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New partnerships between Chinese automotive firm Baidu and ride-sharing services Uber and Lyft could see autonomous taxis on UK roads next year. The Baidu Apollo Go self-driving taxi has been deployed extensively across China already, now the firm is seeking regulatory approval to test the vehicles in London through partnerships with the taxi firms. Lyft ...
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Evidence of Google Cast support has been spotted in the latest Android Auto code. Read more ›
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In a war with China, Taiwan could have an asymmetric advantage with a high volume of cheap and survivable weapons, a retired admiral said. Read more ›
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In an extremely timely mix-up, someone on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit sent one of the sticks in their 96 GB kit of Corsair's Vengeance DDR5 for an RMA and received non-functional dummy RAM in return. Customer's real memory was worth at least $1000 while the decorative modules are just $35. Read more ›
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Yesterday, Bari Weiss, the new editor-in-chief of CBS News, censored a segment of its newsmagazine 60 Minutes about men who had been deported to an El Salvador prison. Today, it's popping up online. 60 Minutes had already begun promoting the now-censored segment online. Because it was pulled so late, it seems that CBS missed at […] Read more ›
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Stephen Schmidt said AI and machine-learning roles have been increasingly targeted by fraudsters due to high demand. Read more ›
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The Supreme Court for much of the last several decades has been a fairly technocratic body. The Court, to be sure, has handed down its share of historic cases: Case names like Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and Roe v. Wade (1973) are familiar to most Americans, but such highly political and culturally salient […] Read more ›
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Customer numbers for SpaceX's Starlink internet have surged by 1 million in the past six weeks, the company said on X. Read more ›
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Are you still sorting only by lights and darks? Not reading clothing labels? These mistakes, and more, could be causing the early demise of your favorite garments. Read more ›
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Whole Foods' use of Microsoft 365 apps remained disconnected from Amazon, leading to inefficiencies and security concerns, a Deloitte review found. Read more ›
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Like many Americans, most countries are in a lot of debt. Developing countries, alone, carry nearly $31 trillion worth of debt. Enough debt to give everyone in the world a check for $3,750. Or to pay for Jeff Bezos to throw a $50 million wedding in Venice every weekend for the next 11,900 years. Or, […] Read more ›
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Working remotely on a 43-hour Amtrak train offered stunning views, but a reliable hotspot and backup power are essential. Read more ›
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Users of AI image generators are offering each other instructions on how to use the tech to alter pictures of women into realistic, revealing deepfakes. Read more ›
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Apple's foldable iPhone is still a work in progress, with leaks suggesting the company isn't satisfied with current crease-reduction solutions. Read more ›
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In the name of music preservation, pirate group Anna's Archive has scraped 300 TB of data from Spotify's library, representing around 37% of all songs but 99.9% of all listens. It's essentially everything on Spotify packaged into torrents to be distributed illegally, analogous to how the group has made books available for free. Read more ›
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Microsoft plans to eliminate all C and C++ code across its major codebases by 2030, replacing it with Rust using AI-assisted, large-scale refactoring. "My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030," Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt writes in a post on LinkedIn. "Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft's largest codebases. Our North Star is '1 engineer, 1 month,... Read more ›
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Android's new 90:10 mode makes launching and using two apps at the same time a more realistic productivity hack. Read more ›
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It’s been a rough year if you care about climate change policy in the United States. In Washington, the second Trump administration has moved quickly to dismantle the scaffolding of federal climate action: pulling the US out of the Paris Agreement (again), freezing or clawing back clean energy funding, fast-tracking fossil fuel projects, and even […] Read more ›
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Microsoft’s Xbox console sales are sliding fast, but the company is leaning into an “open system” that spans console, PC, and cloud. Here’s what the pivot means for players. Read more ›
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway removed Kraft Heinz from its subsidiary webpage before leaving its board and writing down its stake by $5 billion. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump said they would be "AI-controlled" and he said that the design would be led by the US Navy with his aesthetic input. Read more ›
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Monzo has secured a full banking licence to operate in the European Union, with plans to bring its fintech product to new markets in the continent. The digital bank has become on of the most successful in the UK since its launch in 2015, having amassed more than 12 million customers in its home market. ... Read more ›
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Safeguards to ensure appropriate use of AI tools have “improved” but vulnerabilities remain, according to a comprehensive test from a government-appointed body. The AI Security Institute (AISI) tested the safeguarding features of the most advanced AI systems as part of its landmark Frontier AI Trends Report. The organisation found that while strides have been made ... Read more ›
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Starling Group’s SaaS business Engine by Starling has opened its new London headquarters, which will be home to more than 300 engineering, delivery and client services experts following its latest hiring spree. Engine previously shared the Starling Group’s HQ at the Fruit and Wool Exchange in Spitalfields, where the company acquired more space in November ... Read more ›
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GreenScale, a London-based developer of hyperscale data centre campuses, has announced a strategic collaboration with critical digital infrastructure solution provider Vertiv to deliver factory-integrated data centre platforms in Europe that are engineered for AI workloads. As part of the strategic partnership, GreenScale will manage construction and site-wide infrastructure, while Vertiv will provide AI-ready data centre ... Read more ›
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Ankar, an AI startup developing technology to support patent protections, has secured a $20m (£15m) Series A investment. The company claims to have developed a unified platform to replace the fragmented process of securing patents. According to Ankar, its platform works across the entire lifecycle of a patent, from novelty and prior art analysis to ... Read more ›
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Earlier this year, it was reported that up to 51,000 faces were scanned in a single day by live facial recognition cameras near London Underground stations. The Metropolitan Police described the initiative as an important step in public safety. Many Londoners, however, saw it differently – it shone a light on the concerns that some ... Read more ›
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Former Conservative chancellor George Osborne has been appointed as head of countries by US giant OpenAI. Known for overseeing the austerity programme during the premiership of David Cameron, Osborne has now taken the role of managing director and head of OpenAI for countries, a role based in London. Osborne described the ChatGPT developer as the ... Read more ›
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UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has detailed how it plans to invest the record four-year £38.6bn allocated to it from the government. It has listed three key priority funding “buckets”, each in line with ambitions laid out in the government’s Industrial Strategy in June. The first is £8bn on targeted research and development addressing national ... Read more ›
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London-based smartphone and consumer tech maker Nothing has announced the close of its recently announced “community investment round”, raising more than $8m (£6m) from more than 5,000 backers. Nothing announced the round earlier this month as a way to give its users the chance to invest in the company at the going rate per share. ... Read more ›
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As practically every sector adjusts to the present and plans for the future of an AI-orientated workforce, there remain many unanswered questions about how this technology will affect our lives. Among the most persistent concerns regarding AI is its potential to replace millions of workers, potentially creating a major employment crisis. While these questions were ... Read more ›
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