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One unique feature is a free “moving artwork” functionality. Imagine a static painting where a portion of the art, such as a river or mist over a mountain, is moving slightly. It’s calming and beautiful. At least dozens are available, but I’m not able to add my own.
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I’ve been a fan of Philips Hue smart lights since the early days. It’s one of the few staples in my ever-changing smart home. However, when the Bridge Pro launched late last year, it wasn’t immediately obvious why I should upgrade. The signature feature, MotionAware — which turns
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There's been a surprising number of excellent gaming laptop deals this week as we build up to Amazon Prime Day later this month. Yesterday, I found a great listing on an RTX 5080 Lenovo at B&H Photo, and today, I've found a fantastic alternative
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AI is disruptive. Anthropic’s ClaudeMythos model, and its successors, promise to be even more disruptive: they could threaten the existing bug bounty and/or in-house offensive security industries. AI has been widely adopted by both cybersecurity attackers and defenders. Attackers use it to help find bugs and craft attacks
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IBM spin-off's top brass bag six-figure stock awards Timing, as we noted previously, is everything. Now hard-pressed tech services biz Kyndryl is dishing out shares worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to execs in the middle of a redundancy program – and some staff are not amused. According to
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NTT DATA has expanded its work with Google Cloud on enterprise AI deployments using Gemini Enterprise. The companies said the work will focus on helping organisations move AI projects beyond pilot stages and into production environments. The collaboration combines Google Cloud’s AI, data, and cloud platform capabilities with NTT
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TL;DR Fujikura is raising fibre-optic cable prices as nearly every US hyperscaler places orders and supply stays tight. The CEO says the company will beat its forecast despite shares falling 40% from their May peak. Fujikura, the Tokyo-based fibre-optic cable manufacturer, is raising prices on the cables that connect
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TL;DR Perplexity AI is sticking with a 2028 IPO timeline while OpenAI and Anthropic race to list in 2026. CEO Srinivas says the plan hasn’t changed and the market can absorb multiple AI listings. Perplexity AI plans to go public in 2028, and CEO Aravind Srinivas told CNBC
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TL;DR BYD predicts China will reach 80% EV penetration as gas car sales plunge 39%, but faces the Pentagon’s 1260H list and Hungary labour scrutiny. BYD’s executive vice president Stella Li told CNBC on Monday that China’s EV market will push to close to 80% penetration,
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TL;DR Apple rebuilt Siri on a custom 1.2T-parameter Gemini model running on Nvidia Blackwell GPUs in Google Cloud. Federighi says requests are never stored. The company unveiled five new AI models and a three-tier privacy architecture. Apple’s most important AI announcement at WWDC 2026 was not a
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TL;DR Databricks is in talks to raise at $165-175bn, four months after closing at $134bn. CEO Ghodsi has privately signalled an IPO as soon as next year. Discussions are early-stage and the round has not closed. Databricks is in talks to raise a new funding round at a valuation
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TL;DR The Prince of Wales will attend London Tech Week for the first time, chairing a panel with Salesforce, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and NatWest on using data to prevent homelessness. Homewards is an official event partner. The Prince of Wales will attend London Tech Week on Wednesday for the first
