America's consumer fraud watchdog is revising its rules for online reviews and testimonials in advertising, raising the possibility of greater legal risk for those deceptively endorsing – or disparaging – products or services online in exchange for payment.…
When we talk about DevOps, it means we are discussing Development and Operations both. DevOps represents the amalgamation
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The US Space Force is apparently anything but, according to a think tank report that concludes the newest American military branch is woefully unprepared to defend space operations from Chinese or Russian aggression.…
Adobe's aim to complete its $20 billion purchase of web-first collaboration design startup Figma by the end of the year is less certain after Britain's competition regulator referred the deal for a deeper probe on concerns it'll reduce innovation.…
In today’s highly competitive business landscape, companies are constantly searching for innovative ways to capture the attention of
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You probably know that cryptocurrency is not subject to governments or central banks. Therefore, the government has no
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Intel's 4th generation Xeon Scalable processors arrived behind schedule when the silicon, codenamed Sapphire Rapids, debuted in January 2023. Now the x86 giant has paused shipments of some chips in that family due to a fault with the components.…
CRMs have emerged as a groundbreaking tool for businesses in all sectors. Rather than struggling with the management
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Urea reacts extremely quickly under the conditions that existed when our planet was newly formed. This new insight
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Economic way of creating MXene materials could enable new electronics or energy storage methods. The secret to a
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Chromosome analysis resolves debate about the sister group of all animals. It’s comb jellies. For more than a
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Meta's Oversight Board – the quasi-independent body the social networking giant established to review content moderation decisions – has recommended a national leader be banned from Facebook and Instagram for six months for promoting political violence. It has overridden a decision not to take down videos in which Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen threatened his political opponents.…
One of the two men who admitted stealing more than $23 million in royalty payments for songs played on YouTube has been sentenced to nearly six years behind bars for his role in what prosecutors called "one of the largest music-royalty frauds ever."…
America's Federal Aviation Administration has granted limited flight licenses to not one but two companies working on electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) craft, one of which could even be considered an actual flying car.…
Analysis Google is accused of misrepresenting the placement of YouTube video ads by playing them on low-quality third-party websites where they may never have been viewed. If so, that means Google has been taking millions if not billions of dollars from advertisers for video ads that perhaps no one actually watched.…
The most dangerous type of software bug is the out-of-bounds write, according to MITRE this week. This type of flaw is responsible for 70 CVE-tagged holes in the US government's list of known vulnerabilities that are under active attack and need to be patched, we note.…
In the legal field, accurate interpretation and understanding of information are paramount. As legal matters increasingly involve parties
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It's been months since "spy balloon" fever gripped the United States, but the headline-grabbing flying object – alleged to have been deployed by China – is back in the news. Preliminary findings from the US inspection of its wreckage show a whole bunch of commercially available hardware made in the States.…
Analysis With confirmation of support for table formats Apache Iceberg and Hudi this week, Databricks is striving to broaden the appeal of its approach to data lakes, strengthening its dominance in machine learning to branch out to data warehouse-type workloads.…
US memory chipmaker Micron is still experiencing revenue way below last year's highs, but the company believes the industry has bottomed out, meaning prices for buyers are likely to rise again as demand picks up.…
More efficient computing—potentially room temperature quantum computing — and recyclable rigid plastics are two projects to be undertaken
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Following the FDA approval for human clinical trials for brain tech startups, Anna Wexler of the Perelman School
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Two recently named Canada CIFAR AI Chairs are honing AI models and systems to benefit everything from the
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Birmingham City Council is running parallel systems to compensate for the troubled implementation of an Oracle system which will suck in £46.5 million ($58.81 million) in additional spending in the current financial year.…
The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has recruited Intel and the University of Cambridge for the compute resources it needs to develop Britain's prototype nuclear fusion reactor – including building a "digital twin" of the design to help with testing.…
Apple has joined the rapidly growing chorus of tech organizations calling on British lawmakers to revise the nation's Online Safety Bill – which for now is in the hands of the House of Lords – so that it safeguards strong end-to-end encryption.…
Microsoft and OpenAI were sued on Wednesday by sixteen pseudonymous individuals who claim the companies' AI products based on ChatGPT collected and divulged their personal information without adequate notice or consent.…
