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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 ...
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Troy Smothers was a USMC sergeant when he deployed to Ukraine in 2005. He now travels to Ukraine to help build unjammable, fiber-optic drones. Read more ›
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said US annexation of Greenland is a national security strategy meant to avoid a future armed conflict. Read more ›
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Extended time off can carry long-term costs — lower earnings, disrupted savings, slower compounding — but for some, the benefits outweigh the risks. Read more ›
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The new models mark the first time tabletop players will be given the option to build their Custodes units with unhelmeted female heads. Read more ›
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U.S. college graduates "have historically found jobs more quickly than people with only a high school degree," writes Bloomberg. "But that advantage is becoming a thing of the past, according to new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland." "Recently, the job-finding rate for young college-educated workers has declined to be roughly in line with the rate for young high-school-educated workers, indicating that a long period of relatively easier... Read more ›
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It seems xAI has been taking liberties with gas turbines that federal rules don’t actually tolerate. Read more ›
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Rockstar has helped a terminally ill fan play GTA 6 ahead of its November release date. Read more Read more ›
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Elon Musk wants Tesla to iterate new AI accelerators faster than AMD and Nvidia. This can be done, but with caveats. Read more ›
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'El Tigre' creator Jorge R. Gutiérrez will give the popular 'Looney Tunes' character his time in the spotlight. Read more ›
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The senior editor at the blog Windows Central decries two serious Windows issues "that were not spotted by Microsoft during testing, and are so severe that the company has now issued an emergency fix to address the problems." Microsoft's first update for Windows 11 in 2026 has already caused two major issues that saw users unable to fully shutdown their PCs or sign-in into a device when using Remote Desktop...... Read more ›
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A modder in China has come up with an ingenious solution to combine all three consoles into one device that shares as much with modern tech as it does with ancient tradition. Read more ›
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Microsoft released its first security update of 2026 for Windows 11 on January 13th. Just four days later, it was forced to release an emergency out-of-band update to fix some pretty serious bugs, the first one introduced. The security patch was stopping some systems from shutting down or hibernating properly, and also preventing some users […] Read more ›
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Memory chip shortage set to spread well beyond the confines of datacenters and computers Read more ›
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Netflix dropping Google Cast support for modern Google TV devices may be because it wasn't being used much. Read more ›
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While social media continues to circulate claims linking acetaminophen to autism in children, medical experts say those fears distract from a far more serious and proven danger: overdose. Acetaminophen, found in Tylenol and many cold and flu remedies, is one of the leading causes of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and acute liver failure in the United States. Read more ›
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Netflix says it will maintain the 45-day theatrical window for Warner Bros. films, and that is good news for cinemas and moviegoers. Read more ›
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Energy abundance, open-source models and manufacturing strengths will push Beijing into first place Read more ›
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Many Android OEMs are copy and pasting Apple's flat edges and curved corners, and that's just lazy. Read more ›
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Beam adds plenty of desktop-grade browsing flair on the iPad, while throwing its own unique set of features into the mix. It's the most fulfilling browser experience I've ever had on Apple's tablet. Read more ›
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If you weren't able to shut down your Windows 11 device recently, Microsoft has rolled out an emergency fix addressing a couple of critical bugs that popped up with its latest January 2026 Windows security update. The latest "out-of-band" update repairs an issue for some Windows 11 devices that would only restart when users tried to shut down or hibernate. The same update restores the ability for Windows 10 and... 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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