WhatsApp now works better for people who don’t have the app

The latest update allows users to create personalised event invitations and share them through a link, meaning friends and family can view the details and RSVP without needing a WhatsApp account. It’s a welcome change…

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Micron Suspends Work On $4.5bn Taiwan Plant Amid Labour Row

Executives are concerned about uncertainties including that an agreement it recently reached with the union representing workers at its Taichung plant could be overturned, and has informed Taiwanese authorities and a…

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Dundee biotech PhaSER wins $2.7M Gates grant for infectious disease drugs

The company announced the award in a statement this morning. The two-year grant renews PhaSER’s place in the foundation’s Global Health Discovery Collaboratory , a programme that gives Gates-funded teams access to shared…

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VZMore iX9 Max review

Both are very similar in size, port selection, and performance, despite one running on Intel silicon and the other on AMD. At the time of writing, the iX9 does enjoy a bit of a price advantage, though, costing £849…

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$1bn start-up Rillet makes London its first European base

It is the company’s first major move into Europe, Rillet said on Monday. Customers in the UK and the rest of Europe already account for 15% of Rillet’s new annual recurring revenue, the company said. They include AI…

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Huawei Launches First Enterprise PC Using Domestic CPU, OS

The company said that the use of software, processor, memory and other components made in China made it the country’s first desktop system to be certified as “100 percent domestic”, although the exact scope of the…

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Bikers and Bug-Lovers Join Forces to Fight a New Google Data Center

On Wednesday afternoon, Jamie Robins strolled up to the entrance of Google’s UK headquarters in Kings Cross, London. He brandished a letter containing details of a petition signed by almost 55,000 people, calling for…

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Dev error bricked 600 PCs, caused $1M CD-ROM write-off

This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Oriel" who told us he once worked for a vendor of small business accounting software. This story comes from a time when software shipped on CD-ROMs and users bought it off the…

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Scientists predict 2026 hottest year on record as climate talks begin

The warning comes as world leaders and negotiators gather in Turkey on Monday for the opening of COP31, the latest UN climate summit. Berkeley Earth, the independent US research group behind the forecast, said that even…

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Welcome to Weed Island

Rows of plants stretch off into the distance. To the untrained eye, they look largely the same, with their distinctive jagged-edged, multi-fingered leaf shape and sticky buds like tiny pinecones. But Tan, the CEO and…

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