Kettle We've seen a slew of claims lately once again predicting dire times ahead for IT system administrators: if they're not under threat from AI and outsourcing, they face an increasingly demanding work atmosphere.…
This month you may have noticed the servers used by the GMP project – an open source arithmetic library at the heart of GCC and other programs – slowed to a crawl. It was due to a deluge of network traffic, the source of which is quite surprising.…
Washington is understood to be considering further restrictions on the export to China of advanced chips used for AI processing, moves which could dent the sales of companies including Nvidia and AMD.…
If you have decided to take up scuba diving seriously, you may need to buy a scuba tank,
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In the world of professional sports, data analysis has become an indispensable tool for teams seeking a competitive
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Virginia Tech University partners will conduct experiments and develop computational models that detail how a variety of solid
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Taking an idea that works on a small scale in the lab and upscaling it to produce large
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In a groundbreaking new study, engineers and medical researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have proven
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The UK Space Agency has awarded Lancaster University £240,000 to enable an unprecedented internet data rate provided by
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If approved, the new proprietary no-carrier-added lutetium-177 radioisotope process will expand MURR’s production of cutting-edge radioisotopes used in
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A Florida State University faculty member’s research on plate tectonics is helping to uncover more about the conditions
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Researchers in the Oregon State University College of Engineering have received funding to develop a process for converting
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Microsoft's bid to have customers of Teams Rooms hardware acquire corporate licenses is going so well – not! – that the software giant has extended the deadline to sign up by 90 days, even though the move involves price reductions.…
Microsoft's US legal battle to acquire gaming giant Activision Blizzard continued on Tuesday with courtroom testimony from Jim Ryan, CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, a company likely to be seriously affected if the deal goes through.…
On the heels of Cisco’s Accedian acquisition last week, the network giant has snapped up SamKnows to extend its ThousandEyes network performance monitoring (NPM) stack to remote and hybrid workers.…
Government employees of the US state of Ohio are in for a rude awakening - and commute - if the state's budget bill for the next year passes, as it includes an amendment that will limit those workers to one day a week of working from home.…
It's bad enough there's some Android stalkerware out there with the not-at-all-creepy moniker LetMeSpy. Now someone's got hold of the information the app collects – such as victims' text messages and call logs – as well as the email addresses of those who sought out the software, and leaked it all.…
Police breaking into and snooping on the EncroChat encrypted messaging network has led to 6,558 arrests worldwide and nearly €740 million seized in criminal funds, according to cops in France and the Netherlands.…
The npm Public Registry, a database of JavaScript packages, fails to compare npm package manifest data with the archive of files that data describes, creating an opportunity for the installation and execution of malicious files.…
There's a new atomic clock on the block over at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and while it's not as accurate as its predecessors it does have one big advantage: it's small enough to stick in your pocket.…
The UK is truly a digitised nation. In 2022, Statista figures showed that only 13% of people in
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Aspire Academy strives to be the leading sports institution for youth athlete development worldwide. Aspire Academy invites proposals from Startups, SMEs,
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Changing priorities among enterprise and cloud providers are driving apparently conflicting trends, according to research outfit Omdia, with demand for compute resources remaining high, especially as ChatGPT has spurred interest in AI training, yet at the same time server shipments are declining.…
When running a business in the tech field in 2023, it may seem tempting to require your employees
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To enhance a website’s online visibility, high-quality backlinks are imperative. Outreach email campaigns are one of the most
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Artificial intelligence has become a part and parcel of our daily lives. We use it for business, communication
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Knowledge may be power. But what if the information that leads to that knowledge is wrong? To Celeste
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Aspire Academy strives to be the leading sports institution for youth athlete development worldwide. The organization invites Startups, SMEs,
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Analysis Databricks has announced it will acquire generative AI startup MosaicML for $1.3 billion, in a deal that will make it easier for private entities to train and run their own custom machine learning models.…
Alphabet's plan to deliver high-speed internet service using helium-filled balloons may have been a bit too loony to work. Instead, the so-called Moonshot Factory has seemingly taken a page out of Dr Evil's playbook and started strapping lasers to buildings.…
