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The RAM crunch is crunching. As we were warned, that pesky AI boom and the resulting demand for memory-hungry data centers are hitting consumer tech. And it's hitting it hard. Microsoft and Apple were the bringers of ill tidings and price rises. First up, Xbox Series X and
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India’s insurance penetration problem has never really been a product problem. It has been a problem of reach, trust, and simplicity — and those are, fundamentally, technology and data architecture problems. For CIOs across financial services, Shriram Life Insurance offers a rare case study: an insurer that has used digital
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* Google Wallet now lets you track parcels * It also now includes TSA PreCheck Touchless ID * But these features only work in the US Google Wallet is becoming a lot more than just a wallet, as two new features have just rolled out for it — one of which helps you track
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The Linux Foundation on Thursday announced a new industry effort aimed at efficiently addressing vulnerabilities in the open source software (OSS) ecosystem. Named Akrites, it establishes a shared Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) for coordinated discovery, patching, and public disclosure of OSS security defects. If it sounds familiar, it should.
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All the news that’s fit to lift Is SpaceX planning to end its Transporter program? An Electron rocket launches the Victus Haze mission. Credit: Rocket Lab Welcome to Edition 8.47 of the Rocket Report! We have now very nearly reached the midpoint of 2026, a year in which
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Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Apple is expected to shake up its usual Mac silicon release strategy, with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reporting that there won’t be Pro or
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A self-publishing platform exists to say yes. Kobo’s, last year, spent a remarkable share of its time saying no. Rakuten Kobo rejected 45% of the titles submitted to Kobo Writing Life, its self-publishing service, in 2025, and chief executive Michael Tamblyn attributes more than 80% of those rejections to
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* New Grand Theft Auto 6 details might have emerged from an Amazon Brazil listing * The game apparently features NPCs with their own routines and "random events" * Players may be able to switch between Jason and Lucia during missions Grand Theft Auto 6 pre-orders have officially begun, and thanks
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Prime Day is nearly over, ending midnight tonight, so today is your last chance to get Amazon's own TVs for a great price. There's no better model than the Ember Mini-LED and right now, you can get the 55-inch Ember Mini-LED for $499 (was $819.99)
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Google Messages has started rolling out custom "Chat themes" with customizable backgrounds. The update appears in the chat menu, replacing the earlier "Change colors" option and adding both color palettes and wallpapers that can be set for individual threads. Users can choose from themed wallpapers in
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New Relic, the Intelligent Observability Company, today announced the next evolution of its platform that will power agentic AI-first businesses. The New Relic Autopilot and New Relic Ground Truth capabilities provide engineering teams with ultimate flexibility, enabling them to either deploy an automated SRE agent operated entirely by New Relic,
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These super puffy planets are very rare. NASA / Daniel Rutter NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite or TESS has found what NASA calls the two "puffiest" worlds ever found. While they're as big as our gas giants, they're so light and airy that
