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When I was a child, we used to play a game called Pass the Parcel at parties. In this game, a parcel wrapped many times would be handed around a circle while music played — and then, whenever it stopped, one child would unwrap a layer. In the traditional game there
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Piramal Finance has introduced ‘Pia’, an AI-enabled investor assistant designed to help investors and analysts access the company’s financial and business information through a conversational interface, as the company continues to expand artificial intelligence adoption across its lending and operational functions. The launch coincides with Piramal Finance reporting a
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* Boox has teased a tiny 'Picco' ereader * It has just a 3.97-inch screen, likely making it a rival to Xteink devices * It has a front light and a microSD card slot, and may well run Android, but lots of questions remain There’s a lot more to
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If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember the way the web used to be: sites made and developed by humans. You could load up a directory like AltaVista or Yahoo and click through categories including Home & Family, Science, and Computers. In those listings you’d find
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * I went for a run with the Galaxy Watch 9 while visiting London. * Samsung added several helpful features, such as hydration tracking. Ultimately, it's an intelligent workout companion that's lighter (and
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Accenture's decision to expand its fiscal 2026 share repurchase program by $2 billion, bringing the full-year total to $7.5 billion, comes with a clear statement from CEO Julie Sweet: the current share price does not reflect where Accenture stands on AI-driven reinvention, nor the underlying strength of
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 FE remains a great tablet for those who might be torn between the flagship Tab S11 and the budget Tab A11. It offers a solid build, smart multitasking and productivity tools, a gorgeous display, and serves up awesome battery life. Sure, its screen could be
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Nvidia has agreed to give Amkor Technology a $1.5 billion prepayment to expand advanced semiconductor packaging and testing in the United States, tightening a supply relationship that already sits behind its data-centre chips. The agreement, announced on 23 July, pushed Amkor shares up by roughly 12% in after-hours trading.
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The Navy-negotiated framework consolidates the military’s scattered Oracle licences, on a $3.31bn base that could nearly double if a five-year option is exercised. Oracle has secured a contract with the US Department of War worth as much as $6.99bn, the largest step yet in the Pentagon’s
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Genesis AI, the startup building foundation models that it hopes will run inside a wide range of robots, is in talks to raise about $500m, according to Bloomberg. A round of that size would value the company at roughly $3bn, capping a fast climb for a business that only came
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AMD has spent the year trying to prove it can do more than trail Nvidia. Its latest move takes the fight somewhere new, to the inside of a humanoid robot. The chipmaker has agreed to supply the compute for machines built by Foundation, a San Francisco startup whose backers include
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As football fans across the globe tune in to the world's largest football tournament, they are seeing teams compete on the sport's biggest stage. What they aren’t seeing are the countless decisions being made behind the scenes, which are now increasingly being informed by data
