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Cambridge spinout PolyAI has raised $86m (£64.3m) in a Series D funding round that has included backing from the British Business Bank. The UK-founded firm has developed advanced AI voice agents that can mimic human conversation to handle complex customer service calls. The firm’s tech has been deployed by major brands including Volkswagen, FedEx and ...
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While using a smart lock has a lot of positives, one of the negatives is having to deal with a battery that has unexpectedly gone dead. Lockin is introducing a smart lock that bypasses that problem: the V7 Max, which is powered by wireless optical charging. According to the company, the lock uses "eye-safe optical […] Read more ›
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If you're a Windows 11 hater, sit back and enjoy your biases being validated in the most satisfying way possible. A new speed test shows Microsoft's latest OS performing terribly against the five previous Windows versions, placing last in most tests across the board. Read more ›
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Patria, Finland's biggest defense contractor, is scaling up production as it deals with an order backlog of over 1,000 vehicles from NATO allies. Read more ›
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Narwal brought new cleaning robots with it to CES this year, including the Narwal Flow 2, it’s latest flagship robo mop-vac, and the Narwal U50, an automatic mattress vac designed for “deep mite removal.” While I’d hoped the latter vac was an automatic crawler that could navigate your mattress top, the U50 is a handheld device. Still, no one likes to think about what filters down into their mattress as... Read more ›
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America's electric car subsidies expired at the end of September, notes Bloomberg. Yet in those last three months, "while fully electric cars and trucks made up 10% of all auto sales in the US... another 15% of transactions were for hybrid vehicles." The EV market is slowing in the U.S., but analysts expect hybrid sales to continue accelerating. CarGurus Inc., a digital listings platform that covers most of the US... Read more ›
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The administration has made it clear that Nicolás Maduro's capture was tied to Venezuela's vast oil reserves. Much less certain is how US companies will actually access them—or if they even want to. Read more ›
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk have a complicated relationship. They've had some very public spats, but the two powerful men remain political allies. Read more ›
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Belkin today announced a range of new charging and connectivity accessories at CES 2026, expanding its portfolio of products aimed at Apple device users. UltraCharge Pro Power Bank 10K with Magnetic Ring The lineup includes new Qi2 and Qi2.2 wireless chargers, magnetic power banks, a high-capacity laptop battery, and USB-C productivity accessories, with an emphasis on higher charging speeds, modular designs, and broader device compatibility. Most of the products are... Read more ›
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20 years ago today, the CES in Las Vegas was buzzing with talk of Blu-ray technology, players, and media, and the format isn't dead yet. Read more ›
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The ROG Xbox Ally X is the newest handheld gaming device from Asus, and the third of its kind from the company in as many years. The Xbox Ally X, along with the cheaper Xbox Ally, is made in collaboration with Microsoft's Xbox division, and features a unique design that mirrors Xbox controllers, as well as ships with a lightly modified version of Windows 11. The Xbox Ally X that... Read more ›
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Yukai Engineering, maker of the weirdly cute Mirumi robot, has another interesting gadget at CES 2026. Baby FuFu is a portable fan for babies that attaches to strollers.Baby FuFu is modeled on the company's smaller (but otherwise identical-looking) drink-cooling gadget, Nekojita FuFu. "Baby FuFu grew out of Nekojita FuFu fans' feedback that their children love not only cooling their food with it but also playing with it, pretending to fan... Read more ›
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Belkin has announced a plug-and-play casting system at CES 2026 that allows for screen sharing from a laptop, tablet or smartphone to another display without Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. The $150 ConnectAir Wireless HDMI Display Adapter comes with a USB-C transmitter dongle and a USB-A to HDMI receiver that can be connected to a TV, monitor or projector to wirelessly cast over a range of up to 131 feet (40 meters).... Read more ›
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QLED TVs are great for budget and mid-range shoppers, but it's worth considering how long one will last before you shell out the money for it. Read more ›
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A former McKinsey consultant shares what he had to unlearn from consulting to succeed in startup life. Read more ›
