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Australia may face a rush of datacentre construction as AI firms look to dodge upcoming rules, experts say
Regulations will require new sites to avoid pushing up power prices by building renewable energy plants and minimising water use
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Life360 expands pet tracking with new $8 scannable tags and zoomie alerts | TechCrunch
Life360’s new $7.99 scannable pet tags alert families when a lost pet is found and share its last known location, while new care-tracking features help households keep tabs on feeding, walks, medication, and more.
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Canada announces retaliatory tariffs on wide range of US goods
Ottawa’s ‘focused response’ to levies imposed by Donald Trump on Canadian products comes after trade talks collapsed last week
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Five more arrested and second man charged after fatal A66 crash, taking arrests to 17
Five more people have been arrested and a man has been charged following a major investigation into the events leading up to the fatal A66 crash.
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RSPCA reveals ‘secret weapon’ to tackling common cause of food poisoning
Standard UK meat chickens drive up risk of diarrhoea and sickness bug at least 100-fold, says charity
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One in four NFL players could get CTE, alarming new study finds
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a progressive brain disease linked to repeated head impacts
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NFL: At least one in four dead players had brain disease, says study
A new study says at least one in four ex-NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 had a degenerative brain disease but the true figure could be much higher.
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North East cancer charity bids for £15,000 funding votes to complete vital upgrades
A North Shields charity supporting people affected by cancer could receive £15,000 to complete much-needed upgrades at its Nile Street base. Live…
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Bishop Auckland beauty salon staff 'heartbroken' after car reversed into building
Bishop Auckland beauty salon The Brow Lounge has been severely damaged after a vehicle reversed into the building in the early hours of the morning.
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OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale, benchmarks show | TechCrunch
Tested on SemiAnalysis’ InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño registered both more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt than the currently available state-of-the art.
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US consumer confidence falls in August as gas prices remain above $4 per gallon
Confidence index drops to 89.4 in August from 90.2 in July amid frustration after five years of elevated inflation
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Labour tells TikTok: Take down videos that glorify dangerous driving
Number 10 described the glorification of dangerous driving as ‘utterly disgraceful’ as it warned social media firms to take down videos ‘celebrating’ a wrong-way driving trend
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ICE arrested nearly 50,000 people last month, a staggering 70% jump since February
In the month prior to Trump taking office, monthly immigration arrests hovered just above 8,000
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Newscast - Is China Replacing Workers With Robots? - BBC Sounds
And, is Prime Minister Andy Burnham fulfilling his council house building target?
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UN warns humanity is ‘dangerously close’ to handing kill decisions to machines
The United Nations and the International Red Cross are urging countries to adopt bans and restrictions on autonomous weapons systems, often called killer robots
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Louisiana National Guard ends deployment in New Orleans after eight months patrolling French Quarter
The Louisiana National Guard announced this week that it is ending its eight-month deployment patrolling the streets of New Orleans
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Gianni Infantino: Irish FA withdraws support for Fifa president
The Irish Football Association says it is "time for change" at Fifa and they will not be voting for president Gianni Infantino's re-election next year.
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Qatar pushes to revive US-Iran talks and reopen Hormuz
Qatar says its officials are speaking to the parties daily to restart US-Iran negotiations, while urging Tehran to reopen and immediately restore freedom of navigation through the key energy route.
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Drinker who 'killed man' in Willington pub 'had just learnt he was his dad'
A jury has heard how a man was charged with the manslaughter of his ‘dad’ after he pushed him over in a Willington beer garden.
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Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica | TechCrunch
Lica co-founders are going to work on Gamma's new research team.
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Self-driving truck startup Gatik raises $200M following PepsiCo deal | TechCrunch
The funding, Gatik's largest so far, was led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies.
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‘I love rats but we can’t live with them’: the headache of rising rodent populations around the world
Robert Corrigan has been dealing with the ‘smart’ rodents all his life – and believes there are better solutions to deal with the growing infestation in the world’s cities
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These are the states where you will spend the most time in the ER
A fifth of patients spend more time waiting in the ER than health professionals recommend for the level of care they require
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Bari Weiss is looking to add former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo to CBS News lineup
Bari Weiss is ‘enraptured’ with Cuomo, it is claimed, and is hoping to bring the former CNN anchor onboard
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Apple's latest Mac Mini runs on a new M6 chip, and starts at $899 | TechCrunch
The base model of the Mac Mini comes with 256GB of storage, 16GB of RAM, and costs $899.
