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Before the internet learned to like, match, and swipe, it learned to ask one brutally simple question: hot or not? Launched in 2000, Hot or Not invited people to upload photographs of themselves and be rated by strangers on a scale from 1 to 10. It was crude, addictive, and,
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EDGE AND IOT Clamp, flash, repeat – no separate IO board or host computer required Raspberry Pi has unveiled a $600 Programming Jig to take the faff out of preparing batches of Compute Module 5 (CM5) boards for deployment. The device combines the provisioning host and module interface in one box,
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* Amazon has rolled out tougher DRM to the Kindle Oasis * The same update has previously landed on most other Kindle models * The company has also closed an airplane mode loophole for Libby loans If you like reading Kindle books on other devices or borrowing digital library books using Libby, Amazon
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August 19, 2026, 5:45 AM Top News More: OpenAI, The Verge, Help Net Security, The Guardian, Business Today, Decrypt, Fortune, Wired, TechCrunch, MediaNama, Bloomberg, Sources, PC Gamer, Neowin, Forkast, The Asia Business Daily, The Neuron, Digit, SiliconANGLE, ABC, WinCentral, The Economic Times, New York Times, ABC News, Financial Times,
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* Technics celebrates 55 years of its hugely popular SL-1200 turntable * New anniversary edition teased, full launch in September * Adds gold, gold, and more gold to the existing model Since the launch of the original Technics SL-1200 in late 1972, the model has proven a staple of hip-hop and DJ culture,
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We're aggressive shoppers but very, very disciplined buyers. An interesting behavioral characterisation from Rick McConnell, CEO of observability specialist Dynatrace, coming as it does off the back of the firm’s announcement of a $915 million takeover of Arize, an AI observability platform provider, a move he, inevitably
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Xebia, a global AI-first digital transformation and engineering partner, today announced that it has been named an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network. The OpenAI Partner Network is a global program for partners to build, sell, and deliver AI solutions with OpenAI. It brings together partners with deep
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After eight months of export licences that moved almost nothing, Nvidia’s H200 accelerators have started arriving at Chinese technology companies. ByteDance and Tencent have each received about 10,000 of the processors in recent weeks, according to the Financial Times, with other Chinese groups expected to secure similar volumes
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Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order on Tuesday that makes Pennsylvania one of the harder places in America to build an AI data centre. The order strips data centres from the state’s permit fast-track programme, blocks environmental review until developers have secured local approval, and bars state agencies
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Cerebras has put three of its dinner-plate-sized processors into a single rack for the first time. The CS-4, unveiled on Tuesday at the company’s Supernova event and shipping this quarter, is pitched as an inference machine for frontier models, and Cerebras says it runs them up to 30 times
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SK Hynix will buy back 40 trillion won of its own stock, about $28.6bn at prevailing exchange rates, in what Korean media are calling the largest repurchase ever announced by a listed company in the country. The board approved the programme on Wednesday and every share bought will be
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China’s World AI Cooperation Organisation has added nine members in the month since it was founded, taking it from 29 signatories to 38, according to the South China Morning Post. It is growing at precisely the moment Washington is drafting a letter telling 35 countries they cannot belong to
