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Despite growing opposition, the U.S. government is on track to increase its use of controversial facial recognition technology. The U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report on Aug. 24, 2021, detailing current and planned use of facial recognition technology by federal agencies. The GAO surveyed 24 departments and agencies – from the Department of Defense to the Small Business Administration – and found that 18 reported using the technology and 10 reported plans to expand their use of it. The
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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In large deployments, how data is managed – not how much compute is deployed – determines whether AI delivers sustained business value. Read more ›
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Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR) today opens the ESA Phi-Lab Ireland Open Call 2026, the latest Open Call for Proposals under the six-year European Space Agency (ESA) programme which positions Ireland as Europe’s hub for the development and manufacture of next-generation space-bound hardware. Phi-Lab Ireland Open Call As Ireland’s national platform for space technology development, ESA […] Read more ›
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AI specialist job postings and hiring has surged in the UK in the past year, with the trend impacting all sectors, according to new research. New findings from PwC have found that job postings for AI specialist roles in the UK have soared by 61% compared with last year, representing an increase of as much ... Read more ›
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Both kratom and one of its active components, 7-OH, have opioid-like effects and are widely available across the US. As health secretary RFK Jr. aims to get 7-OH banned, proponents of both are fighting. Read more ›
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Could Kevin Cate's 'Open Door' be the next 'Backrooms'-type hit? Maybe, but first it needs to get made. Read more ›
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On paper, the Honor Magic V6 sounds like a tremendous leap forward for foldable phones: It's the thinnest one yet, with the biggest battery, and the best water-resistance ever. In practice, only the bigger battery feels like a meaningful improvement. The other upgrades are only fractionally superior to what came before. This isn't entirely Honor's […] Read more ›
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The Kodak Charmera returns in a new Millennium edition, with six new colorways equipped with additional Y2K-inspired photo filters and frames, for the same low price. Read more ›
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KFC is revamping its brand with new sauces, beverages, and a modern restaurant design to compete in the fast-growing chicken sector. Read more ›
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The90 Gem is a smart necklace that measures your UV exposure and helps prevent sunburn. Read more ›
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Helsinki-based industrial AI startup Rotomate has secured €2.1 million in pre-seed funding in a round led by Kvanted, with participation from Robin Capital, Angel Invest, Business Finland, and some notable angel investors including Jiri Heinonen and Moaffak Ahmed. The company develops software that analyzes machine and maintenance data from industrial plants to help reliability teams […] Read more ›
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Data center software startup and AI-server broker Hydra Host has raised $100 million at a valuation of close to $800 million, led by Kindred Ventures. Nvidia, Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest, early CoreWeave backer Magnetar, and existing investors Founders Fund and Flume Ventures also participated. ... Read more ›
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Vivo’s upcoming X Fold 6 is shaping up to be a camera-first foldable, with a 200MP main sensor and ZEISS 200mm teleconverter support. Read more ›
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Use the checkout code and upgrade your routines with premium hair dryers, razors, and electric toothbrushes. Read more ›
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Google is advertising some Gemini features you already paid for as something new. Read more ›
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Samsung's 990 Pro 2TB is one of the fastest PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSDs around, delivering excellent performance and efficiency and backed by a 5-year warranty - now priced at $369.99, it's not the cheapest around, but is a well-rounded storage upgrade for any build. Read more ›
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Ahead of the G7 conference in France, Donald Trump is once again threatening massive tariffs on France over its digital tax. Read more ›
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Honor has quietly launched its latest smartphone, the Honor X70 Pro Max, in the Chinese market. The device stands out in the competitive mid-range segment by combining heavy-duty physical durability, a massive battery capacity, and an affordable price point. The smartphone features a centralized, circular camera module on the rear and boasts an advanced IP69K rating, ensuring high resistance against water ingress and dust. On the front, it is equipped... Read more ›
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London’s robotaxi era is starting with a sign-up form. Uber has opened a waitlist for Londoners who want to ride in a self-driving car, the clearest sign yet that driverless taxis are about to reach the capital’s streets. The rides will be powered by Wayve, the London-based self-driving startup, under a partnership in which Uber […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Shoppers are starting to ask AI assistants what to buy, not just how to spell a word or what to cook for dinner. A new study suggests that when they do, most online stores are nowhere in the answer. The research, from AI commerce company Recomaze, ran six purchase-intent queries against each of 9,720 ecommerce […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Bending Spoons does not build many apps. It buys them, fixes the finances, and runs them. Now it wants Wall Street to buy a piece of the machine. The Milan-based group behind Evernote, WeTransfer, and Vimeo has filed for a US initial public offering, submitting a Form F-1 to the Securities and Exchange Commission. It […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The US has found a new use for Europe’s swelling defence budgets: tearing out Huawei. Whether its allies are listening is another matter. The State Department’s China coordinator, Joshua Young, told officials in Brussels last month that NATO members should use defence-related funding, the spending that counts towards the alliance’s targets, to rip out Huawei […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Britain’s banks, telecoms, and weapons-makers have a new shared anxiety: that the AI they increasingly run on is built, owned, and controlled in the United States. A startup barely three years old is betting they will pay to fix it. Cosine, a UK frontier-AI lab, has assembled a coalition of blue-chip British institutions to co-design […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The AI boom runs on chips and electricity. It also runs on glass. Amazon is paying Corning billions of dollars for optical fibre to wire up its rapidly expanding US data centres, the two companies said on Monday. The multi-year agreement will create about 1,000 jobs at Corning’s North Carolina factories, though neither side disclosed […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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For years, the AI boom has run through a handful of factory floors in Taiwan. That dependence is starting to look risky enough that even Nvidia and Google are shopping for a backup, and the unlikely name on the list is Intel. Google has placed an order with Intel to manufacture more than three million […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The last time Jim Bridenstine shaped America’s space ambitions, he ran NASA. Now he is betting he can build the hardware for the next phase of the space race, and he wants public investors to fund it. Quantum Space, the Maryland startup Bridenstine now leads, is going public through a merger with a blank-cheque company, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Cheap flights and fast Wi-Fi have rarely gone together, and Europe’s budget airlines have had a good excuse: the maths has not added up. Wizz Air is betting that is about to change. The Hungarian ultra-low-cost carrier said on Monday it will offer Starlink, Elon Musk’s satellite internet, across its fleet from 2027, becoming the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Meta thought it had stopped NSO Group. It says the spyware firm did not get the message. The company is filing a federal court contempt order against NSO, the Israeli maker of the Pegasus hacking tool, accusing it of violating a permanent injunction that barred it from ever targeting WhatsApp or its users. Meta says […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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