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Employers want your Slack DMs to be public so AI can learn from them
One company even turned public messaging into a friendly competition among executives
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Disruption expected as historic Yorkshire railway bridge gets £800k upgrade
Brotherton Bridge, near Knottingley has carried trains across the River Aire since the mid-19th century and will undergo essential engineering work…
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That fake Grand Theft Auto VI demo is actually just malware | TechCrunch
Grand Theft Auto fans, eager for news about one of the most anticipated video games of all time, appear especially vulnerable to this new cyberattack.
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Who does Iran trade with and what could Trump's 'economic D-Day' mean?
Iran is no stranger to US sanctions and has developed deep economic ties with several countries.
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Parents are being warned to check payments after CMS errors
Child maintenance payments can be too high or too low. Here's how parents can challenge a wrong calculation and the deadlines they need to know.
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US-based artist jailed in China for three years over sculptures mocking Mao
Chinese artist Gao Zhen was sentenced to three years in prison on Tuesday for “infringing upon the reputation of heroes”
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DWP tells pensioners to prove they need their benefits in bid to slash 100,000 claims
Exclusive: A campaign targeting older Britons who take home less than the state pension has started
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Community project transforms Spennymoor bus shelters into works of art
Five bus shelters across Spennymoor have been transformed with vibrant artwork created by local artists, schools and community groups as part of a…
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Man, 69, spared jail after turning up to Thetford protest with wooden bat
Brian Thompson was given a suspended prison sentence after arriving at a protest earlier this month with a wooden bat sticking out of his pocket
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Trump team wants to offload ‘woke’ painting by artist behind Obama portrait
The painting Young Artists After Siamesas 1960 had been hanging in the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo since 2015 before being removed
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Swedish military seeks to take over Russian-owned estate near naval base
The armed forces request the seizure of the plot near Muskö Naval Base citing threats from Russian drones.
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Polygamous leader featured in Netflix series faces sentencing for child abuse
He was one of the trusted followers of Warren Jeffs, who is serving a life sentence in Texas for sexual assault of children
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Inspectors to assess police following Henry Nowak murder
Hampshire Police officers initially arrested the student and placed him in handcuffs as he lay dying.
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A Chinese humanoid robot sets a new 100-meter sprint record at Beijing Games
A Chinese humanoid robot has set a new 100-meter sprint record of 8.86 seconds in Beijing
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LeBron James and the PGA Tour to stage a two-day event at Firestone geared toward youth
LeBron James' passion for golf now includes a partnership with the PGA Tour
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Trump times his Ireland trip to coincide with major golf tournament at his own club
President Trump will stay at Doonbeg next month, just as resort hosts Irish Open
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Swimming school backed by Olympic champion opening in Teesside this autumn
A new £1m children's swim school founded by the Olympic champion is set to open in Teesside later this year, with construction now under way.
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Apple rescues Hide My Email feature from the privacy scrap heap | TechCrunch
Apple says it will no longer ditch using its icloud.com domain for hiding people's email addresses.
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Republicans expect Trump pick Darline Graham to lose tonight’s SC runoff: report
Trump’s super PAC has pumped money into the race, but she remains neck-and-neck against Rep. Ralph Norman
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Canada targets steel, fish and hundreds of other goods as Trump trade war escalates
Canada has pledged to roll out “dollar for dollar” counter-tariffs on scores of U.S. goods next month, in response to President Donald Trump’s latest import taxes that have plunged the North American neighbors deeper into a bitter trade war
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Family pays tribute to ‘brilliant’ woman, 23 found dead in flat
Four women and two men aged were arrested on suspicion of murder
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Trump drove a lap past his own $14.7M mistake — then went looking for a fight
The Grand Prix and the re-escalated trade war are the same instinct: press ahead with the unpopular thing, because the unpopular thing puts him at the center of it, writes Andrew Feinberg
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‘We struggle to build anything’: Readers split on Burnham housing plan
Our community weigh in on the prime minister’s £10bn plan to build 70,000 new homes, with many questioning whether the scale of the pledge matches the scale of Britain’s housing crisis
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Ceuta migration sparks nearly 9,600 hate posts on social media
The Spanish Observatory on Racism and Xenophobia logged 9,590 hate messages in two days tied to a July influx of some 80,000 migrants into Ceuta. #EuropeNews
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Boy injured in crocodile enclosure discharged from hospital
Family of three-year-old allegedly thrown into pit at Cambridgeshire zoo say he is happy to be back at home
