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Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. The 9.58-second 100-meter dash record set by Usain Bolt in 2009 has been outpaced by Chinese robots participating at the World Humanoid Robot Games
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New Zealand will introduce a bill requiring platforms to verify users are over 16, though two of three coalition partners oppose it and no vote will happen before November’s election. France’s under-15 ban takes effect on 1 September with its age verification mandate stripped out. New Zealand will
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Nvidia has been discussing an investment in Perplexity that would value the AI search company at more than $30bn, according to The Information, which reported that the two sides also considered a technology licensing arrangement alongside the equity cheque. The talks are the latest turn in a relationship that already
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Hugging Face has retained bankers to test the market for a sale at a valuation of $13bn or higher, according to Business Insider, which reported that talks are early and that no bidder has been identified. It is a striking development for a company that has spent the past decade
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Funding for UK fintech companies has dropped to its lowest level in at least ten years, according to Bloomberg, which reported the figures on Sunday. The decline lands on a sector that Britain has spent the better part of fifteen years describing as its clearest technology success story, and it
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Alibaba has launched Wan3.0, the latest version of its video generation model, days after raising roughly $10.2bn in a Hong Kong share placement whose proceeds it has earmarked entirely for AI. The sequencing is not subtle, and it is not meant to be, since the company has spent
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TikTok has reached a $400 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, ending a 2024 lawsuit alleging the company violated federal children’s privacy laws. The DOJ said Friday that TikTok will pay $300 million immediately and another $100 million after an order vacates an earlier consent decree
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The first robot vacuum I ever owned was a Neato Robotics XV Signature Pro in 2015, and it couldn’t distinguish a mouse from a sock. I learned this the hard way when I returned from a trip and found that my robot vacuum had run over a glue trap
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Vertiv, a global leader in critical digital infrastructure, today announced the launch of the Vertiv Consultant Portal in India. The registration-based digital platform consulting engineers is developed to support the design, specification, and planning of critical digital infrastructure projects by providing centralized access to technical resources, design tools, and Vertiv’
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Consistent Infosystems, one of India’s leading IT hardware, surveillance and electronics brands, has received two prestigious recognitions at Bharat Vyapar Mahotsav ’26. The company was honoured as a “Top Indian Brand”, while its CMDs and Co-Founders, Mr. Yogesh Agrawal and Mr. Nitin Bansal, were recognised as “Inspiring Industry Leaders”
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Companies are investing in Forward Deployed Engineers, or FDEs. AWS has announced a $1 billion investment in a dedicated organization intended to embed thousands of engineers with customers. OpenAI has established a dedicated Deployment Company and agreed to acquire Tomoro, adding approximately 150 FDEs and deployment specialists. Microsoft has said
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A seamless airport journey can feel effortless. From check-in to baggage handling and take-off, everything appears coordinated, predictable and, for the most part, smooth. When delivered without any hitches, the entire process feels remarkably simple. But, beneath that simplicity sits one of the most complex operational environments imaginable. Airlines, baggage
