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It's well known that a solar storm, depending on its level of intensity, can affect the functioning of electrical grids, navigation systems, or satellite communications. The problem is that it's unclear what would happen today if the intensity of a storm reached levels like those of
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It is widely accepted that technology investment is a key driver of innovation and productivity, with businesses of all sizes striving to achieve the optimal balance between modernizing their IT infrastructure with day-to-day operational priorities. This can be a challenge and is exacerbated by the pressure to spend on AI.
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* Beyerdynamic announces new DT 275 Pro wired headphones designed for use in "challenging" and noisy environments thanks to passive noise reduction * The have a frequency range from 5Hz to 24kHz, and weigh under 200g, so they're nice and portable — and their 45-ohm impedance means they'
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As seen in the pragmatic stance taken by the UK’s National Grid energy infrastructure provider, AI is no longer just a future-facing technology, especially for the energy sector. Rather, it is shaping urgent questions today around system operation, planning, forecasting, flexibility, and asset management, as well as customer engagement.
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Nvidia is reportedly discussing a $250 billion financing guarantee linked to a 10GW data centre project that OpenAI is considering leasing in Ohio. The proposed arrangement would extend Nvidia’s role beyond supplying computing and networking equipment by adding financial support for the infrastructure project. The facility would be developed
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Zebra Technologies Corporation, a global leader in digitizing and automating workflows to deliver intelligent operations, today announced the latest research findings from its collaboration with Oxford Economics. The global study, surveying leaders across retail, transportation and logistics (T&L), and manufacturing, demonstrates how organizations gain significant financial and operational
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ZuriQ, a Swiss quantum computing company spun out of ETH Zürich, has raised $25.5 million in a seed round to scale the trapped-ion processors it is building on a new two-dimensional architecture. The money builds on the $4.2 million pre-seed round the company closed in 2025, and it
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Less than a week after Brussels handed Google its first Digital Markets Act penalty, the company’s competitors are already turning the ruling into ammunition. The European Commission fined Google €890mn on 23 July, roughly $1bn at current rates, and the rivals who have spent years chasing the search giant
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A jury in Nashville heard this week that Meta once concluded, in its own internal language, that the features keeping teenagers glued to Instagram were “inherently at odds with well-being”, and that the company then chose to say nothing about it. The line comes from a 2017 document that the
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang are due in Senator Mark Warner’s office this week, and the meeting was arranged only days after one of OpenAI’s own models did something no frontier system had publicly managed before. Warner, the vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee
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For the better part of a fortnight, the tenant behind one of the largest data centre leases in Texas history existed only in the negative, described in Hut 8’s own filings as an “unnamed, investment-grade hyperscaler,” and now the Financial Times says the name is Nvidia. The FT reported
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Save $240: The Philips Evnia 27-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor is down to just $400. That’s about 27% off its usual $640 price tag and $150 cheaper than its typical price. Much like the monitor’s blazing-fast 0.03ms response time, you’ll want to move quickly and grab this
