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Tekever AR5 drone regarded as more up-to-date answer to provide battlefield surveillance for soldiers The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is investing up to £400 million in new surveillance drones to replace the British Army's troublesome Watchkeeper fleet. The MoD has selected the Tekever AR5 uncrewed aerial vehicle
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AI AND ML History's biggest infrastructure build-out is pushing up hardware and software prices, analyst says Spending on AI infrastructure is pushing tech sector expenditure to historic levels, and enterprise customers are already footing the bill through higher software and hardware prices. John-David Lovelock, Distinguished VP Analyst at
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Identity and access management has become a foundational component of enterprise cybersecurity, but the systems organizations buy to manage identity often create a second problem: making those systems work across the full complexity of the enterprise. Way Security, founded by former security leaders Yossi Barishev and Yonatan Rosenberg, is targeting
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Start with the number, because the number moved fast. Google has agreed to cover as much as $44bn of lease payments on data centres owned by other people, should the tenant default. It disclosed the figure last week. At the end of September the same commitment stood at $6.5bn,
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The headline number from Starship’s 13th flight is not 20 satellites. It is one word in SpaceX’s own flight report: intact. Starship lifted off from Starbase in Texas at 5:51pm on Friday, after delays and engine replacements pushed the attempt back. It was the second flight of
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Nuclear power usually arrives with a very large price tag and a very long wait. Nuclear Turbines, a Manchester startup spun out of BAE Systems, has raised £15M to argue that it need not be either, at a moment when nuclear power startups across Europe are pulling in record amounts
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TL;DR VW’s Tiguan PHEV dropped from #1 to #4 in Europe as BYD Seal U, BYD Atto 2, and Jaecoo 7 overtook it. Blume demands EU PHEV tariffs. Chinese brands hold 28.3% of Europe’s PHEV market. Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume is demanding the European Union impose
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Zhu Yiming got about $10bn richer on Monday. He has promised to give roughly $5.6bn of it away, and not to charity. The chairman of CXMT saw his fortune climb nearly 300% to $13.9bn when the memory chipmaker closed its Shanghai debut up 466%, according to the Bloomberg
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TL;DR Waymo collected 83 parking citations ($9,325) in Austin, with 64 tow-away zone violations. One car parked in a disabled space ($519 fine). The same error is repeating fleet-wide. Waymo’s robotaxis have accumulated 83 parking citations and $9,325 in fines in Austin since the fleet arrived
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A development bank has just minted a unicorn, and it took two years. Ominimo, a Budapest-based motor insurance startup founded by Serbian and Hungarian entrepreneurs, has closed a Series B led by the venture arm of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The round is €20.1mn, or about
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The complaint says out loud what most cases like it only imply. It exists, its authors write, to challenge how Discord and Meta misuse “section 230 of the Communications Decency Act as a shield against accountability”. That single sentence explains the whole filing. A California woman, suing as Jane Doe,
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Samsung pulled the wraps off the Galaxy Z Flip 8 at its Galaxy Unpacked event, with preorders now live and the phone officially releasing on August 7. It carries over many of the Flip 7’s best features which earned it a place on our list of the top phones
