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Lees meerAdd balance and a bit of articulation and you can shave off steel and money A Dublin-based company with a modular floating offshore wind turbine design believes its design checks one of the most important boxes the deep-sea wind industry has yet to …
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Lees meerGoogle X-born startup pushes graphical approach to industrial control Intrinsic, a robotics platform upstart founded in 2021 by Google's X "moonshot" research group, showed off its first product and announced a partner on Monday.…
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Lees meerFormer MySQL fork launches attack on hyperscaler database services with support for multiple front ends MariaDB is facing up to the reality of becoming a grown-up software company. Following its stock market debut late last year, it must strike a ba…
Lees meerSmall but mighty update will help its many users – even the unwitting ones The latest update to the ultra-lightweight Alpine Linux distro, as widely used for hosting Docker containers, fixes an important issue.…
Lees meerKeeping files that mention 'robot rental' may not have been the best way to cover their tracks Police have arrested 69 people alleged to have used bots to book up nearly all of Spain's available appointments with immigration officials, and then sold…
Lees meerAims to 'clear' the network of unauthorized misinformation. Stuff from official sources can't be wrong! On Monday, China's internet regulator said it had run a campaign to rid the nation of fake news.…
Lees meerWhen Irish AIs are smiling The Irish Times, one of the republic's respected broadsheet newspapers, has apologized for publishing an opinion article said to have been generated by AI software and submitted by an anonymous trickster.…
Lees meerAnd just about worth the pain of a cross-platform migration. Eventually First Look I find adopting a new smartphone has become tedious and painful – especially when moving between iOS and Android. So it's a rare handset that makes me feel it's wort…
Lees meerMysterious society fingered as source The African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC), the continent's regional internet registry, has advised members of a misinformation campaign regarding elections it hasn't scheduled – and named internet governa…
Lees meerMysterious society group fingered as source The African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC), the continent's regional internet registry, has advised members of a misinformation campaign regarding elections it hasn't scheduled – and named internet g…
Lees meerXCast knew it was breaking the law and didn't hold back, watchdog says A VoIP provider was at the heart of billions of robocalls made over the past five years that broke a slew of US regulations, from enabling telemarketing scams to calling numbers …
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