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* Solar energy just had its best-ever month in the UK * Rooftop panels and farms provided 14.4% of the country's electricity * The record comes ahead of the legalisation of plug-in solar kits soon Our gardens may be wilting in this exceptionally dry, sunny summer in the UK, but
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Formula 1® (F1) engages an audience of over 800 million fans globally across digital platforms, F1 TV, social media, ticketing, and merchandise year-round. Races happen every two weeks. Fan engagement windows are measured in minutes and commercial decisions need to move at the speed of the grid. Behind the scenes,
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Sheena Vasani writes about tech news, reviews gadgets, and helps readers save money by highlighting deals and product recommendations for The Verge. The Kindle Scribe is worth considering if you’re heading back to school, as its large 10.2-inch screen can display textbooks and ebooks, or let you jot
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If you're looking for a capable laptop that can handle demanding tasks without costing the Earth, I found a great deal on the 15.6" Lenovo LOQ for $750 (was $1050) at Best Buy. The laptop combines an AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS processor with 16GB of DDR5
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In Brief 10:16 AM PDT · August 3, 2026 Valar Atomics confirmed the whisperings that it was raising a giant round led by Sequoia on Monday. The startup’s founder and CEO Isaiah Taylor announced that the company has raised $1 billion in equity, with Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire joining
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For too long, enterprises with legacy mainframe estates have been faced with a high-stakes dilemma: continue maintaining their mainframes, essentially kicking the modernization can down the road (they know they will need to deal with it eventually), or perform a dangerous "big bang" migration with many unknowns and
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* Multiple US states are repealing or enacting moratoriums on sales tax exemptions for data centers * Estimates on lost tax revenue are far below the billions of dollars some states have missed out on * Ongoing data center constructions may not be subject, but costs are expected to increase for new or
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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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Factor is offering a discount of 50% off your first box of curated food when you sign up for a new subscription with the codeCNET50FG. And that isn’t all, because you’ll also get one free three-pack of daily greens included in each of your boxes until Sept. 27.
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Save $50: A second monitor can really boost your productivity, and with the Asus ZenScreen, you can take a dual-display setup with you just about anywhere. Plus, this portable monitor is down to just $99 right now at Amazon, which is over 30% off the usual price. That’s a
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Save $75: The Pixel 10 was already Google’s most affordable phone, but it’s now even cheaper at just $424 in your choice of color. It normally retails for almost $500, so this is a savings well worth taking advantage of. But we recommend doing that sooner rather than
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Huawei Mate X Royole FlexPai Samsung Galaxy Fold ZTE Axon M Choose wisely! The correct answer, the explanation, and an intriguing story await. A little background Ask most people to name the first folding-screen device and they will say Galaxy Fold. The real answer is a phone almost nobody outside
