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The Think Family Database holds records on close to half a million people who live in the city of Bristol, England. For many years, few of them knew anything about it. Launched in 2016 by the Bristol City Council and the regional Avon and Somerset Police, the database has stored
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Big Blue shows off process node it claims can scale down to 1 Angstrom IBM has developed a sub-nanometer (nm) chip technology it says could be used to produce commercial chips within five years, and has mapped a path to 0.1 nm. Big Blue claims its new process node
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* GTA 6 physical editions won't have a disc and only come with a digital code * Fans are disappointed with the announcement after some bought PS5 Pro disc drives solely for GTA 6 * Some retailers have dropped the game from sale due to their policies of only selling physical
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Russian authorities hacked into the phone of a prominent political opponent while he was in custody, using technology made by forensics firm Cellebrite — even after the company had said it cut ties with Putin’s government agencies, according to a new report that raises fresh questions about whether Western tech
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Florida Republican claimed to use Claude as a proofreader, nothing else. Anna Paulina Luna / X (Screenshot) If there's one thing we love more than catching a politician doing something silly, it's the excuse they confect to try and get out of it. The latest involves Florida
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Digital twins and digital threads provide a mental model for improving collaboration between people. All of this is pretty abstract and hard to wrap your head around, since digital twins are easier to make sense of for engineering collaboration and less intuitive for process improvement. Fortunately, vendors are starting to
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The US adhesives group has agreed a 285 pence-a-share cash offer for Advanced Medical Solutions, even as an activist shareholder demands it abandon the pursuit. H.B. Fuller, the St Paul, Minnesota adhesives maker, is closing in on a takeover of Advanced Medical Solutions Group, the AIM-listed British maker of
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Tombot, a Los Angeles-area company that makes a robotic dog for people who cannot keep a real one, has closed a $7m Series A3 financing round to move its flagship product from development into manufacturing. The company said on June 24 that the round drew investment from Caduceus Capital Partners,
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ChatGPT's new Scheduled Tasks feature announcement this week — the ability for ChatGPT to now send reminders, handle recurring work, or monitor things — caught my attention immediately. After all, AI assistants are all predicated on being reactive and needing your initial input. No matter how sophisticated the technology becomes,
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Insiders in the Alpha Skip-Ahead ring can have gamertags up to 15 characters long. Xbox is rolling out a couple of new features to its Insiders in the Alpha Skip-Ahead ring, its invite-only tier that gets access to experimental builds earlier than any of its other testers. It's
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* AI coding tools set to outcost developer salaries by 2028 * Usage- and out-come based token pricing to blame * Software vendors don't currently provide enough visibility Gartner predicts that AI coding tools could cost more than the average developer's salary by as soon as 2028, driven by