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Trump says the US will look to tap Venezuela's oil. Venezuela has the most oil reserves, but only accounts for 1% of global production. Read more ›
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The US military has experience guarding oil infrastructure, but deploying troops to Venezuela comes with high risks in a dangerous environment. Read more ›
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The US's highly elite but secretive Delta Force captures and eliminates high-value targets. They reportedly helped capture Venezuela's Maduro. Read more ›
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Nicolás Maduro is reportedly in NYC's Metropolitan Detention Center, known for high-profile inmates like Luigi Mangioni and Sean "Diddy" Combs. Read more ›
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Here it is — Betty Boop's first appearance, which became public domain on Thursday. It's a 60-second song halfway through a longer cartoon about a restaurant titled Dizzy Dishes. (The first scene makes it clear this is a restaurant of anthropomorphized animals — which explains why the as-yet-unnamed character has floppy dog ears...) So Fleischer Studios has now warned that claiming Betty Boop is public domain"is actually not true." Very... Read more ›
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A new investment fund looking to back early-stage tech startups has been launched by a star-studded team including Daniel Kaluuya, Jack Whitehall, Maya Jama, Roman Kemp and Tom Grennan. The Artists Collective has today emerged from stealth having already backed 20 tech firms including co-investments with Andreessen Horowitz, Accel and Seedcamp. The fund was first ... Read more ›
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From a resurgence of tech across Europe to the advancing artificial intelligence industry to institutional growth in the digital assets sector, VCs have shared their thoughts on what is in store for the tech industry in 2026. Europe will crack the compute market – David Grimm, AlbionVC “2026 will be the year the UK and ... Read more ›
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Earlier this month, TIME Magazine named ‘the architects of artificial intelligence’ as Person of the Year. It is recognition of how much AI has dominated conversations in business, economics and politics. But even still, for all its recognition, AI is still often described as another wave. That undersells what’s actually happening. Cloud computing transformed infrastructure; ... Read more ›
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A new AI-powered forecasting tool has been made available to all NHS Trusts in an effort to minimise waiting times for patients during the busy winter months. The demand forecasting solution helps to predict when A&E departments will be busiest, leading to smarter planning for shifts and bed space and spotting potential bottlenecks. The tool ... Read more ›
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Over 100 mobile network masts have been upgraded to deliver 4G coverage from all major mobile network operators as part of the Shared Rural Network programme. Of the 105 masts that were upgraded, 44 were in Wales, 33 were in Scotland and 28 were in England, in an effort to provide connectivity in areas that ... Read more ›
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A new AI tool designed to predict demand for accident and emergency (A&E) is being trialled by UK hospitals. As part of the government’s push towards integrating AI technology into public services, the A&E demand forecasting tool will be made available to all NHS Trusts, with 50 organisations within the health service already using it. ... Read more ›
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New analysis commissioned by the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has found that UK research projects backed by the Horizon R&D programme are more likely to see their research through and have a bigger impact on their respective fields. The report found that UK researchers secured £6.8 billion in funding through nearly 11,000 ... Read more ›
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Funding for UK tech totalled £11.7 billion for 2025, down 9% year-on-year according to new data published by Tracxn. UK tech companies completed over 1,000 funding rounds, down 38% compared to 2024, with 27 ‘mega rounds’ and six new unicorns created. UK companies reaching the elusive unicorn status this year include sports platform DAZN, biotech ... Read more ›
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The governance of artificial intelligence is no longer speculative. Boards can no longer run nor hide from having to define acceptable AI. At the global level, the OECD AI Principles provide the broad normative foundation: transparency, accountability, and human oversight as baseline expectations. Boards will now need to focus on these foundations as part of ... Read more ›
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A new 40% tax allowance has come into effect that allows businesses to save on new ‘plant and machinery’ in the first year. Plant and machinery is a broad term to describe assets that a company uses to operate its business aside from land and buildings. Examples include computers and IT, office furniture and air ... Read more ›
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