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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), under the Maharashtra Urban Development Department, has launched E-TDR, a unified digital platform for Transfer of Development Rights transactions, with SoftTech Engineers serving as the technology partner. The platform is designed to digitise the buying and selling of development rights within the BMC ecosystem and
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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. Following several apparent video leaks of Grand Theft Auto VI, Take-Two Interactive has subpoenaed Microsoft and Discord over content that “infringes copyrights” held for
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When an agentic AI system hands a task from a small model to a larger one — or back down again — it pays a steep tax: the receiving model has to recompute the entire conversation from scratch, driving up compute costs and latency. This is a major bottleneck for enterprises building
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Editors’ note, July 30: On July 27, the Federal Communications Commission issued an update clarifying how its national security restrictions on equipment from foreign companies would apply to robots. The FCC confirmed to CNET that it applies not just to humanoid robots but also to household devices like robot vacuums,
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Patreon has published a roadmap of new and revamped features. TechCrunch counted 30 of them. The most consequential line in the post is an admission. “To the smaller creators on Patreon: the lack of discovery you’re seeing right now is not your fault. It’s ours,” chief executive Jack
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New York has more tech workers than the San Francisco Bay Area for the first time since CBRE started counting 13 years ago. The property firm’s Scoring Tech Talent 2026 report, subtitled “AI Realignment Underway”, puts the New York metro at 394,300 tech talent jobs in 2025 against
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Nvidia is in early talks with the Korean AI chip designer Rebellions about a technical partnership, an investment or possibly an acquisition, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Jensen Huang met Rebellions co-founder and chief executive Sunghyun Park at Nvidia’s Santa Clara headquarters this week, people familiar with the matter told
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Micron is putting $10bn into a research lab built on the premise that AI has permanently changed what memory is worth. The company announced Micron Research Labs on Thursday, headquartered in Boise, Idaho, with a planned $10bn over the next decade. It is separate from the more than $250bn Micron
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Starcloud has raised $250mn to put AI compute in orbit, and a large part of the money is earmarked for rockets it cannot yet book. The Series A extension values the company at $2.3bn post-money, the company said. Its total raised now stands at $450mn. Starcloud was founded in
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The Dutch data protection authority has decided to fine Uber €825mn, or about $966mn, for shutting down driver accounts by automated systems without telling the drivers properly. It is the second-largest penalty ever issued under the General Data Protection Regulation. Reuters reported the decision after reviewing a document dated 17
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Apple Music will start showing listeners which songs were made with AI. The disclosure behind those labels also stops being optional. Apple emailed music industry partners on Thursday to announce Made With AI Labels, Billboard reported after obtaining the message. Any track a content provider tags as “materially generated using