Google plans to ship its Topics API when Chrome 115 arrives on July 12. That's the API that's supposed to allow advertisers to target netizens with adverts tailored to their individual interests without impinging on people's privacy.…
A New Jersey attorney is suing Microsoft for $1.75 million, claiming it didn't fix a verification issue that has cut him off from his paid work email, and therefore from communications with judges and clients, crippling his ability to deal with his caseload and leaving him at risk of making ethical violations.…
Are you watching a movie that keeps freezing regularly? It’s nothing new. This usually occurs due to different
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Japan’s military is currently evaluating Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service and is considering adopting the technology in
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Infosec in brief In a case startlingly similar to charges recently unsealed against one-term US president Donald Trump, a former FBI analyst has been jailed for taking sensitive classified material home with her.…
Who, Me? Ah, gentle reader, once again it is Monday and all that entails. But fear not, For The Reg is here with Who, Me? and another tale of things going not quite so well as might have been hoped. Perhaps this will lift your day.…
New research at USC Viterbi School of Engineering seeks to upcycle waste materials by harnessing the power of
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Will your city be under attack in the next six months? What are the odds that your favorite
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The European Union has announced an eleventh package of sanctions against Russia for its actions against Ukraine, and this time it’s tried to tackle Moscow’s key IT providers and entities established to evade export bans.…
AI in brief Nvidia's second-generation A100 GPUs, currently the subject of export controls that mean they're not for sale in China, can fetch up to $20,000 in black markets - double the regular price.…
+Comment The question over whether machine learning poses an existential risk to humanity will continue to loom over our heads as the technology advances and spreads around the world. Mainly because pundits and some industry leaders won't stop talking about it.…
Robots are increasingly doing what humans can’t, shouldn’t or don’t want to do—from writing emails and vacuuming the
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The Tor Browser, which strives to provide anonymity online rather than the limited data sharing internet companies call "privacy," has reached version 12.5, a milestone that brings usability and accessibility improvements alongside attention to legacy issues.…
Researchers have demonstrated how carbon dioxide can be captured from industrial processes – or even directly from the
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Machine learning can help extract important information from the huge numbers of plant specimens stored in herbaria, say
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Optical data communications lasers can transmit several tens of terabits per second, despite a huge amount of disruptive
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Bug hunters who found security holes in Google — and also responsibly disclosed details of those flaws to the Chocolate Factory — earned more than $12 million in bounty rewards in 2022, marking a record year for the corporation's Vulnerability Reward Programs (VRPs) in terms of payouts and number of vulnerabilities found and fixed.…
The results of applied and experimental quantum physics research are all around us, having made their way from
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Robot hand is the first device of its kind to join advanced sense of touch with motor-learning algorithms.
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For many technology enthusiasts, the metaverse – a virtual 3D environment in which the physical and digital worlds
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Continents are part of what makes Earth uniquely habitable for life among the planets of the solar system.
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With the federal government incentivizing the expansion of domestic electric-vehicle battery manufacturing, a new Cornell study examines the
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The wreckage of the Titan submersible, which had been missing since last Sunday, was located on Thursday by
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A US-based fraud prevention company is in hot water over allegations it not only collected data from millions of EU citizens and processed it using automated tools without their knowledge, but that it did so in the United States, all in violation of the EU's data protection rules.…
The Dutch government is expected to finally publish long-awaited rules covering extended export restrictions on technology to China next week, with ASML as a maker of advanced chipmaking gear likely to be one of those affected.…
A UK health minister has for the first time admitted that information from family doctors is set to be uploaded to the controversial Federated Data Platform (FDP), a set of technologies under a £480 million procurement for which US spy-tech company Palantir is the incumbent supplier.…
Some people are very anxious about artificial intelligence. Others are enthusiastic. But how intelligent is AI, really? Today,
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The use of technologies, including machine learning in measuring milk components of individual cows may ensure early detection
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If you’ve ever thought you may be running a temperature yet couldn’t find a thermometer, you aren’t alone.
