawsuit that accuses the AI giant of abandoning its non-profit status, claims that Musk is owed anywhere between $79 billion and $134 billion in damages from the "wrongful gains" of OpenAI and Microsoft. Musk claimed in the filing that he's... Read more ›
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OpenAI launched its low-cost ChatGPT Go subscription in India last August, priced at INR399/month. Since then, ChatGPT Go has been rolled out to 170 countries and is now available in all markets where ChatGPT is available, including the US. In the US, ChatGPT Go costs $8/month, while ChatGPT Plus and Pro cost $20/month and $200/month, respectively. You can head this way to check the pricing and features of all ChatGPT... Read more ›
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In another attempt to reduce our attention spans to mush, TikTok has released the PineDrama app, which offers serialized drama series that are roughly a minute per episode. As first spotted by Business Insider, the app is designed exactly like TikTok, but instead of trendy dance videos, you can scroll through and watch "micro dramas." For those new to the category, micro dramas are bite-sized TV shows shot in vertical... Read more ›
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AMD will try to keep graphics card prices as low as possible for gamers during the DRAM shortage. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: The U.S. Department of Transportation brought an automated bus to D.C. this week to showcase its work on self-driving vehicles, taking officials from around the country on a ride between agency headquarters at Navy Yard and Union Station. One of those trips was interrupted Sunday when the bus got rear-ended. The bus, produced by the company Beep, was following its... Read more ›
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While Hollywood has repeatedly tried adapting stories from Japanese manga, vanishingly few of them have been as good as Edge of Tomorrow - Warner Bros.' 2014 live-action film based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka's sci-fi light novel All You Need Is Kill. Edge of Tomorrow wasn't a one-to-one translation of All You Need Is Kill's original story […] Read more ›
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If Google wants the Play Store to be the only way we get apps, it best fix its many problems first. Read more ›
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While playing Big Hops, a new 3D platformer starring an adorable frog, I kept feeling like I was breaking the game - and, like with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, breaking it is kind of the point. In Big Hops, you play as a frog named Hop. Early on, Hop is taken […] Read more ›
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Earlier this week, Capcom pulled back the (rotting) curtain on the latest instalment of its storied horror series, Resident Evil. And while we learned a bit more about Resident Evil Requiem's story and how it plays out, some fans were surprised that we didn't get a collector's edition (CE) reveal. Read more Read more ›
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Boomer Anne Golberg, 73, teaches other seniors how to master the art of using an iPhone. She says the technology isn't as scary as they might think. Read more ›
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The government has been urged by prominent Labour backbenchers to introduce legislation that would require banks to expand access to low-cost lending for SMEs. A private members bill introduced to the House of Commons by Labour MP and former minister Gareth Thomas laid out plans to further combat a weak economy with a mandate for ... Read more ›
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The government would “support” a ban of Elon Musk’s social media platform X should Ofcom determine it is necessary following a trend of AI sexual deepfake generation via its Grok tool. Grok, an AI chatbot accessible via social media platform X, has been used to manipulate images of real people to create sexually explicit materials, ... Read more ›
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Cambridge health tech firm Qureight has appointed former Riverlane executive Rebecca Simmons (pictured) as its new chief operating officer. Simmons has been tasked with scaling the AI CT imaging company’s global business operations. The new Qureight COO previously held the same role at Riverlane, a prominent player in quantum error correction technology. In her time ... Read more ›
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The Conservatives calls for the UK to follow Australia’s lead in banning social media for under-16s have received a boost as prominent Labour politician Andy Burnham backs the plan. The Greater Manchester mayor, commonly cited as a potential successor to Keir Starmer as leader of the Labour Party, said he has found himself agreeing with ... Read more ›
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UK-based sportswear group JD Sports has become one of the first major brands to allow purchases to be made directly from popular AI chatbots. The service, which will be initially only available in the US, will allow customers to search for and purchase its products from Copilot, Gemini and ChatGPT. JD Sports has partnered with ... Read more ›
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The UK government aims to expedite the passing and enforcement of legislation to combat sexualised deep fakes following the launch of a formal investigation into X’s Grok AI. Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said in the House of Commons that she will bring into force a new offence this week that makes it illegal to create ... Read more ›
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Silicon Valley has long set the pace for tech innovation. In deep tech however, US companies have a tendency to design and optimise their products for local consumers and systems that do not translate globally. Their vast domestic market and deep-pocketed investors let them sustain this approach for years, but this narrowing of focus creates ... Read more ›
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The UK saw a record number of tech incorporations in 2025, with the number of new firms founded soaring by almost 50% in the past five years. New analysis from consulting firm RSM UK has found there were 56,615 new tech incorporations last year, a 17% rise from the previous year and 47% greater than ... Read more ›
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The British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA) will rebrand to UK Private Capital, aiming to reflect in its new name the evolution of the country’s investment industry. The trade association which represents the UK’s private investment community was founded in 1983 and has since grown to more than 600 firms. It has decided ... Read more ›
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York-based tech firm Phoenix Software has secured a £75m contract with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to provide visibility and control over the department’s software spending. The three-year deal, called the Value Added Software Agreement (VOSA), is designed to “centralise and optimise the procurement of commercial off-the-shelf software across the MoD”. Phoenix Software said through ... Read more ›
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