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In Europe, the rise in gas prices due to the Iran war has car buyers thinking about electrics more than ever before. Battery-electric vehicle (BEV) sales were up more than 33 percent in the first half of 2026 compared to the same time last year, according to data published by
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* Dataintelo reports that the used video game market is worth $7.2 billion * The firm thinks that Sony's decision to end the production of discs will cause it to decline * Analysts say the market will "keep shrinking and eventually disappear" The second-hand video game market could
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Last year, thousands of customers at one of the UK's biggest banking groups were locked out of their accounts. This cut people off from their own money, leading to declined cards, missed payments. VP Head of Data & AI at Valtech. Across the UK, major banks and building
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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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Data Breaches Hackers recently obtained non-sensitive customer information and other documents from the company. Texas-based consumer finance company Upbound Group, Inc. says recent cybersecurity incidents led to a data breach that resulted in millions of dollars in fraudulent contract losses. Upbound offers lease-to-own and flexible payment solutions through brands like
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IT SOUNDS like something out of a sci-fi film. On July 16th Hugging Face, an artificial-intelligence platform, announced it had notified law enforcement after an attacker had used an AI agent to breach its systems. On July 21st it emerged that there had been no human involved; the AI agent
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Samsung has unveiled its first Intelligent Eyewear with Gemini AI, Android XR, built in camera, open ear speakers and up to nine hours of battery life. Samsung has officially unveiled its first Samsung Intelligent Eyewear at the Galaxy Unpacked 2026 event in London. Instead of launching a pair of augmented
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Ask any CIO in Indian manufacturing where the money is going, and the answer comes quickly: sensors, digital twins, predictive maintenance platforms, AI-driven quality systems. The investment case writes itself. Indian manufacturers are now spending at 1.6 times the global rate on industrial technology — a bet on leapfrogging straight
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On July 8, X account @superioritymale posted an update about ICE’s ongoing crackdown on immigrants, describing the conditions being thrust upon detainees. “Over 68,000 held in ICE detention centers around the United States, many of whom lack access to food, water, and any means to reach contact with
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The fine follows a two year DMA investigation into Google. by Jess Weatherbed and Dominic Preston Jul 23, 2026, 10:33 AM UTC Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images The European Union has fined Google’s parent company Alphabet €890 million (about $1 billion) for two separate violations of
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PUBLIC SECTOR Health service told to ensure ministers don't mistake before-and-after comparisons for cause and effect The UK's statistical regulator has told NHS England to ensure ministers are briefed accurately following a row over data used to promote the purported benefits of a Palantir-run platform. The
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Middleware has traditionally been treated as a background process. Enterprises could afford to have this layer connect systems and data with minimal oversight – but that autonomy is no longer compatible with the scale and complexity of modern data flows. Large enterprises, retailers, and financial institutions consist of transactions sprawled across
