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* Garmin has scheduled a YouTube live event * Titled 'Play Harder', it's scheduled for 25 August at 12:00pm BST (4am PT / 9pm AEST) * It's likely to be the launch of the Garmin Fenix 9 Garmin has scheduled a live event on YouTube, without much
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Chang'e 7 didn’t meet unspecified ‘launch requirements’ China’s Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on Sunday cancelled a planned Monday moonshot launch. The mission plan for Chang'e 7 calls for it to send a lander to a region near the Moon’s South Pole, in a
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Bingeing the boxed set of binary bafflement OPINION DVD is one of those technologies that dominated for barely a generation yet left a permanent cultural mark. It made high-quality video cheap enough for mass distribution, popularized the TV series boxed set, and encouraged its gluttonous consequence: binge viewing. Streaming and
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Global semiconductor revenue is expected to reach $1.6 trillion in 2026, increasing 92% from 2025 revenue of $809 billion, according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. In 2027, it is forecast to total $1.9 trillion. “The semiconductor industry is entering a fundamentally new phase of
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If you ever doubted data is the new oil, check out the $10 million that Google has put on the table to snap up every email that Spirit Airlines employees ever sent - and then consider the precedent that this deal is likely to set for future bankruptcies in the
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Lava International Limited, India’s leading homegrown smartphone brand, today announced the launch of the Virat V1 Pro 5G bringing together a premium experience coupled with powerful performance, durability and expansive memory for consumers. Designed to deliver with opulence, Virat V1 Pro will be available on Flipkart under Lava’s
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Editorial independence is core to our work. Some links may earn us a commission, without influencing our opinions. Apple is reportedly preparing a new 24-inch iMac with the M6 chip and new colours, with the updated desktop expected later this year. For the past seven years, I have tracked consumer
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Anthropic’s Claude AI is showing signs of overload again. On Monday morning, users trying to work with Claude encountered failed requests and a “529 Overloaded” error. The message says the problem is a temporary server-side issue, then sends users to Anthropic’s status page. A screenshot shared with TNW
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SoftBank plans a record 1 trillion yen retail bond sale, about $6.3bn, the largest by any issuer in Japan, to fund investment commitments to OpenAI. Analysts say banks were reluctant to take the risk, leaving the deal dependent on retail investors. SoftBank has found a lender of last resort
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A publicly accessible database linked to reverse image search service ClarityCheck exposed more than nine million images, including photographs of adults, teenagers, and children. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered the database, which was neither password-protected nor encrypted. It contained approximately 9,042,977 image files, amounting to 450.2GB of
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As organisations across South Africa adopt digital technologies, accelerate digital initiatives, advance digital capabilities, navigate economic uncertainty, and adapt to an increasingly data-driven business environment, the role of the Chief Financial Officer has evolved far beyond traditional financial stewardship. Today’s finance leaders are expected to guide capital allocation, strengthen