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Aspire Academy invites proposals from Startups, SMEs, and Corporates for technologies that can support the implementation of a discrete,
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China has a playbook to use IP theft to seize leadership in cloud computing, and other nations should band together to stop that happening, according to Nathaniel C. Fick, the US ambassador-at-large for cyberspace and digital policy.…
Chipmaker Micron Technology has announced it will build an assembly and test facility in India, and fellow chip shop Applied Materials will build an engineering center in the nation – announcements that considerably bolster the subcontinent's ambition to become a silicon superpower.…
BlackLotus, the malware capable of bypassing Secure Boot protections and compromising Windows computers, has caught the ire of the NSA, which today published a guide to help organizations detect and prevent infections of the UEFI bootkit.…
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says Amazon.com website engaged in deceptive practices by enrolling millions of consumers
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An attempt to find and rescue the Titan submersible that vanished during a deep dive to the Titanic has ended with news that the craft likely imploded and its crew of five are dead. Debris from the sub was discovered in the search area earlier today.…
According to data from the job portal Indeed, job postings in the United States related to generative AI
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The global population today is experiencing a significant change with a massive increase in older adults. As entire
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The digital age has made entertainment more accessible than ever, with mobile casinos being one of the most
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In the age of advancing technology, it’s crucial to learn how to use it to enhance our lifestyles.
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Every business wants to be successful. One of the first goals of business owners is to develop and
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The UK's National Employment Savings Trust (Nest), an occupational pensions scheme, has inked a £1.5 billion ($1.9 billion) deal with TCS without competition after sacking off French supplier Atos earlier this year.…
An international team of researchers, studying macaque brains, have mapped out neurotransmitter receptors, revealing a potential role in
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Chitvan Killawala and Umer Bakali want to help protect firefighters from a potential threat. Their strategy to do
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Early warning signs of diseases caused by dysfunctional levels of stress hormones could be spotted more easily thanks
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NineSigma representing MATERI’ACT (Forvia Group) are seeking organizations who may have an interest in its hemp-fiber enforced Polypropylene “NAFILean” to positively
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The office of Australia's eSafety Commissioner has issued an official "please explain" to Twitter over its content moderation practices and whether it is enforcing its own policies against hateful conduct.…
The Federal Trade Commission has alleged that genetic testing firm 1Health.io, also known as Vitagene, deceived people when it said it would dispose of their physical DNA sample as well as their collected health data.…
The Federal Trade Commission today filed a lawsuit against Amazon for what it describes as a "years-long effort to enroll consumers into its Prime program without their consent while knowingly making it difficult for consumers to cancel their subscriptions."…
Choosing the best game server hosting is crucial for an immersive gaming experience. This article explores key factors
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The landscape of business and technology has been radically transformed by the rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI).
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Intel is selling a 20 percent stake in a key technology company it owns to investors Bain Capital, claiming the move will encourage more cross-industry collaboration once the chip giant loosens its grip on the venture.…
The most interesting parts of nature are often the imperfections. That’s especially true in quantum physics, the atomic-level
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Workers tasked with improving the output of Google's Bard chatbot say they've been told to focus on working fast at the expense of quality. Bard sometimes generates inaccurate information simply because there isn't enough time for these fact checkers to verify the software's output, one of those workers told The Register.…
The old-school hit and run “Whitey ball” era of baseball is long gone. In today’s game, coaches, scouts,
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QRDI and Es’hailSat drive telecommunication transformation within Qatar by targeting specific innovation challenges. Es’hailSat invites proposals from Startups,
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BNBchain, formerly known as Binance Smart Chain (BSC), is a blockchain network built by Binance, one of the
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The finding contradicts previous assumptions about the role of mobile plate tectonics in the development of life on
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The Face Game is a new online experiment that explores how chatbots will choose to appear to humans.
