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HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), the UK's tax authority, has announced a 10-year deal with British tech firm Quantexa to use AI for detecting fraud and tax return errors. The BBC has reported that the multi-year agreement will cost the UK government £175 million ($234 million). Under the
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The latest from Bose is the Lifestyle Ultra family, which includes a soundbar, a subwoofer, and a smart speaker, and I find the smart speaker to be the most interesting product in the lineup. Smart speakers for the home are
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Bose has been in the home theater game for a long time, though its modern product catalog favors innovation and updates in its personal audio and wearables categories. As a result, the company's home theater lineup has been
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NTT DATA released new research showing that enterprise AI is outgrowing the architecture and infrastructure beneath it as data privacy and sovereignty requirements tighten. The research finds a widening split between enterprises that are redesigning AI for control, locality and security, and organisations still layering AI into environments that were
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Agentic Development “We have no grand plan,” says Anthropic’s Cat Wu—but that’s by design. Cat Wu, head of product for Claude Code, speaks at Anthropic's Code with Claude 2026 conference in San Francisco. Credit: Anthropic SAN FRANCISCO—Amid an ever-expanding array of surfaces, growing demand
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A smooth ride A customized mid-motor and Shimano’s new Cues components are a winning combination. Credit: John Timmer Commuter bikes don’t come with the same constraints many other bikes do. Mountain bikes must glide gracefully through all sorts of abusive terrain; road bikes need to mix high performance
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* Eben Upton says AI could put young people off tech jobs * This could hurt the economy due to a shortage of engineers * Some are overhyping the capabilities of AI tools and technology Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton has warned AI is making people less likely to pursue tech jobs, and
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.
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Pseudonymous maker "Elehobica" has designed a tool that uses persistence of vision to check if your vinyl turntable is rotating at the right speed — without the need for an external stroboscope. "You already know how a strobe pattern on a turntable appears to stand still. But what
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Embedded and hobbyist electronics specialist M5Stack has launched a new ePaper development kit, combining an Espressif ESP32-S3 wireless microcontroller with a color E Ink Spectra 6 display: the M5 PaperColor. "PaperColor is a development board featuring a 4-inch E Ink Spectra 6 full-color ePaper display with a resolution of
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There are so many ways to turn stock material into a usable part. One of the most interesting is vacuum forming, because it lets you create a three-dimensional part from flat plastic sheet. It is perfect for hobbyists and makers. If you want to give it a try, you can
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Estonian Internet of Things (IoT) specialist nolilab is preparing to launch a crowdfunding campaign for a long-range remote-sensor off-grid weather station system based on LoRa connectivity: the LokoHUB. "LokoHUB is an off-grid, all-weather data collection and visualization system designed for remote and challenging environments," nolilab's Tomi
