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Water supply issues for thousands in Kent days after week-long outage
Thousands of people in Kent are once again experiencing water supply issues days after similar disruption. An estimated 4,500 properties in several rural areas around Maidstone and hundreds more in Tunbridge Wells are experiencing little to no water, South East Water (SEW) said. The company put the issues down to an electrical fault at a read more
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2025 Booooooom Photo Awards Judges: Introducing Jessie Wender
Can you share three life moments that shaped who you are today? 1. Having my son two and a half years ago has changed me in so many ways. Watching him grow and learn all these new things is so amazing. And his enthusiasm for life is genuinely inspiring. It has changed my views on read more
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Trump’s cryptic comments fuel rumors of Apple investing in Intel
President Trump comments suggest Apple joined Nvidia and others in investing in Intel Apple may have signed a contract with Intel for chip production Apple and Broadcom job listings indicate interest in Intel EMIB technology President Donald Trump has suggested Apple may have joined Nvidia and other investors while discussing the US government’s 10% stake read more
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The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable – Nobel Peace Prize
A Nobel Peace Prize laureate receives two central symbols of the prize: a gold medal and a diploma. In addition, the prize money is awarded separately. Regardless of what may happen to the medal, the diploma, or the prize money, it is and remains the original laureate who is recorded in history as the recipient read more
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Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows | TechCrunch
A report from market intelligence firm Similarweb suggests that Meta’s Threads is now seeing more daily usage than Elon Musk’s X on mobile devices. While X still dominates Threads on the web, the Threads mobile app for iOS and Android has continued to see an increase in daily active users over the past several months. read more
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Tuxedo launches a slim 16-inch business laptop with a high-end Intel CPU
InfinityBook Max 16 delivers desktop-class Intel Core Ultra 9 performance RTX 5060 and 5070 GPUs allow customizable power and fan noise levels 8mm low-profile cooling handles combined CPU and GPU power up to 170w Tuxedo has unveiled the InfinityBook Max 16, a 16-inch Linux workstation built around the Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX, a 24-core read more
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Moxie Marlinspike has a privacy-conscious alternative to ChatGPT | TechCrunch
If you’re at all concerned about privacy, the rise of AI personal assistants can feel alarming. It’s difficult to use one without sharing personal information, which is retained by the model’s parent company. With OpenAI already testing advertising, it’s easy to imagine the same data collection that fuels Facebook and Google creeping into your chatbot read more
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Six killed in Pakistan shopping mall fire
A fire at a shopping centre in the Pakistan city of Karachi has killed six people as firefighters continue to battle the blaze. Parts of the Gul Plaza, containing 1,200 stores and spanning 8,000 sq m (86,111 sq ft), have collapsed which officers said was hampering rescue efforts. One firefighter is among the dead, more read more
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The Jones Hovercraft 2.0 Snowboard Is for Off-Piste Adventures
The Hovercraft 2.0 features a bit of serration in the edges that Jones calls Traction Tech, which bites into hard snow but somehow doesn’t interrupt carving. I don’t think Traction Tech is quite as reliable as Lib Tech’s Magne-Traction (same concept, but with a few additional bumps), but this board held its edge extremely well read more
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Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills
Starting in 2026, communication has become the most important skill for software engineers. It’s not writing code, system designs, or having estoric knowledge of a programming language (i.e., Rust). AI coding agents have gotten very, very good. A year ago, I’d reach out to Cursor hesitantly for MVPs or quick fixes. Today, I use Claude read more
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Eight skiers killed in Austrian avalanches
At least eight people have been killed in a series of avalanches in Austria, according to reports. Three Czech skiers were killed in the Pusterwald area of the Murtal district in Styria on Saturday, according to Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung. It was reported seven skiers were caught up in the avalanche in central Austria, with read more
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Fears Irans internet shutdown could lead to extreme digital isolation
Joe Tidy,BBC cybersecurity correspondentand Farshad Bayan,BBC Persian NurPhoto via Getty Images Iran is 10 days into one of the most extreme internet shutdowns in history, with 92 million citizens cut off from all internet services and even disruption to phone and text messaging. The Iranian government cut off services on 8 January, apparently to stifle read more
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The Best Juicer Is a Slow Juicer
Frequently Asked Questions How We Tested and What We Tested AccordionItemContainerButton We put each juicer through the paces, funneling a mountain of vegetables and fruit through each device, testing especially its ability to handle both tough and fibrous veggies and softer produce such as greens and berries. We taste-test a classic green juice (apples, carrots, read more
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The Texas Diners, Oil Rigs, and Stadiums of 'Landman'
On Location peels back the curtain on some of your favorite films, television shows, and more. On Landman, Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton) is always either muttering an exasperated quip, a strangely profound observation, or taking a puff of a cigarette. Tommy, the titular landman, has the not-so-glamorous role of procuring leases for oil extraction, read more
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Afcon 2025: Will final be Sadio Manes last dance with Senegal?
For Sadio Mane, it all started in Bambali. It was in south-west Senegal that he began playing football on its red earth-lined streets and sandy pitches and where, aged 13, he watched Liverpool’s famous comeback against AC Milan in the Champions League final in 2005. Since then he has gone on to lift both that read more
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Why Silicon Valley is really talking about fleeing California (it's not the 5%) | TechCrunch
If you’ve been following the billionaire exodus from California with some confusion, here’s what’s actually driving the nervousness: it’s not the 5% rate. As highlighted Friday in the New York Post, the proposed wealth tax would hit founders on their voting shares rather than the actual equity they own. Take Larry Page, who about 3% read more
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Laser based charging system aims to keep drones airborne indefinitely
Novel laser system beams power wirelessly to drones in flight over kilometers PowerLight tests airborne charging tech aimed at extended drone endurance Laser power beaming moves from lab components to integrated flight systems PowerLight Technologies has unveiled a laser-based wireless power system designed to keep drones flying for extended periods without needing to land to read more
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The power crunch threatening America’s AI ambitions
Many utility companies are pinning their short-term hopes on “demand response” solutions that require companies to curtail activity at peak times. AI model builders typically run data centres at full capacity during “training runs” — where they feed LLMs with vast amounts of data to improve accuracy. These rises in activity can clash with consumption read more
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The A in AGI stands for Ads
AIOpenAIIts all ads?Bakwaas-free ReportingHalf-SatireHalf-TruthWhat are these tags even for? The World is Ads Here we go again, the tech press is having another AI doom cycle. I’ve primarily written this as a response to an NYT analyst painting a completely unsubstantiated, baseless, speculative, outrageous, EGREGIOUS, preposterous “grim picture” on OpenAI going bust. Mate come on. read more
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Who gets to inherit the stars? A space ethicist on what we're not talking about | TechCrunch
In October, at a tech conference in Italy, Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos predicted that millions of people will be living in space “in the next couple of decades” and “mostly,” he’d said, “because they want to,” because robots will be more cost-effective than humans for doing the actual work in space. No read more
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