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Superfast, subatomic-sized particles called muons have been used to navigate underground in a reported world first wirelessly. By
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Neurotechnology’s iris recognition algorithm submission to the NIST IREX 10 evaluation improves performance and surpasses the competition in
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General Electric has halted its service of gas turbines at thermal power plants in Russia. The news about
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Time and oxygen are both running out for the crew of an ill-fated expedition to the two-mile deep wreck of the Titanic, which lost contact with its parent vessel less than two hours after beginning its descent on Sunday.…
The NHS has awarded US spy-tech firm Palantir a £24.9 million ($31.7 million) deal to cover the one-year transition from June 12, 2023, to a new £480 million ($611 million) data platform. The controversial competition for that half-billion-pound platform is set to conclude in September.…
The European Parliament has voted yes to replaceable battery legislation, putting Apple on a path to a second redesign just over a year after USB-C charging ports were mandated in the bloc.…
Are you someone who loves to craft but often struggles with maintaining its quality? Are you one of
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A new report on sustainable soil management by a joint task force led by Lancaster Environment Centre has
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With a dramatic boost in computing capability, a team of researchers has solved a decades-long mystery about whether
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Foxconn chairman and CEO Young Liu believes the manufacturing megalith will be able to continue building components in China for use in electronics produced by US companies, despite testy relations between the nations' governments.…
NineSigma representing Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., a major global chemical manufacturer, seeks a potential development partner to jointly elucidate the mechanism
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In the world of sales, setting appointments is the first crucial step towards closing deals and driving revenue.
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Intel has agreed a deal with the German government for €10 billion ($10.9 billion) in subsidies for a new chip plant in the country, despite Germany's finance minister saying just last week that it would not offer more cash.…
Infosec in brief Remember earlier this year, when we found out that a bunch of baddies including at least one nation-state group broke into a US federal government agency's Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) web server by exploiting a critical three-year-old Telerik bug to achieve remote code execution?…
Promoting inclusivity and ensuring accessibility is just as important in the digital world as it is in the real
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Language barriers can be a significant hindrance to communication and understanding. Trying to communicate in a foreign country
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Infectious diseases and respiratory infections in particular, are a leading cause of global mortality. As such, there is
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Users of web hosting company 123 Reg are up in arms after it abruptly stopped supporting free email redirects and instead required customers to subscribe to a paid mailbox service or migrate to another service provider.…
Opinion Open source. It's open. You can look. Mostly, you can use. There's a clue in the name. Not so fast, claims a class action brought against Microsoft, OpenAI and GitHub. Copilot, an in-IDE AI-powered and open source trained suggestion bot, works by offering lines of code to programmers - and that, the class action suit alleges, breaks the rules, and is being sneaky in trying to hide it. A judge has ruled that some of the claims deserve their day in court. Dear lord, not another copyright battle.…
Wave energy converters (WECs) are at an earlier stage of development than wind and solar power plants. Various
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Supercomputing simulations on TACC’s Stampede2 system spot electronic differences in adjacent transition-metal atoms. No one will ever be
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Are the HVDC grids the future? The European Green Deal and the European Commission’s dedicated Offshore Renewable Energy
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NineSigma representing Materi’act (Forvia Group) are seeking online/inline technologies which can analyse the grades of contamination of recycled Polypropylene (PP) in solid or molten
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Asia In Brief US-based memory-maker Micron on Friday informed investors it's still unsure how China intends to act after warning its products had failed a security review.…
In the murky world of political and corporate spin, announcing bad news on Friday afternoon – a time when few media outlets are watching, and audiences are at a low ebb – is called "taking out the trash." And that’s what Microsoft appears to have done last Friday.…
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Bill Gates discussed the global advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) during their meeting
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Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk expressed his anticipation for the first human trial by his brain-chip startup Neuralink this
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A team from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis and Massachusetts Institute of
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You’re in an autonomous car when a rabbit suddenly hops onto the road before you. OH NO! Here’s
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Google has sold off Google Domains – its side hustle selling and managing web domains – to Squarespace in a deal reportedly worth $180 million. The transfer means about ten million customer domain names will be looked after by Squarespace.…
CFD is an important tool that can be used to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases in the shipping
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Space weather forecasts are formed from imagery and data from satellites, and a myriad of other scientific instruments.
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A University of Texas at Arlington researcher is working to increase the security of natural language generation (NLG)
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Common neurological disorders like depression and chronic pain can be challenging to treat with conventional methods. An automated
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“The ‘75 years of Porsche sports cars’ anniversary was the occasion for us to rework this trademark,” said
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Decarbonization could happen faster – but electrical grids must become more flexible by allowing industry to tap into
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Electric cars are today being deployed in ever greater numbers across the developed world, and in Norway they
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Heavier rain, longer droughts, melting glaciers: climate change has a dramatic impact on the global water cycle. For
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