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By Leslie D’Monte For decades, economic competitiveness rested on highways, ports, airports and telecom networks. Today, data centres have joined that list, not merely because they house servers but because they provide the computing power that increasingly determines how economies innovate, businesses compete and governments deliver services. This marks
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* TP-Link has unveiled two new Wi-Fi 8 routers at IFA 2026 * The Archer 9 Ultra is a traditional router with a smart design and coverage of up to 3,600 square feet * The Deco 8 Ultra is a mesh system, and a 3-pack is good for a home of up
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The viral fervor we saw earlier this year around OpenClaw, the open source AI harness that turns powerful language models into autonomous workers the user can message via their favorite channels (Telegram, iMessage, WhatsApp, Discord etc), has cooled off substantially from its peak in March 2026. But over the weekend,
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By Leslie D’Monte For decades, economic competitiveness rested on highways, ports, airports and telecom networks. Today, data centres have joined that list, not merely because they house servers but because they provide the computing power that increasingly determines how economies innovate, businesses compete and governments deliver services. This marks
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By Pratik Jain, Senior Director of Technology at Kyvos Insights AI systems do not consume business logic the way traditional dashboards do. If the context is missing or inconsistent, AI agents respond using whatever semantic signals are available, inferred or retrieved. The outputs sound authoritative, but they can be factually
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Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw on Monday outlined the government’s plans for the next phase of India’s semiconductor programme as notifications for all six pillars of the Semicon 2.0 scheme were issued. The scheme will provide fiscal and infrastructure support across the semiconductor
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India’s artificial intelligence narrative is currently dominated by massive numbers. The IndiaAI Mission has successfully onboarded over 38,000 GPUs to democratize compute access, driving down costs to as low as INR65 an hour, while global hyperscalers have poured a staggering $80 billion into local data centers. But according
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The Digital India BHASHINI Division (DIBD), under the Digital India Corporation (DIC), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), organised a BHASHINI शिल्पी developer session at the Embassy of India in Kathmandu, bringing together developers, technology practitioners and innovators from Nepal to discuss applications of language AI. The
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PhonePe has announced the launch of PhonePe UPI 123Pay, enabling feature phone users to make UPI payments without an internet connection. The company said the service will be available on Nokia, HMD, Lava International and Itel Mobile – Transsion Holdings devices, with additional handset manufacturers expected to be added in the
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Introduction Beginning in 2024 Mandiant investigated a string of compromises affecting Brazilian financial services, retail, and eCommerce organizations. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) tracks this activity as BREEZE COMET (formerly UNC5669), a financially motivated threat actor specializing in manipulating payment systems and banking software in Brazil to conduct fraudulent transfers.
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Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? I was not expecting a British Royal Family clue, but 4-Down came through with one. Keep calm, and carry on for all the answers. Mini across clues and answers 1A clue: Peering pair Answer: EYES 5A clue: “Hugs and kisses” sign-off Answer:
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Forget the confusing branding and focus on your shrinking token bill Nvidia has for years advanced the idea of an “AI Factory,” and now its partner VMware has created a product with the same name that does most of the same things, but with one vastly important difference: it uses
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McKesson admits breach as ShinyHunters demands $55.2M Two major healthcare businesses, Boston Scientific and McKesson, disclosed more details over the weekend about separate cyberattacks that disrupted global operations and resulted in stolen patient data, respectively. Medical-device maker Boston Scientific, whose IT systems were hacked by unknown intruders last week,
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The proliferation of custom AI ASICs, or XPUs, from OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and others has led many to question Nvidia's grip on the market. After all, if everybody's building their own, who needs the GPUs the AI arms dealer has made its fortune on? But Nvidia
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ai and ml GenAI now reaches 80% of occupations, but in most of those fewer than half of workers use it Economists have taken another stab at assessing the impact of generative AI adoption on different occupations and have found that adoption is broad but not very deep. While generative
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Oslo had 120,469 electric cars at the end of 2025, nearly half its passenger fleet, and about 78% of its 4,519 public charging points are slow AC units placed where people already park. The EU’s own right to plug sits in Article 14(8) of the recast
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Windows 11 is rolling out toggles that remove Bing web results and Microsoft Store suggestions from Search, in an optional August update that is being released gradually. Microsoft removed Bing from the Windows Search pane for users in the European Economic Area to meet the Digital Markets Act deadline of
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Solar Team Eindhoven drove its solar ambulance Stella Juva more than 800km across Kenya with Amref Health Africa, and found it generated more energy than it used while running an X-ray machine, ultrasound scanner and vaccine fridge at a clinic with no electricity. The vehicle is returning to the Netherlands
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A representative TU Darmstadt survey of more than 2,000 people in Germany found that about 43% of those with very strong AI knowledge expect AI could soon take over their work, a higher share than among those who understand it less. Only 15% of respondents have had any AI
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Actuators account for 40% to 60% of a humanoid robot’s bill of materials and China refines roughly 90% of the rare earth magnets inside them, which makes the components rather than the models the limit on scale. Europe has a 2030 cap on single country supply under the Critical
