The worst possible news came out of Netflix this week, as the company announced another round of price hikes for all the Netflix plans. The company is doing it to support its content investments. That’s even though the giant streaming service announced it added nearly 19 million new subscribers in Q4, for a total of…
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OpenAI surprised the world on Thursday when it announced Operator AI agents for ChatGPT. Given the latest leaks, I knew the Operator launch was imminent, but I thought OpenAI would want to make a bigger deal about releasing its first AI agent that can do things for the user.It turns out Operator doesn’t need much…
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The iPhone 17 series is expected to have several design changes following a few years of similar styling. Among the differences is a narrower Dynamic Island, thanks to Apple’s rumored ability to hide some of the Face ID sensors under the panel.This design change is said to be coming to the iPhone 17 Pro models,…
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Thousands of unionised drivers working for ride-hailing apps are striking to demand better pay and workplace safety protections, in line with court decisions that have said drivers should start being paid as soon as they log in. First announced by Addison Lee drivers who staged a similar strike action in September 2024, drivers with Uber…
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Google parent company Alphabet has dropped its pledge to not use artificial intelligence (AI) in weapons systems or surveillance tools, citing a need to support the national security of “democracies”. Google CEO Sundar Pichai, in a blogpost published Jun 2018, previously outlined how the company would “not pursue” AI applications that “cause or are likely…
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Living England is among the latest batch of artificial intelligence (AI) projects listed as part of the government’s drive to showcase the uses of AI and open data in the public sector. Run by Natural England, the project uses satellite imagery, field data records and other geospatial data to create a national habitat map of…
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If you read BGR’s in-depth Sonos Arc Ultra review, you know that we were absolutely blown away by how impressive Sonos’s latest high-end soundbar is. It’s easily the best Dolby Atmos soundbar on the planet right now, and we would recommend it to anyone and everyone if not for the price tag. Since it’s super…
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An obscure British government committee is to be asked this month to advise Home Secretary Yvette Cooper whether to go ahead with government demands that Apple provide British agents with a secret backdoor to break into the companies iCloud Advanced Data Protection system, enabling British spies to secretly copy and read users’ private data. …
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This year signalled a worrying time for diversity, equity and inclusion in the technology sector as many firms began rolling back their initiatives and efforts. This lack of commitment led many notable diversity organisations to dial back their own efforts, not wanting to contribute to allowing firms to pretend to be making a difference rather…
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The rise of generative AI (GenAI) is reshaping industries, but it’s also creating an unprecedented demand for energy. Datacentres supporting AI workloads are expanding at a breakneck pace to meet the needs of increasingly complex large language models (LLMs). However, this growth comes at a cost: by 2027, 40% of AI datacentres will face operational…
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