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Amazon believes that AI helping you buy clothes is better than sending back things that don’t fit

Amazon replaces ‘Try before you buy’ with a ‘Virtual try-on’. Swapping a physical sample for a digital one is becoming something of a theme in online retail. Virtual Try-On joins other features like AI-powered size recommendations. Amazon would rather you try on clothes virtually than test their fit at home. The company is officially retiring […]

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IaaS specialist Leaseweb wants to shake up the virtual private server tree with plenty of VPS offerings from under $5/month

New Leaseweb products appeal to tinkerers who want total control at an affordable price VPS 1 gets 4 vCPU, 6 GB vRAM and 100 GB NVMe SSD storage with 30 TB bandwidth and 10 Gbps uplink Leaseweb says the VPSs are also equipped with ‘latest’ generation CPUs Leaseweb has announced the launch of a new

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ChatGPT is a homework helper for more than a quarter of teenagers – and the trend is accelerating

ChatGPT use in school work doubled in one year to 26% among American teenagers A majority of teenagers think it’s fine to use ChatGPT for research Far fewer support using ChatGPT to write essays or solve math problems I’m old enough to remember when teachers said we couldn’t use a calculator on tests because we

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Biden orders review, new rules for US national cyber security

President Biden introduces new government cybersecurity requirements Third-party software providers must demonstrate compliance with new requirements The federal government must use end-to-end encryption by default In one of his last acts as President of the United States, Joe Biden has signed an executive order aimed at strengthening America’s national cyber security. The order sets out

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Unlock the full potential of financial services with all-photonic networks

The digital age has changed the way financial services operate, pushing the industry to stay technologically savvy just to keep up. Still, this technology-driven shift is not without problems. Old legacy systems, tight regulations and the demand for real-time data management have put pressure on conventional solutions, making them feel obsolete. But fully photonic networks,

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AirPods Pro 2’s hearing aid mode is coming to the UK soon and I’m so happy to hear it

AirPods Pro 2’s useful hearing aid mode is coming to the UK soon The feature is coming “within weeks” due to a change in UK regulations The mode is only available on AirPods Pro 2 and not other AirPods Apple’s impressive hearing aid mode for the AirPods Pro 2 is coming to the UK following

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Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 buds have just appeared in an official database, ready for launch

New FCC filings suggest that the Powerbeats Pro 2 launch is imminent The filing suggests Bluetooth LE for iOS and Android users A slimmer, more modern design We know the Powerbeats Pro 2 exist (after a string of leaks sprung up last September), and we all know they’ll launch in 2025. And it now looks

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Xiaomi tipped to set an impressive new phone battery benchmark in 2025 – and I hope Apple and Samsung take notes

Xiaomi’s rumored phone may have the battery capacity of two iPhone 16s The phone is expected to be released via Xiaomi’s Redmi sub-brand Samsung may be eyeing similar technology for next year’s Galaxy S26 A new rumor suggests that Xiaomi is working on a new phone with a massive 7,500 mAh battery tipped for release

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