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Police accessed phone records of ‘trouble-making journalists’

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Police in Northern Ireland ran a rolling program to monitor the telephone records of “trouble-making journalists”, a tribunal heard. Journalists that “were perceived to be conducting unwanted investigations” into the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), were subject to unlawful monitoring, it was claimed. The “defensive operation”, revealed in documents disclosed at the Investigatory Powers…

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Should you get AirPods 3 or wait for AirPods 4?

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Apple’s AirPods 3 are among the most popular earbuds out there right now. That’s to be expected, of course, since AirPods are super popular in general. But this year, Apple is finally expected to update its AirPods lineup with a new AirPods 4 model that should debut alongside the iPhone 16 lineup in September. Does…

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When will Apple release new M4 Macs?

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With the surprising announcement of the M4 chip for the new OLED iPad Pro, Apple declares the end of the M3 processor family by focusing on this new era. However, it means Cupertino needs to start updating all its MacBook and Mac models with the M4 chip. Here’s when these devices might get a refresh.Is…

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Currys signs up Microsoft and Accenture to modernise IT

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Currys has chosen Microsoft and Accenture to enable it to develop core cloud technology infrastructure to support artificial intelligence (AI)-powered initiatives. The electronics retailer plans to use the latest AI technologies to enhance operations, elevate the shopping experience and improve the experience of its retail workforce. Through the contract, Accenture and Microsoft, together with their…

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Ofcom publishes draft online child safety rules for tech firms

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Social media firms must implement effective age-checks and “tame toxic algorithms” recommending harmful content to children, according to Ofcom’s new safety codes of practice. Published by Ofcom on 8 April 2024, the children’s safety codes contain more than 40 measures designed to help social media firms comply with new legal obligations placed on them by…

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Executive interview: Adding common sense to generative AI creativity

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There is a healthy relationship between large language models (LLMs) and graph databases, which are used to draw in information across different networks of data, according to Jim Webber, chief scientist at Neo4j. Computer Weekly spoke to Webber following the ratification of the GQL ISO standard, which provides a standard way to run searches across…

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New innovation may help EV batteries last significantly longer

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A new, unexpected EV innovation could soon completely revolutionize how we create batteries used in electric vehicles. The discovery was completely accidental, but it could allow for capacitors with 19 times the energy density of current options.The breakthrough comes in the form of a new material structure that could allow capacitors in electric vehicles or…

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I ran my first marathon wearing an Apple Watch SE and AirPods

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I finally did it: I ran my first marathon, and it went much better than I expected. However, in the final quarter of the race, it was also more painful than I would have wanted, and I only have myself to blame for that. I skipped strength training sessions while training over the winter, and…

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Data, online delivery and the search for continual e-commerce improvement

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In the sessions at The Delivery Conference 2024 in London, there were echoes of the famous quote, commonly misattributed to Albert Einstein (first written evidence instead points to Narcotics Anonymous’ Basic text), that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. During a varied and insightful day…

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Google I/O 2024: How to watch and what to expect

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Google I/O is one of the biggest technology events of the year, constantly competing with Apple’s WWDC annual developer conference. Both events usually occur within a month of each other, and this year is no exception.I/O 2024 kicks off on Tuesday, May 14th this year. There’s a ton of expected announcements around software and artificial…

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