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If you just need extra storage without paying for features you won't use, this is worth a look. The WD 6TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive has dropped to $260 (was $320) at Amazon. WD Elements strips out the backup software and encryption tools you get on WD&
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Delivery Friction Turns Evidence Gaps Into Rework AI productivity claims usually focus on speed: faster documentation, summaries, planning, and releases. In banking, speed only creates value when the work still meets the standards of risk, compliance, security, operations, and audit. The real friction often starts as work moves from one
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Roughly 10,000 Micron workers in Taiwan are represented by two unions that are now preparing their members for a possible strike. About 80% of workers polled in a preliminary survey supported industrial action, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The dispute is about bonuses rather than base pay, and more specifically
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UBS analysts say China’s lithography programme is at roughly the stage ASML reached in 2004 and will not produce a viable EUV alternative within a decade. They also expect China to reach high-volume manufacturing of immersion DUV machines in two to five years, which is the category the Dutch
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Alphabet has contracted up to 396MW of geothermal power from Fervo Energy for a prospective Utah data centre from 2028, with an option on another 600MW by 2030 that would take the order close to a gigawatt. The European Union had about 1GW of net geothermal electricity capacity in total
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Dyson has put a camera inside a toothbrush. The CameraJet went on sale Tuesday for $499, combining a 100,000-pixel macro camera in the brush head with a small jet that sprays mouthrinse between the teeth. The company says it has spent six years developing the product. The camera is
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The United States will ask the G20 not to build any new institutions for governing artificial intelligence. A White House official set out the position before a two-day meeting that opened in North Carolina on Tuesday, Reuters reported. The argument is procedural rather than substantive, which is what makes it
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* Pentagon adopts two new AI models for use by DoD as part of plans to adopt AI technologies * ChatGPT Mil fills the role of a day to day AI assistant, while Grok for Government provides military users with "immediate productivity gains" * Both systems will be offered through the
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* The FarseerTech RocXZoom is raising funds on Kickstarter * You get a 50x hybrid zoom and 20x optical zoom from the camera * Dual-stabilization technologies mean everything stays still The FarseerTech RocXZoom stands out for a number of reasons: it's been developed by ex-DJI engineers, it solves some of the
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
