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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Vintage computing history A fully working Apple-1 motherboard autographed by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is expected to fetch up to $800,000 at an auction in New York City later this year. The Apple-1
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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. Nintendo just announced two Direct events for next week, scheduled back to back. First up is the Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct on
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Baked-in SQL syntax arrives through multi-vendor collaboration, although indexing still needs to catch up PostgreSQL 19 is set to add standardized SQL syntax for querying property graphs. The open source database has steadily grown in popularity over the last five years, becoming the most popular among developers for the first
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2016 and 2019 installations must meet the October 2025 baseline to reach cloud-hosted inboxes Microsoft is upping the ante on Exchange Server security, warning that outdated on-premises systems will soon be blocked from sending email to Exchange Online. From the second week of September, Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 machines
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YouTube has terminated 20 channels in a network that paid gig-economy actors $26 a video to read AI-generated scripts attacking Democratic politicians. The network reached 45 million views because putting a real face in front of an AI pipeline defeats every synthetic-media detector platforms have built. Enforcement came only after
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TL;DR Cross-border payroll moves $200B+ annually through fragmented infrastructure that lacks the shared plumbing financial markets built decades ago. Companies scale into new markets by adding vendors one at a time, creating reconciliation gaps and compliance risk. Platforms like Papaya Global are replacing that patchwork with unified gross-to-net engines,
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TL;DR Coefficient Giving CEO Alexander Berger told Semafor that AI wealth is about to add roughly $40bn a year to American philanthropy, contingent on Anthropic and OpenAI listing. His foundation funds Redwood Research, one of the outfits OpenAI brought in to investigate its own agents breaching Hugging Face. The
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Battery-electric cars took a record 29.8% share of UK registrations in August, outselling every other powertrain, though year-to-date uptake of 25.6% remains below the 33% zero emission mandate. The Commission has proposed cutting the EU’s 2035 target from 100% to 90%, permitting plug-in hybrids and range extenders.
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IFA is, as you'll probably know, a huge annual tech expo held in Berlin. It's also where some of audio-slash-hi-fi's biggest hitters unveil their latest wearable innovations — and this year is one of the best (and most varied) product lineups we've seen
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Here at IFA 2026 I finally got to try the Xreal Aura glasses. They’re the tech you’d get if my Xreal One Pro and Samsung Galaxy XR had a baby, and their Fall 2026 release date can’t come soon enough. While they can basically do everything an
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* GoPro CEO Nick Woodman has released a statement following concern around the company's "merger" with Starman * He provides assurances that the company is committed to making consumer cameras * But there are no concrete commitments – and a disclaimer list that's longer than the statement itself
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